skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When this happened to Stable Diffusion, it was easy for me to consider it a necessary evil to progress humanity.

When this happens to closedAI, it just seems like a profit grab.

Not that it changes the legality of it. Just optics.

Wonder if that matters in court.
I understand the frustration, but unfortunately it seems that your business was drop shipping [1,2], which is in Stripe's "restricted" business list [3], meaning:

"You must not use Stripe’s services for the following activities, unless you have received our prior written approval."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517627

[2] https://minkson.com

[3] https://stripe.com/en-it/legal/restricted-businesses
... which on its home page tracks to google analytics, tag manager, and the payment services provider paddle.
You said "mostly clean" and I assumed that this was about dirt and debris, and the stuff they're treated with is not visible. There is a stamp on the side which shows how they have been treated, though.
There are so many articles that float through here that can be summed up as "do this, unless you should do that" with a title equivalent to "why you should always do this"

Does this article present findings from other projects? Does it have a personal code story? Does it use any data or even antidotal evidence to support it's claims.

The answer to all of these is NO it does not...it's just a half hearted article talking about a fundamental problem in modern programming with no real solutions other that an axe to grind that they can't even really elaborate on the origins of.
Isn't Chez Scheme the default runtime by now?
Many, including myself, don't believe that solving the climate crisis will be done, by invention of a single new technique. So I agree, scaling up this project to be the only solution would not be possible.
C02, methane, and other greenhouse gasses are produced from multiple large sources. And tackling that problem will just not happen by only using 1 solution. Any project that large would almost require some other environmental impact. We are having trouble scaling up batteries without such a consequence.(as an example)
I'm truly sorry to hear about Drew's experience over the past year. He's a good coder and a good voice. It's worth noting for those who may be unfamiliar that Drew has traditionally been quite opinionated, which I greatly respect, without necessarily agreeing with all of his opinions.

I enjoy computers, but as anyone who's spent any time around people who enjoy computers knows, it's a pursuit that can attract some strange people. Virtually all of those strange people are entirely harmless, often delightful, and having a safe space to be weird can be wonderful. But a safe space for strange people is rife for exploitation by people who are not merely strange, but in fact malicious. It sadly sounds like Drew has inadvertently run into the latter group.

I think it is entirely fair to withdraw from a space that one does not wish to remain in. Drew is under no obligation to engage in hacker spaces, especially if it causes him upset. I hope he finds lots of awesome, supportive non-hacker friends over the year ahead and continues his cool work with a renewed sense of self.

(Also, happy birthday! I'm surprised to learn he's only 30.)
So happy to see this at the top of Hacker News. Rounds < $1 million need to be celebrated more. Rooting for Kagi.
I’ve found literally no shows on Apple TV that I’m interested in. The only one I got through more than two episodes was Ted Lasso and I had gave up on that after five or six as it got worse not better.
A few words on taking notes
"Bloomberg suspects that high winds drove large hailstones into the Scottsbluff panels" > I wonder if that might also damage the panels in a vertical config?
2700 people tricked into working for cybercrime cartels rescued in Philippines
It's just PR speak for "yeah we fired everyone to cut costs but pinky swear the quality won't be affected please keep buying".

Which other business fired their employees and outsourced their work to become better? Approximately, or even absolutely, none.
Yes. Since 8.0.
Makes sense, you haven't had to look for a place in 20 years. Yes, you have to pay for it, it doesn't matter, electricity is cheap.

And clearly you've never rented a car with your mates or taken one of the shuttle buses to the mountains.
This exact problem winds me up when it comes to sailing channels on YouTube, I get that most people just want to look at attractive people sailing about in exotic locations but I wish there was a way to tell YouTube that if I'm searching about boats I'd actually much rather watch someone's long-term restoration job on a 1970s project boat or a very experienced person talking about sailing in the places I actually live near. There's more of that sort of content than I could watch in a lifetime but it only takes one accidental click and your weeks of carefully training it for 'this, not that' falls apart like wet cake. Surely from the perspective of someone buying ads (admittedly I block them so it's a moot point in practice) they'd rather hawk high-value sailing equipment at me than low-value generic youtube tat I've never shown any interest in?

