localfirst

its funny the parent comment doesnt realize what FDIC is and how money market works

if us treasury fails the last thing im worried about is my my bank okay

What is going in the UK?

if the need for diversity and tolerance warrants censorship , financial ruin and threat of prison then was it even genuine in the first place?

or was it's politicization simply to serve those that seeks to benefit from this absolutist policy?

such extreme measures only increase hatred and intolerance for the weaponized subject and surely not benefit those that throw support for it.

is US intellectual property a national security issue? I don't understand why they went to such extent pursuing a man for simply running a piracy site

meanwhile US is losing influence and trust on geopolitical stage, shouldn't that be the bigger issue

edit: im being rate limited so heres my response to comment below:

I didn't say anybody was replacing US, merely they are losing credibility and prestige on world stage and this isn't recent and not slowing down.

I don't think any country will be able to replace US and its freedom of maritime navigation anytime soon.

China is in no position to project as its undergoing internal turmoil. Neither is Russia. BRICS also won't offer much.

One potential non-zero chance scenario is the northern artic sea routes opening up due to rising temperatures melting ice bypassing the need to route through singapore and suez canal which would put Russia back on the power map.

US is a hyperpower and there is no equal.

Maybe a unified Korea with extended northern manchuria territories can fill the vacuum left by China and Russia in the region. I don't really see any other candidates.

He has done some shady stuff in Germany with stocks

then used those proceeds to launch his other businesses

I really enjoyed Megaupload & rapidshare those were almost as good as the WaReZ days if not better: direct links to any digital content without waiting for seeders

It's a shame. Arresting Dotcom won't do anything to curb piracy in fact it would raise the stakes even higher and more untraceable leading to more uncensored content that would be deemed "harmful"

Dotcom should've chosen Russia or China instead of NZ but obviously the quality of life isn't quite up to par with NZ. Russia dacha outside moscow would've been great for him without worries of US extradition.

not sure why my original comment was flagged I was going to list similar startups such as yours

careful these type of comments might get you flagged like mine:

    any instructions on how to get this running on m1

For one it would throw off crawlers looking for these AI generated images

It would also throw cold water at "artists" who believes AI is stealing art somehow when they do it regularly by copying other artists style or work to be "inspired" by.

Very annoying bunch just like the getty image type of outfits that deploy these tools.

i think you are being overly dramatic. We can already tell if an image is AI generated same reason we can tell if a photorealistic gameplay video is real or not.

Our human brain is incredibly good at spotting contradictions even in the most subtle form.

Low trust societies existed long before AI and its the underlying dynamics in those societies that play a role.

High trust societies will exist regardless of AI because societies are ultimately ruled by law and sense of belonging (identity). Anytime you skimp out on one of those two you enter a negative feedback loop towards low trust society.

Feel free to provide examples next time you want to counter points. It will be more credible to third party.

I'm not sure I would call offering interview to the opposing political side like Kamala is censorship.

Most people would see that Musk is trying to give both candidates equal platform, something that Google and Meta has actively rejected openly.

You mean the violent antifa members Vishal and Chad who broke X rules against?

I don't know about you but instigating violence and threatening people like Andy Ngo for simply reporting on antifa violence is worthy of a ban on that platform.

impossible. some of the android phones im used to are pushing 6000mah

coming from android iphone battery is absolutely horrid

too generic

good examples I also would like to be able to just have peace of mind for texting and calling for uber

dont really need a screen, its cubersome when you are outside for long periods of time and battery life on Apple phones isn't very good

Need something, I don't care if its big, that will last for at least a week, can do 3g/4g (5g is too much) SMS globally and calling internationally

bonus points for satellite connectivity and extended battery mode (where you can text your coordinates in mountains etc)

just want to add the comment has been flagged again after being unflagged.

This is absolutely wild to me.

then please elaborate on "complexities involved down the funnel" and where I am misunderstanding with examples.

perhaps im misunderstanding the product offering here, isn't this just throwing PDFs (which also has unparsable content like formulas, symbols and large tables even with OCR) on an LLM with structured outputs and running SQL queries?

isn't it obvious that this would be a problem that will eventually be solved by the LLM providers themselves including the ability to flag and apply business logic on top of the structured outputs?

Like I'm not sure if this is well known but LLM providers have huge pressure to turn a profit and will not hesitate to copy any downstream wrappers out of existence rather than acquiring them outright.

