skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good thing that nothing in this rule change prevents the EFF from taking down abusive patents so long as they are not paid by a for-profit company to do it.
I'm not sure why the tweet adds the brackets around the w, since I don't see it in the SEC complaint. Here's what's in the linked complaint. For clarity, the "emphasis added" part is from the SEC bolding the text inside the quote, not something I added.

111. As Binance’s CCO bluntly admitted to another Binance compliance officer in
December 2018, “we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro.”
(Emphasis added.)
Ownership of the padlock is clearly based in who owns the key. The idea that a company can sell me a device with a bunch of hidden padlocks and refuse to give me the key - this clearly makes it hard to say who owns the device. And they are stopping me from trying to open it, it's questionable if I legally can open it. Certainly, if I tried to sell a tool that allows people to open the padlock, the company that owns the padlock would probably say that is illegal under the DMCA.
Last I heard it was on the todo list, but maybe it got done since I last looked. You can do async IO without io_uring.
TikTok to launch your SaaS company. Yay or nay?
Wondering whether any of you folks were ever successful in launching a SaaS company through the power of TikTok?
The super-rich are also super-litigious and threaten to get in a money war with any publication that wants to expose their hand in any ventures the rest of society might disapprove of.
What about we first find out how much of it is actually toxic (which seems rather 1/1000th of current official numbers) and then start using them in processes which actually respects that? It still doesn't cover accumulation in bodies over time though.

You don't gain any longterm competitive advantage by poisoning half of your population, giving them wonderful cancers, infertility, massive amount of birth defects etc. You just destroy society and bankrupt medical insurance.

This isn't some economics and plying with abstract numbers, these are people out there and messing this up badly will have massive negative impacts for many generations.
It's amazing with how much creativity users will abuse your creations. ;) And in many cases, something new is born out of it. The problem is getting the information about just how people are using your service differently than you've intended. Sometimes it's impossible to tell from traces, analytics or logfiles alone. But finding out can be quite an advantage, especially if you're a startup probing for PMF.
The best thing that can happen is that you have a channel to your customers that's constantly open. At WunderGraph, we use Slack for that, and it considerably lowers the barrier to just check in and have a quick discussion. The sooner you find out about use cases, the better - and ideally create a product around it. :)
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I like Al Jazeera a lot, but it pretty clearly has it's own slant for many topics. I even like Sky News, despite the obvious right leaning which doesn't match my personal politics...because for example, their military analysts that report on Ukraine seem knowledgeable and insightful.

Basically saying I'm fine with the non-neutral reporting, provided it's obvious enough for me to compensate mentally with. And more importantly, that there's high quality content despite any slant.
> C++ would be the obvious poster child

to make it obvious, post some code.
Yeah maybe you, but not the majority of humanity for sure.
With the men sent away to go die (for freedom/to fight evil, at least). The same thing is happening to male Ukrainians unfortunately; no choice in the matter (though many of them do want to fight, it's not my belief that one should be forced to just because one has a penis).
I don't think this true of all patents. Patents for drugs are obviously necessary in the current environment. But software patents are definitely bogus.
Pronouns are truly the bane of clear communication.

I set this rule for my team so many times and it's awesome how much harder people have to think, and how much better the team works when people can't write a sentence like "It's not working right do you know if anything changed with it?"
Ask HN: Reddit alternatives (that aren't Mastodon)
With the upcoming APIocalypse, where are reddit refugees to go?

Hard Requirements:

NOT Mastodon. That's simply a different paradigm.
NOT tech only. Wide spectrum discussion.
NOT an alt-right hive.

Soft Requirements:

A decent mobile interface, preferably a non-crappy iOS app.
Not overtly commercial/meme/crypto oriented
we don't hear from the smart ones, do we
On the contrary, continuously applying fresh duct tape to a fundamentally broken system allowing it to limp along allows the opponents to point to it and say "see, the system works as is" and the bias in favor of upholding the status quo wins out. By allowing things to fail, you force people to get engaged to do something to fix the problem, at which point actual change becomes possible.
Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely still working on the pricing and work with our customers to find something that makes sense and works for them. We really only offer one version of our platform which is an enterprise version of unlimited users, environments, services etc for one price.

In reality, when you look at okteto and others who use usage based pricing, this would be comparable to their enterprise versions. If you're a team of 10 developers and you want to use Okteto, you're paying $100/month/developer or almost $15k/year for their pro version. Bump that to enterprise and it quickly goes up from there.
"This means that the infrastructure needed to support..."

