skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zeihan is a great read if and only if you also read a wide variety of competing viewpoints to contrast against. He gets some things right but he gets a lot of things wrong too. Like any popular talking head he says what people want to hear, like "China is going to collapse with a decade". But he started saying that 20 years ago.
But fake meat is just food, and equally, if not more, safe than the meat you intended to buy. Sometimes I wanted to buy beans and bought mushy peas instead; oops, my mistake. I just made a soup and called it a day. People that have dietary restrictions are rarely in danger becsause we actually pay close attention to the products we buy.
I wanted a very simple feature flagging solution, so I wrote my own with Google Sheets as the backend: https://github.com/stillmatic/flagsheet

It's slightly more complex than a code push but still very easy to use.
It's not just big tech that hates AGPL. If Terraform was under AGPL a lot of companies might have to release their source code as AGPL too because of its virality. Where it stops is not exactly clear from the license.
I just got engaged. When we looked at rings, the jeweler asked my fiancé if she wanted natural or synthetic, and she responded “I don’t want a blood diamond!!” Of course, mined diamonds aren’t blood diamonds, but her impression was still they were a little ickier.

The jeweler told me that one reason to get a natural diamond was that the prices of lab grown diamonds had been falling, whereas natural hasn’t as much, so the ring would hold more value. I told her that was exactly why we wanted to go with a lab grown diamond! This isn’t an investment — we aren’t planning to sell the ring.

Ultimately, for a price that didn’t break the bank, we got an absolutely gorgeous ring with diamonds larger and higher quality than we would have been able to afford with natural. Diamond rings may have started as something to resell in divorce, but for us (for my fiancé really), it was more about getting something that was beautiful, and if it didn’t cost as much, great! I suspect most Americans will feel similarly.
https://nitter.net/uhoelzle/status/1442040678167375877
I'm impressed both that you had a nearly 20 year old link ready, and that this URL still works.
What about an artificial meteorite instead of an actual one?
wow, didn't know about this. very cool + would be interesting to see this in more places. Just checked it out. for those lazy:

"If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the
monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee,
or Licensee's affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the
preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may
grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the
rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you
such rights."
> This is all irrelevant for SEC filings, since those have to include ALL ins and outs of the business. If a Disney CEO tried to screw investors by artificially lowering net income and reducing the investors’ profit, heads would roll.

The Disney CEO wouldn't screw investors by lowering net income. Investors aren't (generally) compensated with income. In fact, the opposite is true, Disney can force net income down buy doing a stock buy back which drives the stock prices higher. There's a reason investors, for the most part, ignore net income. In fact, always having a positive net income is generally a sign that the company is not investing and growing, which in and of itself is generally treated as a negative sign from investors.

> This is ignoring the basic fact that CEO and other company executives are compensated in shares in the first place, which means they want net income to be high so that the share price goes higher.

Net income is barely a predictor for stock prices (especially now-a-days). For example, disney had a 170% increase in net income in their March quarterly report. Did they see a 170% increase in stock price? A 17% increase? Or a slight loss?
TechInsights Finds SMIC 7nm (N+2) in Huawei Mate 60 Pro
Why do you believe they would?, it's definitely not demonstrated here.
A house can be priced as high as it wants...if no one can afford the mortgage then I guess its just going to sit there with a For Sale sign for decades?
Thebaselab/codeapp: Building a full-fledged code editor for iPad
Another alternative I've been meaning to try out: https://restfox.dev/
When I worked in food service the knives were rotated weekly and came back super sharp. It was really nice- a really sharp knife, properly handled, is a real pleasure to use.

At home, I'm lazy and never have my knives sharpened- yet my one high quality knife is still pretty good after 5+ years of not being sharpened (it no longer cuts skin when drawn across it lightly). I did learn a trick- for most situations, a scalloped knife with with light serrations slices through tomatoes and never needs sharpening.
Tripled its housing supply since 1960 according to that article. Meanwhile Vancouver’s population went up by more than 4x. So it doesn’t seem surprising affordability would get worse!

Edit: Patrick Condon (who wrote that biv.com article) seems terrible. Here he is opposing connecting UBC to Vancouver’s SkyTrain: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/01/29/Last-Voice-Against-Sky...
Show HN: Fully client-side GPT2 prediction visualizer
Hi HN! I've found this visualization tool immensely helpful over the years for getting an intuition for how an LLM "sees" some piece of text, and with a bit of elbow grease decided to move all compute to client side so I could make it publicly available.

I've found it particularly useful for

- Understanding exactly how repetition and patterns affect a small LM's ability to predict correctly

- Understanding different tokenization patterns and how it affects model output

- Getting a general sense of how "hard" different prediction tasks are for GPT-style models

Known problems (that I probably won't fix, since this was a kind of one-off project)

- Doesn't work well with Unicode grapheme clusters that are multiple GPT-2 tokens (e.g. emoji, smart quotes)

- Support for other models (maybe later?)
Yeah I guess I was more wondering whether they pull their brands from Bucherer.
Without commenting on the direction of the company in recent years and where it is today, I'll be forever grateful to Google for setting the standard for how tech companies need to treat their engineers.

