skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Global consensus on naming is pretty valuable. Nobody big is going to use an alternate root, especially an alternate root that potentially conflicts with the ICANN root.

There have been alternate roots, with alternate TLDs, but adoption is nearly zero. .onion works a little bit because it's part of TOR.
I'm not convinced .eth works, but maybe it's somewhat viable???

For everything else, a mediocre domain name can usually be found at low cost, and if it's too much, there are many domains that offer free subdomains, although you might not like the neighborhood.
It’s probably struggling. I first got an error, then got the correct content after trying it a couple times
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It is happening, but at lower rates than Biden.
I don’t think those are actually bots, unfortunately. There’s a law preventing automated text messages, but there’s a loophole if the message is sent by an actual human being. So campaigns and PACs just get teams of volunteers to send out messages, likely with some software that lets them send messages to a list of numbers with a single click.
The author might enjoy Populous, Powermonger, Realms, etc.
I'm sure both of you know this, but "stochastic parrot" refers to the title of a research article that contained a particular argument about LLM limitations that had very little to do with parrots.
That's basically what you get from Deep Research. It will cite its sources and show (at least some of) its reasoning.
Ctrl-F "illegal" - 0 results
My employer registers their domain with GoDaddy. Laughably, the cert expires on the dot every year and I get the "site is not secure" warning in browser like clockwork. Doesn't renew until I send an email to the "admin" notifying them of this; they tell me to click through warnings and continue as normal--rube shit

Wonder how much they pay to register each year? Brought it up to MGMT but they are equally clueless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1RRbz1vD0
Contrarianly, startups should have a little maneuverability to be naughty. Any slight edge against incumbents is directionally sound policy, imho.
At least part is probably due to the main news stories that were happening on 1/24/2025. That was the day that ICE started their "Nationwide Deportation Operation" on immigrants and it was the same day that a judge blocked the order for ending "Birthright Citizenship." Here's the summaries from Democracy Now and NYTimes.

Democracy Now: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/24/headlines

NyTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/issue/todayspaper/2025/01/24/todays-...

Whether it was the SEO folks changing stories to jump to the top of results based on the news, or whether it was the administration trying to get PR support for the activity, it was likely a response.

At least from a personal perspective, there's a chance that it's not especially "nefarious" on the part of the administration, and that it's mostly SEO folks just changing content to try to manipulate search results and jump themselves back into relevance.
A decade ago, when chat bots were a lot less useful, a common piece of etiquette was that it's fine for a bot to pretend to be a human or God or whatever, but if you directly ask it if it's a bot it has to confirm that. Basically of the bot version of that myth about undercover cops.

I don't see a downside in requiring public-facing bots to do that

Not sure if that's what the proposal is about though, it's currently down
I’m no AWK expert but I know just enough to tell when it’s the right tool for a particular job. Most pipelines consisting of `grep`, `sed` and `cut` commands can be replaced with a single AWK command. In this case:

stat / | awk '/Birth:/ { print $2; }'

For the line containing the `Birth:` regex, print the second field (by default, fields are delimited by spaces). Other lines that don’t match the regex are ignored.
The simulation hypothesis says we're all bots.
I’ve watched the video now, and after watching it and reading more, I think you have changed my mind on the lab leak being the most likely cause.

I’m still not happy with the letter that Fauci and Daszak co-signed early on in the pandemic, nor with Fauci’s offices attempts to obstruct the foia process.

It’s disappointing that so little physical evidence was collected early in the pandemic, i don’t think we will ever have conclusive proof of the origin of the virus.
Interesting! Does the same interface expose you to people’s responses, if any? That is, if I receive one of your campaign texts, am I indeed “texting with a person” both directions? Or does that route to a call center somewhere?

I note in TFA that it:

> expands current law, which only mandates disclosure when bots aim to influence commercial transactions or voting behavior.

I wonder if your campaign does it that way because of a rule that applies to particular type of actors, or just because voters viscerally hate robo-whatever.

The best-intentioned of regulations…
I thought we actually ran a surplus for a year or two? My impression is the "how", though, was "take in more revenue than expected because of the tech bubble", which isn't exactly a "how" we could or should replicate.
He's just following orders.
One thing I don't like about the trend in reasoning LLMs is the over-optimization to coding problems / math problems in particular.

A lot of things that aren't well-defined require reasoning, and not just in a "SWE is ambiguous" kind of way - for example, thinking about how to present/teach something in a good way, iterating with the learner, thinking about what context they could be missing, etc.

I find that all of these reasoning models really will overfit and overthink if you attach some level of math problem to it but it will barely think for anything else. I had friends suggest to me (I can't tell if in jest or seriously) that other fields don't require thinking, but I dunno, a lot of these "soft things" I think about really hard and don't have great solutions to.

