skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically aims to make desktop browsers work like non-jailbroken iPhones: locked down and outside the user's control, for better and worse. You could also compare it to client-side anticheat in PC games.
It's a cat and mouse game between the ad-blockers and ad-blocker-blockers. I imagine if WEI actually becomes a thing, WEI countermeasures will also emerge, and WEI counter-countermeasures soon after.

A better plan might be for websites to find some a better way to sustain themselves, possibly by running ads that are more relevant and less obnoxious so that users wouldn't block them.
I'd wager that the majority of Replika users have had and will have real relationships.
Press Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy0_JtAMjps

I haven't watched it yet, but Powell's speech is traditionally the more important thing with FOMC meetings, because the speech gives more insight into what the FOMC was worried about / not worried about / etc. etc.

The +25 BPS was long predicted. All eyes are on September, and the only hint at what happens in September is what Powell said today (and the questions the press asked him).
> They suggest that if the plugin grows to a million plus installations, then it would support the desire for SQLite to be introduced in WordPress core. As of publishing this article, the plugin had 30 installations.

This is a poison pill suggestion. I would absolutely switch to SQLite for my blog, but I'm not going to make that commitment using a plugin for something as important and central as the database layer. It's kind of ridiculous to even consider that, to be honest.

With a plugin I have to go through the installation process, install the plugin, migrate the data, and then serve my blog. No one is going to do that. With plugins I'd also be scared that I'd be locked out of upgrades in Wordpress if the plugin lagged behind, and I would definitely worry about the plugin being dropped altogether. Those concerns go away completely if it's built right into Wordpress itself. That's on top of the fact that the plugin explicitly states that it's for testing.
What LLM are you using it with?
It says dead now?
This is not surprising

There have been a lot of reporting on Lithium batteries catching
fire on airplanes.

Also, a lot of reports on eBikes and escooters that catch on fire.
(So to be consistent the company should ban those as well)

Having a huge fire breakout on a ferry is not my idea of a good time.
I dont know what the chance is for the fire to spread to other
vehicles in the hold but given they are packed like sardines.
It would not take much.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/4-injured-after-battery-caught-fir...
https://www.ctif.org/news/passenger-airplane-made-emergency-...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2023/03/03....
> if i drive around the city taking pictures of you in your car, that's harassment.

Not if you have a government provided license, i.e. for private investigators.

It looks like harassment, quacks like harassment, but the government got their money so they've said it's not harassment.
Ahoy to the future. If it’s been 7 years and no evidence has surfaced, then discard any and all news about UFO • UAP • NHI • Aliens as complete b.s.

Signed,
The past
>... popular recording...

At the risk of being reductive, dig a little bit deeper, beyond popular music, and you'll find large swathes of fantastic music where this isn't the case.
For things like mortgages, they're still historically low(ish). See the graph on this page for instance

https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/historical-mortgage-rates...

so folks have been taking on debt at current rates, and substantially higher ones, for some time.
We should guarantee minimum income, and abolish intellectual property. Build an economy around actually doing things rather than calling dibs on solutions. Let the market sort out the doing of things, just make sure everyone can participate.
Her performance on SNL was a sign-act (prophetic gesture) in the purest sense of the word.
If there are others with more direct knowledge and they are willing to testify, then why did Congress call on this guy? The smell here is off.
"this stuff is claimed to superconduct all the way up to room temperature and indeed up past the boiling point of water. Its critical temperature is said to be 127C"

Would this have implications about possible efficient methods of converting heat back into electricity? Or even just more ways of harnessing heat energy in general. I'm imagining heat pumps built with superconductors could be a critical part of mitigating climate change, but I'm far from a scientist and barely understand the physics here.
I have a counter proposal. Us humans should fully embrace this and then work to become even more useless than a bot. We're going to maximize watching and clicking ads without every buying a damn thing again.

We never convert, making online advertising pointless.
Excellent, good job.
Doesn't seem like the Fed has any other moves that won't tank the economy (https://fortune.com/2023/07/10/jerome-powell-federal-reserve...). They really need Congress to step in and help soak up the excess.
Why is anyone wasting brain space on this man?

There’s literally a 0% chance he gets anywhere.
TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids
A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride
From own experience, yes. When I switched to 8th grade it was a bit further, so I biked there.
Willfully and knowingly defrauding someone is worse, yeah. Also giving "readings" and making vague comments / giving advice is very different from promising health outcomes.
No, you didn't show anything related to the dual definition of racism you claim I've given, and yes you are currently in denial that you have tribal impulses along racial lines.
Half of the federal govt's $31 trillion debt comes due in the next two years. It will be refinanced at much higher rates...Or we'll see Yield Curve Control from the federal reserve. Take your pick.
That’s lunch hour commenting for you I guess, don’t tell my old AP comp teacher or even this many years on she’d literally kill me.

