skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right word is surveillance.

Ubiquitous surveillance is what pays most of the VerySmart gathered here.

Advertising is just the part of the market we can talk about in stand ups.
Scary NYC Sidewalks [video]
> Has there been any explanation, from Unity themselves or anyone else, as to why Unity thinks it deserves a cut based on install count?

The simplest is that by using Unity, the developer reduces their development costs compared to creating a game without using an engine and the tooling that comes with it.

If they don't think the advantages that using Unity gives them is worth $0.20 per copy, they should probably work out how much it'd cost to hire more developers to do the extra work they'd have to do to create their game without Unity.
See also doctors and medicine.
Yeah the flamewars between Mcdonalds and Wendy's accounts are epic. I'm sure they will be longtime Threads users. Unfortunately for my cadre of human based contacts, it is a complete desert. Everyone was intrigued for a week or so, some tried to keep it going a month later but we even have people that would benefit from leaving Twitter like AOC having abandoned the platform.
Depends how you roll your own; something lightly modified from a "normal" distro can just take upstream package updates and so put you in a good spot.
That's fair. I just have memories of being on forums and interacting with those people you knew where unhinged. They had the protection of anonymity... but I think you have a great point that even then, you had to have at least a bit of technical know how to join a forum. Not so with twitter, so the barrier to entry is much lower.
40% unemployment basically means civil war.

This guy is flat out wrong and out of touch with reality on so many levels.
How can I be sure this project isn't sponsored by XYZ government secret agency and that more than 1GB of data does not contain any surveillance software?
If that's the case why are a significant number of people scrolling instead of playing?
Tails didn't patch a non-root exploit that could leak the users real IP by bypassing the firewall without them knowing it for 3 years. I do not understand why Tails is recommended over Whonix (specifically Qubes-Whonix, thus with a trusted TCB).

> The Unsafe Browser allows to retrieve the public IP address by a compromised amnesia user with no user interaction

https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/15635
So your nitpick is just that you'd describe the mistake differently?

Ok. The consequences are exactly the same. Once you express what the humans actually thought they were getting the proof engine says "No".
Why? Its just DFS the language.
Summary of my proposals for HOA regulation for single family homes and townhomes:

1) Every 4 years HOAs must conduct a renewal vote. At least 40% of members must actively vote to extend the CC&Rs (meaning that at least 40% of homeowners must a cast a vote in favor of continuing the HOA. Not voting is effectively a no-vote). Upon a vote resulting in the dissolution of the HOA and/or CC&Rs, the HOA executive board shall conduct a second vote 6 months from that date to validate the result under the same conditions. If an entity owns or controls more than 1 property, they shall be restricted to a single vote (meaning that property developers or multi-property owners only get one vote.)

1a) If HOA vote fails, it will continue for one year and conduct another vote. If that fails, the HOA will be dissolved. If the HOA owns community property, it will convert into a property maintenance organization and be able to collect funds solely to fund the maintenance of community property. It will not be able to levy fines or restrict individual properties in anymore.

1b) PMOs may re-adopt a new set of CC&Rs. To do so, a petition must collect the signatures of 60% of property owners within a 6 month period. They PMO must then notify all property owners of an election. 75% of property owners must agree to reformation of CC&Rs.

2) HOAs and property maintenance organizations (PMO) may not begin foreclosure proceedings on a property until the amount owed is at least 1/5 of the value assessed by the county. HOAs must follow the same procedures as the county government for foreclosure, with additional requirements listed below.

3) HOAs and PMOs must collect phone and email information for property owners, unless the property owners opt out. The HOA must remind property owners annually to update their contact information.

4) Notices of delinquency must be sent to all available contacts.

5) If properties are in arrears by more than 3 months the HOA/PMO must post notice on the property physically (not just mail). After 1 more month, and only if necessary for the maintenance of community property, the HOA/PMO may seek and be granted a tax lien to borrow against on the delinquent accounts. Notices must continue to be sent to all available contact mechanisms and posted on the property monthly

6) The HOA/PMO shall have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of both the HOA/PMO and the individual delinquent member. In the case of a foreclosure, they must seek the highest price possible, not just enough to cover the delinquency.
How we built a Streaming SQL Engine
https://forum.unity.com/attachments/upload_2023-9-14_11-55-2...
amazing how young this guy is despite having done so much

In 1997, he discovered a new, faster formula to calculate single digits of pi in hexadecimal representation, known as Bellard's formula. It is a variant of the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula.

at only 25
I'm not an expert in this area but, according to Adobe, it depends on the use. For rasterized images, PDF documents, etc., the answer seem to be 'yes':

> Does my client need their own font license to use the designs? No, not if you are creating graphics or documents that have rasterized or properly embedded font data, such as a PDF, JPEG, or PNG.

