skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A single cloudflare durable object (sqlite db + serverless compute + cron triggers) would be enough to run this project. DOs have been added to CFs free tier recently - you could probably run a couple hundred (maybe thousands) instances of Stevens without paying a cent, aside from Claude costs ofc
Interesting read exploring AI's impact across continents. Covers everything from military applications to artistic creation. What are your thoughts on:

· AI as cultural mirror vs creator

· Different global approaches

· Future implications

#AI #MachineLearning #Culture #Tech
I've seen a few headlines in our local news here in Australia about how nobody knows what amount of Chinese ingredients will result in the final product being hit with Chinese tariffs, even though the products are assembled here.
Show HN: SupaSniffer – Test Supabase RLS
Many startups use Supabase as a backend. I made this tool to enable to check anonymous access to tables using the anon key.

Just input your supabase entry point and your anon key to get an overview.

Fun fact, Supabase publishes the swagger of your db for anyone to see! (which is what makes this tool possible)

Excerpt of a sample output:

--- Table/View Test Summary ---
[!] Potential RLS Leaks Found (Anonymous SELECT succeeded):
- prices (19 rows accessible)
Sample row: {"id": "price1", "product_id": "prod_QaZYMRtZiLaFiX", "active": true, "description": null, "unit_amount": 100, "currency": "usd", "type": "recurring", "interval": "month", "interval_count": 1, "trial_period_days": 0, "metadata": null}
- products (19 rows accessible)
Sample row: {"id": "price1", "active": false, "name": "One", "description": null, "image": null, "metadata": {}}
Tariffs in the US affect the whole world, not just US or EU - every single GDP goes down, the question is how much. EU gets hit less than the US is more or less a given, but error bars are significant.
> I then left and the company later got acquired by Level 3 so I don't know exactly how it evolved

It just struck me that there are probably plenty of large media companies that use all sorts of proprietary video streaming products for distribution that we've never heard of, simply because the tech isn't available to consumers.

Media companies are generally pretty secretive about their tech (Netflix being the exception to this rule), so there isn't much to be found about this. The piracy community (because, let's be real here) also won't be interested in a non-free (speech and beer) streaming solutions like these. So that's probably why there is just very little public information available.

But if you use paid digital TV products (Eurosport being a perfect example here) then you are probably already using all sorts of P2P streaming protocols you've never heard of.
The algorithm of business development in the web era is A/B testing (and its cousin, multivariate testing). It is a still genetic algorithm, even though the "genome" of a website is not measured by base pairs of nucleic acids. And the algorithm is used to optimise the consumption of our mental resources — our attention is what it "metabolises" into money.
LLMs seem fantastic at generalizing broad thought and is not great at outliers. It sort of smooths over the knowledge curve confidently, which is a bit like in psychology where only CBT therapy is accepted, even if there are many much more highly effectual methodologies on individuals, just not at the population level.
50% tax.
Could you list out your native GUI stack, for Windows, OSX and Linux?
It's iterative republic development. Release a republic, test it in the field, make improvements. Makes sense to me.
> before somebody had the bright idea to add "docker compose substitite" to its ever growing list of responsibilities.

systemd itself isn’t acting as a docker-compose substitute. Podman simply translates unit files containing docker-esque configuration (image name, volumes, etc.) into plain systemd unit files that contain (among other things) an ExecStart line that starts the container with the proper arguments.
Amazon is AliExpress with onshore warehousing.
That’s a good distance per day. Comfortably breaking 100km is one thing, doing it day after day is quite another.
> How does the geographic context explain how the US was (apparently) an excellent fit for passenger rail until the 1920s-1930s, but not anymore?

Simple answer: Cars and aeroplanes and gov't money for both, and lack of gov't money for passenger trains.

> Even in Japan, where you can ride the bullet train all the way from Kyushu to Hokkaido, almost anyone would book a flight for that unless they really hated flying.

To be clear, the purpose of a bullet train between Kyushu and Hokkaido isn't to serve end to end. Rather, it is to serve region to region: Kyushu to Osaka/Kyoto, then Osaka/Kyoto to Nagoya, then Nagoya to Tokyo, and Tokyo to... Sendai(?). Honestly, I don't know why Japan is wasting money to build the bullet train to Sapporo, Hokkaido. It will never get enough passengers to make economic sense. After 800-900km of distance, it hardly makes sense to ride a bullet train. Get on a short flight instead. (Tangent: We really need electric aeroplanes to service these 90 minute routes in most countries.)
> Shein biggest thing is actually AI/ML. As far I remember, what they really invested is on the service per see. Shein gather data from consumers on internet, on what's the latest trends/art, and just create clothes.