People who have entered the industry in the last decade or two may not realize it, but the sky high salaries, stock grants, benefits, flexible work hours, free gourmet meals, stocked pantries, gym memberships and lots more that you enjoy every day are all thanks to Sergey and Larry in the early 00s wanting to build a Disneyland for nerds. They were so successful at it that the rest of the industry had no option but to emulate them. Being a software engineer was nowhere near as enticing a job pre-Google.
Yes, Deno KV is much closer to D1 than to Cloudflare KV.
Can't edit my post but the ReadMe has been updated! Looks great now.
> Password: hn

Hi Hackers,

I've recently built and released Audio Diary an AI-enhanced voice journal that structures and analyses a user's daily entry. I'm really happy with how it eventually turned out and it's had some moderate success (1300 users without advertising). I would like some guidance on what to do next.

I have been working on this for 18 months, and recently I'm starting to have a lot more faith in the product due to some really positive feedback, both public and private, that indicate that it's genuinely helping people. I want to see it grow in both terms of the product and the adoption.

I'm a solo founder [0], and don't have much experience in user analysis, so after I felt that Audio Diary's concept had been somewhat validated by the public I worked on an admin panel (for internal metrics) and found that with very few tweaks it could be made completely anonymous and become part of a kind of interactive pitch deck. I'm happy with how it turned out and I wanted to share it here.

I would be grateful for any advice on where to go forward with this product, and how to make it grow into a real business. I'm based in London and I'm starting to look at networking evenings, but past that I am unclear on a viable path to growth.

Thanks.

0. See #1: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

X. App here: https://audiodiary.ai
Nerdy Teen Is the FBI’s Most Wanted Hacker [video]
Certainly, there was somebody who was actually sent to jail, even after patiently explaining their case in court, and if the management of the cable provider knew exactly what was happening, and continued their persecution because of some stupid business reason, it would be more concerning.

However, that's not how the story was told.
would love to know a definitive/quantitative answer for #2, for sure. I do think it makes a difference when it comes to the "backstabbing" implications of the change
How's that absurd? If you have 0 experienced security folks on staff/consulting, and no one willing to listen to them, then a fax is almost certainly more secure in practice.
> Now imagine what’s happening

Now there's a western-centric statement, if ever I saw one. Why do you assume "the poorer EU countries" are like the west, only worse? Other replies give more nuance.
Such a transparent and clear post, therefore first, Thank you! Based on my experience with propitiatory IoT devices and protocols, vendors seem to be kind of unwary when it comes to potential security vulnerabilities and exploits in their protocol or firmware of the devices. As I understand, it's now all on us consumers to deliberately report insights to regulatory authorities and respective lawyers and hope everything comes together.
I suggest you do a bit of research on how income relates to house prices.

Here is the tldr: in country where most people buy houses on mortgages, and mortgages are given based on a person’s income then wages will pay a direct and very important role on house affordibity.

Also house supply is important but far from the only factor effecting house prices. If gov builds 1000 new houses and they instantly get bought by, say, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund it will have virtually no impact on house prices.
London’s stock exchange plans digital asset unit
> Increase supply

Supply can be vastly increased by punishing large owners severely for letting their properties stay empty.
But fortunately market competition ensures that a higher-quality search engine is only ever a click away.

So the bar for quality search is always going to remain pretty high, in order not to simply go out of business.
A complex system ruthlessly optimizes for profits...and is anyone surprised that other metrics grow worse?
That's 44x more prison time than you get in Minnesota for raping two girls, aged 4 and 9:

https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/rochester-man-given-...
Love it. Yes, if the Earth wasn't radioactive, it would have already cooled to a much greater degree than it already has!
You didn't say which country you were referring to, but capital is heavily regulated in the US. So is labor, so is profit. All economic activity is within the context of the governing laws, of which, there are too numerous to list here.

There are aspects of democracy that are pure self-interest driven, and some that are driven with rose-tinted glasses to create a future society that we all want to live and thrive in.

"Explaining actual repercussions" is just another way to inject bias, there isn't a proven method to reliably predict macro-level impacts of laws and regulations. We all have beliefs, and hopes :)

I don't see anything we disagree on really. Maybe just the phrasing of things.
Storage cost + write ops are multiplied by region count
Amazon doesn't really have a "primary e-commerce front-end stack" in any concrete sense. They have hundreds/thousands of teams that deploy bits and pieces to a massive pipeline that ultimately makes up what you see on Amazon.com, but each team can have their own infrastructure backing things. Some teams might run everything off a dozen low-end EC2 instances while another sibling team has 3k+ instances; it's really all over the place, and that's ignoring specific events like Black Friday or Prime Day, etc. where teams need to prescale things in advance.

