skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, you've offered nothing of substance to this thread. Just demanding that I accept the authority of an FT op-ed when I provide elaborated reasons not to is extremely lazy. Need I trace FT's funding sources, institutional backing, and factionalism for you? If you don't want to put in any effort, that's fine. Just bow out. Otherwise, stop sealioning me and do some work.
Sick work! I built this small calculator I was using to estimate Redis usage when I'm working on some projects: https://redisestimator.fly.dev
But it is not encryption if it can be broken. It's like guns, but they can remotely disable them with devices planted in each.
The State of Utopia has published this report on the source of funding of Ofcom, the U.K. statutory regulator responsible for enforcing the Online Safety Act:

https://medium.com/@rviragh/ofcom-and-the-online-safety-act-...

(In short it is funded by the regulated tech companies, which must pay fees to it.)
They are Musk staffers now since the USDS was rebranded DOGE, making existing USDS employees DOGE employees.
My comment was that, irrespective of whether or not our ability to think critically has changed, our infospace is under unprecedented assault from foreign actors and from within.

So, the effects of our citizens not being able to reason effectively are more impactful/destructive.

You mentioned that 100 years ago, there was one source of news. This underscores my point. Sure, that's not ideal, but even pernicious effects were somewhat self-limiting versus a frequently hostile, 24/7 technology-fueled infospace, featuring hostile actors—known and unknown—who are out to destroy the fabric of our society.
The amateur radio community is chock full of innovation for low bandwidth weak signal decodable comm protocols.

There's also V.xx modem standards that are kinda dependent on the characteristics of the phone lines, but might work for audio at a distance?
Compare parts of screenshot and see if they changed. I didn't want to use DOM at all. My hypothesis was multi model AI agents will get cheaper over time (Gemini flash is crazy cheap) and people would start putting in attacks in the DOM to confuse AI.

Additionally, existing tools that I used struggled interacting with sites like reddit. So I set out to skip DOM and focus on a generalized approach.

I tried to go cheaper by using ui-tars, open source model by bytedance to run test locally without needing anthropic but it wasn't reliable enough.

That short test link is interesting. I didn't know they existed. Wow, the field is moving fast.
> I think SD TV's of the time would have made rendering text a bit difficult forcing you to use large font making any substantial text work impractical

Yeah, in this hypothetical conversion kit they've have to give you some kind of better connections to plug into a monitor, and obviously some kind of conversion kit, maybe a double-expansion-pak, and maybe some kind of external optical drive or something similar to the N64 DD with a CD drive.

I dunno, I don't think it would necessarily have failed, but we'll obviously never really know. Sony did that with the OtherOS stuff for awhile on the PS3, and I think there was a subset of people who really liked it for scientific computing.
How I Use AI to Simplify Complex Topics
It's higher DPI than a 24" 4K monitor. It is plenty dense, especially for a battery powered device where the power needed to drive the display is a real consideration.
> The richer Elon Musk gets, the more he (appears) to use that wealth to skew politics towards anti-"eco" policies

Which is odd as it directly goes against his own interests.

It goes against his image, not his interests. These are two very different things.
Wyden to FTC: Stop Companies Offering Bait-and-Switch Sales of Digital Purchases
I think I’m a target customer? I don’t think this is rev for me but I think in the future I could be sold. I own an a7c because I value compactness. I was just in New Zealand and a lot of times I was pretty happy to take photos on my phone. As my purpose was to just be able to take an image in my head and translate that to an actual photo. There are definitely some shots that I needed a bit more technical setup which was great with the a7c but I really didn’t need nearly so many of the bells and whistles. I also don’t really want to have to edit in RAW, ideally I get a good enough image that I can just transfer to my phone and post straight to Instagram with little work.
Is it a thing?

I mean we had the holocaust, Rwandan genocide and the transatlantic slave trade without the internet.