I know it's very much not in their interest to develop this since your eyeballs are the product but it would be so great if you could explicitly give the YouTube algorithm heuristics like: 'if the context is sailing exclude videos that heavily feature couples/relationships' or 'if the video sounds like that particular breed of shrill, hyperactive vlogger I'm definitely not interested'.
> History is littered with bold and ambitious Google killers that went nowhere.

What are some examples of those?
super fun, but i keep getting error messages :(
DoorDash, Shifting Business Model, Will Offer Drivers Hourly Pay
Oh and the Rust brigade have arrived...
Was only a matter of time.
> it is understanding how systems interact and their performance characteristics.

But there is, at least a theoretical, promise that when you are rigid enough in your types, you are able to predict & prove memory, cpu, network use etc. It's pie in the sky, especially for interacting systems, but there is some future to cling on to. When doing embedded work, I use some of these to make sure algorithms stay within the limits in a way that they won't compile if they don't.

There are also provable security which I also use (sparingly). We will get there, hopefully before I give up coding and become a fultime carpenter.
I have never quite understood how and why reliable energy should be produced from unreliable weather, and from what we gather climate change means the weather is going to become even more erratic.
Irish parliament approves DPC confidentiality law
Way less common would be using ascii 30 and ascii 31. ascii 29 and you can cram multiple datasets into one file
Yeah, you're right that it's "the amygdala". I got confused by the plural. It's complicated. As Wikipedia says, "amygdala" is the singular for "amygdalae", but both of these words are said to be Latin. Wikipedia correctly traces them to the original Greek "αμυγδαλή", which is a female noun, hence its transliteration as "amygdala" in Latin, rather than "amygdale" as it should be if it came directly from Greek; I think that's because it's ungrammatical to have a female noun ending in "-e" in Latin (I am unsure, since I'm not a Latin-speaker). To confuse matters further, "amygdalae" is correct as the plural of both the Latin "amygdala" and the Greek "amygdale" ("αμυγδαλή - αμυγδαλαί"). Of course, "αμυγδαλή" itself is derived from "αμύγδαλον".

In any case, it may be easy to see what is meant by "amygdalas" but it is not right. "Amygdalae" is the right form of the word, whether you want to take it from Latin, Greek, or, indeed, English.

Btw, there is a lot of confusion about what is Latin and what is Greek. Both languages are used for scientific terminology (for reasons unknown, this habbit has persisted in modern times) but Latin words often borrow from Greek, but keep their Latin endings... which are often similar to the Greek ones. So it's hard to know which is which. I used to resolve this kind of confusion by perusing a good etymological lexicon of Ancient Greek, but unfortunately this was taken from me in a flood and I can only now rely on the internet, and my native knowledge of Greek.
I currently work nights in the same timezone as dang. It should happen fairly soon, but normal people are just rolling out of bed right about now.
be agile? haha. I refer to this as punching a hole all the way through and then pull the rest through. punch + pull.
Yep. Though I agree it's a terrible name, from a time when omitting vowels to cause confusion was trendy for brands.
How can they make it work offline while protecting the money from being duplicated?

That's something that I don't quite understand.

Would they give a unique ID to each cent so that if two with the same ID appear they see the discrepancy, but even that wouldn't work for offline, unless if they're planning to make it so that you have to go online every set period of time and then they verify the money.
Can't speak for the parent commenter but their situation felt familiar. I'm in a new role where I'm contributing to a very large Python codebase (first commit from over a decade ago) and whilst there's a lot of more recent code written with type hints, they're not enforced and they're not always reliable or consistent. On my second contribution, I introduced a bug that pyright immediately spotted after I upped the checks from basic to strict. Our Sentry reports a lot of non-critical bugs that are being triggered in production that in many cases are _already_ highlighted by the type checker. It's just a big enough codebase that it's not practical to attempt to fix them all.