... the offices, schools, stores, etc is much larger than just a house. All the heating cooling, plumbing, etc and it sits empty most of the time (and you have to walk/drive past those regardless of their parking infrastructure). I fully get the point they are making. The thing the grandparent was talking about is that the argument could just as easily apply to the building spaces themselves rather than only the parking. Given this and the host of other categorical differences in parking vs occupied structures does in my view make the comparison "absurd". In general, this article is using a lot of numbers to make arguments that are really emotionally based.
That your feeling without specifying any factual data
I've built a unit testing framework for Excel using Python and the openpyxl library. I work in a bank and using Excel was unavoidable in some cases. You'd basically build a test suite for a spreadsheet in Python and run it like a regular test suite. It helped a lot in catching issues. Obviously it would be nicer if unit testing was built into Excel, but it is possible to build side tools around it.
I vouched for it, hopefully it will mark it as NOT dead
PaaS .. it's a thing. Try it out before k8
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So I have to let my children watch whatever one individual gay man thinks I should or I am disgusting? Fortunately I do have enough gay friends to know not everyone in the “community” responds so poorly to adverse conversation.
Considered building my own too but then sanity prevailed and realized that the development effort and device support that has been put into HA/ESPHome is not something worth duplicating.

Still very tempted to write my own presence detection code though since that’s a little fuzzy and case specific. That would still use HA for the heavy lifting on sensor inputs etc
I would love to know what context could surround the sentence "we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA" that makes it not an admission that they are operating as an unlicensed securities exchange in the USA.
>Even if the real risk is decades away... All we can do is ... predict based on our models...

What real risk? What models?

Climate change is not a useful parallel because changing weather has an actual impact on human safety. No one can articulate the risks that AGI would pose beyond speculative fiction. It's going to clone itself to every device and turn us into paperclips by emailing an on-demand gene printing lab to make a super virus!! Sure, whatever man.

Just because you can say the words "X is similar to Y" does not make it true. This applies to comparisons with nuclear weapons, guns, climate change, et al. I understand how all of those things can kill me. No one has made a reasonable argument for how an LLM could harm me, much less an argument convincing enough to justify the regulatory capture sought by these companies.
If the place is filled to the brim with GPT-generated nonsense, how do you plan on finding those answers?
Breaking news, niche topics highly engage those that fit into that niche.

More at 7.
It still does not belong in a human habitat no matter how much you want to make it a thing.

A dog has to be among their own species and have a dog life. Cover large areas, sniff around, spread their scent, interact with other dogs, etc.

In a human house, living in isolation among humans that have unreasonable expectations, a dog life simply sucks.
I think the snakes that live in our yards kill more rodents than the cats.
Looks like you missed the point.
Not OP but here's an example of how GPT-4 can't deal with the goat/wolf/cabbage problem when things are switched up just a little.

https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/p/gpt-4-capabilities

Although it's interesting that if you use different nouns it does just fine: https://jbconsulting.substack.com/p/its-not-just-statistics-...
Parking spaces seem to be tiny these days. In the 1970s Grandmother drive a Ford Torino it was 17 feet long and over 6 feet wide. The doors were also quite big. It was actually a typical car not unusually big for the time. A Toyota Camry is about 16' x 6 feet but it seems to be so much smaller like 3 feet rather than 1 foot. I think it felt different in the 1970s because the parking spaces were bigger.
I think it's important to realize that search engines both bring websites to people and people to websites. The genius part of Google's position in the market is that they both sell ads, and then direct people to the places where the ads are sold. This is also a major contributor to their search engine spam problem; they can't well penalize ads without undermining their core business model.

Although I don't think any search engine has ever indexed or will ever index everything. That doesn't really make sense. Realistically I think maybe 1% of the documents online are ever going to be a good search result for any query ever.

Internet search is all about being judicious about what you index.
For a brief time NT 4 was competing directly with commercial unixes and supported all kinds of oddball architectures, and even had a POSIX compatibility layer ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem ).
These rules say that a company cannot preemptively challenge a bogus patent before developing something that would infringe that patent.

This would have a chilling effect on the challenge of bogus patents, which is bad for creativity and innovation, and therefore against the EFF's mission.
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There is like 100 years of detailed precedent and caselaw around what a security is. The crypto scam artist just don't like it.
If I'm doing a project in C++, it's because there's some library that does a lot of the heavy lifting for whatever project I'm on. (This is typical for me: I usually pick languages for a project based on how good the library landscape for the problem domain in that language is.) And before smart pointers were in the standard, they weren't typically used in library APIs. Even now that they are in the standard, a lot of those aforementioned libraries don't use smart pointers in their APIs, making usage in applications mixed at best.
And we are seeing alternatives like Kagi pop up because of it.
I would guess that the average in use Excel spreadsheet has fewer errors than the equivalent custom written app.

