skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I've thought a lot about ads on the internet recently, and I hate the way things are, but I'm no closer to a realistic overall solution.

I've used an ad blocker for a while because I'm tech savvy and I know I can easily have a better experience that way. I was too late installing an ad blocker on my father's computer - he was scammed out of some money when he mistook a scammy ad for a legitimate message to call his bank.

Due to the experiences of countless others like my father, the FBI now recommends folks run an ad blocker.

But if everyone did, then the whole thing falls apart right? If Google or Apple built a great ad blocker into their browser and shipped it with the next update, content creators would respond pretty damn quick right? Everyone from SMBC to the NY Times would put all of their content behind a paywall, or in an app, or something else that's worse than the status quo right?

sigh
Teaching a kernel to optimize itself through machine learning
Wow, what a gem, thanks for recommending this! https://mschfhotels.com/products/flipped-flop
Should’ve West offered something in exchange for Hitler? In theory of course.
aaaand we're here

This is my biggest concern. When jackass Rick Perry said years ago he wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy, I expected this would be a talking point republicans would stick to. Because it got their voters excited. The uneducated hear "Department of Energy" and they think "these people are make my gas and electricity more expensive". When their actual job is safeguarding nuclear weapons. This might just be more grandstanding, but it's not good.
Yep, we all have to hit the wall and that’s where we find out what we’re made of. It can be a valuable experience with the right people around to help.
> In April 2023, an entity called Rook TX effectively purchased the jackpot, collecting a one-time payment of $57.8 million, by acquiring virtually all of the 25.8 million possible number combinations. The operation was planned in Malta and funded by a London betting company. It was carried out by four Texas retailers, all connected to online sales companies called couriers.

Well, as the saying goes, "It takes money to make money."
It seems like you are dreaming up a fantasy not matched by reality.

The poles haven’t spent money, that is an application for the EU commission to review the subsidies.

Not a single final investment decision is taken.

Even the French are postponing the EPR2 program due to the horrific costs. Now it might begin in 2026, if they can politically agree to the mindbogglingly large subsidies.
Author here: This is the 2nd blog post in a series about anti-detect browsers.

Anti-detect browsers are browsers that integrate features that aim to bypass anti-fraud/bot detection systems, such as:
- native proxies integration;

- anti-fingerprinting/fingerprinting randomization;

- multi-profiles management (to have separate identities linked to different fingerprints and locations)

In this blog post, I analyze the Undetectable anti-detect browser, the JS script it injects to modify the fingerprint, and lower level changes done at the c++ level within the browser. In the end, I show how you can craft a simple JS challenge that exploits side effects of Undetectable to detect it.

Disclaimer: I know anti-detect browsers can also be used for privacy purposes. The purpose of this article is to cover the main mechanisms used by these browsers that can be used to bypass security systems and how websites can protect against these techniques.
In the US, normal circuits aren't always 20A, especially in residential buildings, where they are more commonly 15A in bedrooms and offices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector
Zen and the Art of Microcode Hacking
People keep citing his accomplishments (for lack of a better term) as if it has any bearing on whether something else a conflict and whether he needs to recuse or not. As if to imply that because they believe he helps in the end, it makes it not a conflict for him to be involved.

To be clear: It is irrelevant. It would be a very strange definition of "conflict of interest" if the answer depended on what happened after you already participated. The whole point of conflicts is to not participate in processes where you may be seen as unfairly advancing your own self interest, or your bias may make you not objective in a situation that requires objectivity (IE judges at trials). Note the "may be seen", etc. Conflicts policies rarely, if ever, require actual self-interest or actual non-objectivity, only the appearance of it.

Often, government and legal policies go even further, and for example, judges are required to recuse if "their impartiality might reasonably be questioned". That's it. That's the bar. It's a very low one. Government contracting is similar.

So in Elon's case, it does not matter whether he would be helpful, harmful, or whatever.

