skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If failing to provide evidence to the prosecution is how you lose a trial. Than forever more all the prosecution has to to do prove your guilt is to ask for something you don't have. They were asking for things like his Youtube Analytics after Youtube deleted his channel. This was one of those things he was defaulted for. It's quite possible he did not have them backed up, and no evidence that he even viewed them. His monetary success was only relevant to his fine should he be found guilty. Yet this was used to find guilt.
Pretty terrible name for an algorithm to be honest. Besides being unpronounceable, if the purpose is to acknowledge the discoverers of the algorithm it doesn’t even do a good job of that (who recognizes initials anyway?)
In this case, the work product does not need to be generated by a licensed professional. Informal drawings are useful for a multitude of purposes. If the user of the drawing doesn't need it to be certified, and I can make one on a napkin, why should it be illegal for a third party to draw it on napkin for me.
I agree with a sibling commenter after reading the article. The main point, as I see it between the lines, is not to refuse to use functionality (app side), but instead how this functionality should be packaged preferably (module side). Nothing prevents the one “in control” to give it up and expose a meaningful degree of it to a user, along with default mode convenience for those who want boxed version.

Frameworks actually add to a deplorable side of the software industry. They encapsulate truly great efforts and wisdom into a package which cannot be unwrapped and used partially. They are like smartest CPUs soldered into shitty boards (or simply incompatible with your requirements) without a chance to unsolder the functionality and use it elsewhere. You can’t make your own and you can’t take one off the shelf.

Consider this imaginary example: someone figured out all of the nuances of dom events across all browsers ever and made a clear api to it. Library way is to provide (Context, DomEvent) => MyEvent. Framework way is to create a complex rendering idiom in which MyEvent appears naturally and is an implementation detail. In the latter case you buy two for the price of two, and only so.

Or, they want to test a new idea/paradigm in some area. Without composable libraries, they are doomed to repeat all the mistakes you pointed out because to compete with already existing solutions they have to go all the way through issues unrelated to the idea itself. All that only to battle test it. For most library makers, the desired outcome is a sum of all parts, not just one.
This is akin to a 2003 Astrovan beating a 2022 Lamborghini Huracan; always gives me a good chuckle.

[1] https://youtu.be/UrYe9LewtF0?t=19
It’s usually the fault of the previous generation of managers, hard to tie that together.
The way these IP cameras work is that when you configure them from an app or some dodgy viewer is that that software calls the cloud server, and tells it what the details are for your LAN connected IP cameras.

You really can't let them know how to dial out. Most of them have hardcoded passwords and/or known exploits.

It's why they're so cheap on the 'zon.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. `cabal-install` is quite deterministic; you can even freeze the index date for full build plan determinism.

The largest challenge in this area is the fact that core libraries' interface sometimes change. Our [head.hackage](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/head.hackage/) infrastructure is one way of addressing this. I agree that it would be great to leverage `head.hackage` to test GHC against a larger body of packages.
What an awesome story. I’ve used builtwith plenty, but never knew it’s history nor realized how profitable it might have been..
Ah, great, glad we agree!

The greatest trick that oil companies ever pulled was convincing the average person that it was their fault they had to pollute the air and water.

We didn’t expect consumers to address CFCs and the ozone hole, or leaded gas and it’s harmful emissions. Why do we expect CO2 to be any different?
> The only reason this isn't a dealbreaker for me is because their sms implementation was so buggy and feature-poor that I would never have used it.

It took me a long time to find this comment. The number of SMS messages I never received was ridiculous. I still use the app all the time, but would never use the integrated SMS messages ever again.
Other economic actors
check out prof. steve brunton’s youtube channel[0] — it’s light on the numpy side of things, but he’s got a lot of material going from first principles to dealing with huge matrices, compressed sensing, dynamical systems, ML, etc

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/Eigensteve
If you do it for long enough and get good at it, you can connect any ceps you wish to any other ceps. The possibilities of the human body are truly infinite without limit!

Btw, really love your six word stories! If you had a blog I'd be submitting it all to HN!
I think you'll be surprised how many racing series allow spectators in the pit areas. Some of them charge extra for tickets, but many don't. Even F1 will allow you into the pits (for a steep price). But I've been in the pits for Indycar and it's supporting races and it's really awesome. Sometimes it's fun to just swing by the track during a smaller event and check out the pits.
Yeah, but if those things were outsourced that would support the “1 full time employee“ claim.
Just tried this out. The user experience is really incredible. So much better than Puppeteer (not sure if it's really a valid comparison, though).
If I tell you to harass families and you go ahead and do so, both you and I ought face legal risk. And that's what's happening here. As this is an entirely private tort between private individuals, it is up to the individuals involved to decide which of the many responsible parties they wish to sue.