Few years ago there was a trend in online ads showing t-shirts and hoodies with "realistic" print ons of animals, optical illusions, mazes, etc. Realistic only on photos or rather renderings. Felt like some form of brainrot. It was all Chinese clone shops or outright scams. Luckily the trend is dead now.
I read the article. It's dangerous nonsense.
Yes, exactly. You're being facetious but I don't go to my metaphorical priest for opinions on the best fashion. I don't go to a shaman for financial advice. And I don't trust a king telling me my kid is fine as she's clearly not breathing. We had centuries of specialization to not rely on one all knowing person for everything. Through TV it's not even like you can consult such people anyway.

I'm not even entirely convinced most actually trust the administration. I've just seen enough people who'd rather die than ever admit they were wrong. Not much you can do at that point of fatal pride.
actually, the S3 Express One zone - as the name indicates - is not global HA, but single zone. So questioning it over fast block storage like io2 or simplyblock is actually valid. It is just matter of s3 interface over a block interface.
> It’s not like I can use Youtube or Tiktok instead of Whatsapp with my family for direct and group discussion.

What's wrong with Signal? Or, worst-case scenario, Telegram?
I believe he meant connectinon to the cloud of service provider.
You are using a throwaway.

Your own views are not valuable enough for you to risk your livelihood for.
JSLinux runs any disk image reachable over the network. You can find the Alpine sources over at https://github.com/alpinelinux. The Fedora sources are over at https://src.fedoraproject.org/. I don't think the script to package the pre-built images is documented somewhere, but it's all standard Linux you can install yourself in a virtual machine if you want.

The Windows 2000 sources are probably leaked somewhere on Github, or you could apply for a job with Microsoft maybe. I managed to get ReactOS to boot in JSLinux once by installing it into a standard QEMU image and splitting the image into chunks as required by the emulator code. You need quite a fast CPU to run a full, modern OS at acceptable speeds, though.
What have you done already? Have you joined the protests? Have you co-organized protests? Have you helped out the opposition? Go out there, connect to like minded people, see how you can help, get your hands dirty.

A country doesn't belong to the majority, it belongs to the ones willing to fight for it.

US is not my country, it's yours. But not if you're not willing to defend your rights and values. If you stay passive, others will decide for you.

Edit: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ April 19.
Is this what tools like Nextflow or Snakemake aim to do? I don't know, and I'm genuinely curious, because I'm starting to work in bioinformatics and doing different parts of an analysis pipeline in R and Python seems common, and, necessary really if you want to use certain packages.

I'm wondering if I should devote time to learning Nextflow/Snakemake, or whether the solution that you outlined is "sufficient" (I say "sufficient" in quotes because of course, depends on the use case).
> European car commuter rates are almost identical to USA's.

Do you have source for this? I believe this could be true now but I find this kind of arguing dismissive and missing the point.

I'm not from environment you have described. Still remmeber people in my East European corner were able to easily commute to work by bus/train without car. However since they got richer they adopted American commuter patterns more and this led to deterioration of public transport outside of urban areas.

No wonder people get "touchy" because you are not really arguing for those who are not "young healthy well-paid tech workers". But against them. It is not about just ditching the cars but changing whole design of living around the need of cars - which is the point that actually started this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43666410
Google A2A: API Framework for AI Assistants
https://bellard.org/qemacs/

Has written his own editor, presumably to support preferred working style, using emacs idiom for UI.
Orange oil works wonders. It's explicitly not food safe, but you get that stuff on your hand every time you peel an orange and it's also present in juice. Just rinse them afterwards and wear gloves.
Of course. But I wouldn’t qualify "multi-container use" to be an advantage of intrusive data structures per se.
Concur. Even a planetary, cycloidal or strain wave reducers. To be honest, I don't know, where else I could find such diverse product catalog.
>Harvard funds them with the money it gets from grants.

The grants fund students regardless of views. Yes they can use their endowment (I think) it's quite massive but the point is the government attacking universities for what a small amount of students say which is wrong.

It's also quite hypocritical considering views on free speech and "big government"

"Shutting down free speech will destroy our civilization." - JD Vance

>it really doesn't seem prudent to grant visas to people who hate our country and everything it stands for.

Why? In the case of attacking Israel that's not even our country?
What if they hate the current government?

What is "our country" to you because most probably hate the government, a very common attitude for many inside the country.

If they hate our values of freedom then punishing them only says that those freedoms aren't that dear to us because we're willing to compromise.

