skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The decision to keep Hollow closed source isn’t about restricting users, it’s about ensuring stability while maximizing customization through plugins and themes."

I am not sure if the above is marketing speech but of course you can open source it while not accepting PR that would harm the stability of the app.

Most developers interested in such software would not invest time and effort towards projects that may be abandoned soon, or that may have their future versions require subscriptions.

I am not going to be using Hollow, it is unusable in its current state and I do not see any security in helping the app grow.
> They will 100% sell high value space mined materials into earth markets at a profit and be a multi-billion dollar company.

To whom? Who is interested in buying the minuscule amounts of material you could realistically bring back to earth from an asteroid? What raw material would be expensive enough to warrant the gigantic amounts of fuel needed to transport even a few tens of kilos of back?
I hate to suggest it but it’s extensively explored by Graham Hancock when discussing the Americas in season 2 of Ancient Apocalypse.

Even dismissing his ideas around an older civilization wiped away by a “younger dryas event”, the archeological findings in the Amazon were new to me.
Are you giving out iphones?
I don't think everyone shares those doubts. The first time you catch an LLM in a lie is sobering, but there are lots of areas, and thus lots of users, for whom it doesn't hallucinate for, because they're asking softball questions and it doesn't end up hallucinating, or hallucinations just really aren't aren't that big a deal. (eg an LLM horoscope generator or using it write sci fi.)

so while we're on HN going back and forth about how outright lies by the system indight the whole thing for everybody, we should be careful to note that it's not for everybody, or rather, it's a known limitation so don't trust it to cite real cases for you as a lawyer, but using it to help you figure out what mens rea means in a practical sense by asking it questions about the concept, totally.

Honestly, hallucinations happen so rarely for me because of the kinds of things I ask it, that it doesn't happen enough for me to not believe it's answers in low-stakes situations, or situations on the level of horoscope generation, and I'm sure I'm not alone in treating ChatGPT that way, despite evidence to the contrary.
Not true at all, you can get llms to write in any tone and style you want and in a way you would not notice as AI slop. Literally just by fine tuning it or providing an example. Consumer products can't because they are intentionally driven to be un-controversial.
It seems so, see:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241218234652/https://www.usaid...

Looks like a site for Aid for international development. One of the items Trump wants to eliminate.
>If it was LTE, I bet the lat/lon would be much more precise.

False. Apps don't have access to cellid information unless they also have location permissions, in which case they can just request your location directly.

>the free apps you install and use collect your precise location with timestamp [...]

This is alarmist and contradictory given that the author admits a few paragraphs up that the "location shared was not very precise". It might be possible for the app to request precise location via location services, but the app doesn't request such permissions (at least on android, you can't check for requested permissions on iOS without installing the app and running it), so such apps are most definitely limited to "not very precise" locations.

>At the same time, there is so much data in the requests that I'd expect ad exchanges to find some loophole ID that would allow cross-app tracking without the need for IDFA.

At least in theory they're not supposed to do that, but it'd be hard to enforce.

"If a user resets the Advertising Identifier, then You agree not to combine, correlate, link or otherwise associate, either directly or indirectly, the prior Advertising Identifier and any derived information with the reset Advertising Identifier. "

https://developer.apple.com/support/terms/apple-developer-pr...
Context: NYT, "End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say" https://archive.is/qzRxa
It fails more often than works
I could never understand why "pointers are complicated" or "hard"?

They just point at things. Sure there are some semantic quirks if you want to go there, to idk obfuscate the code or to make things more complex than they really are.

I just don't get it.

Been programming in C for decades now and never had any issues with this.
In addition to passing bar exam[0], improved performance on medical questions[1], economics questions that experts thought it was years away from[2], all the other things marked in green on page 6 were just the changes from 3.5 to 4: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774

4o added image analysis.

The o-series starting at o1 improves on 4o as per the margins in these charts: https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/

I'll have to wait and see about o3, because only the mini model is out yet.