The discovery, by the governing classes, that people are often less-than-moral is just as absurd as it sounds. More malign and insidious is that these governors think it is their job to manage and reform the people -- that people, oppressed in their thinking and association enough -- will be easy to govern.

A riot, from time to time -- a mob -- a bully -- are far less dangerous than a government which thinks it can perfect its people and eliminate these.

It is hard to say that this has ever ended well. It is certainly a very stupid thing in a democracy, when all the people you're censoring will unite, vote you out, and take revenge.
You’re falling for the big numbers that do not stand up to scrutiny. There’s no such forum shutting down. Are you referring to lfgss? First, it’s not shutting down, second, the user numbers are completely wrong. As is the claim that the platform supports over 300 forums. You’re an order of magnitude off. Go and visit it and look at the activity, it’s clinging to life. 275k active users? Pure fiction.
How so? SBF is known to have given millions to Democrats rather than Trump.

SBF was the second overall top donor to Democrats, only behind George Soros.

https://time.com/6241262/sam-bankman-fried-political-donatio...
In my vision the automated CEO is able to talk to all of the customers, all of the employees and all the investors simultaneously 24/7. It doesn't have to be perfect, if it is able to do that at all it would dramatically change the game. What is also hilarious is that it has a unit of attention so it can accurately divide it over the audience. A human CEO has few tokens that are extremely hard to divide.
I have never tried it but I would probably prefer to use sh ( https://pypi.org/project/sh/ ) and have users install that before having to use a totally separate shell. Python is normally already there.
They like suburban Winnipeg. They'll circle dogs for a while before giving up and flying away.
No, you can't, but also theres is no reason why the law about allow these to be up. Plenty of people have racist thoughts, and that's not illegal (thoughts in general aren't), but go print a bunch of leaflets inciting racist violence and that is illegal.

I see this as an internet analogy.
Actual Wyden post with letter: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-to-ft...
There are startups.
It's not misleading. The article states they were originally USDS employees. Nonetheless when DOGE came into being, it became the USDS and changed its name, therefore all those USDS employees are DOGE employees and are resigning from DOGE not the USDS (which no longer exists). So the article is correct.
As a dog lover I believe that sure they might have first learned to trust us thanks to food, but I believe they stayed and became our best friends thanks to scritches.

Those five fingers work magic.
You could mod one into the hardware if you really wanted. The drivers for the Magic Trackpad are pretty much flawless on Linux, you could engineer your own plug-and-play solution with COTS hardware if you found the motivation.
Honestly I wonder if he’ll end up being healthier. Sitting in a chair has zero physical cost but very high health cost.
Yes absolutely this! We're working on these problems at FlyShirley for our pilot training tool. My go-to is: I'm facing 160 degrees and want to face north. What's the quickest way to turn and by how much?

For small models and when attention is "taken up", these sorts of questions really send a model for a loop. Agreed - especially noticeable with small reasoning models.
For me it's the perfect resolution on a laptop currently. I don't need a higher resolution and by not unnecessarily increasing it I get better performance, better battery life and a lower cost.
audio- steganography? or watermarking?

pfft, it may even have multiple channels one over another, so one can tune to one or another (if knows how to decode)..
But size and revenue/budget are different things entirely. Does it scale down to pocket change for large community forums with no commercial backing?
Because what you're being asked to do is in contravention of that oath, therefore the only way to serve the oath is to resign.
(SPy author here)
function calls in SPy are as cheap as in C.

You can check by yourself seeing of the spy compiler translates the code to C in the (super-experimental) spy playground:
https://antocuni.pyscriptapps.com/spy-playground/latest/
You don't. "Hate speech" is code for "the government knows better and controls what you say."

Yes, racism exists and people say hateful things.

Hate speech is in the interpretation. The US has it right with the first amendment - you have to be egregiously over the line for speech to be illegal, and in all sorts of cases there are exceptions and it's almost always a case-by-case determination.