I would also guess that it is far more understandable to far more people than the equivalent custom written app.

It is also likely far easier to modify for far more people than the average custom written app.

With regards to unit testing, do you test your unit tests? My guess is that the average excel spreadsheet has fewer errors than the average unit test.
The first person to change their legal name to #NAME? wins.
I love that, at most it establishes that they think that they engage in securities dealings but what if they're actually mistaken in that regard or merely speak that way as a shorthand for recognizing that others, namely the SEC itself, thinks of them as securities dealers or whatever. Leaning on their self identification alone does sound weak when we surface these points out in the open. We have no objective test like you say then why are they even talking about this stuff. Do the hard work to define and wrestle with the necessary concepts. Sounds like this is all cutting edge stuff though.
In reality this is not much of a concern at ~100psi. The bigger concern is to make sure that you get a good clean glue seal at all of the joints. That is the most likely error and point of failure. Also, don't drop it.
Interestingly, one practical tactic for increasing walkability in cities is to focus on increasing the re-usability of parking. People who live in an apartment and drive to work don't need their parking space during the day, so sometimes you can have an apartment and an office share parking spaces, in the middle of a city. Obviously there's nowhere near 100% overlap, but if you can get to a situation where you only need 150% as much parking instead of of 200%, that's great.
The Play Store does static and dynamic analysis of published apps in addition to manual review. The Chrome Web Store has access to the unminified source code. Both require the publisher to deanonymize themselves with payment. If these have a severe malware problem, just imagine how bad other app sources that do even less are, like the Apple App Store.

Prefer open source software with reproducible builds. F-droid with a larger security analysis ecosystem is probably the right way to go.
It might not be a done deal for companies that were recently founded. And definitely not for companies who have yet to be founded.
“Was”, what’s left of sandstorm anymore besides a couple weekender coders whose $dayjob is at cloudflare these days? Doubt CF has anything like 10%/20% time like GOOG.

Sandstorm the business was shut down 6 years ago
https://sandstorm.io/news/2017-02-06-sandstorm-returning-to-...

And Sandstorm Oasis the hosting service was shut down almost 4 years ago
https://sandstorm.io/news/2019-09-15-shutting-down-oasis

This codebase is basically abandonware at this point and can’t be trusted for anything serious these days. If CF brought this on as an official product (and renamed it), it would go a long ways to build back trust
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With system prompt tricks, as noted in this article, you can force ChatGPT to behave for completion with often better results than text-davinci-003 in my experience.
The price regularly moves more than 2.5% on no news at all. This move isn't sharp, it's negligible.
Rust has an unsafe subset for that 0.001% of tne time you need it.
There are considerably more people today than there were before cars, so it's hard to say how wide the roads would need to be if we could make bicycles, public transit, and walking a functional equivalent for cars.
Crypto Exchange Controversies: Examining Binance and FTX Similarities
Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is currently facing a legal battle as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accuses it of various wrongdoings. This article aims to shed light on the unfolding situation, drawing parallels to a similar case involving FTX, another prominent crypto platform, to help understand the potential impact on the cryptocurrency market.
There’s weird begging around customer service ratings too, just like there is for tipping, in my experience - you’ve got people unironically saying “if you don’t give five stars every time you are literally killing the wage slaves who’s survival depends on you lying to their employer” and “if you don’t tip 20% every time -“ in the same breath.

Completely ruins any semblance of legitimacy in those systems.
Nah, the assets would be auctioned off. The shareholders would be screwed. But the employees would largely stick around and do stuff under new ownership. It would still be a shock, but after a few of these you'd see investors not willing to allow that kind of thing to happen because it's a huge financial risk to them. Not a great solution, but also not as ruinous as you might think. Companies shouldn't be "too big to fail" and most aren't.
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There is no equivalence. They had recounts in multiple states before the election was decided and each case, Biden won by more votes - including my former home state GA where there was a Republican governor and a Republican Secretary of State that stood up to the foolishness. There were no mass protest and certainly no invasion of the Capital.

Gore didn’t spend years complaining. He ceded the election and moved on.
Open your front door and let's see if they prefer the sofa.

A dog that loves your house is like the old guy in Shawshank Redemption that only has a life within the jail.

If the dog was intelligent, would it still protect you from intruders? And if it didn't, would you still keep it around?

If the dog was intelligent and it was truly part of your family, would you pay for its college tuition? Or do things you would do with an adopted member of your family like inheriting your house? Or it would be more like a slave that is only there to defend you?