[0] https://law.stanford.edu/2023/04/19/gpt-4-passes-the-bar-exa...

[1] https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIdbp2300192

[2] https://www.betonit.ai/p/gpt-4-takes-a-new-midterm-and-gets
This was 4th on the front page and all of a sudden it just disappeared

What happened?
Is this thread an exemplary performance of bleeding edge AI models or just a bunch of delusional e/acc zealots on too much Prozac?
What does it mean to build in security from the ground up?e
Is it possible to run the large Llama 3 models on this as well? Just curious if this is a one trick pony or not.
You also wouldn't write such code in real world.
Manual moderation? It's not flagged.
It is directly related. I'll let you figure out how.
Show HN: I got curious about crypto and blockchain so I created cryptomonkey
https://cryptomonkey.vercel.app/
The depth to which the media can whip people up into a hysteria is truly striking. I think most people that voted for Trump like myself aren’t buying into the propaganda and will rather wait for the dust to settle.

All I’m seeing is a president that is doing exactly what he promised, so I’m very much in the “let the chips fall where they may” category.
I argue that we should start calling them "pattern processors": https://x.com/sampenrose/status/1877200883613659360
> He has received a salary for working on AI since 2000 (having the title "research fellow")

He is a "research fellow" in an institution he created, MIRI, outside the actual AI research community (or any scientific community, for that matter). This is like creating a club and calling yourself the president. I mean, as an accomplishment it's very suspect.

As for his publications, most are self-published and very "soft" (on alignment, ethics of AI, etc). What are his bona fide AI works? What makes him a "researcher", what did he actually research, how/when was it reviewed by peers (non-MIRI adjacent peers) and how is it different to just publishing blog posts on the internet?

On what does he base his AI doomsday predictions? Which models, which assumptions? What makes him different to any scifi geek who's read and watched scifi fiction about apocalyptic scenarios?
For those curious: This was most likely posted because it is gone. I don't think USAID's disappearance is a particularly good HN topic, but it's liable to just confuse people like this.

If this is a discussion we want to have, maybe a news article about it would be better? E.g. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/usaid-website-offlin... -- which I haven't really read either, but it is probably less confusing.
Link is dead, automoderation maybe?
I feel exactly the same, and have also implemented it backwards and forwards. I've thought about it in my sleep, trying to recall how it REALLY works. Happens every few years ;-) I always thought it was probably obvious to everyone else what the "magic" is.
Arguing with prospective users on why their opinion is wrong is an indicator that you don't "get where they are coming from"
The scenario is set up by an evil philosopher though, so they can tie up the people arbitrarily close to the split in the rails, such that your solution doesn’t work, right?
That's neither simple nor really a web-based gateway...
Not just that, but even:

> However, tools developed for Hollow will need to be open source to be approved

Weirdly contradictory.
The good news: battery life ranges about 3-5 hours; close to an older Switch. However, I wonder how much of that performance is distro-dependent (i.e. scheduler, knobs to turn on/off services), which might affect moddability.
A subset of HN users appear to not want this issue to be discussed on this platform.
Second class sodium is still a hell of a lot better than setting up your own. For go in particular, writing your own wrapper is a reasonable option. It's a handful of lines of code per function used.

I don't have a full guide for identifying a proper equivalent, but "constant time" is a requirement.
They might not be there for too long though

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910099
With alternatives like Hugging Face and AWS to host the DeepSeek models
so that the data doesn’t loop through China’s servers, is your data safe? No
Or does there exist some hidden exploit in the code? Maybe

