skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In places like Ireland companies like Twitter have flouted the law for things like lack of consultation but the government probably won’t punish them because the tech companies are such a big employer there.
Like in most other red states these days, the GOP controlled statehouse is trying to ruin public education further by passing don't say gay bills or preventing the teaching of the racist history of this country. One can't really be optimistic until the gerrymandering situation is fixed, because as it stands the republicans cannot ever lose their majority.
Aidev.codes (GPT-based programming) now has knowledgebase and template support
That's complicated indeed. When I start thinking about who can track me (wi-fi, bluetooth and RFID scanners and surveillance cameras everywhere, my telecom provider, banks, public transportation, gmail etc., browser fingerprinting…) I just don't see any practical way to ultimately hide. Add the fundamental lack of trust to any device using ICs (evidence-based, field verifiable) and it becomes just insane.

In practice I just use a dumbphone and turn on my smartphone only to get a taxi (Yandex) or maybe see if my bus is coming (again Yandex). But my wife has her smartphone always on spying on us, not to mention all my colleagues. Also on my laptop I do use Yandex market, maps and read articles on Zen…

I can imagine that deep awareness of digital security issues may make one's life better in some situations but there's always a risk of becoming too much of an activist here. I think I'm quite geeky already.
Realistic computer-generated handwriting
This appears to be deliberately missing the author's point.
I understand why the entire article isn't necessarily in the RSS feed, but it sort of defeats the purpose of having an RSS reader in my mind.

Normally I quickly drop the feeds that only includes the first paragraph. There is one local news site that even worse, they host a series of blogs, you only get the title and the first paragraph, but you're also only able to subscribe to ALL the blogs, not just the one you're actually interested in.
This is a tricky situation, but it seems like it should be possible if structured as a "McKenzie friend": https://www.legalchoices.org.uk/types-of-lawyers/other-lawye... / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKenzie_friend
I have two phone numbers on my iPhone. The eSIM is my personal line only family and friends get. The physical SIM is a burner number, a spare call/text only line I use for everything else. I keep a note of where exactly I use it. If I ever feel like spam is too much I just change the burner number making sure to update necessary accounts.

Worked so far, I hardly give out my number to services though so I don't get any spam on either line
Remember the flash crash of 2015? They let those trades actually STAND. Including options. This week’s open was nothing in comparison.
Not disputing that there's a lack of leadership on the matter, but there's also conflicting use-cases: for example, the requirements for the "Python is just a tool that comes with my OS, and if I need any additional modules I'll install them with my OS package manager" mindset, and the "I'm developing a web application with Python and I want an isolated development environment with controlled dependencies" mindset, are quite different.
The days of management taking responsibility for anything are over. See: not a single CEO stepping down for over hiring.
Aqua certainly matched my indigo blue iMac G3 perfectly back then (around 2000?). I sometimes miss these systems... not in terms of performance of course, but the whole experience was beautiful.
One of the reasons that people keep on saying "this kid is insane for continuing to talk" is because they're rightly worried that he would admit to something that he'll go to prison for. In that post, he essentially does so.

What the new CEO did in bankruptcy is he wrapped up the business into 4 silos, one of which (WRS) contains FTX US, LedgerX, FTX NFTs and a load of other stuff. Now what Sam is doing is saying "Hey look! WRS does have enough cash to pay back the FTX US customers!", but if you count all the money that WRS has, what you're saying is that FTX US's customers weren't held as deposits, it's just that the total assets of the company exceeed customer deposits. Which means he's basically saying "Yes, I did do the illegal comingling of your deposits, but in total the company has enough cash to pay you back if, for the purposes of accounting, we split out an arbitrary part of the company and ignore the shortfall in the rest of the company".
I would happily trade using some other lexeme for subtraction and negation if it bought me hyphenated identifiers. Code has a fair amount of subtraction but it’s like 2-3 orders of magnitude off from identifier word breaks I’d wager: I take that deal, camel and snake case are both godawful.
No need to be snarky. I’m just trying to have a discussion.

I also never said I support pollution, but if I support going to mars I must because a rocket is a lot of pollution.

My main premise is I tend to think we’ve messed up so much so fast (in regards to the earth), I don’t think trying brand new studies that are based off words like “presumably”, “promising makes sense.

Wikipedia says

> However, as of 2021, there has been little research and existing natural aerosols in the stratosphere are not well understood.

And

> It is uncertain how effective any solar geoengineering technique would be, due to the difficulties modeling their impacts and the complex nature of the global climate system.

Do you think based on those words we should just be firing up balloons and see what happens?