So, in the end, it is all just abuse. You kidnap an animal, then restrain it, neuter it so it cannot be aggressive, discipline it to adapt to an unreasonable and unnatural standard of cleanliness and behavior, etc.

Your dog likes you because you took away its family and essentially marginalized it so that it is forced to bond only with you. And also because of artificial selection for those traits. If it was aware that it was kidnapped and forcibly sterilized it would never like you. You are just abusing a lesser form of intelligence.
It's a shame that ratings provide so much leverage over employees.

A business I worked for sold their software items on a platform that used to do rating removal when the review didn't provide any context but eventually either bad rep for doing that caught up to them or the scale grew so much that they could no longer afford going through each case and they changed their policies. People would give bad ratings for the worst reasons:

1. They need a refund but the reason is along the lines of "I thought I was buying a different item". They can't ask their bank to do that because then they'll be banned on the platform. If the business provides a refund, then it takes a loss by refunding the part of the price that goes to the platform.

2. They haven't been able to figure out some very basic functionality and they can't even tell you what exactly went wrong. When you try to help them, they either never respond or you help them figure it out and then they don't change their rating.

3. They demand you customize the item to have functionality that it does not have or show it its marketing, you turn them down and suddenly your item is the worst on the market.

Of course there were constructive bad ratings and I'm not saying that the business was selling the cure for cancer, just providing my perspective. It's a tough world out there :)
Not even a single hit on bookfinder.com!
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For some reason it refuses to index my site(s) until I link the site to my Google account in search console. I had organically placed a lot of links (on my GH, Linkedin profiles, no spam anywhere). It did not index even the links for over a month, despite me searching the exact domain multiple times. I guess doing it via search console just showed it the exact domains it has to crawl, making it's job easier
Poetic.

I am a big fan of "functional programming languages", including Lisp to an extent. That said, I appreciate the teachings they can impart - abstract structures, design sense / "design patterns", and ways of thinking etc. - more than any sort of dogma associated with "their way". Although, to be fair, I did go through my own period of foolishness in ... say, "venerating" this particular "methodology".

Your comment did prompt thought of Pratchett's book "Interesting Times". Specifically, passages like "... It had come as a revelation to Lord Hong when he looked at the problem the Ankh-Morpork way and realized that it might just possibly be better to give the job of Auspicious Dog-maker to some peasant with a fair idea about metal and explosive earths than to some clerk who'd got the highest marks in an examination to find the best poem about iron. In Ankh-Morpork, people did things."

The tricky bit in everything, and the difference between the true expert and not quite is often found in forms of "executive function" ... Knowing what to apply and when ... when to change up strategies, what the value is in some methodology and how to bring that into what you are doing ... all these sorts of things.

I always know when I'm at more of an "advanced intermediate" level (a sort of "first black belt" level) when I know too many ways to go about doing something but have no idea which is likely to produce solid progress in a relatively time-efficient way.

So, bit of a digression off of your comment, but stimulating from my perspective and hopefully of some use to anyone who might read this.
I'll make one thing clear: yes. Yikes indeed. But, having said that, it is very important to note that among Normal Folk in the conservative camp, it's become much more acceptable to say that we befriended the wrong monster in the conflict. I can't emphasize how much I disagree with this on both practical and moral levels, but I do work in a place and an industry that's extremely conservative, and - weirdly - WW2 (and guns!) are one of the few areas of safe conversation for me.

I didn't realize how much things had shifted, so I had to poker face hard when this came up. <serious_historian_face.gif>

To the larger OP - oh yeah. Ha. So much stuff that the <military> sent back (because it didn't work, duh) gets to be sent back over the water again at top dollar. And no one will ever know! Because Ukraine classifies <these_things> as artillery (which is smart!) and not <other_things>, so whatever they end up using them for (spares, etc) will be invisible to the powers that be. Unlike when everything came back from Afghanistan, and Important People noticed that "the product" never worked (or "existed"), and - from the get-go - was a box of non-matching parts sourced from "Procurement Director's Immediate Family Enterprises". Ukrainians won't complain about that - they need parts!
Correct, a residential NEMA 5-15 receptacle is only rated for 125v. There are some dual amp/dual voltage (15a/20a, 125v/250v) receptacles out there, but you almost certainly won’t see them in a house. NEMA 6-20 is rated for 20a at 250v.

More dual amp/dual volt wiring devices: https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/NorthAm1combi.html
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Usenet didn't fail, you failed it.

There are servers up right now. People using it at this very moment.

Why did you leave? Digg? Slashdot?
This is what the polls say about who believed the “election was stolen”.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/03/14/republi...
I think it's more likely that if that paper had never been published the government would have advertised a different pretext for the decision they wished to make anyway.