skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Al-Qaeda determined to attack in the USA."
Right, unfortunately the trend has been increasing power of the state for some time.

But I think the point also argues against having an extremely powerful administrative / regulatory state.

For instance, suppose you want to create a department to "fight misinformation" and it will have wide ranging power to push for censorship. But depending who is running it, it might censor vastly different kinds of speech.

If you believe such an entity should exist you should be indifferent to the kind of person running it. As an example, consider garbage removal. I'm relatively happy with my city's garbage removal. I wouldn't really be concerned if it was run by Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Maybe there would be some graft in one way or another, but it's pretty obvious what the organizations' goals are.

So I think that there's a difference between "government takeover to shrink the size of the state" is different from "government takeover to add another layer of unelected bureaucracy to run our lives"
Easy enough, I skip certain game development companies by default. At the start because they insisted on having an account with them to play single player, but I think they've evolved into predatory IAPs while i wasn't looking at their titles. Talking about EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar here.

It helps that the same MBAs do design by commitee to appeal to the largest audience possible and end up with a boring soup. Maybe not Rockstar, but they managed to wean me off GTA with all that pushing for GTA online.
> “the AI has no ground truth” (obviously it does, it has ingested every paper ever

it does not, AI is predicting the next ‘token’ based on the last ‘token’. There is no sentience, it’s machine learning except the machines are really strong.

It’d be illogical to say an AI has a ground truth just because it ‘ingested’ every paper ever.
AI told me about why eating lots of meat might make me feel dramatically better. There are genes that affect the amount of an enzyme that breaks down Folic Acid into methylfolate. I have multiple of those genes. 23andme knew I had these genes for more than a decade. Multiple doctors I told about this basically said nothing and knew nothing about this.
This is already somewhat true! "We" decided that 'privacy' is more important than us as individuals allowing our doctors to use existing LLMs to help them diagnose us (though so far, study shows human doctors don't effectively use LLMs even when they do have access).
I know. I like to think my compass points my humor in the right direction, but maybe it got turned around.
If you want a little more interactivity you could use SSE[0] to push results as they come back.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent... - I don't think Bottle supports this though; you might have to move to a different WSGI server.
If you mean the US Supreme Court, they could just stop being insane and change that ruling, because, as I pointed out, corporations aren't people. They are fictions. It's like claiming it is a free speech issue that people in the Wheel of Time books aren't allowed to name the evil threatening the world.

Why not in the same way it's determined for product information on the packaging?

No, it just requires the state to have control over corporations, which it has, since it's the one creating them.
> watch this ad to keep playing

I've seen this model so much in android apps, it's disgusting. I'm glad they're banning it on steam.
What do you mean it's no longer a mystery? I don't understand. Wouldn't the investors and shareholders want more usage of their products, almost regardless of the subject matter?
Advertising industry has been considered malignant long before the advent of the internet. Originally published in 1976, "Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture" by Stuart Ewen is an interesting read.
This is a classic trick. Underfund and sabotage some public services, and then kill them because they're not doing well.
I'm not gonna make a statement about why you didn't take the C19 vax but that kinda feels like something you should be able to remember...
I HATE advertising on YouTube/Spotify/Websites but don’t really mind them on Instagram and actually sometimes quite enjoy them on TikTok.

The first difference for me is that on YouTube/Spotify/Websites they obscure the content and force you to watch/see the advertisements but on Instagram and TikTok it’s just as easy to skip an advertisement as it is a video/actual content.

The second difference is that usually the advertisements on Instagram and TikTok are targetted based on my preferences anyway so I’m more likely to look at it and often even interact with it.

The third difference is that on TikTok especially where I actually sometimes look forward to the ads, they are actually putting the customer first rather than their product. The videos are sometimes viral content variations which are interesting to watch or short stories which have product in them.

It’s the same as influencer marketing with product reviews. I make an effort to watch those if I’m looking for a product in the same category or sometimes just to know what’s currently out there, but that’s effectively also advertising just that it puts the customer first.

So while I agree some forms of advertising are cancer, I appreciate others and don’t want the good kind to go away because I don’t know everything and sometimes it’s only through advertising that I discover new brands and products that have become my go tos.
> Like cancer, I think it's possible to split ads into two categories: Benign and malignant.

I think you mean tumors because all cancer is malignant. There’s no benign cancer.

> you know that things have gone sideways. You can feel it.

What you’re feeling is your totally subjective value system bumping up against things that don’t jibe with it.