I’m not saying at some point in time with studies done, and people agree we cannot proceed. But this doesn’t seem like sound science just yet. And I prefer sound science before messing with the environment.
I like Discord and that's why it came as shocking to me to have to think about alternatives. We'll keep listening to the community though!
https://dev.to/frostming/a-review-pipenv-vs-poetry-vs-pdm-39...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29502715
Switzerland has four official languages (Romansh was added in 1996 and was a "national language" since 1938).

In any case, particularly in Canada and Switzerland the official languages tend to be far more geographically divided than the unofficial languages in those countries, or the many languages in South Africa or much of India, or even Chinese in Singapore, Spanish in the US, etc. It's usually clear which subset of languages, official or otherwise, are useful for the city/region in which you live.
You can call Beamer a lot of things: life saver, simple, quick, pragmatic, efficient. But beautiful? That's very arguable.

Also it seems very strange to call your software "beautiful" on the title page and not offer a single screenshot anywhere people would intuitively look for.
Some intentionally publish sources for audit and compatibility purpose, still proprietary though.
Have a look at Dapper: https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper
A lot of small scale UK retailers have already proven to themselves that internet retailing isn't worth the bother. I know of some who've invested huge sums of money, sometimes as much as £100, creating social media channels with up to 12 individual posts that have yielded no sales at all!

There's also a dire shortage of UK developers willing to do all the work, with no retainer, based purely on a shady prospect of a share of the profits at some distant time in the future.
There's a really good series of podcasts from fivethirtyeight.com about this:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-gerrymandering-project/

The short version: Everyone agrees that gerrymandering is wrong and bad, but it's not 100% clear what the "right" result is. Is the right result proportional representation? Is the right result having more competitive districts? And what about minority influence?

One thing they brought up which used to make the whole thing more complicated is that some civil rights laws also make requirements (or used to make requirements anyway) about the makeup of districts: namely, that if you could, you had to make a district which gave Blacks a significant influence in at least one district. But doing that requires "packing", which is one of the pair of techniques (along with "cracking") used in a partisan gerrymander.

Lots of states have recently implemented a variety of responses to gerrymandering; in a few years it should be clear which approach(es) work best.
Language /does/ evolve. However, it's still dishonest to use an established term in a manner contrary to the broadly understood definition. Furthermore, the rationale for an unorthodox definition of open source is generally forwarded by those with a financial interest in their unorthodox definition, and in so doing they are asking others to work against their own interests by surrendering the mutually agreed upon rights associated with the term.

The orthodox view on open source is a useful and broadly understood shorthand for a certain enumeration of rights, the withholding of those rights disproportionately serves a certain group of interests at the expense of others, and disregarding these problems and using the terminology incorrectly in spite of them is willfully dishonest.
This is now my headcanon explanation for why starships in Star Trek still require large crews (or crews in general).
I'll probably search for existing requests on Discord for a self-hosted server feature and upvote them. That could be an okay solution to the problem, I guess.
Thinking Serverless: From User Request to Serverless Solution
Why don't they just stick to Colorado, where most other weather modification programs are run? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34380470
The funny thing is that GPS satellites operate in the context of special relativity, where events can occur in reverse order depending on the observer's velocity, so the whole notion of an "overall outcome" is pointless...
This is true. But 'the government' (I'd rather say agencies and services) mostly doesn't care about us unless we do something 'special' and you basically can't hide from them. The big tech is always interested.
It's a different restriction.
AGPL lets you do anything as long as it is just as Free (as in freedom), while these kind of license only let you do things that don't compete with whatever is the current copyright owner business is doing. And business tend to change over time, and it might be simple to be clear to a court if you are competing or not.

"Do whatever you want as long as you keep it Free Software" vs "do whatever you want as long as we believe you are not taking customers for us"

As usual, RMS was right, and I recommend reading the Free Software vs Open Source essay, unfortunately both names make it easy to misinterpret their respective fundamental idea (Free can and is usually interpreted as "gratis", and open as available/published/shared)
The US State Department classifies Japanese as a category IV language, "Super hard languages", languages which are exceptionally difficult for native English speakers. They estimate that you need 88 weeks, or 2200 class hours, to reach professional working level in it. That's if you're young, well-educated and very motivated.

By comparison, they estimate Romanian, Swedish and Spanish take 24-30 weeks, or 600-750 class hours.

Ten years is not much to just "pick up" Japanese, unless you're an exceptional linguistic talent.
It's impossible for all humans to agree.

I'll go first: murder, rape, war, torture, and genocide are bad.

This isn't sarcasm.
Are y'all using this for lyme disease? It seems like a billion dollar opportunity right there if somebody can make this reliable.
> And why would I wanna speak with baker, cab driver, public transport workers, convenience store workers, deliverymen, etc.?

Yeah, why would you ever want to speak to people who aren't important. Fucking serfs, they should stay in their place and silently serve you.