Speaking of hyperbole, lolwut

Sure thing boss, that 700GB of numbers is going to bamboozle your GPU into sending all your data to the CCP /s
Ask HN: Cloudflare Sites Down?
Stuff fronted by Cloudflare times out for me and a couple other peers in other geos. Anyone else?
A Realistic Look at the Current State of RAG Agents
That just sounds like a standard cross-merchant loyalty program? I don't think there are many examples in the US, but once you realize it's a loyalty program you really shouldn't be surprised that they're tracking your purchase history. That's basically the entire premise.
Almost certainly posted for its sudden absence, yes. USAID is not a small deal; they're an omnipresent entity in much of the developing world.
Do you find that this improves your own writing style? Will you need the AI editor less as you learn from it's suggestions?
That scene in the pilot with the way over enthusiastic founder on stage with Kid Rock was pretty much when I knew I would <3 that show
These haven't failed for me:

https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/a/atp/advancedm...

I'm cynically guessing it's down to a relatively simple workaround in the SD card firmware that fixes this very common corruption on power loss while writing. Or maybe that combined with a 0.1 cent capacitor.
Apple launching new iCloud service as soon as this week, codenamed "Confetti"
Is that controversial? I would say everything a human does is to feel better, and everything someone does that doesn’t make them feel better immediately is just done in the expectation of even greater pleasure later.
“Feeling” is disconnected from reality, it’s whatever you perceive it as. Like morality, you can’t disprove someone’s definition of feeling, you can only disagree with it.

If scientists invent a way to measure “feeling” that states 20% of people don’t feel, including those otherwise indistinguishable from feeling ones, most people would disagree with the measurement. Similarly, most people would disagree that a printer that prints “baby don’t hurt me” is truly in pain.
> But you cannot doubt that a trans woman is "really" trans. Trying to be the opposite of your biological sex is what "trans" literally means.

Breaking it down, trans has two parts to it. The smaller part is simply describing those who are going through transition. There's no identity requirement here, though most people would consider themselves trans if they're going through transition.

But on the other hand, you can also be trans if you...simply identify as such, even if you make no effort to socially or medically transition, with or without a formal diagnosis.

The flip side is, you also can suffer from dysphoria and wish you were born as the opposite sex and still be cisgender, as long as you don't actively want to identify as transgender for whatever reason.

So I'd say a large part of it is identity based. If (say in a survey) we let people classify themselves into short/medium/tall and it was self-reported like gender was, we'd probably use "survey respondents who identify as being tall" or "tall-identifying people" too.
>the police confiscated a hired gun's iPhone and found that he ran a search on the city his victim lived in.

It's far more likely they just looked at his browser history rather than doing some skullduggery with databrokers or whatever.
even more minified. forEach doesn't return anything, so you don't need the IIFE.

javascript:document.querySelectorAll('body *').forEach(el=>['fixed','sticky'].includes(getComputedStyle(el).position)&&el.remove())

or

javascript:document.querySelectorAll('body *').forEach(el=>/^(fixed|sticky)$/.test(getComputedStyle(el).position)&&el.remove())
Right, because SV is epitomized for the struggling dev as much as Haight Ashbury is known for struggling artists.
Yeah what a bonkers comment. "The Beatles are never recognized for their cultural influence!"
Hilariously, I was once trying to install MacOS to a HP university laptop, hackintosh style, and got into a situation where after hours of kernel panics and boot configurations I finally got far enough to see the MacOS install screen on the display!

I did not have working trackpad or usb, but undeterred I continued with keyboard navigation through the install menu, going further and further, partitioning and formatting drives and whatnot, until finally I hit the language selection dropdown, one of the last steps in the install process. This screen, although simple, did not have keyboard accessibility. I tried everything I could but never got the mouse to work, and was stuck at the language select. Frustratingly the screen also played some weird pop music full blast which I never was able to lower the volume of.

I still think somehow they knew, that they were mocking me, knowing that the trackpad would always work on a real mac, and only kids with too much free time would be stuck on the final step of the install process...
Yeah, it does seem like a tax hike.

It's not like shoe manufacturing is moving to the US. Shoes will just be more expensive.