> However, if your client needs to have the font installed to edit your design, they will need their own license, either through a Creative Cloud subscription or as a desktop license purchase.

But for websites, the answer seems considerably more complicated but, essentially, 'no.'

> Can I use web fonts for my client websites? The Terms of Use do not permit reselling beyond December 31, 2019. After that time, the client's website must load Adobe Fonts from their own Creative Cloud subscription to ensure that there isn't any interruption to the font licensing or web font hosting.
> Please refer to the full Terms of Use for more information on what reselling the service means, and related definitions. . . . [A few more paragraphs about how to switch things over from your CC account to a client's.]

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/font-licensing.html

Reading between the lines there just a little bit, it seems like Adobe may have run into its own licensing issues. And this all depends on Adobe being correct that they have gotten a license from the creator of the font that allows Adobe, in turn, to convey these rights to the CC subscriber. Uncertainty on exactly these points--Does Adobe allow clients to use the fonts without their own subscription? Does Adobe itself have the rights to allow this?--seems like the root of the issue in the article:

>The one useful Adobe representative we spoke to on the phone last week mentioned that numerous people are having trouble with the Adobe licencing with this particular font. She said that Adobe may not have the appropriate licencing for this font listed on the website – unsure if this is reliable information or not, but thought I’d mention, as if this is the case, there should be more information clearly visible on the font’s webpage about how to use it correctly.

>From our understanding, we have used the font in the correct way (according to the Adobe Web Project method). However, our client does not have an Adobe subscription, so we concerned that we are not covered by the Adobe licence due to this: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/font-licensing.html.
Are you saying that privacy.com also creates fake names and addresses for the purpose of charging? I always assumed it was just another number in your name. (never used this service, but it does seem useful)
You need at least one monospace font. I'll die on that hill. Throw one in and I'm on your side.
Geez what an oversight
I have seen hundreds of comments way worse than this post in terms of a political soap box. I'm confused why you have singled out this post, which actually has news articles relevant to the topic.

What makes this comment better than the one we're discussing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37292742
>>Can you provide examples where this has been used in then industry?

Microsoft tells you if you install the game on too many devices.

>>With the examples you listed doesn't it require an account to authenticate first before achieving this?

Uhm, no, that's how it's implemented but it isn't required.

>> what stops me from spinning up VMs or emulators repeatedly to attempt to install bomb?

Nothing, but it would be very time consuming and very easy to detect.
Other Reddit enshittification is their pushiness to use the mobile app. Great UX case study here, this guy makes them very entertaining - https://builtformars.com/case-studies/reddit

Also related, Cory Doctorow's essay on this where he labeled it 'enshittification' - https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
While there might not be much innovation available in the ad tech space, there's plenty to address in gaming (and ad tech may have lots of arbitrage given different legal regimes)

If Unity made their engine just more usable, much less more capable, than UnReal and others they would gain market share. That's ignoring the other lucrative arenas games engines have entered like movie vfx and vr.

The CEO going full tilt into enshittification is just a symptom of terrible leadership
Are there any examples of _consumer_ software that has an interface for the Marginal User, and a different interface for others? The only example that comes to mind is something like TweetDeck, but I believe that was killed off in the new Elmo/X era.
The colors are fine. It's the text measure (around 90) that's having the user do too much work. That should be around 55-60.
They should also guarantee that OEMs will not leave the Chromebook bootloader locked once those 10 years of automatic updates are over and they should release the source code for their drivers. My android is useless after 3 years because google doesn't do what microsoft does with x86 OEMs.
Just to clarify - are you wanting the LLM itself to identify what a "anomalous latency" would be based on the data itself? If so then I don't think this will help you at all until we can actually fit the log into the context.

What RAG here is doing is using embeddings and a vector store to identify close pieces of information, for example "in this django project add a textfield" will be very close to documentation in the django docs that say "textfield", and it will then add that to the prompt so the LLM has the relevant docs in its context.

The problem is that you'll need a heuristic to identify at least "potentially anomalous" and even then you'll still have to make sure there's enough context for it to know "is this a normal daily fluctuation".

A multi-step agent is definitely what you want, you could have it build an SQL query itself, for example "was there any high latency requests yesterday?" it may identify it should filter the time, possibly design the query to determine what is "high".