> these things are acceptable, and these things are not

You’re just taking those values and applying them to everything and everyone else. Febreeze gives me migraines, airlines are often totally shit companies, and toothpaste is a million of the same product full of a bunch of worthless gimmicks. Pharmaceutical ads depend on the pharmaceutical, and what you consider ‘vice’ ads are mostly for products used responsibly by many millions of people even if abused by many. Just because they make you uncomfortable doesn’t mean they should make everyone else uncomfortable.
> two categories: Benign and malignant.

You are thinking of tumors, not cancer.
The end of feature engineering: Predictive modeling using AI
All fair points of feedback. I use it for latin languages so getting a take on the quality of other languages is something I'll work on. Could you give me an example that it gave you that missed the mark?

I could have it output the deck into Anki I like that idea. I wrote a script that did this from CSV but it didn't have audio so I moved to this making the first gen of this app - its open sourced here if you would like to repurpose it https://github.com/Amber-Williams/language-flashcard-app-gpt.... I could try and find my code I make to generate the Anki deck if anyones interested as well.

Custom cards is something I agree is a nice to have. If you have preferences please share I'll try to add them to future feature updates.
What is the motivation of UK's lawmakers to push this forward? Why are they doing this?
> CORS is basically happening because of the sensitive data that browser sends by default, so if browser is not sending such info, then CORS also need not be applied

Can you cite where this behaviour is defined?
> The broad definition of "advertising" doesn't restrict it to commercial use,

Example: The Merriam-Webster for example defines "advertisement" as, literally, as "1 : a public notice".

Still,

> but I think the most common understanding of what it is would.

... is probably the reason for their "especially" paragraph and examples, right below the definition.
Can you elaborate? I haven’t seen any of these philosophies that are apparently about crushing art.

As a part time artist, AI has been great for me. I’m creating more, and spending less time on scaffolding (I am a middling-at-best programmer). I’m feeling empowered, not crushed.
Show HN: Hanko – Open-Source Auth and User Management for the Passkey Era
Hey HN!

I'm excited to introduce Hanko, a passkey-first authentication platform that allows you to integrate authentication and user management into your apps with minimal effort, all via pre-built components and a flexible API.

The origins of the project date back almost 10 years, when we started working on “replacing the password” with a push-based, white-label authenticator app. Early on, we came across the FIDO standards, which eventually became what we know today as passkeys. As big fans of passkeys, we always knew that we wanted to build solutions for other developers to make the integration of passkey authentication as easy as possible. The latest iteration of this mission is project Hanko.

Now, what does “for the passkey era” actually mean? We spent months (years, honestly) getting all the UX flows right, while the ecosystem of browsers and operating systems wasn’t even there yet. And we added features to support the switch from passwords to passkeys. E.g. optional prompts to create passkeys during sign up and login, passwords can be set to optional and can be deleted by the users themselves, all controllable in fine-grained configurations. Users can create and manage as many passkeys as they like, passkey autofill, and more. You can even set up Hanko for passkeys only if you want (some of our users are running this in production already).

Apart from passkeys, Hanko also supports most other common authentication methods, including “legacy” TOTP MFA, hardware security keys, and even enterprise SSO via SAML (although we are still finalizing that at the moment).

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Taxing and regulating the AI itself wouldn't work very well as competitors abroad or who skirt the regulations would be able to use it. You might be able to require human supervision so rather than AI replacing a programer who was laid off, the human would become the AIs supervisor.
Compared to what is daily being said about 'white men' in particular and 'men' in general those posts seem to be mostly par for the course. If the things he says about ${identity_group} are bad then so are the same things being said by people in high places about the aforementioned so a sizeable fraction of 'progressives' should [take] great efforts to apologize and prove [they're] changed person[s]. If you don't agree I'd like to know where the difference lies.
When the console tells you to drink another verification can.
> The below section resonates: lately YouTube has figured out I am in my mid-twenties and considering for the first time how best to save money for a secure/stable future.

This is funny since YouTube especially has never been able to figure out my demographics. To this day it keeps showing me ads for female hygiene products, cleaning supplies, quick fashion brands or scam ads in Russian, a language I don't speak. None of this has ever been relevant to me in any way whatsoever.