And yeah, I mean after reading the book I feel:

- it is plausible witnesses have seen aircraft behaving in ways they believed were technologically or physically impossible

- it is much much more likely those craft were classified projects than extraterrestrials

- the USA has previously created, and kept secret, aircraft levering technological innovations that had recently seemed impossible
> I'm also intrigued by how many very wealthy people are unwilling to pay $10/mo to stream music/video and/or share passwords, when I recall paying $20/CD at the record store in 1998 dollars. You can listen to basically every song you want for the year for the price of (inflation adjusted) 2.5 CDs purchased by my mallrat teenage self back then.

I'm willing to pay $10/mo to play music but that gets me access to near-all music I want access to, on all devices I use. A CD can be just in one place at once and needs a specific player. So it's a terrible comparison.
I don’t think so. It’s a bit like saying “Yes, you can cure depression by being more positive”. The environment is crucial for a better outcome, even having a somewhat stable life, but that’s far from a cure.
Never thought of it that way, that by having the service being provided by the gov more restrictions apply to it being monetized and therefore being in a way better privacy wise. Like what you said, not being able to sell activity data. Interesting angle.
25 bits per second?
Thank you, I didn't know that and didn't mean to misconstrue his opinion. GNOME Tweak Tool is a critical part of a usable GNOME experience, but I wouldn't dare call that a good user experience because it's a non-starter for the majority of casual users.
Intuition shouldn't be considered harmful.
It is sometimes illegal for cops/parking enforcement to do this, which might be what you are thinking of.
I can understand the public benefit of the government being able to stalk me but not for the average citizen being able to do the same. When the government does it, it's obviously for The Greater Good™.
Maybe our devices are easily hacked by their technology. E.g. the phones just don't see them or images of craft are removed from photos.
Tangential, but is anyone still using Illumos in production?
My favorite was that Chuck Norris is so fast he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.

The saddest one is that Chuck Norris believes Chuck Norris facts are true.
I don't like the posts castigating artists for trying to charge for things, but I do think that the financial woes from artists don't come from their pricing model or unfairness from middlemen distributors. Rather, I think they come from simple supply and demand economic imbalances.

Because of how many more people want to be professional artists than have the capability to competitively operate at a professional level (inclusive of both raw artistic and second order marketing talent), there will never be enough demand to support anything but the very best of the artists who would like to make a living off of their product.

But I also think that conflicts with the idea you just mentioned, that of being able to get a personal AI to make everything for you. AI has shown the ability to make a mediocre product that one can tolerate, but not a great product for personal consumption that would lead you to become a loyal fan.

If anything, I think AI will take the grunt work out of all the tasks a great work an artist has to do, and let them focus on the parts that cannot be outsourced -- coming up with and distributing a great, differentiated product.
banks are shit here because they are not required by law to have liability policies. Just because the laws aren't in place doesn't magically make the banks fine, it makes them shit, while being legally compliant.
> Artists need to buy groceries and retire some day--almost none of them successfully pull this off, it's like one in a million--but every day there's a dozen posts on here about how greedy the arts industries are for trying to charge money for things.

I know a lot of artists, musicians, actors and even a painter or two who actually make a living from what they love. You know what none of them do? Make their living from people buying recordings or reproductions of their work. They all make money by playing gigs, performing and doing commissions. Some of them do really well, too.

Oh, and AI is not going to replace the band on the patio, or the actress in a local production of "Crazy for You" any time soon.
Basis points. Aka: a percent-of-a-percent, or one-tenthousanth.

25 BPS is therefore 0.25%.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession:

"The federal funds rate, which was about 11% in 1979, rose to 20% by June 1981. The prime interest rate, an important economic measure, eventually reached 21.5% in June 1982"
You don't need to trust when you can verify. The source code for the intermediary bank (smart contract) would be available for everyone to read.
"A big advantage of doing hand-grip exercises for lower blood pressure is that it doesn’t take a lot of time. You only need to do it for about 12 minutes a day, several times a week, and you can do it pretty much anywhere"
https://highbloodpressurebegone.com/handgrip-exercises/
"The term cognitive distortions has often been used as a general umbrella term to refer to pseudo-justifications and rationalizations for their deviant behavior, and pro-criminal or offense-supporting attitudes (Maruna & Copes, 2004; Maruna & Mann, 2006; Ciardha & Gannon, 2011)." Helmond et al., Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2015, Vol. 42, No. 3, March 2015, 245-262

It seems that almost any software/website can be framed as having a legitimate benefit for users, e.g., increased convenience and/or security.^1 The more pertinent inquiry is what benefit(s) does it have for its author(s). What does it do (as opposed to "what is it"). Let the user draw their own conclusions from the facts.

