skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the US also has private prisons. do you understand? e.g., there are about 1000 prisoners in california that are also firefighters getting paid $10 a day.

“E.g.” is is misused here: California prison firefighters are not an example of private prisons (California does not employ private prisons.)

> do you think they cost $10 a day to california?

Well, yeah, they are state prisoners in state prisons, whos do you think is paying the $10/day to the prisoners?
You say the 'watch parties' are too much, but these are actually the events that are the best. They are at 8p, people come over when their kids are in bed, we have 4-10 people show up, everyone's in their sweat pants, and we watch a TV episode. We discuss it for 10-15m afterwards, and we generally part ways.

It's such a low-effort and small event, and it allows people to get into other people's homes in a low-judgement way. It's been one of the more successful events at getting neighbors to become friends with each other.
ByteDance has been working on autoregressive image generation for a while (see VAR, NeurIPS 2024 best paper). Traditionally they weren't in the open-source gang though.
Show HN: Pulse – Livestream audio with 1-click
Hi HN. I needed something to feel closer to someone who lives VERY far from me, and since we both like music and share with each other all time.. I thought of creating a way to effortlessly livestream what we are listening to, with sound-reactive visualizations (more to come) and a fun chat.

The idea is that as you go on with building or with your wfh job (hopefully as little calls as possible)... you are effectively tuned in the other person's selection instead of your own same old Liked Songs... or what some algo thinks you'll like (or wants you to like).

Current features
* You can host your own room and stream audio (currently browser tab, adding BUTT upload later, maybe)
* Change website color / animation / animation style
* Chat with gifs (add any by dropping a 7tv.app link)

My friend and I built this with Cursor ("vibe" isn't the adjective I'd use for the experience... but I guess it got the job done faster than if we didn't use it).

Any feedback or tips to make it better appreciated!!
M1 Mac mini here and instant loading in Brave.
Could you please stop using HN primarily for political battle? That's not allowed here, regardless of what politics you're for or against.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(This is not a comment on the current story, or any story.)
This is a minor worry when the entire software ecosystem is based on “download any old shit off the Internet at run it”.
I think it's more likely a trust issue. He didn't trust the other devs to push things directly, but ofc he trusts himself. I do this with somethings myself. But I also do the inverse, where I don't want to trust myself so I setup a bunch of checks and tests to save my future self from my present self

I think when you're the 'architect' or know the full stack very well, to where you fully repl/grok it and occasionally need to do hot patch type work, the former approach is nice. But, my brain has limited memory and time erodes quickly, so I also know when to rely on the latter approach and I try to do it as much as possible
I think we're a long way off from the communities when Jane Jacobs lived. An except that I frequently think about, I can't even fathom in a large city in the current era, and not because technology has solved the key problem.

>Joe Cornacchia, who keeps the delicatessen,
usually has a dozen or so keys at a time for handing out like
this. He has a special drawer for them.

>Now why do I, and many others, select Joe as a logical
custodian for keys? Because we trust him, first, to be a respon
sible custodian, but equally important because we know that he
combines a feeling of good will with a feeling of no personal
responsibility about our private affairs. Joe considers it no con
cern of his whom we choose to permit in our places and why.
Around on the other side of our block, people leave their keys
at a Spanish grocery. On the other side of Joe's block, people
leave them at the candy store. Down a block they leave them at the coffee shop, and a few hundred feet around the corner from that,
in a barber shop. Around one corner from two fashionable
blocks of town houses and apartments in the Upper East Side,
people leave their keys in a butcher shop and a bookshop; around another corner they leave them in a cleaner's and a drug store.

>In unfashionable East Harlem keys are left with at least one
florist, in bakeries, in luncheonettes, in Spanish and Italian groceries.
An advertisement is only spam if it's unsolicited. If you forget to uncheck the box "yes send me promotional offers and deals" when signing up it's not spam according to that definition.
>I believe he's suggesting that this couple has it on "easy mode" because of the affluence of the area they already live in.

That's actually even worse than I thought.

Working class neighborhoods already have stuff like this happening. Cookouts and block parties are pretty common! I'm not sure why it would be more difficult if the people were poor.
I moved to Canadá in 2007 and never had cable, it is expensive and with so much ads that's so annoying...I wouldn't watch even if it was free.
Any pointers to recipe?
Jeffrey Goldberg mentioned in an interview with MSNBC his Signal Alias was "JG." I wonder if JD Vance goes by JD?
Irony! lol
I think 'blatant is a better word to describe this than transparent. Not keeping records of government business makes accountability (political or legal) impossible. But yes, I basically agree with your view.
I don't think the new model is rolled out to all users yet.
Slavery has existed for all of human history, and is sadly the natural state of things. It was stamped out by the British empire, a colonising power, because of the relentless campaigning of Christian moralists.

