skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also I either became unstuck in time again or my other reply to your post had done a disappear for a good while. Suppose it's the load balancer flaking out under the weight of all the tinfoil I wear as my fashion statement? Guess some weirdness is afoot, I could see it in the tea leaves and the traceroute, too :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NghF9aOlBDY&t=69s
Using LLMs to estimate regulatory cost compliance
The key graphs:

As an alternative approach, I tested whether large language models (LLMs) could provide more realistic estimates by simulating compliance scenarios in the final section of this post. I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok to act as compliance officers at companies subject to new CCPA provisions and a Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) rule, asking each to estimate hours needed for first-year implementation and ongoing compliance.

The big takeaways:

* For California's risk assessment regulation, Claude and Grok project 400-580 hours will be needed for the first-year of compliance (vs. the official 120 hours) and 150-240 hours thereafter (vs. the official 18-36 hours annually). ChatGPT estimates the time at 90-250 hours initially and 40-150 hours for each additional year.

* For the automated decision-making provision of the CCPA, Claude and Grok project 450-730 hours for first-year compliance, far exceeding the official 360-hour estimate. While ChatGPT suggests lower initial costs (80-300 hours), all three LLMs predict significantly higher ongoing annual costs than official projections.

* For the BIS reporting rule, Claude projects 1,140 hours for first-year compliance (3x the official estimate of 333 hours), while ChatGPT estimates 280 hours and Grok projects 380 hours. All three LLMs agree ongoing compliance will require substantial resources.

In short, the LLMs consistently predicted much higher compliance costs than the official sources, suggesting a systematic underestimation.
It doesn't stop the tracking, though, which makes it useless to me. UBo remains the best solution.
Coffee, reimagined with Ai crypto. Cryoffii.
Is this interface that much different from "classic" OSX preferences? The old panel with horizontal icons was replaced with sidebar tree which loads sections withouth need to return to main screen - that is pretty much convenient.

But I do agree - settings panels not only in OSX become too complex and often featuring stuff that should stay on mobile devices. It's been years but I'm still not fond of all sorts of notification centers and destkop applications being able to nag you with their stuff.
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"it's possible that the current admin working groups don't trust the official secure channels and assume they are compromised and they are being spied upon by their own or foreign agencies"

Jesus Christ, this is dumb. Using a civilian app with civilian phones is literally the best way to get spied on, by either "your own" or foreign agencies. These people are going to get us all killed in a nuclear first strike.
My blog is 76 all time in the list, except... the author is wrong and the bio is half wrong.

21 the last 12 months.
> Most pundits feel like this administration is trying to keep things out of FOIA and discoverability reach which has its own problems.

I don't think we need to ponder so hard about this.

This administration is headed by a man who kept stolen TS/SCI national secrets in a bathroom at his house.

A fish rots from the head.
There are more options than this.
I mean how is a free and open source model not a free market schism atleast in the ai world.
If the CIA and NSA (let alone Russian and Chinese intelligence) are illegally spying on you, your civilian phone is toast. You shouldn't be ordering DoorDash on the thing.
Super amused that something so "deep Spain" (specifically from my region) arises in other places too:

https://es-euronews-com.translate.goog/2022/07/12/salir-al-f...
Tap of the beer glass to my similarly low-ranking compatriots.
We are outraged for ten minutes, and then move on, like the red sock in the white wash. The modern western consumer getting exactly what we deserve. MBA spin, rinse, repeat, draining us all, whilst the stain of these complex holding companies, launder their tax free profits.

With wage deflation, free time erosion, and political uncertainty, nobody has the time, energy or money to fight this. It is no wonder that we take the easy option, and so the cycle continues.

I do my best to pushback (this month was deleting firefox, last year was deleting youtube), but disengagement is just a number that nobody sees. So another 1000 people wont buy this brand, or use that service, or will boycott such and such. No one notices.

But I found some small hope. I recently switched jobs, and I have been lucky enough to talk to many people that do care enough to try to make a difference. I know there are others here on HN as well, some of us clinging on to one of the last websites worth visiting.

So if you have ever taken the more difficult option, I just want to say thank-you for your sacrifice, because even if the corps dont notice, you are doing the right thing. Karma.

Time to give tech a 'soiled wash' and start reviewing tech with a 'Clean Tech' moniker for companies willing to sell repairable tech, without the enshitifcation of ads, cloud, subscriptions, drm, mandatory accounts etc etc

Today's challenge, find Jeff a 'Clean Tech' washer so that we can have some interesting followup articles where he battles with the returns department because the machine has been listening in to his grumbles, and the water detection sticker has turned blue.
He reached to top of his profession, high social status, decent money. Maybe it is USA/western obsession with longevity. From where I am, people would totally fine if someone died in 60s after such high level accomplishments.
I live in Chicago, in a denser part, and we have all the things you mention.