As it happens, Alex Jones is also enjoying his prerogative to sue others for defamation. And it's going to come down to a jury that decides whether those being sued by Alex Jones are liable for his stated damages.
This can proably be attributed to the barrier for entry for competition being so much lower , so the definition of an MVP has changed. And equally, expectations from end users have risen. Recent anecdotal example of this is the frenetic pace of development in the ML/AI space with opensource tools like Stable Diffusion practically almost rendering moot the business model of OpenAI’s DALLE-2.
Thank you very much! It's so nice to hear people enjoy it. :)
I agree, but your mods sound like 8 billion dollars now.

And we haven't even bought a filter change yet.
I can see that you're using PHP, on nginx/Ubuntu, hosted by Digital Ocean, and likely purchased your hostname via Google Domains. Your email is via Google Workspaces. That's pretty useful information.
When I got my M1 MBP there was no way, that I could find, to set up the computer and login the first time without using an iPhone. I don't remember the exact phrasing it gave me, but the only way I could get the system set up was my wife logging out of her iPhone, and logging into it as me. I don't know if this is newer than your experience, or there was some trick to get past it, but I couldn't find one.
Who programmed the computers?
You have a good point. My theory as to why a lot of people assume that Google will simply cancel something isn’t just because Google has cancelled a lot of products because other companies do the same. The reasons are because 1. Google kills products and services rather quickly compared to their peers, 2. Until Stadia, Google never refunded the cost of their product unlike say Amazon with their product experiments, 3. Building on point 2, Google has had fire sales 1 month before a product cancellation announcement without refunds. I was personally burned by this and it does the opposite of building good will, and 4. These product cancellations have directly affected everyone who is now wary of Google starting with Google Reader users. The most disappointing soft cancellation of all was Google Fiber.

This tc article sums it up really well https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/01/stadia-died-because-no-one...
I gave it away by responding to the other comment, but at least one of those is incorrect. Caveat emptor.
“unionization throughout one’s career”—the premise of the study, in fact drove the very unadaptability of the businesses and workers who were systematically unemployed. The people who held the highest paying union jobs in the 70s and 80s were systematically devalued out of careers in the US during the globalization that followed. That is unambiguously correct. Many of those individuals held such jobs for extended periods, the jobs disappeared, and they were forced to change specialization or location at significant loss. This was absolutely not a winning hand, disagree all you like, factually the study is not designed to handle historical reality.
This research is made all the more interesting by their use of real-world data on robot prevalence and comparing that to real-world data on trends in job searches on the internet.
https://archive.ph/a4C4R
I do get what you're saying. And yes, a credential leak is not _equivalent_ to a compromise. And yes, if you're doing things well, it won't be. (Although I think most people would say one of your layers of defense is breached and one ought to rotate the credentials, right? Otherwise, why have the credentials at all?) I think that's an important, somewhat tangential point.

Maybe we came to this with different assumptions? My going-in assumption is that most people have not set up those extra layers that you're talking about. For them, a credential compromise is tantamount to an account compromise. Thus, a post like this is relevant to raise awareness of credential compromise (and sure, maybe a missed opportunity to talk about those other layers one could add).

Is your going-in assumption that most people _are_ using those extra layers and so the post is pointless because it _erroneously_ implies that a lot of folks might be more exposed than they think? That's not what I thought you were saying. I thought you were saying: "if a credential leak compromises your account, then you're doing it wrong". That might be true, but if there are lots of people doing it wrong, then it doesn't matter.

(I don't like your PIN example because in real life, the initial conditions set by the bank are that you know your PIN and you have your card. You have to go out of your way to expose both. By contrast, with the AWS credentials, you have to have taken the extra steps you mention to establish the extra layers that you're talking about (IP range restrictions, time gating, etc.))
Doesn't "you" imply that "you" were actually named. If a politician says the unvaccinated are terrible people for spreading the disease. Then it's proved that the vaccine did not stop transmission. Do they owe billions to these people.
> I can't figure the math on how any of them could have been damaged $64 million.

You're massively underestimating both the impact of Jones's behavior and the value of a lifetime of earnings for many two earner families.

Assume both parents were the equivalent of senior SWEs at google and now cannot work. The assumption that they can no longer work is not an unreasonable assumption; their children were slaughtered and then they were threatened by angry mobs for years (and still are). I wouldn't be able to hold down a job.

$64M * 2% = $1,300,000 per year safe withdrawal. (The 4% rule is good if you are retired, but 2% is more realistic if you're eg in your early 30s.)

$1,300,000 / 2 = $640,000 income per earner.

Subtract $20,000 per person to compensate for typical healthcare and retirement benefits [1]. Actually that's a lower bound because of tax implications. We're now at $620,000 per earner.