Imprisonment is indeed a newer development. In the past they chopped off your hand and let fate deal with you, or they just executed you. Nobody was going to feed some peasant who couldn't even work. Imprisonment was for aristocrats and their children, not for criminals.
Correct! I've never been to a crab boil in an affluent neighborhood.

But boy howdy have I been to a lot of them in working class areas.
Her music video directed by Michel Gondry is worth a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ

For 2001 it has a rather striking effect. Kylie is walking around a circular area in Paris over and over and everything multiplies each time she completes a loop. It's a very clever effect given the technology of the time. By the end of the video there are five Kylies walking around loosely interacting with each other and the world in odd ways.
The problem I have with this is that I haven't seen a precise definition of the difference between behavior and implementation. Another word that people use for behavior is 'specification'.

However, a spec that has been sufficiently formalized (so that it can be executed) is an implementation. Maybe an implementation with certain (desirable or undesirable) characteristics, but still an implementation.

Of course there are informal, incomplete specifications that can't be executed. Those also have value of course, but I'd argue that writing those isn't programming.
And then everyone will ask for the source. :)
> The one that went bad is the pullstring.

That works for short runs, but for long runs, the only way to pull the cable without breaking it is to use wire pulling lubricant.

And there's no guarantee that the cable you are pulling is undamaged. Rats don't improve pull strength, and even an electrically good cable can have the tensile strength cord severed.

If you are in that situation, pulling the old cable with dried lube on it may snap it in two, especially if it's pulling the new strand.

That's why leaving a pulling tape in each conduit is a good idea.
For these institutional traders, the pools offer them opportunities to trade with a small set of counter parties that also have deep deep liquidity, so in a sense it is kind of like the wholesale markets for retail. Orders hit the book in the pool and they don't have to worry about 'current retail' stock and can trade massive blocks with trade certainty.
You can actually have a fully command-line driven Single Sign-On workflow, even anchored in hardware (TouchID, FIDO tokens, etc.)

It's not a common way to do it, but it's definitely a possibility.
Imagine if they just actually trained the model on a bunch of photographs of a full glass of wine, knowing of this litmus test
I've tried self hosting. It is quite difficult, and either you are limited to low models, either you need a very expensive setup. I couldn't run this model on my gaming computer.

If I try other models, I basically end up with a very bad version of AI. Even if I'm someone who uses Anthropic APIs a lot, it's absolutely not worth it to try and self host it. The APIs are much better and you get much cheaper results.

Self hosting for AI might be useful for 0.001% of people honestly.
What do you think would be a stronger interpretation of that?
Very few tools write that smooth. Great Work!
Well they can't delete a user's Gemini conversations because they don't know which user a particular conversation comes from.

This seems better, not worse, than keeping the user-conversation mapping so that the user may delete their conversations.
Your comment is not worth replying to.

https://www.space.com/30172-six-most-earth-like-alien-planet...
The most important part, no matter if it's email, Nextdoor, WhatsApp, is that we can use it to disperse information quickly, and then get off the platform and meet up in person. Our stoop coffees are broadcasted via WhatsApp, and then some people tell their immediate neighbors via text, and then people show up.
I'm wondering how many of the choices were the AI's and how many were yours - like why is it an "unusual" text box - no cursor, on-screen keyboard, etc.

Also, "not being a developer" means you don't normally do software development or you have no idea what you're looking at if shown source code?
No that seems to be indeed a native part of the multimodal Gemini model. I didn't know this existed, it's not available in the normal Gemini interface.
The previous poster's point is, I presume, that the upkeep of a prisoner costs a hell of a lot more than $10/day. Specifically, the California Dept of Corrections quotes $133,000/year.

https://www.lao.ca.gov/PolicyAreas/CJ/6_cj_inmatecost
NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat
I think there’s a big push to train LLMs on maths problems - I used to get spammed on Reddit with ads for data tagging and annotation jobs.

Recently these have stopped and they’re now the ads are about becoming a maths tutor to AI.

Doesn’t seem like a role with long-term prospects.
Working long hours is not a sign of success, it means things don't get done on a normal schedule so everyone has to bust their ass to meet the deadline. Working this way in perpetuity is wasteful and totally stupid.
With that terms index, there will be no more mathematical statistics research!
> Nationalist is not fascism.

Not all nationalism is fascism, but fascism is nationalist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

"Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement..."

> Ffs they aren’t ethnically cleansing the nation. They are removing illegal aliens who have no legal right to be here, and they’re open to those removed people coming back legally.