I think this idea that a “city” is like Manhattan just doesn’t hold up in the US. Manhattan is approaching unique here and there are places in Manhattan that could be described by your ideal.
Florida to consider relaxing child labour laws to fill vacant jobs
> Anyone who has ever dealt with the US justice system as just some regular bloke knows it is broken.

and just like re healthcare, this is the rub of communicating about this: 90% (to pick a random number out of thin air) of hn's target demo has had perfect/sheltered lives and has never come into contact with the "law". so they believe all the political and institutional rhetoric around it.

the other 10% know it's a myth but fail to be able to convince the 90% because it would cause deep cognitive dissonance to accept that the US is deeply deeply inequitable and unfair and that it's not accidental but systematic. when i was younger i was in jail a handful of times (not prison thankfully). it's impossible to explain to someone how fucked up it is that's never experienced it. i stopped talking about the "justice system" a long time ago to co-workers/friends/etc and i don't tell anyone about my experience (only my wife knows).
In my situation they would probably not respond, and then submit a complaint through the HOA
Decaying leaves do change the ph of the soil and can leave a wet heavy mass that new sprouts have trouble sprouting through and seeds have trouble getting through to the soil.

There is no reason shedding leaves has to only be for one single purpose like weather protection, saving energy, or trying to prevent competition, it can be all at once.
No, the person above was led to believe that all of the dishwasher's features could be used offline, but that was not the case.
yes kinda, it's complicated (as in depends on country and in some countries is still can involve a 3rd party "middleman" even through you do auth with your bank and don't need an account with the middle man)

through what matters is that in the end you can pay on most EU sites without having either paypal or a credit card

so that use case really doesn't need paypal

and for the p2p money sending you need it even less

and if you buy stuff from outside of the EU you most times can pay with both paypal or credit card, so if you have a credit card you don't need paypal for that either
Yes, this was one of the main points on infosec Mastodon today. While everyone is aware enough to be concerned with encryption over the wire, it's the endpoints that matter. Personal Android devices capable of running Signal are going to be some of the easiest to compromise for a sufficiently motivated attacker. I've seen n00b cops do it for drug gangs here. There's no question that Russia, China, et al. can do it just as well and we have as good as much as confirmation that that's what's going on in at least Tulsi Gabbard's case.
I'd have less of a problem with prisoners being paid a pittance for helping out if it weren't for how the spending-side of prison commissaries [0] and phone calls [1] are often unconscionably overpriced.

[0] https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-c...

[1] https://www.vera.org/news/the-fcc-is-capping-outrageous-pris...
Yes, but the geographic scale of suburbs just puts limits on this type of thing.

“Everyone with a five minute walking me” is a very different number of people in Brooklyn vs the suburbs. Let’s say 50 vs 500?

I think it’s way easier to end up on an anti-social block than in a city, where the law of large numbers draws blocks toward the average.
> A fascist is not “far right”. I think the dictionary definition is more accepted.

Which dictionary?

Oxford (https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019...) and Collins (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/fasc...) say right-wing.
That's a real difference when something is your final responsibility too (as team lead or an architect). You think of it differently, you predict and anticipate changes better. It's like taking care of your kid vs your kids friend.
I've heard this is downstream of human feedback. If you ask someone which picture is better, they'll tend to pick the more saturated option. If you're doing post-training with humans, you'll bake that bias into your model.
I think it's interesting they're choosing to use certificates this way. If they're already using certs, why not just leverage sshca auth? Also, at the end of the day, it's still effectively a bearer token. I founded a company called Based Security last year in this space. We're looking for design partners currently. We host a CA for you (or you can host yourself if you want) and use ssh certificates and bind the user identity (oidc to the IdP) to a physical device (yubikey, secure enclave, tpm, etc.) This ensures that the user is both in possession of the physical device and that the credential can't be stolen without stealing the device, unlike the bearer token examples here. Currently we're offering support for GitHub and GitLab authentication but it works out of the box with standard ssh tooling as well. It just currently requires manually handling user provisioning for standard ssh access.
The natural and insider language of the chat, and (especially) the perfect timing of the strikes with the planning in the tread, also make it extremely unlikely this was anything but a genuine conversation, even without confirmation. The alternative is a combination of a very-prepared fraudster with either their own source of privileged information (to get the timing right) or else an incredible coincidence such that their entirely fake and uninformed planning matched the timing set out in the real planning. That it was genuine is far, far more likely than either of those (one of which raises its own, different security concerns, anyway)
> I've been thinking about bluetooth and a standard protocol and generic app.

