skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I wish that we could do that. We're currently mired in some ancient laws established in an unusually wet period more than a hundred years ago that give a lot of property owners unreasonable rights over "their" water. The government can't just take that away forcibly, and it's hard to persuade taxpayers in Utah to approve large government expenses of any sort.
How long until lightning takes it out? Or a strong storm takes the tree down.
> No Consent. Under the ePrivacy Directive, the mere access or storage of data on the user’s terminal device is only allowed if users give their free, informed, specific and unambiguous consent. Two out of the three mobile apps did not display a consent banner when launching the app. The third app presented a banner that theoretically gave the complainant the choice of giving or withholding their consent. In reality, the transmission of their personal data began without any interaction on their part – and before they even had a chance to think about consent.

Why do nobody question the fact that it is possible for an application to access data without user consent to begin with? Why are we transforming it into a human problem? The tech is to blame.
I don't think that's the case here.

"At this price, the IPO is reportedly set to raise about $4.9 billion for Arm’s parent company, Softbank, which is less than the $8-$10 billion the Japanese investment outfit had previously said it hoped to generate. Softbank itself posted a record $39 billion loss earlier this year."
> Even the terrible developers that are a drain on the company and hence compensation? No thanks

Nobody forced them to hire them?
>I'm hoping DIY practices and experience disseminates over the next decade

I am not affiliated with the below, but saw DIY kits - your comment reminded me others might have experience. One quote that is interesting "With the current tax incentives to go solar, our DIY solar customer’s average ROI is less than 5 years."

https://www.solarwholesale.com/diy-kits/
What drives me nuts are the goddamn desks in kitchens.

Someone in the 80s looked at room-use studies, saw that the most important part of the house, the hub of family life, was the kitchen table but it was mostly used as a desk and/or document storage area, and thought “oh, this means I should build a desk into the kitchen cabinets!”

It’s a bone-headed, ugly, inconvenient failure of an home design idea that afflicts tons of houses built in the 80s through the very-early 2000s.
Technical question: why do people need ARM licenses? Surely you don't need anything from them to design a chip from scratch that implements the same instruction set, as Cyrix and AMD famously did to the ia32.

Are the licensees using parts of the actual chip design? Are their own designs too far down the "derivative work" rabbit hole due to not being cleanroomed that they have no hope of ever not licensing?

What are the specifics?
>once you work in a given place, there's usually not much choice which union you can join (or which will represent you in any case), and your only option is to change employer, location or career.

Unions are generally democratic, too, so there's also the option of voting for different union reps (or volunteering to be a rep) in order to change the union's policy or how the union works.
This feels different to me because Arm is designing these chips. It feels a bit more like a drafting company who draws plans but doesn’t build anything. They don’t just have some loosely defined patent.

The linked articles are about the brand name, Arm, used in a domain. You wouldn’t put “intel” or “nvidia” in your domain name without drawing attention. Maybe we need a moniker similar to x86 to define the arm architecture more generally.
(Edit: This may not be correct! Please see comment chain below with jeffbee)

California too. While they were
making it illegal for restaurants to hand out drinking water without asking, big ag carried on. It's so silly it can't be a real conservation concern, probably was just some divide and conquer from the industry.
How exactly do you 'wire up' E. coli bacteria? Is the idea here that we could somehow string a bunch of them together into a tiny battery? Or is it more like using them as the electrolyte in a battery?
One of my relatives, uncle George, was fired ~30 years ago. His most valuable possession was a gold watch that baroness Coudenhove gave to a her maid 2-3 generations earlier. I don't remember who exactly the maid was, but she was somehow related to the family. In order to raise funds to buy his own tipper truck, George went to the Charles Bridge in Prague and found a buyer for the watch, a German tourist. The money was at least 50% of the price of the truck. These were the first steps on a long journey leading to a successful business.