Hateful things said by people being hateful is a culture problem, not a government problem. Locking people up because other people are offended by memes or shitposts is draconian, authoritarian, dystopian nonsense and make a mockery of any claims about democracy or freedom. Europe and the UK seem hellbent for leather to silence the people they should be talking with and to. The inevitable eventual blowback will only get worse if stifling, suppressing, and prosecuting is your answer to frustrations and legitimate issues felt deeply but badly articulated.
Apps are building Instagram alternatives on open protocols
Anecdotally, most chatbots don’t actually provide productivity benefits.

We have access to state of the art here at HN. I can download the latest open models and run them locally, and the results are impressive as hell.

When I use the mass produced AI chatbots, the experience is drastically inferior, and downright unhelpful and upsetting. There is still a lot of catching up to do.
Framework missed out here by putting their blog behind the same cloudflare waiting room as their online store. They should probably put them on separate domains before the next big announcement like this.

If anyone's interested you can also watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/live/-8k7jTF_JCg?feature=shared&t=19...
OC started their comment with

> Unpopular take: ChatGPT is better at diagnosing medical problems than a doctor who does a cursory evaluation.

Which is dangerous and harmful advice.

No reason to muddy the waters.
Anthropic: Forecasting rare language model behaviors
I love the sound, and we live with it pretty much every day as they roost in our fir trees while hunting. We’re up on a hill about a mile from the Willamette River and they seem to be able to see when snacks appear (no idea really, but they fly with purpose in that direction).

The really scary birds are the occasional Falcons that move so fast and so low I’m both startled and confused when they buzz the yard.
Them not being sociable makes them kind of more mysterious and therefore kind of more majestic as well.

It doesn't surprise me that they're smart. It feels like the insult "bird brain" is decidedly a pretty bad insult, because birds aren't stupid.
I run all the AI models without any issues with a desktop Radeon. I don't even think about it, just start the ollama docker and run the models.

Inference is not an issue with AMD.
>i was thinking some weeks ago that it may be time to "fork" python - as language - in a way to preserve the initial simplicity and clarity it did have and is losing faster and faster.

I've had this thought, and seen others express it. The main problem is there is no general agreement on what should or shouldn't make the cut.

I've sort-of designed a new language from scratch, but I haven't been able to convince myself to make time to implement anything significant, or even really discuss what I've already figured out in any detail.

I do like Mr. Langa's idea about pre-computed ("@blue") code - although it doesn't strike me as particularly novel. (It's something I want to do in my own language, too - or rather, I have in mind a metaprogramming system, so you'd have macros that manipulate the AST and either insert a result when it's fully determined at compile time, or runtime code otherwise.)
https://archive.is/qqiKW
The grift is real.
You can succeed with a leveraged growth strategy, such as Nike. A strategy is a tool - it works good in some cases and less well in other cases
In 90's I saw bald eagles for the first time (I mostly grew up in DFW, TX) in the Mississippi Valley between WI and Iowa, later in backbone ridge state park, where the valleys are so steep the eagles are flying below you when you're on a spur. It was amazing to me because, as a child in the 70's and 80's we were always hearing about DDT and endangered eagles. Fast forward ~30 years from the early 90's (after a long stint in Canada) I've moved to semi-rural Wisconsin and I see eagles monthly, and closeup (I see red-tail hawks daily, Cooper hawks weekly - one killed one of my chickens last fall), pheasants weekly and sandhill cranes for months every year.

Seems like the conservation efforts for eagles actually worked, and I can't be more pleased.

(Hey, I like birds, ok? I even kept a log with my partner for a while of all the birds we were able to identify at our Bir feeders and on walks).
Never used dart until about a month ago for Flutter. Really loving it so far - like a better typescript. So many cool language features.
do you want interchangeable lenses and a full frame sensor as well?
Lots of them in west central Florida, at least around the golf courses and wooded areas.
> Their Family is fundamentally altered and some of their natural self has been remolded to serve as our adjunct.

You're assuming we weren't also remolded to them.