Source: Worked at Amazon/AWS for almost a decade.
Bread, Water and Peanut Butter: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Life in Jail
Well they didn't do it backwards compared to at least some subset of peers.

Cockroach: Apache -> BSL https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroachdb/

Mongo: AGPLv3 -> SSPL https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/16/mongodb-switches-up-its-open-source-license/

Elasticsearch: Apache -> SSPL https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change

I am sure there are more I'm forgetting.

Edit: Removed MariaDB.
https://archive.is/A7ALL
https://archive.ph/HQXWk
Sorry for my previous posts' hostile nature. Thank you for clearing up the actual proposed implementation details. It sounds like I came to pretty much the same conclusion as you did. I might have been quite unclear, but I was actually referring to (in my mind) the inevitable stage 2 of the implementation, if you give the little finger here ... theres no stopping. When I read about this, I was feeling sad, frustrated and a bit angry too. I like my iphone, i switched from android because they aged too quickly. Given the nature of Apple ecosystem, I took this as crossing the line. And i would have to strongly look for alternatives, since this scanning is not something i want to accept and i would vote with my money elsewhere.

Yes, i know they scan all photos already. But to scan MY photos and hold me accountable, that is something i am not okay with. Yes, its only icloud, for now, but i dont see the point of using some 3rd party cloud, i used to, but in apple device it would be suboptimal for my daily use etc etc.

My point was of the original case of protecting children. That is what the advocate groups want. That is what I want. But I just draw the line there what i feel is my personal space, that you don't scan my photos or files, and that is not the answer. Since there are these few behemoth FAANG companies ruling the ecosystems and impacting our lives, the battle of privacy needs to be fought right there. So, for me that would be the line as I see the progression of that path is much worse. That is where I raise my hand and say, I'm out, what next? No smartphone? Maybe. :) Peace.
I hate it too, but the heart of this is that ownership is under question.

People should not have agreed to buy things where there are parts of it they don't own that they don't even need, but they did. They did it a lot because it didn't matter to them and now those devices are prevalent everywhere and it's a PITA to try to buy the type of item you actually want - where you own it entirely.

Ownership has never actually been absolute. When you buy land you cannot tear it up and make it totally unusable. If you buy a home under an HOA you may have to keep it in a certain type of order.

Maybe what we need is a law that manufacturers always need to provide a "dumb" model of their products which can be completely owned by the consumer.

However, I was speaking from a stance of acceptance that the companies are maintaining ownership of some functionality of the devices. I was primarily thinking about the way it accesses company owned infrastructure (servers and the information on them) but it extends into a grey area on the devices themselves.

You should be allowed to reasonably tamper with the device, but you should also be attempting to communicate with the company about it. They shouldn't be allowed to retaliate against you for requesting to tamper, they should need to reply reasonably quickly, and the reasons for which they are allowed to deny you should be regulated so they cannot just deny for no reason.

I am saying we need to lean in to the situation we are in if we want actual results, and I think there is a lot of room to develop a reasonable legal framework on this subject that incorporates partial ownership.

It shouldn't be as restrictive as it is today, but it also shouldn't be a complete free for all. We should at least attempt to make an effort to control security vulnerability information so criminal behavior and innocent behavior actually looks different.
It would perhaps be an interesting new experience, when interesting new experiences are hard to find. But it's probably one of those things that seems more interesting in theory than it turns out to be in practice, and I'd get tired of it after a few days.
Not really... the GPU would still be the main driver for the consumption
Thanks for sharing. Never thought of doing this, but definitely will be doing it next time a sofa falls apart.
i mean really, the dev can stuff whatever they want in a steam depot and point at it as the thing to run, so yes
If meditation worked to make you less neurodivergent, trust me there's a lot of neurodivergent people that would be fucking zen masters in service of the goal to not have huge problems interacting with society
Thank you for the reply! I have submitted my official comment.
TY! That was interesting and I learned that their first servers can be viewed in various museums. While web searching that, I found this interesting tangent, a Lego cased storage array from 1996:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/...
100%. My dad was an electrical engineer in the 70s and 80s and ended up transitioning to sales, given that it paid much more.
Capitalism inevitably devolves into crony capitalism/corporatism. Indeed, what is happening in the UK is literally after decades of of increasing liberalization! So "works without fail" seems to be an exaggeration at least.
That's whataboutism. (/s)
https://brutalist.report/