This was in a country with high inflation that's just gone through a regime change. Did he get a good price for the watch? Yes, at that moment, the truck was more valuable than the watch.
Phones don't get security updates for 7 years. It's irresponsible to repair such old phones, prolonging their use.
It seems to me that the client would need a Creative Cloud subscription of their own to serve the fonts for their website.
You can test positive after no longer being contagious:

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronav...

"You may test positive for as long as three months after having COVID-19"

That said, yes 10 days seems much safer as a rule!
If we made it illegal to charge money for, we would have just as many good fonts as we do now. We should just change the law to outlaw making money this way.
AI/LLMs can probably make it easy.
If you had made the font choices Times New Roman and Arial, I'd have said it's 99.99%.
Both cases you link to are about trademarks. Patents and trademarks are unrelated.

"Patent troll" has the connotation of an organization or individual who buys cheap patents and sue other organizations on mostly bogus claims related to these patents, hoping that the other side won't want to bother and just settle the matter. That's not Arm's business model.
Don’t you dare forget Papyrus!

https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?si=GYj6XGNv2AMAZqCg

But, the reality is 99.9999% of websites can use one of the free Google fonts. The other .0001% could too, but they want to show that they are not like all the other websites.
You disagree with what exactly?

In the case of being a small business, it’s not even about being shady. Imagine you were building a simple step tracking database for a pedometer app. All it does is store a user id and some daily steps. You have zero intent to market or share it in any way, no ad personalization, no third parties, etc. Before GDPR you’d just spin this up and be fine. Now you need to deal with data consent policies, data deletion tools, potential exfiltration policies if your DB isn’t in the EU, etc. Enjoy the engineering and legal costs there.

Mega corp can just ignore most of this and pay later. It’s a massive difference.
also glass/metal food storage containers instead of plastic ones. And, always decline to take receipts at stores.
I’m actually more surprised that they didn’t cave to Apple. In either direction. Apple should have been kicking and screaming to have no exemptions.

Alternatively, the iPhone and AppleTV, and all their computers will now be redefined as gaming consoles (which honestly, what’s the technical difference)
They are primarily known for high-quality free game-dev-assets (2d, 3d, sprites, sounds) and Asset-Creation-Tools like AssetForge. I would guess that most (hobby-)game-devs have used their content for tutorials, prototypes and the like.
Hardware keys are much cheaper than GitHub enterprise
Yeah, I'm sympathetic to that. If I were the developer, I don't want an old version holding me hostage from moving on (for some definition of 'moving on'). As a user, it's sometimes that helplessness that turns into entitlement.
Market failures are common, and it might make sense to try to buy up the water to prevent alfalfa farming, even if that water isn't used elsewhere. Consider it a water rights conservation easement. Once you own them, if farmers attempt to pump it, sue them.

Maybe alfalfa farmers would prefer utility scale solar income versus farming? Not in Utah, so unsure how palatable that concept is. In 2022, coal fueled 53% of Utah's total electricity net generation, down from 75% in 2015, and natural gas accounted for 26%. More renewables near SLC would be helpful imho.
The strategy they are using to establish a revenue stream that justifies this valuation is to continue to raise prices on their customers. I think this works in the near term (next 5 to 10 years), and generate a ton of money for ARM, but it will drive additional momentum to RISC-V.

The legendary Jim Keller is going all in on RISC-V, if you don't know Google him. His company has many core designs coming as well chiplets: https://tenstorrent.com/risc-v/

Because of Jim Keller and similar efforts I wouldn't be surprised for RISC-V to see both core count as well as per core performance meet ARM over the next few years. Maybe even exceed if Jim can push the chiplet approach faster than ARM can roll theirs out.

Hopefully this drives a lot of innovation and we all benefit as a result.

I think that using ARM is going to be viewed as being locked into ARM's ever increasing licensing fees, where as if you go RISC-V, you are free to switch CPU providers.
Rakuten (YuzuAI) team member which is mentioned in the article, we're in the process improving the benchmark framework to be more balanced and cost efficient.

http://yuzuai.jp
3D projection technology?
Maker of popular game assets.
Would be curious to hear criticisms of Tails, if anyone has opinions about it.