A long time ago I developed a project called "Handbag[0] for Android"[1] based around a similar concept--it targeted the short-lived "Android Open Accessory Protocol" initially over USB & later also over network/WiFi.

(My project notes from the time mentioned a long-term goal of also supporting Bluetooth but that never eventuated...)

Handbag made use of a "generic" Android app for UI display/interaction and an Arduino library that communicated with the app over a binary protocol.

The app would display various UI widgets such as labels/progress bars to display feedback from the accessory and text inputs/buttons to accept input forwarded to the accessory.

While the project did not take the world by storm, I was reminded when digging up these links that at least one person called the concept genius[2]. :)

----

[0] Because it let you "accessorize your Android phone or tablet". :D

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130205135845/http://handbagdev...

[2] https://www.doctormonk.com/2011/11/handbag-android-and-ardui...
You run into the same problem of everyone else: there is only so much land and so you compete with everyone, including those ranch hands that want to get into it (and likely have their own holdings they are working when not on your shift). That they are working their own land means they have some ability to out compete you (though their lack of capital means you will have a much larger investment).

Also many states have laws against corporate farmers that can get you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUPDRnUWeBA
Well let's truly hope that its not that much expensive
I live in the suburbs on a busy road. The road is literally a dividing line between the village. One which means we only interact with the neighbors on the other side when there is a car accident.
This doesn't imply the decision is any less jaw-dropping.

Besides, polling enjoyment is not exactly what I would describe as a pragmatic approach.
Oh neat, thanks so much for sharing. I was getting MCP client errors when simply using `console.error`. Sending log message from the MCP server to the MCP client via the logging capability makes a ton of sense!

```
{
"capabilities": {
"logging": {}
}
}
```
> The SCOTUS doesn't split along ideological or party lines all the time.

It happens enough on cases that matter that it's farcical not to put (R) and (D) after the names of the justices, for clarity, when discussing them in the press.
Suffering is very real. I know, because I have experienced it.

It is a bad thing to experience. Therefore, when I know—or reasonably believe—that something can experience it, I want to minimize that, because I care about the experiences of living things.

We know, or reasonably believe, that dogs can have experiences, and feel pain, and thus can feel suffering.

We know that a clockwork toy cannot have experiences, and thus cannot experience suffering.

You may pontificate on all you want about what's really real and other deep philosophical concepts, or about edge cases; meanwhile, I will be here in actual reality, which I perceive and experience, where I am able to make very clear and straightforward observations of what is true in the majority of cases.

(And to be clear: I am not saying that it is not important to understand the philosophical implications of things, nor that edge cases don't matter. I am saying that they do not negate very clear and observable facts about our universe. The existence of gray areas does not mean there are not things that are clearly black, or clearly white.)
How did you resolve all this? When I implemented Kernel, this was one of my big sticking points as to whether environments were only copy-on-write or genuinely mutable.

Section 4.3.1 and Fig 4.1 from his thesis doesn't really help clear this up much.

> Although Kernel is specified using mutable environments, the Kernel report does make them optional. It doesn't really go into depth about how one would implement Kernel with immutable environments besides a brief note.

Thanks. I must have missed that. I'll go look again at some point.

Part of the problem I had was that the environment handling was cons-ing up a lot of garbage. I really needed some way to default everything to "ground environment" to prevent the creation of a new environments all over the place.
I love that dynomight.net stands out with "existential angst" as a very unique category among the top blogs, as well as being written by an anonymous/pseudonymous author. I'm a big fan of their writing.

Also quite surprised to find my own site in the top 5000 for the past 5 years! It feels like Hacker News is simultaneously quite large but also a cozy community where you often recognize names from day to day.
> My reasoning for proprietary AI to be associated with communism is that they aren't competing in a free market way where everyone does one thing and do its best.