1. Arguably it could be a distortion to claim these are not mutually exclusive.

We can use web clients that do not leak excessive data that might be collected and used for advertising and tracking by so-called "tech" companies. Google would prefer that we not use such clients. But why not. A so-called "tech" company might frame all non-approved web clients as "bots" and all web usage without disclosing excessive data about the computer user's setup^2 as relating to "fraud". It might frame all web usage as commercial in nature and thus all websites as receptacles for advertising. This "all or nothing" thinking is a classic cognitive distortion.

2. This was the norm in the eary days of the web.
basis points i.e. 0.01%
BOFH?
Url changed from https://blogiestools.com/wordpress-sqlite-database/, which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Officials and lawmakers push for more government transparency on UFOs
They don't have any other moves, period, they've really only got a hammer.

That said your article is about the balance sheet, not the funds rate. The balance sheet will sort itself out over time. They can just let their long-duration assets mature and roll off.
0.3 T is pretty insignificant for everyday use - you need some pretty big coils carrying around 10 A to produce that sort of field. For something like this, the benefit would be in just making wires out of it for driving currents without loss of power (no resistance, no heating). Think big bulky overhead wires - but it's all moot if the material isn't a superconductor.
Sure that's a much cheaper way to start. I do find the feedback helpful. A lot of times I think I'm giving max effort but the device isn't beeping yet, and I find I've got more in me after all. It's kinda like lifting a barbell, where you have to exceed a certain force to get something to happen.
Why not say 0.25%? No one knows obscure English language economics terms.
Imo musicians need to make it a norm to release two 'correct' verions:

The highly compressed versions for radio play/commoners

And

A 'hi-fi' version for audiophiles

They need to be the same except for levels etc, and neither more official than the other

If your song can't be enjoyed in both ways, then either your music is 'specialty' music catering to audiophiles and musicophiles (?) Or it's just garbage and shouldn't be released regardless.

But that opinion may be a major cause for myself never releasing anything....
Anyone have recommendations for what will kill goat heads that isn't glyphosate? I'd love to use something less awful, but so far the goat heads seem unaffected by anything else I've tried.
"...and the second problem came with hundreds of feet of P-213 glass cloth tape inside the spacecraft found to be flammable."

How does the craft get built and you just discover this now?
Seems like it would make string serialization even more expensive than it already is (and it is).
One of the most wild, raw and talented woman that graced the music world. Also astonishing beautiful in her prime. Many women singers popular today would look really dull near her.

She was right also when criticized the pope for not doing enough about the abuses of minors in the catholic church (except basically hiding the abusers).

My choice would be Jump in the River, Fire on Babylon, or the fantastic duet Haunted.
If it's Boeing, it ain't going.
These aren't the exact rates that ordinary folks will be borrowing at. See credit cards for instance (way higher), or mortgages (a little higher).

Counterintuitively, it is possible for mortgage rates to go down even when the Feds are raising their rates. The interest rates for us normies are dictated in large part to how confident the financial sector feels. If the Fed's raising of the interest rate makes the financial sector feel that inflation is under control, then mortgage rates may go down.
>> It's not about virtue signaling. It's about bulk materials handling.

> people have been taught that recycling is virtuous, and that's how they have engaged with it, and they were being genuine.

That's not the same thing. Virtue signaling is when you do something in order to show other people that you are virtuous. If you would still recycle when no one's there to see it, then you're still doing something virtuous, but you aren't doing it to signal anything to others about yourself.
With the rate AI is accelerating, it's possible that nothing akin to a CAPTCHA may be viable soon. That sort of verification is already approaching the threshold of what's reasonable to ask humans to solve.
Works just fine for me. Firefox LTS on Gentoo, with adblock and bttv extensions.
Anyone here to discuss the article? Bueller? No surprises.
Indeed. Revenue should be flat or go down after layoffs, not up.
Please don't post this sort of unsubstantive comment to HN, and please avoid the flamewar style generally when posting here.

You may not owe Elons better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36882951.
True, but home prices are also much higher than in the past partly thanks to that long period of low interest rates. Taking on these huge loans with corresponding (comparatively) high rates is a different ballgame than it was in the past.
> the use for Wordpress is an audience who needs a full application to manage a site.

The use case for WordPress is businesses who don't really need a website at all but everybody demands that they have one and they want to outsource running a website so you can blame somebody else when it gets hacked into and can tell your marketing and sales department go bother somebody else about the website. <Raises hand>.