Its like selling wrapping tape around the shovel handle for better grip and expecting the shovel makers to not release their new shovels with it in the near future.

The shovel makers don't even need to do any market research or product development and the buyers don't have any incentive to seek or pay a dedicated third party for what their vendors will release for free and at lower costs if that makes sense.

its non-sense that Meta is calling the photo of Trump raising his fists after getting shot as fake?

https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/there-was-no-real-assa...

its not censorship that searching said assassination attempt of Tr- in search suggestions did not yield the most relevant and recent news even after Google themselves admitted to election interference?

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/google-admits-to-omittin...

Seems to me you are just denying all these things because you don't like the political party or its candidate and going off tangent about democracy.

My original comment was flagged and now it is unflagged because it didn't violate any rules which you pointed out and its important because its relevant to the topic of censorship on platforms which we are discussing here contrary to your claims that its "boring" (your own subjective biases being projected here again I should add).

As you can see all I did was simply observe one political campaign utilizing a non-American platform which isn't even worthy of censorship or rule breaking:

    It's interesting that Kamala's campaign is making heavy use of TikTok to promote itself to younger audience on a platform that is obviously affiliated with CCP

said account was reinstated and has 128,000 followers. Its funny that HN users actually quote CNN despite engaging in dis/misinformation itself and low quality journalism.

Do you have any evidence that site was being overloaded by normal traffic without access to the logs? Do you think the engineers at X cannot be trusted and will lie about seeing bandwidth saturation? Do you realize you are using your own conjecture and projection of your bias here to arrive at the conclusion that the DDOS was faked?

looks like more solutions looking for a problem that can be solved at the vendor level

Don't think there is anything wrong with appreciating or buying historical artifacts, Nazi memorabilia included. There was even a point when many Americans brought over Nazi artifacts, sold, and trade it to this day without any affiliation or appreciation for Nazi ideology, if anything it helps us preserve human history.

MDMA triggers very bad depression wouldn't recommend it

I think marijuana is a better alternative to MDMA

All in all I reject taking any drugs now.

Just exercise and meditation to feel stoned.

The mind is powerful, use it, don't use chemicals!

my friend's daughter wants to know how she can make it for her high school science project

which mobile browsers can this run on? seems like its not happening on Safari on iPhone. If it did that would be a game changer. Any status on whether ElectricSQL can run on mobile devices in general?

also is the UI tool open source? id prefer to run it locally

edit: this is an incredible tool. its going to eat a lot of backend engineers billing hours.

suggestion: add a copy button for the generated SQLs

if Warren Buffet has sold most of his positions and the guy who predicted 2008 subprime mortgage and got rich off it are selling stocks and we have widespread asset bubble poised to correct my question to HN is

what do you know better and why aren't you selling all of your stocks? do you believe 2025 is going to be just another year for the bubble?

Already the markets have crumbled in China, real estate, stocks, ponzis what makes you think US is immune here?

I'm genuinely curious as most HN seem so hostile to comments that suggest stock market and economy goes through cycles of ups and downs and that this one might be the big one.

I would use cloudflare R2 but its not globally distributed so its pointless using it on edge

otherwise I get the messaging with edge you the database is the bottleneck

just need a one stop shop to do edge functions + edge db

Unfortunately LLM thrown at OCR doesn't work well with large enough to be useful from what I've been told.

Nothing I've seen here offers anything new to what was attempted

paging Jason Huggins (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hugs) to add his two cents to this discussion

The problem with acquisition focused investment strategy is that it only works during low rate and non-recession environments

It's also very destructive to the economy. The wealth concentrates at the hands of the few and those capital are almost certainly outside US jurisdiction to avoid taxes.

Lastly, the shock to the people that helped those few get rich have to find new jobs or at the mercy of those seeking enrichment over building long term jobs which can only come from those with long term focus not cash out so i can retired mentality.

You can see the differences in how East Asian conglomerates operate vs the West. Life long job prospects, conservative long term focused at monopolizing and transferring jobs from the West to the East.

The society and city are completely different as a result. Whereas in tech bro cities you have homelessness, violence, addiction and ideological absurdities.

East Asia + Singapore have created stable civil societies without those things and its reflected by the type of billionaires they create and allow to operate with long term focus and stability top to down.

when you see crowding in one segment its always indicative of a looming recession