Aggregated headlines from a variety of websites with a minimalist design.
Or maybe I should just eat whatever I want? Why do you get to dictate what people that don't eat meat should eat, specially for ethical reasons? Logs of vegans still like meat. We weren't born vegan, and didn't become vegan out of hate of the food.
The highest prices are in deeply liberal cities.
Its already happening for a while. Some games have both binaries
Oh, you "didn't" do this game, wink wink, nudge nudge. ;)
only 80k?
Did you ever feel people were moments away from calling security/police on you? Your last sentence doesn't give that feeling. If not, I'm not sure we're talking about comparable reactions.
When I last researched the topic, Moissanites almost exclusively came with a kinda ugly yellow tinge, but apparently that's not an issue anymore. Definitely a great choice. (Though I disagree that laypeople can't tell the difference between doubly-refractive and singly refractive gems)
"rent seeking" as an economic term has nothing to do with house or apartment rentals.
Just because the harm caused by an individual action is tiny doesn't necessarily mean that thing should be legal.

For example I have a small amount of engine oil that needs disposal. I could dump it in the drainage ditch in front of my house and probably the only measurable harm it might cause would be to weeds that are growing in the ditch. By time it got to where oil could harm anything valuable it would be so diluted that it would not cause any detectable harm.

Yet doing so is illegal. It needs to be illegal because if a large number of people did it there would be measurable harm even though the harm from any one of the individuals would not be measurable.

With any kind of theft of services you need to look at not just the direct harm an individual might cause to the service provider (which may be immeasurably small) but also the harm to the service provider and to the people who are paying for the service if theft of services were widespread.

To give an extreme example if I am the only customer in my town who is actually paying for service with everyone else committing theft of services to get that service the service provider is likely to either withdraw from the market or raise rates significantly, either of which harms me.

Of course it would never actually get that extreme, but if even a few percent of people are doing it the service provider will probably start spending money on technological solutions to stop that. And the costs of those technological solutions will likely be pushed onto subscribers. Those solutions may also require installing more equipment at the user end to use the service (e.g., set top boxes) that can reduce the user's privacy.
>Also called Ocimum sanctum.

Yes. When I first googled for holy basil Wikipedia, to post about it here, I was a bit surprised to see that other second name, because I too knew it earlier only by the sanctum second name.

>There are a few different varieties of holy basil, too.

Right. A few I know of are Krishna tulasi, Rama tulasi, vana tulasi (maybe some overlap there). Those names are mentioned in some Ayurvedic medicines that include tulasi as an ingredient, IIRC.
The underlying OS has been cross-platform since the mid-90s. 68k family, Intel, PowerPC, Intel again, ARM.

The UI classes (Foundation & AppKit) themselves have also been portable. They ran on Windows (OpenStep NT) as well as NeXT.

The kicker was moving from NeXT to OSX where Display Postscript was dropped. That was a problem as the graphics primitives had to have their code redone.

Edit: essentially, they’ve been in a position to choose whatever hardware they needed.
It's a deal with the political devil: if people view their house as an investment, housing prices must rise faster than inflation, or they're a horrible investment. But if they rise faster than inflation, new entrants to the housing market are priced out.
Note that this index is freest but not the most capitalist, which you seem to be conflating.
Yes! Really want a good 80% keyboard (basically a standard keyboard with the number pad chopped off) with some added thumb keys, but everything else mostly positioned where you expect. QMK for configuring.

I'm a long time user of the Microsoft Ergonomic Natural 4000 but they are hard to find now. Don't like the MS Sculpt that much - spongy escape key and those flat keys in general. I've got one in a drawer as a backup for when the 4000 dies, but I'm not looking forward to it.

I recently got a Keyboardio 100[1] but am really finding it hard to adapt to. Moving things like many symbol keys (e.g. "[]\{}|/+=-_") to different locations or layers is a real pain for programming. I really don't know if I'll persist. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful keyboard, but requires too much adaptation for me.

The closest potential I've found is the X-Bows Knight[2] although the cost of getting one out to the Antipodes makes it a risky proposition if I end up not coping with it.

[1] https://shop.keyboard.io/products/model-100
[2] https://x-bows.com/products/x-bows-knight-ergonomic-mechanic...
this is a great point...further down the comments, an OpenTF maintainer made a great point that all of these services are "backend hostable" services. Terraform doesn't even have a backend service component...Terraform Cloud does, but not Terraform itself.

I didn't contemplate this when writing the article but it seems like this might be a pretty big factor in the reaction to the change. At least to my memory, I don't remember as strong as a pushback from any of these companies changing their licenses
Show HN: Express - a modern HTTP client for C++20
It's not like windows game developers are universally incompetent. They have their source so they can reproduce their binaries at will. They understand the risks of malware and how embarrassing it would be to unwittingly ship some, so they should know better than to be shipping releases built using their personal machine they also browse the web with.

For Rockstar to be shipping pirated cracked binaries as their own demonstrates a profound lack of responsibility and professionalism as software developers.

But I'm sure there's a non-zero amount of windows game developers being careless/sloppy in general too.