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At the moment I don't think it's well suited to identifying when the "latency is abnormally high". However if you have some other system/human identify heuristics to feed to the LLM, it may then be able to do at least answer the query.
The article is paywalled but the research group has a 2021 arxiv publication on the same topic: "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: excess confidence explains negative attitudes towards science"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.11193.pdf

It's a survey-based study but the obvious thing to consider is, what do they mean by 'negative attitudes towards science'? Are they talking about the scientific process itself, i.e. experiment and observation coupled to theoretical modeling as the basis of discovering how our universe functions? Or are they talking about negative attitudes towards the 'science-based' pronouncements of governmental and academic institutions?

Certainly the modern scientific process takes place at such a level of specialization that even working scientists in one field are usually unable to judge the quality of results obtained in another field without doing a lot of time-consuming research, but if a long record of failure of peer review exists (and it does) then it shouldn't be surprising when people lose faith in academic and governmental institutions - but I'd guess they still believe that the scientific process itself is valid, it's just that the received wisdom of the white-robed annoited priesthood is no longer taken at face value.

There are many reasons for this - e.g. while science may have been viewed by all as wonderful in the 1950s, many discoveries (environmental carcinogens, fossil fueled global warming, etc.) have upset major economic and institutional powers leading to coordinated attacks on the reliability of science in major media outlets. Then there's the long record of pharmaceutical skullduggery (the push to prescribe opiates for just about any condition, leading to an addiction epidemic, the failure of a wide variety of science-approved medications to live up to claims and/or the production of negative side effects (Vioxx etc.)) - and as far as the vaccine controversy, yes it was a terrible idea to put organometallic preservatives in multi-use bottles of vaccines, and yes it was done to cut costs, but the claim it led to an epidemic of autism isn't well-supported, there are many more plausible industrial sources of heavy metals to blame for high childhood exposures, but that's not as convenient for class-action lawsuits due to vaccination records, etc.

This doesn't mean that most science isn't fairly reliable, but the glaring failures are what make the headlines, and there have been quite a few of them.

If we really want to regain public trust in academic institutions, divorce proceedings aimed at kicking the corporate interests out of the academic sphere will have to be initiated, meaning for example no more exclusive private rights to NIH-financed inventions and no more revolving doors between academic institutions and pharmaceutical executive boards. Don't hold your breath, we live in an era of systematic insitutional corruption that Trofim Lysenko would have fit right into.
Auto-Triage Rules for Dependabot
If you express a reasonable opinion that is even mildly positive, or even ambivalent about musk or trump you get mass downvoted, and people assume you completely lack integrity. I have seen this exact behaviour on HN for years, and the mods do nothing, and the bad-actors are often the long-term users with tons of karma. I'm not into conspiracies so I won't speculate as to the reasons.

Anyway, that in and of itself doesn't bother me - The parent was trying to present a "holier than thou" attitude towards Reddit. I merely pointed out that HN is not all that great when it comes to that.
Very well said!

The big problem is going to be some "not so intelligent" Human making decisions based on AI/ML output without verification or even worse having AI itself make the decision.

Here is a Munk debate "AI research and development poses an existential threat" - Yoshua Bengio & Max Tegmark vs. Melanie Mitchell & Yann Lecun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=144uOfr4SYA
Expediting Linux Support for Focusrite Scarlett 4th Gen Devices
Discussion here:
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?p=159818

A fundraiser is held here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/linux-driver-for-focusrite-scarlett-gen-4
Your comment is fair but you disregard the possibility that the author is trying to avoid some attitude he has previously encountered. Given the subject matter, I think that's the likeliest explanation.
I ran a startup making something similar to this pre-covid, it wasn't just date night, it was "find something to do in under 5 minutes". Groups of 4 to 6, partnering with local businesses who hosted the events. You opened the app, said what you wanted to do and when, and you were automatically put into a group. You could select how many people you already had going with you (date, or just a group of 2 friends who needed a few more people for a cooking class or whatnot).

No photos until just before the event started, because photos turn things into a beauty contest and people start judging on looks, which is where, IMHO, all my competition in the same space went wrong.

Events were scheduled for as little as 4 hours out, and only up to 72hrs in the future. The entire app flow was designed to be as close as possible to a "I am bored, entertain me now" button.

Investors hated it, two sided marketplaces are apparently something they like to avoid due to difficulties around execution.

People were desperate for this type of service though, for one marketing campaign my user acquisition cost dropped as low as 15 cents per user.

(If any investor reading wants to throw me a million I'll start it back up again. ;) Solving the loneliness epidemic in America's cities is a huge chance to do some social good!)
I certainly hope that at least, legally speaking, they would be forced to back down on games built using older version of the unity engine so that previous and upcoming projects aren't affected.
But that's not the default, and you will need to spend some time finding your way in the product again.
My SaaS was featured in the Morning Brew and I had my best day of sales yet
As others have said, the problem is the lake drying up from lack of incoming water.