The rest of your comment is Facebook level of like "If you don't like it leave". I do think your other comments are professional so I hope we can move back

>they should be quite relieved that they won't need to come here
Not for Austrian road tax stickers. That's specifically what made me get the spray.
My thoughts as well. Microsoft is just one of the companies, Google is no better either. Any OSS component could be bought and made non free, any free project provided by Google etc could change the licence and prevent you from using it, similar happened recently.

I think it is great that people use GitHub as it has a low barrier of entry, if anything happens the stuff can quickly be moved elsewhere. Until then we can piggyback on the free platform. Using some other company does not make it immediately safer anyway.

The challenge here is more about archiving, especially those rarely used repos. In any case GH is safe as MS is focussing more on AI now and they do not have a good alternative to GitHub to think about turning it off like Skype yet.
If you host your own OS image that auto-starts a browser that runs JSLinux and a config file like https://www.bellard.org/jslinux/alpine-x86.cfg, you can create such a link yourself. CORS may be your biggest enemy, there's no reason JSLinux can't do what you're proposing (albeit extremely slowly).
> Why would an llm not be able to download an openai spec + key and put it into the context like MCP does with its custom schema?

NIH syndrome, probably.
Tariffs lower the quality and increase the prices of domestic substitutes. There is no competition. Tariffs are how business is done in third-world countries like India. Production of everything is banned/controlled, except for the few buddies of the government in power.
Arabs never ‘established peace’ - historians largely agree that Islam was spread through conquest. Under Arab colonisation Jewish people either lived as Dhimmis, which are second class citizens, or were subject to outright violence (you can find many incidences of this before 1948), or both.
That's not the only demand in the letter.
It's such a rapidly developing field with much of the progress happening in small labs on the open source models. Eventually, the field will coverage and stabilize. For now, the bet is too be open and supportive, to be close to the progress and be in best position when the dust settles.
I think the reasons mentioned in the article are to be taken seriously (unlike some of the other commenters here). Historically, Microsoft has shown itself as "not an ally to Open Source" to put it mildly. And there is a real tie-in to Github-the-platform (issues, workflows, etc) despite the fact that git repos themselves can be migrated away trivially (by design).

Having said that, the alternatives they mention aren't realistic. Precisely those things that make GitHub dangerous, are the things that make it worth choosing. In particular: network effects, issue tracking and PRs.
You took "everyone" literally but it's actually like "a lot/majority held the opinion/it was easy to see".

The top comment compares it to YouTube as a great acquisition.
I think they’ll have a hard time pushing that much energy through the atmosphere without striking a plasma. Indeed, at least one of the concepts relies on striking a plasma in atmospheric gas by reflecting and focusing the incident radiation.
>> "The transatlantic alliance is over," an EU official told the newspaper, which reported the commission "is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China.”

The US has been spying on government officials from the EU - sometimes with the help of other EU member states - for years. [0] What is surprising is that despite knowing this to be the case, the EC is only now supplying burner phones and devices. States may have allies, but their own national interests will always come before those allies.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...
No, I have no hesitation. How are you not finding it obvious that the government are trying to end racially based admittance programs?
You actually believe that not a single woodworker said to himself, there are only so many wealthy people, I might do better if I make some chairs from cheap wood in a hurry, not doing so much polishing or ornamentaion, and I can make twice as many and sell to the not-so-rich people? You really don't think that existed?
Your argument dropped something - the self selecting applicant pool for Harvard.
The notion of "Sealioning" is a perfect example of substituting mockery for criticism. See also: "What about the menz?!", "Akshully...", "tips fedora", etc., etc.
I never ignored them and usually followed them. They always have reason but sometimes there appears another reason that longs for a solution contradicting the previous dogma.

E.g. monolith -> modular monolith -> microservices
The Continuing Crisis, Part XII: Behold RFK Jr.'S FDA
Where's the danger? Where's the nonsense in acknowledging the origins of algebra?
In macOS, when you do an encrypted backup (includes passwords for accounts) of your iPhone, where is that backup stored? Could I save that backup to somewhere, wipe my phone, travel to the USA, download the backup, and then restore the phone with the backup?
I’m not sure the government is funding many conservative institutions.
The problem is- they are not anti-racist honest. You are either nurture or nature, but if its all nurture, they refuse to discuss that part, compare those parts, work out the problematic parts and compose better societal models. They just idealise, bigott stay quiet and adverse engage only with those who respond civilized. Its all lies and damned lies and statistics.
Doesn't he have Bluesky? I refuse to use twitter.

Edit: whoever downvotes this can rot in hell :D
I don't see a single screenshot of gameplay on the website. Is that to mask that it's infringing on IP? Looks cool.
In case it wasn't clear, I'm using "OCR" in my comment above for "reading and interpreting textual documents provided as images", not as a reference to a specific tech such as Tesseract.