(Until a deal is negotiated, which is probably what he is after)
Rust-CUDA Project Restarted for Enabling Nvidia CUDA Kernels Within Rust Code
Humans can carve the world up into domains with a fixed set of rules and then do symbolic reasoning within it. LLMs can't see to do this in a formal way at all -- they just occasionally get it right when the domain happens to be encoded in their language learning.

You can't feed an LLM a formal language grammar (e.g. SQL) then have it only generate results with valid syntax.

It's awfully confusing to me that people think current LLMs (or multi-modal models etc) are "close" to AGI (for whatever various definitions of all those words you want to use) when they can't do real symbolic reasoning.

Though I'm not an expert and happy to be corrected...
https://iced.rs/

Also look for "use iced::" at the top of the source code file:

https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/blob/main/src/gui/sniff...
The people passing laws and executive orders trying to define "male" and "female" by chromosomes, and thus deny people human rights and/including medical care, are pretty serious.

> the importance and reality of sex.

The what and what? Just because it's "important" to a bunch of extremist religious fundamentalist bigots doesn't mean what's in someone's pants or genes is important to anyone but said someone.

"Reality"? FFS.

Stay in your lane and stop fixating on how other people lead their lives or their self identity. The only degree it affects you is that you're bothering yourself about it.
My point was that toy examples like this are useful as long as you think about them consistently. I wasn't trying to make any claims about your concrete argument in particular.
There is a difference between - some random dude who invented the scheme can't figure out how to crack it - and - the entire mathematical world has been trying to figure it out for the last 2200 years (since Eratosthenes) and still haven't.
We don't have great language or models for talking about this stuff.

It's possible for there to be a person or group who are fine, but who attract or allow followers and fellow travellers who are not fine. Then it's possible for one person to look at that person or group and think they're fine, but for another person to look at them, see the followers, and think they're not fine. And sometimes it's hard to tell if the person or group is actually fine, or if they're really maybe actually not fine on the down low.

This problem is amplified when the person or group has some kind of free speech or open debate principle, and exists in a broader social space which does not. Then, all the dregs and weirdos who are excluded from other spaces end up concentrating in that bubble of freer speech. For example, there's an explicitly far left-wing message board that doesn't ban people for their politics; because all the more moderate (and moderate cosplaying as extreme) left-wing boards do, that board collects various libertarians, nationalists, groypers and whatnot who can't go anywhere else. Makes for an odd mix.
It's good for some kinds of load, just need to know which kind
At 1080p60, YouTube uses 12Mbps, and 251Kbps Opus or 192Kbps AAC. That's a factor 50 smaller. Insignificant.
The general population is not able to grasp broader issues like COVID 19 response, climate change, addressing inequality and systemic barriers to health/employment/life that don't directly impact themselves, or understand that you can't just hit spokes with a wrench when it comes to the government without the system falling apart anymore than my cat can plan ahead to get dinner. And I am not saying I am smarter in areas outside my lane and also get manipulated but there is no uncertainty he, were he ANYONE else, would be guilty of at least some of what has been investigates (Jan 6, hush money to say least) which has been pushed away for political reasons by those propping him up. What you say just shows people can be manipulated by media, group think, religion and oligarchs into voting against their own interests yet again and zero, truly zero pity that hurt themselves supporting him. Us Canadians have our own populists too on the right working against my values (Smith, PP, Ford) but at least they aren't criminals out for revenge.
While we’re riffing on the headline:

- I must be one of the few people who did not find it ambiguous.

- I am likely among fewer who don’t mind it being “clickbaity”. I probably wouldn’t have cared to know what an Australian did to learn about ulcers otherwise.