If I were starting a project today in Python, I would definitely try setting up my tooling and processes to enforce type checking to at least some extent. Fortunately, we have a lot of guardrails that recover from the typical exceptions that occur in those cases, but as I experienced first hand, it's very easy to introduce new bugs when relying only on my intuition for those difficult-to-spot cases. Tooling definitely helps there.

My previous role had me writing TypeScript and Rust so there's always the temptation, or bias, to advocate for strict typing everywhere, but I'm conscious that it's neither practical nor feasible in large codebases with hundreds of contributors (most of whom may be more accustomed to dynamically typed languages).
A direct correlation between intelligence and persuasive ability has never been demonstrated.
That seems like... a good outcome? The privacy implications troubling enough to give me pause but the idea of more people actually driving at safe and legal speeds seems like a net positive, but perhaps there's some disaster scenario I'm not considering?
Do these panels usually have the ability to tilt (to follow the sun throughout the year)? If so, I wonder if just turning them as vertical as possible would have helped.
Why'd you build it then?
Do you have a suggestion for an alternative?
I wouldn't agree to these kinds of devices simply because they are cheap junk that can damage your car.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/insurance-tracking-device-blamed-...
All oems or rom makers are able to make whatever apps they want system apps. So even if this is being done, Google dialer isn't getting access to something others cannot.
store unreliable energy in batteries and release reliable energy
How I perceive software development in 2023
Try comparing the Jellyfin and Plex apps on Xbox, i'd like to switch to only running Jellyfin but the 3rd party device support isn't good enough. Hopefully it'll improve
> Instead, when a PoC is done everybody involved needs to understand the implications.

> Politics eat technnological semantics for breakfast though.

I see where you are coming from, but I have to disagree. I am not debating semantics, but reality. A prototype will always have limitations. That is the definition of a prototype.

I understand in reality sometimes it is worth to push through (startup), and sometime it is not needed but it is demanded. I am not starry-eyed, but it is useful to know what the reality is before one tries to bend it or adapt to it.

If you want, Nature/laws of physics eats politics for breakfast :)

Aligning incentives in this case could mean making the developer have a stake in the outcome (bonus), have competent people and clear deliverables, and bonuses for products that work well/convert. Not just for speed or busyness.

Basically you are assuming a sort of feudal relationship between someone handing arbitrary deadlines and (whatever you must do) and someone in charge of implementing it having no say in anything, and obeying blindly. That is not how the best engineering is done. Places exist (I have worked in some of them) where people can be professional, and a lot still gets done at the end of the day, even more than with the stick and harsh words approach.

A certain amount of back and forth is healthy and can produce much better outcomes for the company.
I am not a lawyer, just a Sysadmin; but with that said, the linked pdf of the complaint is absolutely fascinating to me. It's worth it (to me) for the list of resources it cites.
And if you are rich, you don't actually get privacy, just the illusion of it.

I have dumb electronics that are way less intrusive than their luxury versions.
I've started working through "How To Design Programs" and it calls for using DrRacket. It didn't occur to me to see if there was support for Racket in VSCode. Per this article, there is, via extensions.

For anyone who has worked through HTDP: is there any benefit to sticking with DrRacket vs using VSCode? The friction involved in moving around in DrRacket really dampens my enjoyment of the material in HTDP.
A huge part of maturity is realizing that you can’t be an expert capable of evaluating all risk in your life, so outside forces/standards are necessary.