Growing up on a farm, the relationship with the dogs made sense to me. They worked, we worked, we both got food and shelter, and were better off than if we didn't have each other. After work, there was time to be friends. A dog who is just a pet that sits in the house all day and waits for the family to come home is harder for me to understand.
I don't understand how that works on people.
Dog whistling, "Hey, hey, leave me to my grift."
But they at least went through a slightly-diverse undergrad university (Duke) and hopefully didn't spend it insulated from different kinds of people. Out of the thousands of students there, all of their friends happened to also be sweatshop heirs? I guess I just don't understand how someone, who's not royalty, can become a grown ass adult, never having had made friends with or developed at least some kind of empathy towards people unlike themselves.
I actually have. I'm completly remodeling a rental property after a nightmare tenant. I'm totally familiar with what you're talking about and am not disagreeing, but my point was more that they still give you an estimate. I've never had a contractor or someone he's hired not provide an estimate.

I know their number is going to be off, so personally, I mentally double any number they tell me, but having that starting point is important. If they tell me it's going to be $6k for a new kitchen, I can budget $12k. If they just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ then I don't even have a starting point which is way less helpful.
Larry Ellison is already pitching this.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnip...
Its a neat way to do it - spin a temporary one, which can crash all it wants without affecting the other nodes. Fits like a glove to BEAM.
> I think parent comment is suggesting it's dangerous for you to publicly tell others that ChatGPT is better than their doctor at diagnosing them (however little of your doctor's attention you get) regardless of whether there is or isn't truth to it in certain cases.

Yes, exactly.

Doubly so when one has no medical expertise.
Anyway, I propose to dig tunnel to the center of the Moon with plasma cutters and make a lab there. IMHO, the result will be worthy.

As non-native speaker, it's hard for me to argue with native speakers (especially when I sick, tired, in army, and at war), and I refuse to use AI to translate, because I suspect that such messages will be automatically rejected by future archivists.
It is a weird product for the Framework brand.

The pitch for the Framework laptop is that it is repairable/upgradable/modular. Something that is uncommon for laptops nowadays.

This is the opposite. Desktops are modular by default, so much is that my computer is like the Ship of Theseus, I never changed it, but upgrade to upgrade, it is a completely different machine than it once was (it started off as a 486!). This one is not.

The Framework desktop doesn't look bad, but now, I am confused about the meaning of the brand. It is as if Tesla made a diesel car.
> I have read every post, every article, every piece of guidance.

Prove it. I’m asking for specifics, not hand waving.
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
HEXUS stopped publishing in 2021, and the company no longer exists. The forums were kept because they don't take much work to keep online. Now, there's a lot of work to do, like reading hundreds of pages of documents and submitting risk assessments. There's nobody to do that work now, so the idea was it could go into read only mode. The problem with that was, some users may want their data deleted if it becomes read only. Therefore, the only option is to delete it.
Late-stage capitalism is watching the movie "THX-1138" and getting inspired to write a YC pitch.
I've enjoyed, and been lucky to work at companies where engineers are focused on customer outcomes. I would also cite Hiten Shah's engineering driven development: https://www.june.so/blog/the-rise-of-engineering-driven-deve...

At the end of the day, the stack is collapsing itself, and the lines are blurring because we want people to own the total outcome more often than throwing responsibilities over the wall to each other.

That doesn't mean engineers are going to design, but they should know what a good design looks and feels like. That doesn't mean designers or product should write code, but they should be able to engage in high level architecture discussion to understand the capabilities of their products.

I have not read it yet but there's a book by David Epstein (not that one), "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World". I'm interested because for the last 10 years I've thought of myself as a generalist but always thought companies were looking for specialists. I could show immense value when I got to those companies, but I don't typically think companies are looking for generalist. They are looking for specialists to solve an acute problem.
Many aviation fuel pumps in far-out-of-the-way airports use dial-up to authenticate credit cards swiped to pay for the fuel.
Reaching a plateau doesn't imply that it's not early. It's still entirely plausible that we come up with a newer better model in ten years that gives us true AGI or runs on cheaper hardware or just gives us a closer approximation to human reasoning.
> lack of viewfinder

Yeah, I think this is another situation where touchscreen-only phones/tables set a bad example for others to copy. I think a viewfinder is way better for outdoor shooting, but maybe people who take most shots indoors don't care?
RFC6177 specifically recommends a /48 to /56 because future security measures may require subnetting, even on home networks (eg having IoT devices on a secure DMZ).