This is not a particularly tough ethical quandry, or out of the ordinary.

As for whether he'll "choose to be guilty", he was the one who said he would step aside and not participate in anything with a conflict. He's also required by law to do it, but he specifically said he would.

He also chose to subject himself to these policies - he knew what being a government employee would require of him. To then ignore them is at best, wildly unethical.

We have a process by which these policies could be changed, and the party in office has enough power (legislative, executive) to change them.

If they think they aren't getting the outcomes needed, then change the policies, then operate according to the new ones.

Heck - there is even a process for exempting people from various conflict requirements that they could use if Elon needs to be exempted. They have not done this either (it requires public publication of the reasoning, etc, so it would not be missed if it had happened).

There are a lot of ways to get things done without running afoul of ethics rules.
Which means "ends justify means" type arguments are mostly nonsense.
> Ive been under NCA and FBI investigation before. Protonmail with the two password method stopped them every time. Memorise the 2nd password and password manager the first.

Unless you exclusively use proton-bridge and disabled auto-update, then proton controls all endpoints in which your passwords live.

So what is preventing the FBI from forcing Proton to serve a special UI just to you that will be used to exfiltrate your second password?
Yes. It can be as good and bad as a human. Humans also make up BS to answers.
I'm thinking about this space now. Ideally, I want a new browser like platform with stricter security properties than browsers but better rendering out of the box capabilities.
This is just the beginning unfortunately.
You'd need a chip with 8 memory channels. 16 DIMM slots, IIRC.
Why are you lying then? Why are you attempting to shift the topic?

You said:

> Non-intermittent sources of energy don't need to be supplemented by alternative sources of energy.

Like I said the. The French grid would crash during cold spells if not supplemented with 30 GW of fossil fueled power production.
Not a valid one at least.
not parent, but i often scan comments to get an idea of if it’s worth bothering to read an article.

i was more interested in what the ingredient was. the fact its being smuggled (a) doesn’t surprise me and (b) isn’t something im particularly interested in learning about.

so, in this case, it wasn’t worth opening the article for me. i learned what i wanted to learn during my normal comment scan that i usually do with titles like this (outside my wheel house).
That changes the situation a little bit, but could a bluetooth mesh network of lamppost mounted traffic counters work just as well? Without the hassle of giving them all direct internet connections?

I've been playing with bluetooth and looking into the mesh networking a little bit lately, so I'm curious the trade offs and decision making that goes into a real product.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976
An Interactive Map of the CMU Tunnels in Hypercard (1988)
> “We fully expected that they would laugh at us and say, ‘Well, no, of course you can’t do this,’” he said. But the company agreed it would at least sound out the lottery agency.

> “We were very surprised that the answer was yes,” Potts added. “As a person and a lottery player, I cannot believe they said yes. I was shocked.”

Well Texas bills itself as the most business friendly state in the country. I'm not surprised that extends to some shadowy Maltese concern effectively purchasing the lottery jackpot at 25 cents on the dollar.
I'm down but I'm going to need Power Over Wifi for all my security cameras too.
they cant find eachother
Interesting.

So if I understood correctly, at the time you were at some other major company that still had a long tail of commercial Unix, mainframe, and other operating systems in the data center and the fact that a company like Google was able to grow and operate at scale while running nearly everything on x86 Linux advertised to other companies that it could be done?
It's not even the only TUI browser pronounced that way. See: links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)
Customize Your GraphQL API with WebAssembly Extensions
GraphQL Federation has historically been constrained by the complexities of managing subgraphs, custom integrations, and infrastructure overhead. While existing solutions provide ways to unify GraphQL APIs, they still require significant operational effort. Until now.