Anybody who actually needs an application to manage their site has staff and they don't use WordPress.
In the US it's illegal for anyone to do it.

This is just as clear a violation of the 4th amendment as the multi-billion dollar goggle empire.

But nobody really cares about that do they? Laws are routinely enforced or ignored based on which option allows the largest profits for incumbents.
Would wouldn't it be harder for the government to shut down your government provided email than for some corporation? Analogously to turning off someone's water or electricity, the gov would need a really good reason which can stand in court. Unlike Google which can shut down your account at any point because their automated system detected "suspicious activity".
A recent idea floating around is that these craft are manufactured on the fly for specific purposes.
It seems to me that with plastics we've been told they're safe and inert and yet have repeatedly been proven not to be (latest stuff about PFAS comes to mind.)

I'm not sure I would trust plastics exposed to the elements for 50 years to not have _something_ occur to them. There's just way too much chemistry that can happen when you're in contact with water and sunlight for such long periods of time.
Average citizens are not the ones operating bulk collection systems. They are simply writing down a plate number of the car parked next to them when they find a giant door scratch in a parking lot.
Just looked this up, thank you.
Double sad, I didn't know Cornell was also dead.
Home f**ing is killing prostitution

Graffiti in a band practice space, written by a friend of mine
What type of setup do you have at home? What type of GPU? MJ completes a pretty high quality photo in about a minute. Does SD compare?
Fed staff no longer predict recession as inflation cools
And tragically, I don't remember this ever being reported in the US at the time.

She was largely portrayed as a vapid attention-seeker and it was as if the head-shaving was just like... one of her "wild and crazy" acts.

Now, this was the mid-80s. Media was so much more centralized. I was a kid, and all you really had was the news bites that were served to you.

Theoretically some enterprising kid/person could have really researched her, but out of the zillions of things I could have been doing at the time I wasn't aware of any reason to think more deeply about her.

As an adult I did so and man, that was a strong woman. The "You're Wrong About" episode about her is a wonderful place to start.
No, it doesn't. There are a lot of murders in Chicago in large part because it's a huge city. Per capita, we don't even make the top 10.
Clearly this isn't going to work in a world where people use the word "sucker" to refer to people who do work to help others. Honestly, do we call volunteers at soup kitchens suckers?

The problem clearly involves an unequal distribution of work.

If everyone is else being paid and you are trying to convince a single person to literally shovel shit for 8 hours then yes, that won't work. They will feel like they are being taken advantage of. I think this is a common feeling amongst all workers. If your boss asks you to work late you are much less likely to be pissed off if the boss stays late and helps out too.
Don't worry, every narcissist's first step when gaining power is to build a powerbase of controllable, weak, assholes who put loyalty to them above all else.
> ... uint8 as your only data type

Ahem! uint8 or int8 by the programmers discretions that is.
Yes, those are always mentioned. Do you have a video or documentation showcasing that they can do these things and in an integrated fashion and don't take more than 5 minutes to setup? Do all those packages work seamlessly when remoted into another machine and across operating systems?

In VS Code, I open VS Code and install the extensions. I don't need to install an extension manager. I don't need to configure an extension manager. I don't need to go and find which extension manager the extension I want is in. And I don't need to configure the extensions once installed (but can if I want).

I guess the point is, Emacs is not the only editor with a vast amount of workflows that can be merged together. It's powerful, for sure, but it's not the objectively best editor.
It's a term of art in finance; people who work with it daily don't think twice before using it. Computer science has a whole book full of these; comes with the subject.
It's still harassment, it's just legally permissible harassment.
If you wanted the latter, you wouldn't repeatedly go on national TV claiming a giant conspiracy and then testify in front of congress.. In any case, I'm not "demanding" that he do something that could result in jail time but rather pointing out that based on his own telling of his own story, he should be happy to do so. That he's not is strongly indicative that he's full of shit.
Why would it be illegal? You are just filming things you see in public.
And we have mechanisms in place to filter those people out. They seem to be successfully passing those filters. This makes it more likely they are truthful.

I will assume a reply of “that does not guarantee truth/the system is imperfect” has already been given. Of course it doesn’t, and of course it isn’t. There are few guarantees. Passing those filters makes it more likely to be true.

More likely. Not certain. More.
> Makes it impossible for anyone with a camera to put together a location database, but the car is still identifiable by law enforcement if necessary.

First, let me laugh at the idea that state and local LE could technologically do anything that the public is unable to do.

Second, let me cringe at the idea that it's OK for the government to stalk individuals.
bps = basis points. A basis point is 0.01% (absolute), so this means they raised rates by an absolute amount of 0.25%.
A literal "Truth and Reconciliation" commission. I like it.