They should just go back to showing exclusively contextual ads, they'd have better odds of hitting a topic I might actually be even remotely in the target market for.
>But in this key period when a lot of important changes happen—when modern humans develop from Homo habilis and Homo erectus all the way to Homo heidelbergensis

That's a time period before homo sapiens, not after.
US Bitcoin Reserve Monitor
I'm curious how that is true? Advertising is generally a competitive move in a marketing playbook of a GTM motion.
This wouldn’t be the first time someone in that AI sub made up a convoluted scheme that was only solved when they brought AI into the picture. There have been a few confessions to that nature in the past and the ‘irony’ is that the stories were written with a prompt of something like, “tell a story about AI solving this specific problem that would get sympathy from tech enthusiasts who want to believe in AIs ability to solve complicated problems” which is another level of mindfuck.
One man's internet café in Yemen became a hub for gaming and learning
At first glance this is well designed and something I would use. I'll have a play after work and let you know
That's a good idea, it would likely help filter my voice preference. Some of the audio recording are more difficult to listen to than others.
> The most frustrating part wasn't just the lack of answers - it was how fragmented everything was. Each doctor only saw their piece of the puzzle: the orthopedist looked at joint pain, the endocrinologist checked hormones, the rheumatologist ran their own tests. No one was looking at the whole picture. It wasn't until I visited a rheumatologist who looked at the combination of my symptoms and genetic test results that I learned I likely had an autoimmune condition

>> It wasn't until I visited a rheumatologist who looked at the combination of my symptoms and genetic test results that I learned I likely had an autoimmune condition
I completely agree with the point made here.
Apart from the research controversial in the paper, however, from an engineering practice perspective, the methodology presented in the paper offers the industry an effective approach to distill structural cognitive capabilities from advanced models and integrate them into less competent ones.

Moreover, I find the Less-Is-More Reasoning (LIMO) hypothesis particularly meaningful. It suggests that encoding the cognitive process doesn't require extensive data; instead, a small amount of data can elicit the model's capabilities. This hypothesis and observation, in my opinion, are highly significant and offer valuable insights, much more than the specific experiment itself.
There are vegetable oils and mineral oils. Some vegetable oils have double bonds(called drying oils - linseed is one and with added catalysts(dryers) makes the furniture varnish we know) drying oils in roads - the drying aspect hardens the road, like slow-slow cured cement - at the cost of brittleness = a tradeoff. So the correct formula of mineral oil/vegetable oil/drying oil = max endurance. vegetable oil = 5-10x the $$ of mineral oils mixes(asphalts).
Asphalt is the solid residue of oil fractionation is decanted into 45 gallon drums for trade(but is also bulk shipped in heated tanks , or = tank shaped lump. MacAdam created macadamised roads = a graded mixture of crushed rock from dust to ~.5 inch with the calculated minimum void space. Void space uses up asphalt, so minimum voids. Minimum voids + asphalt = strongest tarmac = well studied. Hot roads = higher melt asphalt needed - or sticky roads.
Cynical side of me say that they are doing this because they are not getting their cut... On other hand I do support it. Although it seems to miss some weirder advertising models.

Still, I don't think PC and Steam should be like mobile app stores.
I have zero issue with the arguments you presented, because I know you are being factually accurate ( to the best of my knowledge anyway; I wonder if there is a person out there that has a full unrestricted view of everything ).

<< is it unreasonable to be skeptical of their motivations when they've managed to gain access to the government's payment system? Aren't these the same people sucking up our private information and telling us if we've got nothing to hide we've got nothing to fear? Why do they need to operate in the shadows?

I don't want to argue for DOGE, because their fanbase is doing it on various fora already ( including this one ).

But to answer your question, it is not unreasonable at all. Those questions should be asked and, ideally, answered.

It is vital that the government officials are watched, their performance evaluated and our political will enforced by means we deem necessary. From where I sit, what is good for goose, is good for gander.

If I hesitate, it is around the level of emotion this generates. Some of it is warranted ( I would lie if I said I am not concerned ), but it does not help with making an appropriate response. In fact, that level of emotion actively inhibits making good choices.

You have to give it to him. It does look like Trump actually had a plan this time around.
>For 5 years, I struggled with mysterious symptoms - getting injured easily during workouts, slow recovery, random fatigue, joint pain.

Those symptoms could be caused by almost anything. In the end the author says they "likely have an autoimmune disorder". To be honest just from that list of symptoms, my first guess would be aging. I really don't buy that this person's AI tool did anything here. I think they probably got lucky even assuming the "autoimmune disorder" is the actual cause of these symptoms.

> I spent over $100k visiting more than 30 hospitals and specialists, trying everything from standard treatments to experimental protocols at longevity clinics

I get it that this sucks. But when you have a list of vague symptoms that aren't very serious, could be caused by anything, and your records show 30 visits to hospitals and specialists, and you start talking about experimental life extension treatments, the vast majority of doctors are going to write you off almost immediately as a hypochondriac.

It's the same in any profession. I worked at Geek Squad during college. Someone comes in 30 times because "my computers feels a little slow", we've ran every test we can think of, and nothing is wrong. In that case I'm going to place the blame on either user perception--this specific customer has unreasonable expectations about what is slow and fast. Or there's a minor non-serious issue with his computer that no one is likely to be able to diagnose without doing something seriously invasive that is likely to cause more harm than the issue.
I think you put the split at the wrong point. It's not just what is being advertised; it's also how.