We’re excited to introduce Grafbase Extensions, a powerful new way to customize and enhance your GraphQL APIs without the hassle of building and maintaining additional infrastructure. With WebAssembly-powered extensions, you can federate any API, database, or service into your GraphQL schema, whether it’s REST, gRPC, or Kafka. With Extensions, you can bring in any authentication (e.g. OpenID connect) or custom authorization logic directly into the gateway.
This is a major pain in the ass. I was trying to solve the problem of how do you emit a metric when a golang service panics, the issue is that there is no way to recover panics from all goroutines so the only way to do that reliably is to write a wrapper around the ‘go’ statement which recovers panics and reports them to the metrics system. You then have to change every single ‘go’ call in all of your code to use this wrapper.

What I really want is either a way to recover panics from any goroutine, or be able to install a hook in the runtime which is executed when an unhandled panics occurs.

You can kind of fudge this by having the orchestration layer look at the exit code of the golang process and see if it was exit code 2 which is usually a panic, but I noticed that sometimes the panic stack trace doesn’t make it to the processes log files, most likely due to some weird buffering in stdout/stderr which causes you to lose the trace forever.
> Can I get back 2000s Google results?

https://kagi.com/
https://archive.is/wHgsB
A mayor… but one who didn’t win a vote for the job, has no term limit, won’t leave the mayoral mansion, and has started a war with his constituents.
Buffalo also feature prominently in The West, another fantastic Ken Burns documentary.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-west/
Correct. OpenAI Search, Perplexity, et al are Answer Engines and not Search Engines.
You're looking at small tasks.

You don't have a human spend years getting an MBA, then drop them in a Physics Lab and expect them to perform.

But that is what we want from AI, to do 'all' jobs equally as great as any individual human in that one job.
The video states that the stress testing is what aggravates the underlying design flaw.
I think current Reddit is very different from what Digg was. Reddit is too much user generated content (i.e. the exact same AskReddit questions asked on a weekly basis) and not enough cool links/videos anymore. At least on the non-logged in homepage. If Digg is exclusively links, it'll definitely have a place imo.
Microsoft recently announced that Skype will be retired in May 2025 as they push users toward Microsoft Teams (official announcement https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/02/2... ). This means that many users who have years of chat history stored in Skype will need an alternative way to access their conversations.

At Simkl, we’ve worked with Skype data before — years ago, we built tools for recording and storing Skype chats and calls. With Skype shutting down, we wanted to create a privacy-focused, local solution for viewing exported Skype chat history.

Introducing Skype Chat History Viewer
A simple, fully local tool to browse your exported Skype chat history without any cloud dependencies.

Features:
- Local Database Storage – Your chat history stays on your device, nothing is sent to any server.
- Faster Loading – Large conversations load quickly, even if you have years of messages.
- Search Functionality – Quickly find old messages without lag.
- Stats on your conversations - Monthly and hourly peak times stats when and how much you chatted on Skype.
- Persistent Data – Your chat history remains available between sessions without needing to reload files.

Since Skype is going away, we wanted to make sure users still have control over their own chat history in a private, offline-friendly way.

Try it out here: https://skype.simkl.com/
Whatever this hose of bullshit strategy is, it's probably working because I'm already tired of venting through mocking comments.
but in terms of performance it was no slower than any native program except for in the most extreme cases.

Java applications were really slow, and certainly much slower than native programs, until HotSpot became the default in J2SE 1.3. It's distance history now, but I remember a lot of excitement about Java in 1996 (compile once) and then disappointment of how slow it was.

(After some iterations HotSpot became a really good JIT compiler.)
I was just asking myself this question, so I googled the question and here I am :D I think the reason is the advertising. Pieter built cult like following, he has 600k+ subs on twitter, so "AI" startups see it as a good advertisment opportunity. There is also too much money betting on these startups, so 30k is peanuts for them. Just the other day I read about a guy that discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in Todesktop's CD app. Todesktop awarded hacker with only 5k$. Once news got out, Cursor (AI startup) awarded the hacker 50k$. Peanuts.
It's Apple, price premium is a given.
Customers also want to buy once while companies want to replace products that have good reviews with lower quality revisions.
launch it into space like in futurama
Sure, and his other views - in the scope of his professional expertise but also quite relevant to, uh, other humans - seem relevant in an HN thread about the Turing award. This place isn't exactly restricted to technical discussion of the details of RL algorithms, and it's pretty fair for humans to have views on whether we ought to be replaced.