That seems based on a very weird idea of what capitalism and communism are; idealized free markets have very little to do with the real-world economic system for which the name “capitalism” was coined, and dis-integration where “everyone does one thing” has little to do with either capitalism or free markets, though it might be a convenient assumption for 101-level discussions of market competition where you want to avoid dealing with real-world issues like partially-overlapping markets and imperfect substitutes to assume every good exists in an isolated market of goods which compete only and exactly with the other groups in that same market in a simple way.
The correlations are 0.25-0.5, which is quite poor (Gaussian distribution plots with those correlations look like noise). That's before analyzing the methodology and assumptions.
Try ollama?
It support several embedding models
Lucky for us C++ is backwards compatible ;)
They seem to use it as long as the chat history is enabled, similar to Gemini. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7792795-how-do-i-turn-of...
Because most of the LLM hype is still generated by people who don't use them in production, and those people don't use GCP
Nice. By the way what’s a stoop?
I tried and while the clock it generated was very well done and high quality, it showed the time as the analog clock default of 10:10.
Maybe lower education should just have a different schedule with other activity years? I'm not particularly impressed with the average American's ability to be a positive element of society and despite all the problems, I think liberal arts students are probably better than the rest when considered over their lifetime. But why should each individual take loans to have the critical thinking to vote in the interest of larger institutions?
I’ve just tried it and oh wow it’s really good. I managed to create a birthday invitation card for my daughter in basically 1-shot, it nailed exactly the elements and style I wanted. Then I asked to retain everything but tweak the text to add more details about the date, venue etc. And it did. I’m in shock. Previous models would not be even halfway there.
Isn't correlation a wrong way of measuring statistical dependence anyway? I thought that entropy-based method like Relative Entropy did this better.
These financing issues are part of the nonsuperiority story of the Fediverse relative to other platforms. A cost of roughly a dollar a year per user is par for the course for online systems but Pixelfed is the opposite of Mozilla [1]. When I worked at arXiv in the early 2000s we had an honest coat structure per paper three orders of magnitude less than conventional journals but we still weren’t sustainable since we were a tiny unit in an large academic library that couldn’t get it that we were responsible for at least 90% of the value the library generated.

Any actual solution to the current problems (e.g. how could community organizations, say a board game club, organize without Facebook?) has to solve the money problem first, the technical problems. Despite the cult of the start-up, starting up is easy and can be done on a shoestring and unpaid labor, it’s the sustaining that is hard —- and the people who are capable of running on a shoestring are at the mercy of Mozilla-esque vultures whose core competence is fundraising.

[1] based anywhere but San Francisco, understaffed, probably one unpaid or underpaid staff member, no administrative overhead because no administration, heck it probably costs about $500k a year to be elligible for and able to get grants
It's not true that commercial services filter out military aircraft with ADS-B. In fact, FlightRadar24 even lets you filter to only show military aircraft. I see over a dozen flying near San Diego right now.
GSA Announces FedRAMP 20x
I think the most inconvenient thing is actually that it’s both (largely) accidental and systematic.

If you go looking for the source of “evil” breaking these systems, you’ll surely find a few bad folks purposely fucking it up, but removing them is almost certainly not going to fix anything. The vast majority of these systems’ behavior (good or bad) is effectively not driven by individuals whatsoever.
> is sadly the natural state of things

Sadly, the even-more-natural state of things involves the total extinction of all known forms of life and nothing but the cold vacuum of space.

So we should be very careful not to equate that particular kind of "natural" with other concepts like "unavoidable" or "acceptable".
That doesn't really make sense. If they had strong reason to believe that the secure comms systems they were supposed to be using were compromised, using personal phones to communicate outside of SCIFs is very, very far from what any competent person who understands and is briefed on the threat environment would do. Note that none of the people involved are making that argument because it would make them look even more incompetent.
Scrolling is unusable on that page for me:

Computer: Apple M3 Max

macOS: 14.7.3 (23H417)

Google Chrome 134.0.6998.118

I also tried in my "clean" chrome profile (to rule out extensions) and it's still got really bad scroll lag. This happens as soon as I open the page.

Here is a video though I understand it's hard to convey since you can't see when/how much I'm scrolling. I can tell you I scrolled slowly down and back up consistently through this video.

https://cs.joshstrange.com/m71YtZdk

Even worse, I just found that having that tab open (and visible) makes Chrome (no other app) laggy everywhere. Something is definitely wrong with that page. Also that page was open in a different chrome profile and it still made my main chrome profile lag when just trying to click around the text area for this comment on HN.

Edit: Some extra details for my setup, I have external monitors (4) and the Macbook Pro is closed in clamshell mode. Not sure why either of those things would matter but I figure both those cases are more common for people on HN (external monitors/closed laptop) than the general public so I wanted to mention it.

Edit2: And here is a video of me doing the same scrolling on the homepage just to show the difference: https://cs.joshstrange.com/GWLr0Qwl
> Imprisonment is indeed a newer development.

Ancient Greece and Rome are "newer"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamertine_Prison was built in the 7th century BC.
Phil, editor of the Supernuclear Substack here. I wasn't expecting "hanging out on stoops" to boot AI out of the #1 slot on Hacker News :) Glad this resonated for folks

A great way of kick-starting stoop culture is having a friend or family member live right next door.

We started a company called Live Near Friends (https://livenearfriends.com) to help people do this.
Can you do this with the prompt of a cow jumping over the moon?

I can’t ever seem to get it to make the cow appear to be above the moon. Always literally covering it or to the side etc.
Or you can use a local installation with even less risk.

See: https://github.com/EOSC-synergy/ssh-oidc

It's not hard to install, and works as advertised, plus it can talk with any OIDC provider your choice, incl. yours.