Take lite beer, for example. Ignoring the issue of whether beer fits into your "vice" category, you could make a case for benign advertising of lite beer: "Hey, there's this kind of beer that has less calories than regular beer. If you like beer but worry about the calories, maybe this is for you."

Or you can have malignant advertising for it: "Drink this brand of lite beer, and all the pretty girls will be all over you. Drink some other brand and you'll be all alone like a loser." Stealing a quote, from which I don't have the source handy: This kind of advertising tries to make the person you are envy the person you could be with their product. In other words, it tries to steal your satisfaction and then offers to sell it back to you. That's malignant no matter what the product is.
I'm not clear on the timeline - did the patient use a tool to help doc get to a diagnosis, or did this happen in retrospect? My read is the medical profession did, but it took longer to get there. The tool is redeemed in this case because it landed on the same (correct) diagnosis as the rheumatologist, using the test results, notes and diagnostic journey that resulted from $100K and 30 hospital visits.
> Lately, there’s been a growing paranoia inside OpenAI—whispers about “Chinese spies” in the office.

Wasn't it obvious from the very beginning that it was likely that China would try to get their hands on this tech? If they're only getting paranoid about it now that seems shortsighted.
It’s not that the benchmark is hard, but that the reasoning models do so much better than the non-reasoning models. That suggests it is testing a capability that reasoning models have that non-reasoning models do not.

Getting to 100% may require tokenization innovation, sure.
"first mover advantage" of those who later won?

ADA was way ahead of its time, thus compilers were slow and ressource (RAM) hungry, and worse: they were inaccessible for hobbyists or learners.

In contrast, pascal/turbo pascal was ubiquitous, and then turbo c++. You easily knew someone who could organize a copy and "keys" for it.
Or just as a statement: human physiology is so complex that no one person can reliably diagnose every ailment, whereas a large AI can reason over multiple highly specialized domains holistically.
That may be what you want the situation to be but at this point it isn't what the situation is.
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I appreciate this alternate diagnosis :) At what point would you say the "flu" becomes a more virulent strain that is dangerous enough to do something more than tolerate?

For example, more and more sexualized content in advertising (esp. harming teen girls [1]), or forced ads built-in to a browser sidebar (esp. harming the poor [2]), or ads on the surface of each school desk in 3rd grade (esp. harming the young [3]). Anxiety about the future, depression, etc. can be tied to advertising.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18444705/
[2] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
[3] https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/132/5/958/31...
> he could have attempted multiple businesses and likely become moderately rich and at the very least been of service

How do you know he didn't do any of this? It's not like he's been sifting through garbage this whole time.

He's trying to buy the landfill now.
It's "helping" in an incredibly pedantic and unhelpful way. The developer has opted to add explicit support for the common option, but only as a means to tell the user that they are "holding it wrong" (in the immortal words of Apple)
> $ file `which find`
/usr/bin/find: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64e:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e]

> $ find /help
find: /help: No such file or directory

> $ find /?
zsh: no matches found: /?

> $ find -?
zsh: no matches found: -?
Thank you for posting the follow up
via the IO monad.
If anything the current JS-centric world view at least puts someone in charge of the "user-facing" parts.

Before you had all these backend-focused people who despised building HTML pages in charge of user experience. You know the kind of people who think the user is the database not the actual users.
>much of this stuff can be figured out from first principals without much need of traditional experts.

I agree with him. Corruption often get a pass when covered in layers of legalize.
I’ve felt my best on a carnivore diet but couldn’t keep a stable weight so I fear it’s the equivalent of saying I felt my best when I was slowly dying of hunger? ha

I have done 23andMe where can I look for those genes?
Not that hard really, at least in the short term and on personal level.
I just updated the UI so its more mobile friendly. The row is now click able so it opens up a model with a more detailed view
My impression has been the opposite. Companies are very reluctant to hire nearly junior anything. So, they kneecap their top, senior developers and pull up the ladder for junior talent. But they are more than eager to pay mid-level developers junior pay.
On this subject: I remember a few years ago there was a fad in SV for microdosing psychadelics. What happened to that?
One of these days I'm going to write up a blog post about releasing millions of ants into a scale model of London and allowing them to figure out the most efficient traffic routes for us.
Completely agree. Being slow and not able to be flipped upside down on the whim of someone (or some party, or some group, etc) is a feature not a bug

In my opinion incremental change with a common passage toward a better future is the best way to have long term functioning democracies