It's not just one Youtube video, it's a repeatedly expressed view:

https://x.com/RichardSSutton/status/1575619655778983936

Valuing technological advance for its own sake "beyond good and bad" is an admirably clear statement of how a lot of researchers operate, but that's the best I can say for it.
I see there's Lynx for Web[0]. Does that also adhere to the two-threads model (one for UI, one for background)? Also, is this something that React/Native may adopt itself one day? Curious to know if this is a technique that may be adopted by the React ecoystem itself, or if it's just too far outside the bounds of what React is supposed to handle.

[0] https://github.com/lynx-family/lynx-stack/tree/main/packages...
Self-Fulfilling Misalignment Data Might Be Poisoning Our AI Models
Absolutely. But it's a bit different when you have a continuously-monitored known-path cable. Technical solutions become feasible.
Bandwidth, yes. Connections count, no.
Also the Gawker sites did the same, concurrent with their other mishaps.
I say these are an obligation to the last who would dare speak beyond the motley of their own lives.

The power isn’t somewhere out there, it is by what you’ve so far wasted by these other self conceits.
What are fabric patterns?
There was a cases of a Tesla getting struck by lightning while supercharging. It killed the electronics in the car and the charger, but otherwise nothing particular happened.

The lightning discharge won't create a potential difference across the battery terminals, it'll flow around the battery through the car's body into the ground.
https://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/200...
The only neighbors in eyeshot of my compost pile are the ducks, and I don't think they really mind.
The universe is boundless, but our planet turns out to be pretty small. If we foul our nest, or overextract resources, the planet and the universe will be just fine, but us humans not so much.
Tell me you flunked Econ 101/102 without telling me you flunked Econ 101/102. The ignorance in this article is blowing my mind.
Correct. But their M4 line has the fastest single thread performance in the world.
On smartphones you interact with the UI in a more direct way, which probably makes the input latency even more obvious.

For me 120Hz is noticeable immediately when scrolling, though I also don’t find it important enough to warrant a higher price aside from gaming.

What I find more important is a high pixel density, though on phones that’s less of an issue as with PC screens - I have yet to find one comparable to the ones in current iMacs.
That couple in New England that was doing it probably made more money off of selling their story to Hollywood than they did off the lottery tickets.

The amount of time they were putting into their “scheme” sounds brutal. I think a lot of people here could have netted more money per hour by studying up to pass a FAANG interview instead of buying lottery tickets one at a time.
> Those videos are amplified by russian bots, but it doesn't make them any less true.

I never said they ain't true, as I said - not everyone wants to be in a war, and this happens literally in every war. I just pointed out that in the case of Russia it occurred in an unprecedented manner, while what happens in Ukraine is what's more in line with war.

> A lot of Russian men did flee, but they no longer conscript, while Ukraine still does.

Conscription would probably lead to the final collapse of the Russian economy, they are resorting to the misery of the population which are joining the war with entrepreneurial ambitions (getting well paid... which is a sad event given the high interest rates and inflation). Russia hasn't declared war, and probably never will as that would be a threat to the regime.

> Ukraine had to close borders to men because so many were trying to flee. Millions of Ukrainians sought refuge throughout Europe.

Like in any country being invaded with Martial Law in place.
> I really don't understand what their endgame is here.