I agree, that kind of person's opinion on the country around them can safely be ignored, because it's based on ignorance.
> I.e its equivalent of a person effectively studying the actual law and then representing themselves in court, just in a more optimal manner.

It's not equivalent at all. ChatGPT and DaVinci have not "studied the law" in the same way as any human would.

> If law firms believed it was bullshit, they would just put a very good attorney on that case and disprove it. Barring it from entry with threat of jailtime pretty much proves that they are full of shit and they know it.

This is a traffic ticket case. He's not up against Sullivan & Cromwell, he's up against some local prosecutor. I'm sure if some white shoe law firm were being paid hundreds of thousands to defend a case against a guy using ChatGPT, they'd be fine with it.

Even though we have an adversarial system, the state can't just let ordinary folk hang themselves with cheap half-baked "solutions". It would be unjust/bad press (delete as appropriate to your level of cynicism). That's why we have licensing requirements, etc.
The term “open source” might have originated with a particular meaning in mind, but I think OP’s point is that the term developed a life on its own thereafter.

“Cheerios” is a made-up product name, and without knowing the definition of it, one couldn’t tell what it means. (I had to look it up, in fact.) In contrast, “open” and “source” are generic words, and in combination they can be used and understood without knowing any of the FOSS history.

That’s actually how I was introduced to the term: I always understood “open source” to just literally mean “the source code is openly accessible” – no more, no less. Even after having learned about the FOSS aspect later on, I continued to interpret “open source” in that literal sense.

Since this debate is a bit … heated, let me add that I’m not interested in making any general claims with my statement – I’m rather sharing my own perception to contribute a data point to how language can be used and understood differently, depending on where people come from.
In many places I worked at in Brazil people will just write everything, even variable names, in Portuguese. That came down to the developers not speaking English at all.

Who considers it gauche to have software written in non-English? The Russians you mean? I certainly find it perfectly acceptable and even desirable depending on the contributor's English fluency.
Yes -- to be crystal clear, we're not targeting the DOM. We focus on use cases that can and should be expressed in a canvas. We prefer a WebGL canvas, but even what we refer to as our "HTML renderer" only emulates Flutter's canvas capabilities (e.g. layers).

If you are a web developer building with the canvas in mind, we aspire that Flutter is a useful tool. We encourage the use of one of the many other great frameworks out there (or no framework at all) if the DOM is the target. And we aspire to provide great interoperability and accessibility.

The web is bigger than documents. And that's why web standards are bigger than the Document Object Model. I'm sorry you see that as badmouthing the web, because it couldn't be further from the truth.
The point of a semaphore though is that it checks the value then modifies it in an atomic operation. If you can't guarantee the operation is atomic, you haven't solved the underlying problem.
Hey, I definitely agree.

On the other hand, every time I've gone to the doctor with a cold, I've always been prescribed the same antibiotic after basically no examination.

If I had some new, unexpected symptoms, I'd probably want to at least call the doctor.
I used to drive a cab and people would tell me why they were in the cab quite often.

My favorite was this guy who got a ticket on a bicycle for not having a headlight, moved out of state and ten years later had his car impounded for driving without a license because they apparently suspended it for getting (or, more correctly, not paying) a ticket he got on a bicycle.

I’m guessing he never tried changing his license to the new state because Arizona licenses are good until you’re 65.
Seems like the issue would be you'd generally get results that 'look' right but would never know if they were actually right without going through and... analysing them
Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
Specifically the backend. I'd love to hear your reasons. Do you keep one eye on what the stack would be post MVP?

1. Old schoolish (VPS - Maybe DO, Django/Flask/Rails/Remix/Next with postgres)

2. Supabase etc with JS/TS on either side of the network

3. Lambda/Cloud functions with Firebase/Dyanamo DB/Cosmos DB etc

4..n. What else and why?
How would you describe the primary purpose of your automobile's exhaust pipe?
Both podcasts and the term podcast predated Apple’s support of podcasts. The reason it was named as such was because iPods were the most popular listening device for podcasts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
>More automation -> more code -> more things to go wrong

More people -> more entropy -> much more things to go wrong
Professional advocates aren't a result of any specific legal system - if I'm at risk of having my life's savings and achievements summarily destroyed then I want someone of waaaaay above average verbal and emotional intelligence, who is thinking clearly and not under any pressure themselves, explaining why that shouldn't happen.

There is a problem where the laws so complex and numerous it is no longer practical to understand them or follow them all. People have a bias and don't seem very good at separating "good idea in the current context" from "thing that should be legally required". Let alone navigating the complexity of the phrase "cost benefit analysis". Anyone who lives life while obeying all laws to the letter is at a serious disadvantage to the average human - although since it is impossible to know what all the laws are it is unlikely anyone could do this.