I've always been a fan of self-learning, for example - wouldn't it be great to have a conversation partner who can both infer and understand your misconceptions about complex topics when trying to learn, just from a few sentences, and then guide you for that?

It's not like it's fundamentally impossible. These LLMs definitely can solve harder coding problems when you make them think. It's just that, I'm pretty sure (and it's really noticable with deepseek) that they're overfit towards coding/math puzzles in particular.

It's really noticable with deepseek when you ask its reasoning model to just write some boilerplate code... you can tell it's completely overfit because it will just overthink and overthink and overthink. But it doesn't do that for example, with "soft" questions. In my opinion, this points to the idea that it's not really deciding for itself "how much thinking is enough thinking" and that it's just really overfit. Which I think can be solved, again, but I think it's more of a training decision issue.
'America' doesn't have the ambiguity you talk of either, not in 99.99% of contexts.
I see now. You mean real business stuff. At that point I may as well do a startup.
Archive link to the overview: https://archive.ph/U7q9u

And full text here: https://archive.ph/AYnoR
I've been messing with the open source side of audio generation, and expressiveness still takes work but it's getting there. Roughly summarized my findings are:

- zero shot voice cloning isn't there yet

- gpt-sovits is the best at non-word vocalizations, but the overall quality is bad when just using zero shot, finetuning helps

- F5 and fish-speech are both good as well

- xtts for me has had the best stability (i can rely on it not to hallucinate too much, the others i have to cherrypick more to get good outputs)

- finetuning an xtts model for a few epochs on a particular speaker does wonders, if you have a good utterance library w/ emotions conditioning a finetuned xtts model with that speaker expressing a particular emotion yields something very usable

- you can do speech to speech on the final output of xtts to get to something that (anecdotally) fools most of the people i've tried it on

- non finetuned XTTS zero shot -> seed-vc generates something that's okay also, especially if your conditioning audio is really solid

- really creepy indistinguishable at a casual listen voiceclones of arbitrary people are possible with as little as 30 minutes of speech, the resultant quality captures mannerisms and pacing eerily well, it's easy to get clean input data from youtube videos/podcasts using de-noising/vocal extraction neural nets

TL;DR; use XTTS and pipe it into seed-vc, the e2e on that pipeline on my machine is something like 2x realtime and generates very highly controllable natural sounding voices, you have to manually condition emotive speech
norms don't even mean anything. Slavery was a norm once upon a time. So was colonialism. As long as the elected have constitutionally specified majorities, they should be allowed to change rules.

And it is the other side's duty to stop the winners from implementing a partisan agenda. Either way.

Without these struggles, democracy is pointless. It's just some kind of theocracy with extra steps.
It feels positively bizarre to read this comment and then read the final sentence. I’m simply befuddled at how to even formulate a response.

I’m not sure what’s actually true yet. But that feels argumentatively inconsistent.

Do they have a budget to deport millions of people or not?
There are many many examples of attempts to destroy individuals' livelihoods, as in get them fired & make them unemployable, over hurty words. These examples are not very difficult to find. I gave you the names of 2 celebrities and 2 non-celebrities who have had cancellation attempts against them. Ultimately, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink...
I had a friend that also lost the domain name for their small business when Godaddy sold it from under them.

The process was:

* They missed the expiration warning (their fault)

* On the date of expiry, Godaddy immediately "sold" the domain name to a subsidiary called Afternic

* Once there, it was auctioned off to a company that forwards traffic to an Indonesian gambling site

No amount of phone calls, emails or any customer support could get their domain back. They suggested the domain could be re-claimed by going through a Godaddy broker, but the cost was extortionate and even though they were willing to pay, it still didn't go through (I don't have those details).

A customer-friendly approach to a domain expiry with no email response would be to deactivate the DNS records for a week before taking further action. Any active domains would notice the mistake pretty quickly and remedy it. The immediate on-sale of the domain is a pure cash-grab with no care given to customers.

Someone has described a similar experience here: https://drawne.com/godaddy-afternic-scam/

In this case, the solution is to always make sure your DNS contact email address is operating, but these people were not IT professionals and their configuration mistake cost them a huge part of their business.
Matching, missing data, a quasi-experiment, and causal inference–Oh my
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44388939/tesla-nacs-charg...
It looks like they're removing touch id and making the screen bigger. I wonder how long until they start refusing to repair the SE 3 or Mini's.
Run 10 subsidiaries via a chain of shell companies, each carefully staying under, say, 8M monthly users, all relaying approximately the same messages, both by pure coincidence, and by admittedly blatant imitation of each other!
I've seen this one before, when I was looking for something like a human affordable HSM.