Basically, giving out a /64 is the modern equivalent to ISPs saying "you have to pay extra to have more computers on the internet and you're not allowed to use NAT" that was actually a thing up until the mid 2000s.

The frustrating this is that there's no reason to do a /64 as IPv6 was literally designed to hand out huge IP ranges.
They're still DOGE staffers. Title is correct.
> If we’re lucky this vacuum will be filled by an even larger private sector innovation hub like Xerox park and bell labs.

Why would they do that when stock buybacks are more profitable for shareholders?
Firstly the main failure of connectors in cameras isn't the connector per se, it's generally the board that the connector is mounted on breaks off from the mainboard.

Secondly, and more importantly, the lifespan of your camera is now the lifespan of the internal storage. That seems very unappealing.
I'm South of Madison. Love the Driftless!
Oh absolutely.
The first time I saw a bald eagle was about a mile's walk into the woods (no paths), in a marshy area in a northeastern state forest.

We surprised each other, and all I could do is stare, stunned, while s/he took flight about 20 yards in front of me.

Now granted, I was about 15 and had grown up with all the iconography and mythology, but I felt instantly that that bird earned it all. S/he was enormous and beautiful and majestic in a way that I had never seen before in a wild animal. (And rarely since!)

Made me think that, to the great majority of species, humans are just an unwelcome out-of-control infestation on the planet. Yes, we have some redeeming qualities, but they are not often on display to these animals. :)
The skill is "troubleshooting". Not to be confused with its close cousin, "troublemaking".
Just host it all elsewhere, I don't understand the problem here. Double freedom rockets to the UK
There was a time when US tech people would use this idea as a moral parable.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

But now we have current tech businesses basing their future growth strategies as much on better dark patterns as on actual value creation. Imagine a society using their best minds to figure out 'better' dark patterns, and counting the outcome from those patterns as GDP growth. That society is royally f'd on every level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Quran_burnings_in_Sweden

Does burning a religious book "incite violence" ? It causes it, for sure. Free expression brings about, in the fanatic, a great desire to oppress the speaker. That's why we have such a freedom in the first place.
The USDS was rebranded DOGE at which point all the USDS employees became DOGE employees. "DOGE staffers" is correct.

Now if it were to say "New DOGE staffers that Elon brought with him", that would be incorrect. But the article makes its clear where the employees came from.
Many kratom companies started to due kratom "shots", extremely concentrated kratom which obviously makes it's addictive properties worse.

I experimented a bit with it, at 1/3 dosage that the powder form is usually recommended and started noticing slight additiction creeping up so I threw it down the toiler.

That being said, we also need to start labeling sugar with the same addictiveness label. After quitting sugar and processed sweets for ~1 months it's crazy how you don't even realized you were addicted to them until you fully stop eating it.
That comes out of the box with Mercurial. (`hg out` or `hg outgoing`).
My son's school got a lot of national level attention for a "ban".

Really though the rule is that if a teacher sees it, they take it and it goes to the office. You can pick it up at the end of the day, after the 3rd occurrence your parents have to pick it up + you sit for a talk with the principal.

It was like magic, phones suddenly not out, disruptions way down.

>meaning that almost all children aged between seven and 16-17 will be required by law not to bring their phones into school

This seems a bit overbearing and absurd to me. Phones are a tool, there will be poor and good uses of them. Just banning them outright based on age and etc seems like it doesn't really address a larger issue.

Also ... I know of no magic that makes people 18+ more capable at using them.