But that arcanery isn't what drives the need for lawyers. You'd have to be crazy to engage with something as powerful and erratic as a legal system on your own. And crazy people do frequently represent themselves already.
In case of centralized development git creates too much friction, svn works better there.
But the point of the GP comment was that language has not 'evolved', but is intentionally being used in a misleading way here.
Congrats on your achievements! What´s your main tech stack for all your applications ?
That's probably why NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X were partly based on a mix of BSD and the Mach microkernel. Not sure of how much of that is still in current incarnations.
Strangely enough, the official languages there are Vietnamese and Korean respectively, not Chinese or Japanese.
This isn't quite true.

You can only sue for negligence if you can prove you were going to win without the negligence. And it will cost you ten thousand dollars just to begin the process.

So if there's any doubt that you're going to win - any at all - your own $600/hr lawyer can flat out fuck you over. And there isn't a fucking thing you can do about it.
>There's obviously some automation but what is the solution?

Shutdown and wake-up time in bios of server and switch ;)
Yeah but the rules that govern our lives in society shouldn't need a phd to understand.

There are often daily situations where both citizens and police don't know really know what the law is.

Reform is proven to be really hard. But that's the tragedy.

For instance taxes shouldn't really be more complicated then filling in a simple automated form. Also for businesses. And it should really be the burden of the government taxing that it's all clear. But it's not and it's a mess and the burden is put on the people.
Cool stuff about GDB you didn't know
That I absolutely agree with, but I think it is about time we let go of “programs as plain text” axiom. With good tooling/IDE — which are already sort of visual editors only converting to and from to plain text on save — you could enter a ‘+’ and get autocomplete show the “emoji +” as an option for example. Because the actually important question to ask here in my opinion is “what is the easiest way to read/comprehend programs”, and we seem to have implicitly agreed that syntax highlighting is already a must (which works on even not yet valid program text!). Slightly more reliance on tooling doesn’t seem too bad to me.
PayPal data breach notification
I imagine it's just an old good admin panel with a normal login.
At least in ST:VOY, it has been shown that a single hologram is capable of running the ship - although one might argue "exceptional circumstances" ;)
> Memorizing legal arguments and getting live legal advise from earphones in your glasses are not the same thing.

Only in the strictest sense. Let's say the person memorizing ChatGPT's directions handles their case in the exact same manner as if it was being relayed to them live (i.e., the set of statements/questions from the judge lined up perfectly with what ChatGPT presented in its script). What then? Same outcome, different delivery method. We're kind of splitting hairs with the "live legal advise" thing. The defendant could bring a pile of law books with him and consult those without anyone blinking an eye. The objection seems to boil down to "well OK, if you want to represent yourself you better not consult an intelligent system to help you form your defense." Why not though? Seems more about job protection than anything else.

> Besides,even lawyers are advised not to defend themselves in court, and it would be generally very bad advise for anyone to do so.

And I say: let people discover the downside of using ChatGPT for defense if it's so inept. Bad outcomes are the best way to prevent widespread usage, not pre-emptive bans in the interest of keeping people from shooting themselves in the foot.
Euro-smug?
You mean normal people?

Seems like the schools in the US are more dangerous than the way to school.
At least in Switzerland, I always had to have blood tests done before the doctor would prescribe anti-biotics. The core issue you have is with the doctor prescribing things willy-nilly.
Imagine if computing was so complicated that you had to pay someone hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour to program for you.
Show HN: User return analysis in Stackoverflow, Insta, H&M
On the other hand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Rogozov

(If it had been filmed, the video would probably be on YouTube with Dschinghis Khan's "Moskau" as the soundtrack.)
Eh, it would probably beat some bad lawyers
Doesn't each trade require both a buyer and a seller, who buy and sell at an agreed on price? Presumably both parties would be satisfied with the trade so it isn't clear to me what all the fuss is about.
"entity seeking to undermine the effort you and your community have done for years, by slapping a different name on it and hosting it, competing directly against you with your own work as a business."

The ability to fork was always a core value of Open Source. Especially if there was a community around a project that invested lots of energy into it - and then drama comes. Without forking it means it will always be dependant on the creator. Not the spirit I would like ot get into myself and I also don't like to see those 2 concepts mixed up.
Duplicate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34522944
This position means nobody gets adequate legal representation unless they are wealthy, so essentially just 'screw poor people'.

Who's more likely to get out of a wrongful charge? A wealthy millionaire spending $1,000/hour on fancy lawyers or a poor guy who's public defender had 1 hour to look into his case?

AI levels the playing field, and anyone campaigning against wants poor people to continue to get railroaded.
Wait, what? I can just print a foreign prescription for Adderall or Dilaudid and the pharmacy will accept it? I don't think that would work...