To be clear, I'm a fan of the product -- just wondering what the other side of the story is.
Prediction: the vast majority of people will be unhappy with the results of this bill in 5 years.
https://www.theregister.com/2014/07/03/nsa_xkeyscore_stasi_s...

https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt
https://incolumitas.com/

This is my all-time favorite article: https://incolumitas.com/2021/11/03/so-you-want-to-scrape-lik...

I used to do freelance web scraping, and that article felt like some kind of forbidden knowledge. After reading the article, I went down the rabbit hole and actually found a Discord server that provided carrier-grade traffic relay from a van which contained dozens of phones.

For the questions..... we have to kinda wait a bit, someone from our engineering team might come here and reply.

By the way, as I have you here have you considered converting the CSV files to MMDB format? I was planning to do that with our mmdbctl tool later today.

https://github.com/ipinfo/mmdbctl
The ability of readers to identify a font is largely orthogonal to the psychological/emotional impact it has on them. Designers use distinctive fonts because they transmit a, mostly subconscious, feeling—reliability, innovation, vision, purpose, etc. This is usually tied to a brand and becomes a major part of a company's image, in which case it is crucial to the company's market reach. This is why there are many logotypes that consist of nothing more than the company name in a specific font. Typefaces are _that_ powerful.

So, yes, people would notice if most brands started "feeling" the same.
NYC Billionaires’ Row Penthouse Cuts Its $250M Price Tag
I use KDE now but I agree. It very blandly utilitarian. Bland gradients of bland greys and bland blues. Even Windows 95 had more personality with its saturated red-grey and bold colours.

KDE does not spark joy, but then again, most devs and most users have no real artistic sensibility to speak of. Have you ever looked at a random person's desktop? So I don't give weight to anybody that says "it looks good to me."

That said, I am now on KDE after a decade of GNOME because I need some of its configurability, and GNOME is starting to become too opinionated even for me, even though they have a slightly better design team not afraid of colours with more than 20% saturation.
"To whom it may concern:

Aliens? Maybe...

Plz fund global surveillance and AI?

Thx"
> it only lessens the symptoms after infection

No, it also lowers the possibility of becoming ill in the first place, which does make one less likely to infect others
How to use the term technical debt to mean anything you want
Does anyone know how accurate Cloudflare geolocation is (for workers requests)?
What? Why would someone spend decades of their lives mastering a craft like typeface design if there were no way to make money from it? How could someone justify it?
> The same can be said of actors, and yet they have a union/guild.

Good point. I guess the big difference is that selling the tennis game itself simply does not bring in the revenues that acting and the NFL does.

Top tennis players earn from brand endorsements, not from simply playing the game.
Curious what's the expected agent commission on this if it sells at new asking?
Cyrix and AMD licensed tech from Intel back then.
I proposed last year with a lab-made diamond. I did almost no research, went to one jeweler and only twice, shelled out less money than I was spending on rent, and I walked away with one of the prettiest rings she has ever seen. Her friends unanimously love it. They can’t believe I picked it out.

I don’t know or care about the politics of the diamond trade. All I can confirm on is this: Lab-grown diamonds are the real deal. They will even fool a jeweler’s naked eye.
what a farce... giving it back would probably be better. Does Sam get a cut too?
No problem, it's a good question, and it only works that way because of the particulars of US law. It differs for other countries, or even within the same country over time (the US's consumer focus was less strong in earlier years).
As someone who's visited the Salton Sea, I assure you, I can imagine.

That said, the more dead the sea becomes, the less it smells. The Salton Sea smelled so much worse when there were will fish to die off [0]. The fish population would go through population boom and bust cycles. I haven't seen a dead fish there in about 10 years now. Now that it's mostly dead and sterile, the smell isn't as bad. And that's not necessarily a good thing....