Yeah, that's how it tends to start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
Well, there’s only one settings app at least, which is also different than what Microsoft does.
Obviously they aren't, as long as they are not even willing to acknowledge that developing local-first while also supporting mobile app use outside the homes _is_ more expensive. And obviously, "bean counters" are not going to invest in doing the more expensive thing when the cheaper one "works" (we all disagree with that, but these products continue selling in the market).

So I think it's either increased government regulation, or IT crowd working to simplify development of local-first/mobile-supported applications for any type of a connected device and client. I don't really think this will come from a community, but a push to standardize on a couple of protocols, API formats, how apps can talk to the same API locally and over the internet and such — those are things that could really be done once (or at most a couple dozen times, for everyone's favourite framework and language :)), and then there won't be an "expensive" excuse for companies.

Or, rules can mandate that, when it will become cheaper because companies will join together to bring the price down (like they did with Matter).
Now that Noam is back I'm a little bit more optimistic.
This seems unnecessarily harsh toward people who like to travel.
I don't buy the meme or w/e that they can't produce an image with the full glass of wine. Just takes a little prompt engineering.

Using Dall-e / old model without too much effort (I'd call this "full".)

https://imgur.com/a/J2bCwYh
The most likely reason is convenience, not escaping record keeping.
By default, yes. You can change the permissions so only group admins can add people.
You can do that already, it is called behavior modification. :P And medications!
I think there is likely a difference between what the FBI does to someone they want info pretty badly from vs what <insert state actor> does to someone that they have determined is a keystone to one of their national adversaries.

If they did have some kind of collection capability around Signal, they likely would not have risked burning it on you.
They came to it through a pretty pragmatic process. They made a list of candidate languages (they haven't discussed what the list was beyond "all the obvious candidates were represented") and assigned existing parts of the codebase to a few engineers asking them to reimplement the feature in the candidate languages. The team found they enjoyed working with Swift the most, and Swift's good support for OOP fit the object model of a web browser very well.
you're partially right (i was mistaken) and only as of very very recently:

https://www.thepomonan.com/news/2023/10/2/7investigative-cal...

> AB32 included exemptions which allowed private prisons to focus on other profitable "community corrections" programs, such as day reporting centers, counseling facilities, halfway houses, rehabilitation centers, medical offices, and mental health facilities. Currently, these exemptions are worth around $200 million a year. Included are locations that mimic detention facilities and are run by organizations that also run private prisons in California.

https://www.ilrc.org/biden-administration-partners-private-p...

> 09/26/2022

> Pasadena, CA - Today, an en banc 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that GEO could block California’s AB 32 (People not Profit, Bonta) from going into effect for the duration of the lawsuit, pending further review from District Court. AB 32 is a state law signed in 2019 which banned private prisons and private immigration detention centers in the state.

I do not know if this applies to the Conservation (Fire) Camp Program
I won't copy/paste the comment, but awhile ago I ranted Microsoft product naming and got some nice replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419292
Thanks for the detailed write-up, this is super useful! I really appreciate it.

> Claude captures all the NPM commands from the package json into the instructional file

Oh neat, I didn't know that. I'll try to use `/init` next time!

> it kept trying to run `npm run dev` which spins up the app itself. That's... not ideal since I'm running it myself so it can hot-reload

+1 I regularly notice that behaviour too. I'm running node in dev mode, then Cursor wants to run node, but the port is already in use.

> I'd be curious about is if there is a "clientside browser" MCP

Great point, I noticed this is a common feature request for front-end development. I haven't used it myself, but multiple people mentioned BrowserTools [1]. I think it can read the Dev Tools console, but I'm not sure about multimodal or access to the DOM.

[1]: https://github.com/AgentDeskAI/browser-tools-mcp
Sounds like you might be personally familiar with (their?) mainframes.

Could you explain what's awesome about them, and what even are mainframes? Whenever I tried looking into this, I walked away with "just servers networked together".
If reasoning is based on verifiable facts and logic, sure. But in this case, the starting point for his reasoning appears to be our own intuitions and feelings:

"The reason why we do not lament our failure to bring somebody into existence is because absent pleasures are not bad."

But we also don't lament bringing somebody into existence; in fact we tend to celebrate it. So we could just as well conclude that absent pleasures really are bad, or turn it around and say that pleasurable existence is good.
That seems like a more reasonable thing to do, though I think as a parent, I'd have probably swept the area up a bit...
Republicans can't vote against Trump, because the vast majority of Congressional districts are gerrymandered; this means the candidate can be easily outprimaried with just a little bit of cash. The original red map project (2010) cost about 40 million; the last map (2020) was quite a bit more expensive — perhaps 10x as much — but still quite cheap considering the benefit (functional control of the U.S. government). One of the unintended effects of the deep 2010 gerrymanders that project red map discovered was that it also distorts the Senate map (this was unknown effect, at the time). Until gerrymandering is fixed, and the legislative powers ceded to the executive are clawed back, there is no "fixing" the current situation. It was always just a waiting game for a well-heeled (for primaries) autocratically-leaning president to come along.
They're not good models. They over fit to LMArena leaderboard, but perform worse in real life scenarios compared to their competitors.