Untrained smart people can be really bad at risk - a good shorthand is: can you get insurance for it and what is the price?
tks :)
I heard a talk about 2 weeks ago from a law person who mentioned that of all the money ChatGPT is making for companies, the number one driver is savings due from customer support.
ChatGPT is not pushing is towards AGI, it's only pushing Doctorow's enshittification.
There are these things called 'radios'...
It's crazy they only get paid when they're driving.
I was looking through NOAA's database of geoengineering permits reciently and a surprising number of them were for hail reduction. I would not be surprised to see an uptick.

https://library.noaa.gov/Collections/Digital-Collections/Wea...

The Western Kansas Weather Modification Program claims a 27-35% reduction in hail and benefit/cost ratio of up to 37:1, and they are primarily targeting crop protection. I wonder how precise they can be.

https://www.gmd1.org/WMP_brochure_revised_use_pg_2_&_3_final...
Seems pretty common to claim <technology X is both easy to learn yet extremely powerful>.
Peak temperatures (and thus peak air conditioning/heat pump usage) correlate well with peak sunlight; solar reducing demand during those hours is a significant benefit even without any additional storage.
Happening all over. National Geographic just laid off their last staff writers yesterday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/28/national-geo...
I haven’t tried myself yet - we are still under 2TB
Sounds good to me. Maybe they will see that highway speeds are too low and I get to save money.

Although its going to be really awkward when they find out my home address and kid's daycare.
Huh the insurance test does sound pretty smart. Though I imagine some insurance products might not be quoted at all to any random person?
Direct link to the story https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai-london
Indeed, some scholars have probably thought about it more than I have, but apparently they aren't here. Maybe it's just art, but even art has an economical purpose that yields information about the suffiecient and necessary conditions to create it, and it is not merely an expression of the magical thinking implied by what is usually referred to as ritual and religious purposes.

If it takes "days," you still need to get those days of water out there in addition to the weight of food and shelter. If their threats were nomadic, a false path imposes costs on incoming threats, and for as you say, the cost of only a few days with a small team. One set of ideas provides testable hypothesis - the other produces unfalsifiable categories of "ritual purposes" and it seems like lazy journalism.

I hear exasperation about ancient aliens type theories from academics all the time, but when you read all these "ritual purposes" cliche statements, it's hard to see how they didn't do it to themselves and invite the kookery on their own disciplines.
Flywheel Effect.

Don't free search engines have a competitive edge because for every search performed, the clicked result better informs future search results.

As such, the more users searching - the more it improves the search engine results quality.

And since Kagi is a paid offering, they will inevitably have less searches performed - leading to lower quality search results?
Clojure is opinionated against using all the potential features of Lisp.
I use (EdgeMAX) managed switches, so that shouldn't be an issue, I understand the concept now of what I'd need to do but I'm going to have to find a tutorial or something as I wouldn't know how exactly to set that up.
And would it make economical sense to build rocket launch pads at the lowest points?
All sources of energy are unreliable to some extent – what matters is modelling that to understand the risk and put appropriate mitigations in place. For sources which have more inherent variability (such as solar or wind) the mitigation is often storage or over-provisioning.

The addition of appropriate mitigations allows us to derive an energy source with the desired level of reliability. The cost of those mitigations (i.e. more storage required with erratic renewables) needs to then be traded off against other energy sources and the associated costs.
> I have never quite understood how reliable energy can be produced from unreliable weather...

You build in more than one spot, with enough capacity and energy storage to account for fluctuations.

The chances of it being cloudy and windless everywhere all at once is slim.
Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
Hours?! That’s definitely not true, I am by no means a Marathon runner, but mine has definitely managed to track quite long distances.

Although the two are not directly comparable of course, when is more of a fitness watch, the other is a general smart watch with fitness functionality.
Elon Musk Is All About the Nonstop Grind. And He Can’t Stop Talking About It
Yeah, reading all those parentheses on startup is not fast.

As an anecdote, I used to host a computationally expensive web app written in Racket (even before Chez version) serving large amount of requests at peak times on a single $10 DigitalOcean droplet. It was pretty fast and didn't crash. No need for awkward modern web scale thingies.
> I am glad there's alternatives to Google and Bing.