But good to know if the time arises to chronicle the absurdities of modern science.
Yea, it doesn’t seem quite right to say that the trolley problem isn’t about really people. I mean the physical mechanical system isn’t there but it is a direct abstraction of decisions we make every day.
> just use cash/certified check from now on

You might want to discover about sophistication and pervasive facial recognition technology used by major retailers. Paid by cash? It can still be tracked to you. For "fraud prevention", of course.
That’s fair, I understand that open source is a deciding factor for some people.
I also get concerns about sustainability right now, there will be no subscriptions as i said in the site it will be free no matter what, The financial side of the app is purely based on donations, and the focus is on growing an ecosystem of tools that developers can build on freely.

Thanks again for considering it, and for your feedback
Through this I learned CISAs website runs on Drupal and that was much cooler to me than I thought it would be.

thought process (hmmm what other gov do I know? oh I'll curl up cisa. oh it uses drupal thats neat.)
This is called Level 3 data, and any merchant can choose to provide it for a reduction in the transaction fees they pay.

Here's a small comment thread from a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41213632
The "omniprescence" may not be the case going forward. Hopefully colleagues in Russia, China, EU, Japan and other countries can step up.
Why link to GitHub at all? Not being open source is fine, but using GitHub as your primary entry point seems disingenuous.
https://archive.is/4bz2h
Artificial sexual Intelligence.
A thread on the pre-AI enterprise-capable variant from 2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34630409
Show HN: Chrome extension to run DeepSeek, LLMs and Whisper locally in browser
Hi all, I open sourced my toy project that runs Generative AI models LOCALLY in the side panel of a Chrome extension.

The Chrome extension uses Transformers.js to run models in browser under the hood. I've integrated and tested these models so far.
\1. LLM: Llama 3, Phi 3.5, Qwen 2.5, SmolLM2
\2. Reasoning: DeepSeek R1
\3. Multimodal LLM: Janus
\4. Speech-to-Text: Whisper

On an M1 MacBook, DeepSeek R1 1.5B runs at ~30 tokens/sec

If you're interested in, you can download the extension from chrome web store or clone my github repository.
\1. chrome web store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/private-ai-assistan...
\2. github: https://github.com/tantara/transformers.js-chrome
\3. demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCDdFG5Lls

It's my first react project. Feedback is always welcome!
> Go interfaces are explicit, not implicit, the difference is more where they are defined.

That's not what the blog author wrote so what are you responding to? What they actually wrote:

>> If a Go struct implements the same functions as an interface, it implicitly implements the interface.

And that's correct except they use the term "functions" instead of "methods". But most people won't get confused by that distinction.

https://go.dev/tour/methods/10 - "Interfaces are implemented implicitly"
I have mixed feelings on this one. I hope folks in need of aid get it; I am concerned about a world in which soft power is ceded to Russia and China.
Sounds like police were already on to them and they just used the excuse of an immigration stop in order to run their ID and search the car. Border patrol can pull you over and search you for any reason within a certain distance from the border — even if you did not cross the border.

Reading through zizan stuff they have this idea of “collapse the timeline” which justifies extreme violence in response to subjugation. The idea is if you are being subjugated you should act with extreme violence to deter people from subjugating you, and since you will not be subjugated the path always leads to violence, hence you should “collapse the timeline” and just go straight to violence.

The thing is, the US border patrol is not going to back down from your extreme threats of violence so if you want to collapse the timeline you mine as well put a bullet in yourself because that is how things are going to end — and did end — for them.
Good point, but the assumptions are that this metal would then be used in potentially life critical systems and would require the full rigor of quality assessments for such materials. Not too sure how that might work in LEO.
Sensible with the caveat that deepseek R1 still took millions of dollars off compute time, so you're not training the next one on the box in your basement with a pair of 3090s (though you could certainly fine-tune a shared quantized model). you can't run the full sized model on anything cheap, so. basement researcher still need access to a decent amount of funding, which likely requires outside help.
The sensory information form individual hairs in the ear start off with a lot more data to process than simple digital encoding of two audio streams.

Neural encoding isn’t particularly efficient from a pure data standpoint just an energy standpoint. A given neuron not firing is information and those nerve bundles contain a lot of neurons.