I'm actually surprised that there aren't at least a few families for whom the number is higher; eg two surgeons, a surgeon and a lawfirm partner, a principal engineer and a VP, etc. would all have lost far more than $640K/yr/earner. These aren't typical pairings, but they're also not particularly rare, and the Sandy Hook community's family median income is nearly 2x the national average so it's the type of place you might expect to find these sorts of people over-represented.

So anyways, we are already within the Senior FAANG salary range and haven't even considered the various serious damages caused by Jones's behavior, beyond his victims' inability to hold down fairly normal upper middle class jobs. Many of them had to move multiple times, probably now have serious and life-long mental health issues from the harassment piles on top of trauma, etc. Once you include those damages, you probably end up with that $64M principal translating to something that is not far from the median family income for Sandy Hook.

[1] eg, https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/benefits
Making a standard for WebSQL would have been the path of least resistance.
Word is, it's because he threatened some of their employees verbally on Instagram. Not wholly unsurprising, especially as he's become kind of a pariah in the past week
I like it.

Glad you liked the stories too...

If only I had a blog!

I might even submit twice to HN on consecutive days, just to punish myself ;-)
Misunderstanding meritocracy as anything other than aspirational continues to frustrate.

We can’t achieve a true meritocracy. That’s not an argument against trying.
These are all valid points that you may strongly disagree with, but at least recognize that they don't require being sympathetic to Jones. E.g. the first two are just a very extreme position on the general freedom-of-speech scale, which some people hold for purely ideological reasons. Similarly, the third and the fourth are also a matter of justice and fairness in the abstract - that the punishment ought to be the same for the same crime. And so on.

Indeed, I would say that most commenters on this story that take one or more of those positions explicitly state that they're doing so as a matter of principle. Which, given the prevailing attitudes hereabouts on topics such as freedom of speech, is quite believable - so why are you assuming some other sinister motivation?
From their previous posts, it seems likely that their app is a game.
I tend to make it up as I go along ([0], [1]). It works for me (I just finished up a new SDK, using this technique[2]).

However, this would not work for many outfits. It’s just the way that I work.

WFM. YMMV.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...

[2] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_MeetingSDK
He lost his mind because of the isolation and now pretends to be different people throughout the day.
There's aftermarket PDMs and BCUs and all those parts already. That's how most people are doing motor swaps on modern cars. It's not a simple job, but it's also not the most difficult. Just a lot more wiring than the motor swaps of old.
Until the (reappearing) regression mentioned in the WebKit bug report isn't fixed, there might be only this workaround solution around. The workaround itself is not experimental -> it disables an experimental WebKit feature which should be safe.
Discrediting the article with blanket statements and criticizing the format of the site are both against HN guidelines which you can review at the bottom of this page.
Jason regularly streams his archiving activity on Twitch under the username "textfiles". It's usually a quiet stream- he's been digitizing a lot of videotapes recently.
Crypto Hackers Set for Record Year After Looting over $3B
Twitter might be about to ruin how users interact with hashtags
They didn't miss the point, just pointed out that unionizing is not what killed those industries.
You don't know that. Please stop.
Everything that's wrong with our society, congrats!
4,797 Builder's Remedy housing units have been submitted in Santa Monica
Because Santa Monica's housing element is currently out of compliance, the city will have very limited options to veto or block those projects. The decision to approve or reject those projects will fall to the State of California.
See the "joke explaining" examples on Page 36 of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311 and tell me if it's just "passable garbled nonsense".
Datanyze raised a round of two of VC 6-7 years ago but I'm not sure what they're up to recently.
I used one of the newer oculus recently. It was fun for a short period of time. It wasn't so great that I'd spend a considerably amount of time wearing it, because it's so much effort to use.

The discussion is in terms of using it for meetings and such, and in that case, there's nothing they've shown us that isn't "attend a meeting in person, remote", which I can do in zoom, without needing to wear a heavy, uncomfortable thing on my entire face, for most of a day. A number of things about it are actively worse. This is why I'm saying they're just showing us the same thing, in VR. There's nothing to be excited about.
> I'd feel proud about that. Whichever way you slice it, reducing work is good. Humans shouldn't waste their time doing stuff that robots or computers can do just as well.

Problem is not reducing work, problem is that people need work to get salary that can be used to buy food, water, healthcare, shelter and other things one needs to survive. And at this point of capitalism there isn't a lot of room for growth. How many phones I would need to eat per year to support both automatisation and increased employment?
I would expect that if you had $14M revenue a year with no employees and no investors you would never hear a peep unless he wanted to hype for a sale.

Bragging rights are for chumps without millions in cash.
The one good thing that the USSR did was to find talented people early in their childhood and then shower then with basically unlimited resources. That's the reason why soviet science was top notch, able to keep up with the Americans in some respects.