Kagi is just Bing under the hood with an OpenAI summarizer and a lot of tuning. It is fully reliant on the quality of search results it can fetch from Bing's databases.

I know there exists Qwant (a french company) which claim to have an independent engine, but they keep turning their Bing backend on for a lot of searches. Only truly independent engine from Google/Bing with relevant results that i know of is Brave Search. Not a great company, but they do know how to make a good search engine, and are practically alone in the space fighting against the Bing-based alternative search engine business model.
I like using "." for this case. Because types definition typically belong to a package or module, which commonly uses "." for separator.
The German Digital Healthcare Agency Supports Matrix Financially
Write private smart contracts using Homomorphic Encryption (with code examples)
I'm not saying it's space whales . . . but it's space whales.
In the context of a maximum length string, what would be the downsides of having it be 0-terminated, as in C? All code would need to check max length as the maxlength strings dont end in 0.

It seems to me like an obvious solution that enables all strings to have a fixed length in memory/disk but are presented to the code as variable-up-to-a-max length, but surely there are subtleties that I’m not seeing.
> The primary goal is not speed.

But the authors states that Racket is "the finest example of a modern day lisp bar none". In the modern day energy efficiency and climate change are major issues, the German government, for example, has set up the Blue Angel Ecolabel program: <https://www.blauer-engel.de/en>. Using modern day to mean VSCode and Discord is a worthless use of the phrase.
All I ever really use the assistants for is:

- get a weather forecast for today
- set an alarm or timer
- control smart light bulbs
- play a song

IMO a huge input space is a negative feature. Either the input space should be explicitly limited and known, or it should be almost totally complete (which isn't really feasible). Attempting to cover a large input space without completeness just means that it's really unreliable for new inputs.
A decade ago, Google would have made a real effort to stop this, as it would have ruined the user experience for Google Search. The proof of this is in their algorithm update in 2011 ("Panda")[0] that among other things, severely downranked the deluge of free blog account sites that posted nothing but copied material (to rank for search terms) and surrounded them with spam links and ads. If you were online in the late 2000s, you'll remember how many of these trash sites there were back then.

Today, search is horrible to use because Google has for years let these spam sites proliferate. Generative text content is the 1.5C event for text search engines -- it's too late to reverse it, we just have to find higher ground somehow.

[0] https://searchengineland.com/google-panda-update-guide-38110...
> And indeed, states that get closest to this ideal have the best economic growth rates and trends in QoL improvements.

Isn't this just a cleverly worded tautology? It's like saying healthy people tend to live longer and happier lives. But is it actionable information? Not really.
What do you think about e.g. Roc having whole-program type inference that always works and always infers the most general types?
What is a dolphin effect? I searched the web and can't find a definition. (Well urban dictionary lists "what is acheived when one shaves all of the hair off their bodies")
It’s okay, I’m sure everything is going to be fine when Microsoft and ChatGPT hot mic your next doctor appointment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36498294
I believe that new methods of distributing wealth will be necessary in the face of generative AI's effect. This proposal makes a good deal of sense to me. But is it really public data? Isn't most of the data on the internet owned (at least according to ToS) by the company that runs the platform that serves it up? A comment on Reddit is (non-exclusively) owned by Advance Publications, for instance. We all willingly put our data on websites and social media to be consumed by human and computer alike.
Focus on NANOGrav's 15yr Data Set and the Gravitational Wave Background
https://archive.is/Hgedn
Or they throw you under the bus. To be liable for all damages. Because they find reason to do so with exclusions they have on policy.

I believe any box or anything that monitors car will be used by insurance company to simply not pay up.
I'm afraid to jinx it, but I live in Russia, and it seems that this function has not yet been introduced here. I'm not sure if this will help, but before getting the VPN you can try going to Search Settings and changing your region to Russia.
>The evidence is starting us in the face.

It sure is!