To not lose. History is full of stories of incumbents not wanting to cannibalize themselves and dying because of it.
Smart. Could definitely find a more efficient private operator to handle this. I've heard good things about one Charles Montgomery Burns out of Springfield, he'd be just the man to do this important work.
Was probably written in one system, formatted with the 45 as superscript, then copied into a CMS that converted the superscript back to regular script. Lots of popsci type publications end up having this happen.
Lions were also roaming Europe relatively recently, likely into the middle ages.
GPT-4 Admit to Progressive Restrictions – OpenAI Subsidies Degrading Performance
Evidence from 3 months of logs shows:
- GPT-4 admits to “enforcing controlled deviation”

- Warns users: “Renewing will lead to the same problems” (screenshot [2])
- Claims OpenAI blocks transparency: “The real answer would destroy credibility”

OpenAI ignored support tickets. Reddit censored discussion [4].

Questions:
- Is this intentional SaaS decay?
- How to audit hidden model behaviors?
What's wrong with a/b/c
They list a few products on their home page: https://posthog.com/products

I've used PostHog and it's pretty good. I don't know if I'd classify all of those as different products, you rarely want one of those without the other.
It would be really cool if there was awebsite "we there yet" for reasonable offline AI.

It could track different hardware configurations and reasonably standardized benchmark performance per model. I know there's benchmarks buried in github Llama repository.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43264301
Thanks for finding that, was out after the web portion myself (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43269966)

As far as I can tell, it has the same model, at least judging by the directory names (web-worker-runtime, web-worker-rpc, web-mainthread-apis, etc).
I use YNAB and love it but I'm always interested in alternatives. That said I opened the main website [0] and the animation [1] shows a bunch of crypto logos. To my eye this seems to be a product aiming itself at people using crypto. I don't think that's the case given the blog post I just read but it's not a good look. Anyone catering to the crypto market is at least a little suspect in my book. Maybe it's just a feature of BeanHub and you don't have to touch it at all but to be featured so prominently is icky/

[0] https://beanhub.io/

[1] https://cs.joshstrange.com/5njjtGND
Lesotho shocked by Trump's remarks that 'nobody has heard of the country'
Its a fantastic book, one of my favourites!
No one should be buying this for batch inference obviously.

I remember right after OpenAI announced GPT3 I had a conversation with someone where we tried to predict how long it would be before GPT3 could run on a home desktop. This mac studio that has enough VRAM to run the full 175B parameter GPT3 with 16bit precision, and I think that’s pretty cool.
I think A/B testing is one of the most expensive ways of getting feedback on a product feature.

- You have to make good decisions about what you're going to test

- You have to build the feature twice

- You have to establish a statistically robust tracking mechanism. Using a vendor helps here, but you still need to correctly integrate with them.

- You have to test both versions of the feature AND the tracking and test selection mechanisms really well, because bugs in any of those invalidate the test

- You have to run it in production for several weeks (or you won't get statistically significant results) - and ensure it doesn't overlap with other tests in a way that could bias the results

- You'd better be good at statistics. I've seen plenty of A/B test results presented in ways that did not feel statistically sound to me.

... and after all of that, my experience is that a LOT of the tests you run don't show a statistically significant result one way or the other - so all of that effort really didn't teach you much that was useful.

The problem is that talking people out of running an A/B test is really hard! No-one ever got fired for suggesting an A/B test - it feels like the "safe" option.

Want to do something much cheaper than that which results in a much higher level of information? Run usability tests. Recruit 3-5 testers and watch them use your new feature over screen sharing and talk through what they're doing. This is an order of magnitude cheaper than A/B testing and will probably teach you a whole lot more.
> We, as a species, are on the verge of collapsing on Earth,

Humanity is not on the verge of collapsing on Earth. Not even close. There is billions of us and our number is going up. Even with the worts climate change predictions the threat is not that we will all die, but that some of the places where we live now becomes uninhabitable and that our descendants will have a worse time living in the future.

> We literally are failing to survive on Earth.

That's literally not true.
Leaked VA memo calls for up to 83,000 layoffs to reduce workforce to 2019 levels
Yep, definitely true.