This denial of aptitude nonsense is a purely American phenomenon, unfortunately
> I would take a different tack on this: the speech was legally unhindered, that is, free. The consequences of the speech are, however, borne by the speaker.

If you do redefine freedom of speech thus, then what place in the world doesn't have it? Even in North Korea you can speak freely for a short while before you have to bear the consequences.
I think I've burned a lot of social goodwill switching my family and close friends to signal and have no desire to support them through yet another change.
Do not worry TMPlumber, punishment is impossible as the duplicates will be stricken with flags until they are ded, D-E-D.
I don’t think it’s a good idea that banks can fire their customers on a whim.
That language is not offensive in many social groups, some families included. You're reading way too much into a random drive by internet comment
> we don't want to sacrifice our individualistic urges as we would have to, if we seriously became part of a collective

Why has this changed?
Seems pretty clear to me that the site's maps should be generating the warning on them. A downloaded PDF file is only an email away from being consumed by various forms of agents, fence builders, etc. and quickly loosing the disclaimer of the site. If they look legit, no reason why someone might not accidentally overlook when they do something based on the reasonable looking map

Maybe all they need to do is add the disclaimer to the generated maps?
> In my experience, people generally believe that stating one isn't a doctor or lawyer protects against an accusation of practicing without a license.

I can't believe you that as a lawyer you would claim that!
> everything above the "nice" level is 95%% personal taste

Eh, sparkling (white) wines have a weirdly steep quality curve. (Lambruscos are more forgiving.) If you aren’t drinking a great bottle from a great vintage, you’re almost always better off drinking something dirt cheap. It’s flavourless. But that beats the off notes in the mid tier.
There is a reasoning loop that LLMs are clearly missing.
The Q is "done how"
Yes. Social justice movements are perfect channels for champagne socialism. The activists get to fight and fight and fight and the problem never goes away. They get to feel like they're such good people and have no need to concern themselves with whether their methods work. (Their allegiance is to their methods first, ostensible causes decidedly second)
Also, from an awakened lock screen, as an alternate to the long press of the camera button, you can just swipe left on the screen, revealing the ready camera app, which saves a second or two.
To be honest it just sounds fishy.

The "lines on the (digital) maps" are generally sourced from official public records and have the correct GPS (or local grid) coords.

The images themselves originate from digital capture behind lenses and are subject to subtle stretching and distortion in addition to positional errors in camera position.

It's common to see major visual parts of any "corrected" frame line up exactly with ground reference coords but other parts of the same frame to off by a few metres due to rough and ready "mostly linear" correction that doesn't account well for the digital terrain model the image must draped across (in addition to lens corrections).

Point being - while digital maps can often have alignment errors twixt image pixels and GIS vectors the actual on the ground land surveying by professionals is done using high grade GPS units in addition to truthing from existing monuments using triangulation.

Staking pegs based on looking at a digital map isn't something a professional would normally do as they'd be aware of the various errors (and others) I raised.
Even the profitable ones too are under pressure to show YoY and QoQ growth. To make that happen, belt tightening has to happen. So take away is no one is growing or expected to grow in the coming year.
Do you have any credible source on that? That he actually instructed his followers to go and harass the families?
If you know that then why do you say the lines aren't straight? The ones that look as if they weren't straight seem to be perfectly straight but are following those dents and thus look like they aren't. Especially if your vantage point exacerbates that.
The problem is that the default is wide open.
I absolutely disagree. I use Qt for most of my GUI C++ apps, it is very framework-y and a joy to get things done with.

Since last year I've been working on a framework for making media processors (audio, etc): https://github.com/celtera/avendish

Every year I have 2/3 internship students. This year I put them on this framework as a baseline, compared to the previous years where the students would have to do things more manually through libraries. They all got at least 5 times as much done as the students of the previous years in the same 3-4 months span of time.
This was the basis of a very famous F1 car in the 1970s. It was ultimately banned.
You can tweet "I believe that ..." all you like and not get sued.
So, frameworks are bad, unless you follow standard advice about loose coupling?

I'd think most things would be bad if you failed to follow that advice about them, and the frameworks I'm most familiar with (aspnet core, ef core) seem to be pretty good about making it easy to follow.
The memory is the model. Having high probability to a particular area in latent space is copying it from the memory of the training data.

You're a massive pedant, and this style of comment is a large reason HN comment sections are a pain to read.
This is not copyright infringement. The users logging in have the ability and license to view the material.
Is it rent-seeking, or simply aggregating negotiating power? Why don't the private sector workers unionize themselves instead of attacking other workers? Why not focus on the capital owners who rake far, far, far, more and use some of those proceeds to fund think tanks such as the Hoover Institution as a hobby project?