In the app, I am, in fact, using AI/ML tech and I'm saying it's very accurate for my use case, as a counterpoint to the parent comment which says AI works in 1% cases, maybe.

But since you brought it up, this workflow works better than the supposedly "99.999999% right all the time" traditional code (traditional OCR tools).

Hope this clears it up.
Tell HN: Proton is reading and filtering incoming mail
This seems relevant to privacy-conscious folks here:

I just tried to use my existing ProtonMail account as a backup for my Gmail account. Instead of receiving the verification code, I got an email in my Proton inbox that says:

"Your Proton account is currently restricted from registering on third-party services"

Meaning that proton is actively reading (and filtering) mail from certain flagged accounts. Otherwise, how do they know my account just received a matching email from Google with a verification code?

This is not particularly surprising for most providers, but I was not expecting it from Proton. What's the point of all the encryption claims?
That's simply not true.

There are plenty of smart devices (including lighbulbs, sensor movements, and what not)t hat use bluetooh, or protocols like Zigbee that enable all kind of functionality without wifi password.
Isn't the observable universe finite? There can't be a infinite number of anything in a space of radius R, even if R is very big.
> The trains don't make money

This is untrue. From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio
... look at all the entries in Japan where ratio >= 100%. It is a lot. This one is bonkers to me (JR Central Rail: 245.95%), but easily explained by owning and operating one of the busiest bullet train routes in the world between Tokyo and Osaka.

And, this does not include all of the (profitable) real estate projects these companies use to further increase ridership!
how dare people slander the right like this. Are you saying you can’t make a right leaning argument without government help?

The right should have pride in their selves, and build their own universities, if not their own realities!
Or, you know, don’t fish at all so we don’t kill possibly trillions of sentient fish every year for no necessary reason whatsoever?

Side bonus, we also don’t kill the highly sentient and highly intelligent creatures you’re concerned about.
It's an appealing idea, but surely there'd be insurmountable problems with the distance/time involved for any part to communicate to another part? It'd be like trying to run a computer with a clock that takes millions (billions?) of years to make a single tick. I just don't see that it's at all feasible and that's without even trying to guess as to how different parts can change behaviour depending on its environment (one commonly used requirement of "life").
Terence Tao's Linear Algebra Lecture Notes (Math 115A) [pdf]
> I'm wondering what makes you feel confident about the use of linked lists in all of those components.

Of all of those mentioned I literally looked up their source repositories up and searched for obvious indicators like "linked", "list", ".next" or "->next" and then verified that I was indeed looking at one or more linked lists. Where does your confidence come from? Oh right, you already mentioned it: it's based on your experience of the projects you've worked on.

The rest of your reply is just moving goalposts, mind reading and a glaring category error. Get back if and when you have something useful to add.
> Anyone has seen his position on this topic?

Well, he's not a fan of GitHub pull request as per the last decade.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
The real news for me is GPT 4.5 being deprecated and the creativity is being brought to "future models" and not 4.1. 4.5 was okay in many ways but it was absolutely a genius in production for creative writing. 4o writes like a skilled human, but 4.5 can actually write a 10 minute scene that gives me goosebumps. I think it's the context window that allows for it to actually build up scenes to hammer it down much later.
Backups made easy: btrfs and snapper and snapborg
which kind of typing are we talking about here? if it's the kind that my hands do on a keyboard that is obviously not what is meant by writing code.
>Instead they flatly refused everything

No, they had issues with some of the demands and wanted to open a dialog.

Harvard's response says they changed policies to protect Jewish students, made other changes to related to the protests, etc.

It also states

"It is unfortunate, then, that your letter disregards Harvard’s efforts and instead presents demands that, in contravention of the First Amendment, invade university freedoms ..."

#-----------------------------
Finally they said:

"Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration. "
> Entropy can't be a measure of uncertainty

Gibbs’ entropy is derived from “the probability that an unspecified system of the ensemble (i.e. one of which we only know that it belongs to the ensemble) will lie within the given limits” in phase space. That’s the “coefficient of probability” of the phase, its logarithm is the “index of probability” of the phase, the average of that is the entropy.

Of course the probability distribution corresponds to the uncertainty. That’s why the entropy is defined from the probability distribution.

Your claim sounds like saying that the area of a polygon cannot be a measure of its extension because the extension is given by the shape and calculating the area doesn’t tell us anything new.
Of these alternative forges I actually came across notabug first. I however was never able to establish how it is funded and who the people behind it are. Yes, The Peers Community", I followed that link too.
Sundown town: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town