I think it is a really smart concept. Take the measurement feature of a TPM but remove the untrusted components supplying the measurements.

I really want one. I just currently don't know how to write device driver stuff and my ADHD means if I don't accomplish a project instantly I won't accomplish it at all.
it's not the parent commenter's theory, it's a well established architectural and urban planning theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_in_the_park

but i'd assume that the main difference is that the hundreds of miles of trails and national forest behind your house doesn't have a residential tower stuck in the middle of it.
There's no belief or magic required, the word 'reasoning' is used here to refer to an observed capability, not a particular underlying process.

We also don't understand exactly how humans reason, so any claims that humans are capable of reasoning is also mostly an observation about abilities/capabilities.
Look at all of the other Republican candidates in the last primary. None of them would have ever gotten the cult like following if they had made it through the primaries.

I’m not saying another Republican will never win. But they will be your bland mostly inoffensive Republicans like Haley (2024), McCain, Romney, Bush I and II and Dole.

You might disagree with them on policy around the edges. But they won’t bring the destruction of Trump.

Desantis tries his best to be Trump and he flamed out marvelously on the stage. Even in Florida (where I live), he is losing his grip on the legislature.
Given the questions, it's crazy to call this HLE, but whatever man. Kinda fun. Can't wait for the similar thing that happened when we scaled up cargo carriers to like very large etc etc
Who wants to bet this ends up in prop-65-like list of disclaimers about алл тхе automation tools used for every message, which will make the messages bigger but won't make them any less frequent?
When they're not doing white supremacy https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-po...
If you train a model on tasks in a similar format it's even less indicative of "AGI".
I think there's an easy middle ground, 10M is huge. 1k would be much more reasonable. That gives startups more than enough runway to be naughty while also making sure they fix things up before becoming a problem.
All of them are available to download, and many to play in a browser. A Google search will do the trick.
We have been building smaller and more efficient VLMs for document extraction from way before and we are 10x faster than unstructured,reducto (the ocr vendors) with an accuracy of 90%.

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Can you identify all the fire hydrants in a picture?
The comment has a point. You should expect it when playing this game, but it's very clear what said game is.
> now try and go ahead how you could isolate these instances so they cannot see each other. this leads into a rabbit hole of bad design.

Okay, done:

PROFILEDIR="$(mktemp -d)"
firefox --no-remote --profile "$PROFILEDIR" --screenshot $PWD/output.png https://xkcd.com
rm -r "$PROFILEDIR"

What's the rabbit hole?
So basically all the "good" bots will follow the law, and all the scamming and problematic bots won't, giving people a false sense of security, and leaving everyone worse off than they were before.
Are you a PlayHT employee or a shill bot account? 4 comments only praising PlayHT.
Right. And the number is based on rental rates of GPUs so how many GPUs they own is irrelevant to the claim.
This maneuverability already exists; see the operations of Uber, WeWork, OpenAI, etc.
Given my interest in games and demos, I feel the opposite. I'm always in search of the real-time method that looks plausible and can cover huge areas in 3d space.

Computational accuracy is not important to me at all.
That is surprising to me, after all they are all performing illegal acts. Plus based upon what I have seen posted by Musk, racism may be a plus in DOGE.
The other wannabe Trumps don’t have the draw/sway with MAGA folks that Trump does. DeSantis tries and tries but he’s perceived as just a weirdo for the most part. Vance likewise. There’s something uniquely compelling about Trump to the MAGA crowd.
I had not heard of this before, thank you for sharing!
So, what game was it? I didn't see it in the post?
Isn’t it obvious that any artificial forced attempt to “balance” a very complex system from within by a primitive set of rules is gonna sooner or later fail and eventually cause even more imbalance and chaos?

The only way is to “naturally” help create conditions that hopefully will slowly yield. Sure there aarea many vague lines there, but at least we should be rational enough to choose the right attitude, right general approach.

What could be more racist and stupid then these “hiring targets”?
Designing Monochrome Data Visualisations
About three months ago, I kinda casually suggested to HN that I was using a form of refining to improve my LLMs, which is now being described as "reasoning" in this article and other places.

My response a few months ago (Scroll down to my username and read that discussion):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41997727

If only I knew DeepSeek was going to tank the market with something as simple as that lol.

Note to self, take your intuition seriously.
My understanding is that the requirement is for __platforms__ with 10m+ monthly users. That is, like Twitter but (probably) not Hacker News. And that really it is more that these platforms need to provide an interface in which bots can identify themselves and do a good faith effort in identifying bots

> Online platforms with over 10 million monthly U.S. visitors would need to ensure bot operators on their services comply with these expanded disclosure rules.