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-12-mn-65092...
I don't see much difference between a set of SQL tables to a set of API endpoints that let you list a set of "objects". At least in read-only cases with no sensitive data.

Of course there's the big difference in that with SQL you can compute and join tables server side, sparing a lot of traffic of doing this manually (or coming up with ad-hoc ways of doing it). It's not like the SQL itself is gonna substantially change.

The schema can be restricted or kept compatible with e.g. views as mentioned before (although I'd go more for the consenting-adults philosophy here too). Too heavy queries can be limited with e.g. query timeouts, quotas or query priorities. And you usually have to do such things somehow anyway.

I have hard time seeing major concrete problems with the approach that don't have existing straightforward solutions. I do see a lot of unfounded FUD.

For writes and sensitive data it gets trickier, but for many cases it would be probably easier to secure the database interface than to do it ad-hoc on a "business layer".

I haven't heard the idea of public facing SQL querying floated around much in at least over 20 years. When it's proposed, the response is usually knee-jerk no, as seen in most comments in this post.

Also I'm not much of a fan of SQL itself but I'm against the current software development philosophy that computing should be made as restricted, layered and inflexible as possible.
I think it's worth contemplating that if there were no Scottish brothers very temporarily moved to Canada, and entire sound may have gone un-established in the popular psyche.

So shortchanging yourself in experience by skipping over all of the things that make art a practice and not just a material commodity you may be missing out on such a moment. Nothing to do with what's cool or not. One has soul, the other is void.
Patent trolls patent things that already exist in some form and then seek to extract revenue through the legal system.

You can't call a company that literally developed the IP they patented "trolls."
It's common for islands, and Antarctica is somewhat island-ish. For Long Island (New York), you say "on" it, and anyone who says "in Long Island" gets laughed at. I think the same goes for the Hawaiian islands and places like Key West. Although, funnily, we do say "in Manhattan", not "on" for that one.
The "vast" majority of these emulators were originally written to run games, and it really shows.

My dad uses DOSBox to run an ancient text editor, and we had to figure out just how to disable some of the "game stuff" to make it work for him.
You also don't need anything from your architect to design a building from scratch. But unless you're an architect yourself, it's going to be prohibitively difficult, or even impossible. So people hire architects.
> Men proposing with a ring?

Not just a ring, a very expensive one in contrast to the one the man ends up with. A ring price gap if you will.

> If you remove your implication of sexes (or swap them), do you hold the same belief?

Yes and society does generally in these matters as well. There was a number of expectations of women in marriage historically that they have been liberated from, yet this expectation remains for men at some level.

> Also, the OP never said they felt obliged because they're a man. They said their significant other appreciates this type of jewelry.

He might appreciate sports cars, there isn't a industry trying to get her to buy him a sports car and via conspicuous consumption, socially siginal her value as a wife to his friend group and family. Sports car showrooms aren't full of anxious young couples, taking out loans so he can pull up in something with 500 horsepower on the special day. Why?
Uh, did you miss that Hollywood is on strike? That Marvel's 3D artists are unionizing? I wouldn't call those "low skilled" jobs, or one where "quality is uniform".

edit: Artistic endeavors where people are passionate about the work to the point where they can be exploited are an excellent place for unions. Within computing the obvious comparative is the gaming industry. The "EA Spouse" scandal in the '00s demonstrated how much people were willing to destroy themselves to get into the gaming industry, and how an employer could abuse that passion.
Is it new or something? This is the second time I've heard about it in 24 hours, and had never heard of it before.
I moved away from Utah 2 years ago, but at the time, there were a significant numbers of folks in the Utah Valley (upstream from the Great Salt Lake) that still irrigate their alfalfa fields with flood irrigation, which is exceedingly wasteful. Basically, there are large ditches that divert water from the rivers 24/7 all season, with each farmer being on a schedule to open their gate and flood their property.