The consequences of the lake drying up is the end of the "lake effect" cycle, the arsenic in the dried lakebed being released into the air, etc
Is it just me, or does this seem kind of revolutionary? I’m amazed science has finally found a way to effectively put things on our immune system’s “allowlist”
Nope because this can easily be gamed, since getting married doesn't need to cost much.

Also the free market still needs a central authority for any proofs.
Exactly why I think it’s fair. Poor people shouldn’t be the only group of people who have to constantly live in fear. The people who are creating the conditions of poverty should have to share that mental burden. They can keep their money though!
I wonder if Nils will get his $9M back?

Authorities arrested the culprit behind the heist in April 2021. . . . A Dutch court sentenced Nils to eight years in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $9 million in compensation to the owner of the Hals.

After Nils’ arrest, the painting circulated in the criminal underworld, where it was used a down payment. But nobody was willing to buy it, as “the thieves had been convicted, and anybody possessing it would risk a hefty fine,” writes Claire Moses for the New York Times.
>If they really fix your teeth, you wouldn't need their services anymore.

Not really. A dentist fixing your dental cavity doesn't stop you from gettinga new one in 10 years.
> the default clock that came with my Xiaomi phone wanted permission to access my contacts

Unfortunately not surprising at all for Xiaomi, or any Chinese smartphone maker for that matter. Not that Korean or American Android phone makers like Samsung, Motorola, Google Pixel etc are privacy friendly, but Chinese smartphones are way worse.
Metabolically Healthy Obesity is not a Myth
I spend money on Fortnite roughly every month. Extrapolate that to an insane amount of players and it's not hard to see that they're in an excellent position.

Creator payouts from building games and experiences within Fortnite builds loyalty and encourages further development from kids going, "Ooh, I have an idea for something."

It's incredible.
Serious question:

Is the chromebook division run by an entire different company? They are great exactly where Google has otherwise failed.
The issue isn't that Unity wants to be paid.

The issue is that they are trying to retroactively change a license agreement, and doing so in a way that will bankrupt many of their current users.

Charging per install is absolutely insane, and will absolutely be the end of many publishers. Even successful games like Cult of the Lamb are being culled because of this.
Why even go down the road of trying to rationalize catastrophes for millions of people if you don't even have any numbers or evidence?

Your post boils down to "maybe it's fine (based on nothing) for people to freeze or die in heat from a grid that's isolated for political reasons"
This makes sense as things like bread, if left in your teeth, eventually turn to basically sugar, and start working to dissolve your teeth.
That's also similar to a service OkCupid had separate from the main site called Crazy Blind Date.

With this one, however, you defined the qualities you were seeking and the times and part of the city you were available for a date. They would match people up based on the time, location and OkCupid match rating (mostly, I think) and would ask if you wanted to meet the person. It gave you just their basic info and a distorted photo.

I used it for a while and don't remember why I stopped but it was one of the best dating apps I've used. None of the dates went anywhere, but it was a really simple and easy way to meet new people.
European Defense AI Startup Helsing raises record-breaking $223M
Hi. We're building The Nose (https://thenose.cc), a safe haven for training data that can't be taken down with DMCA. Since this involves copyright infringement, strong anonymity is a requirement.

I wrote up our security procedures here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346620

The reason Tails isn't an option is because, as others have mentioned, there have been Tor browser exploits which reveal the IP address of the Tails user. While this is unlikely for our case, it's important to approach security from first principles with threat modeling. An attack from the FBI may seem unlikely today, but both Silk Road and one of its successors were taken down by mistakes they made when setting up their site. Learning from history, if you're not careful early, you're in for a surprise later.

Case in point: When I started Whonix Workstation to post this comment, the Whonix Gateway VM failed to boot. So when I tried to start Tor Browser and go to https://news.ycombinator.com, all I saw was a connection error. This kind of layered defense is essential if you're serious about staying out of jail.

Realistically, you'll likely dox yourself through some other means: sending Bitcoin to your pseudonym from your real identity, admitting to someone you know that you control your pseudonym (this work gets lonely, so this is a real temptation), or even accidentally signing off an email with "Thanks, [your real name]". And once you make a single mistake, you can never recover.
'Home Confined' Z-Library Defendants Deny They Are Fugitives
> Being able to compress well is closely related to intelligence as explained below. While intelligence is a slippery concept, file sizes are hard numbers. Wikipedia is an extensive snapshot of Human Knowledge. If you can compress the first 1GB of Wikipedia better than your predecessors, your (de)compressor likely has to be smart(er). The intention of this prize is to encourage development of intelligent compressors/programs as a path to AGI.

- Marcus Hutter, http://prize.hutter1.net/