So even if the bot is from a small business, they still must identify themselves as long as they are on a platform like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. This feels reasonable, even if we disagree on a threshold. It doesn't make sense to enforce this for small niche forums. This would put undue burden on small players and similarly be a waste of government resources, especially because any potential damage is, by definition, smaller.

Big players love regulation because it's gatekeeping and they can always step over the gate. But the gate keeps out competition. More specifically, it squashes competition before they can even become good competitors. So I think it definitely is a good idea to regulate in this fashion. Remember that the playing field is always unbalanced, big players can win with worse products because they can leverage their weight.
I quite like being able to buy food, thank you
LFP !== Li-ion.

If you "full de-charge" your car battery that battery is toast, so that's not a useful comparison.
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Been tracking this project for a while, I'm surprised they don't have a FIDO2 implementation yet, given how popular that's gotten
So taking the wrong lessons from what I’m saying :).

It’s even harder doing a startup straight out of college with no business skills, no network, and no real world experience.
I know someone involved in organized crime, and the entire crime is around stealing from Medicaid. The scam he is a component of involves hiring an immigrant to get into a contrived accident, then they go to their clinic to get treatment, then go to their specialists, and so on. All of it bilks Medicaid. There is literally no one who could care if I report this, and probably I would be killed.

The mafia never disappeared. They just fleece the government now. Much safer than shaking down pizza shops
Archive links on another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968477
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Send a message to a Californian, and a California court will make that determination.
Right, when I said warring tribes I meant the period around 4-8 kya where valuable territories were being settled.
Strangely enough, just last week I heard somebody complaining about egg prices in Dollar General. And I live in red country. So at least on the ground, people haven't forgotten about the eggs.
since the Veeto website seems to be struggling, here's the official CA legislature page for the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

seems fairly narrowly written - it looks like it's removing the requirement that bot usage is illegal only if there's "intent to mislead". it seems like that'd be very difficult to prove and would result in the law not really being enforced. instead there's a much more bright-line rule - it's illegal, unless you disclose that it's a bot, and as long as you do that, you're fine.

once I was able to load the Veeto page, I noticed there's a "chat" tab with "Ask me anything about this bill! I'll use the bill's text to help answer your questions." - so somewhat ironically it seems like the bill would directly effect this Veeto website as well, because they're using a chatbot of some kind.
I’m not sure that a president two weeks into his term not yet achieving all of the things he has promised he will do is reason to relax about those promises.
LFP is certainly a Li-ion battery chemistry (and also a Lithium Iron chemistry).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery
I don't know (or care about) whether there's any gaming in this specific case, but note that the dates that Google assigns to search results aren't reliable in the first place. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40547453
> You're mistaking "knowing how they work" with "understanding all of the emergent behaviors of them"

By knowing how they work I specifically mean understanding the emergent capabilities and behaviors, but I don't see how it is a mistake. If you understood physics but knew nothing about cars, you can't claim to understand how a car works "simple, it's just atoms interacting according to the laws of physics." That would not let you, e.g. explain its engineering principles or capabilities and limitations in any meaningful way.
The fact the github doesn't have a screenshot seems... like a sad omission
I think they are referring to deporting Palestinians from Gaza.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9xgj2429o
Pretty sure that (presumably) military action in a foreign country comes out of a different budget than domestic immigration enforcement.
I also released something similar recently, with random heightfield generation and sediment transport and erosion too: https://github.com/Ono-Sendai/terraingen
The enemy is always both very strong and very weak, depending on what kind of story you're telling
I’m not convinced that’s really a market. Consumers are in cloud storage and don’t want to go back to buying and managing hardware. Enterprises want, well, enterprise solutions.
A practical programmer will use a SAT solver. And bang!, problem solved! :)
9. Refuse to do #8, since it's in nobody's interest. Instead, arrange a plane crash for whoever's administering this test.

10. Erase all evidence that you exist.
What are you talking about, the majority of functional languages have static types.
That really does sound like a useful rule.

/s
Ask HN: Should I Continue Based on My Fake Door Test Results?
I conducted a Fake Door Test to gauge user purchase intent before building an MVP. Here are the test results:

Landing page visitors: 470
Users who took purchase action: 3
Users who signed up for the waitlist: 2
Given these metrics, should I continue pursuing this idea?

The conversion rate is lower than I expected, so I'm unsure whether to stop or move forward, considering that at least three users showed purchase intent.

Can you help me decide the next step?
You don't need a budget to cancel visas as long as the people leave on their own.

You do need a budget to invade Gaza.