The exceptions are auto regressive image generation and audio models.
Cerebras IPO further delayed as US national security review drags on
Beej taught me half of what I know about network programming and unix sockets. The dude deserves a medal for the work he has done over the decades.
This is what's so wild about Anthropic. When they release it seems like it's rolled out to all users, and API customers immediately. OpenAI has MONTHS between annoucement and roll out, or if they do it's usually just influencers who get an "early look". It's pretty frustrating.
They could've RLed on SVGs - wouldn't be hard to render them, test adherence through Gemini or CLIP, and reward fittingly
I guess some serious research into alternatives occured before canceling the one child policy.
Have you ever considered or tried nootropics before?

Nootropics may help with stimulation, as well as memory and cognition in general. There is a whole community dedicated to it with effective stacks.
Where does the "bio" field come from? Mine says "Developer and writer" and I suppose those are both things that I am, but not very close to what I'd have put there.
In reality that is a waterfall process disguised as programming advice.

What that is saying is that if only you really specified in a clear technical language the code, you wouldn't need to write much of it. It's like his version of UML.

But it all boils down to what we know doesn't work, a waterfall development process.

But worse still, it's a waterfall process where no-one outside a small clique, those who can speak the special language, can join in the design process.
> What's important about this new type of image generation that's happening with tokens rather than with diffusion

That sounds really interesting. Are there any write-ups how exactly this works?
San Francisco is a great city for that, because it is very
walkable (if you have the energy to manage its steep hills).

There is a close connection between urban architecture and
whether or not community building can take place, and sadly,
many places are not like it.

Kunstler's TED talk is a fantastic way to become more aware of
that topic:
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_the_ghastly_...

His thesis is some of the US must be torn down to rebuild it in a
friendlier community-enabling way.

Curiously, to the OP's "stoop coffee" topic, he already recognized
the communicative potential/value of the space in front of houses, and he
points out that old European cities "got that right" (and having a central
market square, too).
Me neither, that's kind of the point. I'm not using the word fascist as a pejorative (though it is inherently a bad thing to be a fascist).
Hanlon's razor begs to differ.

Trump sent his golf buddy Waltz to negotiate with Putin and he came back brainwashed with Russian propaganda. Russian psyops is either really good or some of these people in the administration are just morons.
Oh good point, I didn't realise Console Ninja [1] is a product. Thanks for sharing!

[1]: https://console-ninja.com
My mother-in-law came by, her phone has switched to "dark mode", because she accidentally did something in settings. There is no way for any regular user to find out that that was not what had happened. She accidentally switched an accessibility feature, but you have to know that that is a thing to even begin to locate it and there are multiple feature that does something similar.

The granularity isn't the issue, the discoverability is.
Sure, those are the reasons for, but would be interesting for you to address the salient point of not trusting those government systems. I'm sure you can make the counterargument.
So New Outlook won't even work on a network behind a DMZ?
"abysmal mistake" makes it sound like this wasn't a considered action and willful disregard for both op-sec and the law. There is zero chance these guys didn't know what they were doing...

At minimum, Mike Waltz is retired special ops, Rubio has had high-level clearance for ages from his time in the Senate, same for Gabbard in the House. None of them responded "Hey, this is poor op-sec and illegal, perhaps take this to an approved messaging service?"
> Frankly I’ve seem more threats of violence and acts of violence from the left by a long shot…

We're just gonna pretend Jan 6 never happened, eh?

Only one party's supporters has seriously attempted to overturn an election by force.
The Chinese Amphibious Bridging System
People in the States know how fast our country can fall and don’t accept “well, we’ve still got a ways to go” as an excuse for the descent.

The so-called best shouldn’t compare itself to others, it should compare itself to itself from yesterday. And in those regards, we are descending rapidly, especially for those of us LGBTQ+, women and minorities.

Do not forget how fast Saudi Arabia and other countries changed from their liberal views to literal theocracies.
I enjoyed this video on this topic a lot. Maybe you will too: https://youtu.be/fB8eatgkOyM?si=D9s01MY8jByWREPX
The parallel is senior leaders ignoring secure communication rules that their rank-and-file must follow. Hillary's email server did not immediately spring to my mind.

Edit: Its safe to say that this story involves multiple levels of hypocrisy by the current administration.
Could they have switched to *both* image and text generation via diffusion, without tokens?
Break down into what? Is this also going to end up in my testicles?