If they modernized their practices, they could greatly reduce water usage. I don't know if that alone would save the lake, but it certainly is worth a try.
Environmental damage is one place free market thinking has completely failed, repeatedly. It surely is not the right solution. First off, there’s a massive delay between environmental changes and outcomes. We’d have had to foresee this problem and set the right prices 100 years ago when water rights were being handed out and priced. Secondly, prices are never “appropriate”, we simply cannot forecast the outcome of environmental changes. Cost benefit analyses in the past when it comes to the environment have been wrong by orders of magnitude [1] Third is that viewing things through an economic lens distorts the value and gives automatic preference to the party that is profiteering off the environment. Saying that people in Salt Lake should cough up enough cash to outbid the people who want to grow alfalfa to sell it to China is kinda gross, that’s not how we should handle public safety or our environment. Think about all these issue with respect to air pollution & CO2. What would it have taken to solve it with free markets? We haven’t solved it yet, and it would have needed to be priced and debated starting 100 years ago. And there is no appropriate price for clean air and the earth to stay habitable.

[1] https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
Well, all right, I could use conventional compression such that S2 is zero, by making S1 what would have been S1 + S2. That still leaves the "compressed image" having zero bytes, by hiding the actual compressed image in the executable.

Note well: I am not claiming that there is any reasonable reason to do this. It's just a way to say "well acksually..."
Diamonds are a lot like luxury clothing lines. What makes a Louis Vuitton bag genuine? It's all a mental category, there's no physical property test that can classify Louis Vuitton atoms from counterfeit atoms.

Diamonds have the unfortunate (for diamond sellers) property that they have a very simple chemical structure. So what DeBeers is trying to do is create a mental category for "natural diamonds" vs. "lab grown diamonds". The last thing they want is for diamonds (the investment / luxury good) to be defined by the diamond crystal structure.

Consumers are very happy to pay extra for these mental categories when they know the belief in the category is widespread. Let's say you know your significant other will be disappointed if you buy her a lab grown diamond. Well, you have no choice but to buy a natural diamond I guess. A social fiction like this is self reinforcing once it reaches a critical mass. That's what they're driving for
They are using bitcoin (dirty money) to buy Spotify plays (clean money)
"Politics" is when people fight for more human rights for others, but when companies try to destroy others' lives or livelihoods, that's _not_ politics, right?
Breakthrough Results in Online Battery-Life Estimation Using Neural Networks
That could be a misinterpretation. The Type Founders own his company. They own a lot of companies. Im not sure if I make the connection that he owns them all. He is not listed on The Type Founders team.

https://thetypefounders.com/#foundries
It's not just local beef production either—30% of the alfalfa and hay goes overseas, 20% to China. We're taking the tiny amount of water we have in this desert and shipping it over an ocean.
Exactly, this is why every typeface you see in the world is a free one. /s

Nothing is stopping people from making nor using free fonts and yet many people and organizations freely choose to spend thousands of dollars on something that they perceive to be "better."
Diversity is provided by friends and family. Trusted human beings. Not the highest bidder in the auctions for our attention.

Also, without advertising, search engines and the web would be a lot more trustworthy than they are today. When searching I used to get many real websites created by humans, now I see ad-funded AI-generated utterly worthless SEO spam. Advertising is literally the root cause of the enshittification of the web.
Easy technical remedy -- add in storage on key nodes - sell it back to the grid in the evening or when its not high or bid back in on capacity markets.

Challenge is getting the pricing model correct for such ancillary grid benefits to make it worth it for developer to build.
Reducing Errors in Excel Models with Component-Based Software Engineering
Yeah I was more referring to groups that want to do X, and then when a new "hot button" item appears (climate change, anti-racism, poverty, whatever) they quickly release how doing X is the solution to whatever is currently in the news.

It's most obvious with companies, drinking Coke™ is always the solution, no matter what the problem, even if the problem is drinking too much Coke.