skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It all depends on your values. A lot of good things happen by trying to reduce unfairness, where possible. Public schools allow anyone to be able to get an education, not just those with money. Health care lets people get the help they need if they are unlucky enough to get a devastating disease.

So the "victim" here is society. People can use their connections to get an advantage over others. They can turn that money and those connections into an even larger advantage. Then their relatives can inherit that and continue that. And if the system is blatantly rigged, why would normal investors want to be involved in the market?

Again, it depends on your values.
The market wants more banks and fewer airlines.
You can't learn rocket science if you are too retarded to wipe your ass. So that 0% came from this unwiped ass. Mars colony is impossible, humans are just less retarded monkeys.
When it's on paper, it's very clear that the information is not live updated. Also, that piece of paper wouldn't be giving instructions. The level of alertness and the expectations would be calibrated accordingly.

In the case of Google Maps, the thing claims live data and gives you authoritative instructions like "turn left".

People have tendency to follow instructions and trust the computer, so if the computer says something people try their best to do it. Combine that with the illusion of live data, there you have a disaster waiting to happen. After all, the device that knows how much traffic is there at this very moment at particular location must also know if there's a bridge or not, right?
Not compared to present day, no, but most of the folks who interacted with Europeans at that time (including the natives in the Americas) commented on how sickly they looked and how badly they smelled. Nobody was springtime fresh, but early modern Brits were apparently notable even then.
Crap electronic ringer, probably. If you put a scope on the line, you should be able to see what's happening. Remember to be prepared for higher voltages, up to 400V.

There are various weird, obsolete signals in analog phones. Ring pulse alerting signal. ALIT test. Polarity reversal. Ring to ground. Ground start. Caller ID (1200 baud FSK between the first and second rings) DSL. Basic talk and ring was standardized around 1900, and everything else is backwards compatible. Ringers are supposed to ignore all that stuff. People who implement Asterisk PBXs are into this.

Here are some actual waveforms, if anybody cares.[1]

[1] http://www.adventinstruments.com/Products/AI-5120/Screenshot...
White, tall, decently build, straight male and I was still affected by this. Read my other comment.
Tight loops mean:develope one specialized function call which gets a field of data and works on it.. Resurfacing after the job is done.

You may even invert direction, handing over a pure script language function (no context) + the data, so the c++ engine may crunch the data at least in parallel small script vms without stack, similar to a shader.
Well, I'm glad that's over with.
This is way better than the "20 questions" identity verification that works by asking you multiple-choice questions about your credit report. I have about a 80% success rate with those.
Oracle - don't use an Oracle database unless you hate money, yourself, or your company.

SAP - getting off of their ERP systems is an absolute nightmare and they know/exploit that fact.

Salesforce - CRM systems, in general, can lead to lock-in due to the sheer amount of data and customization they host. In recent years Salesforce has started to leverage this fact to grow revenue without adding value.

Unity - they're getting aggressive in trying to extract more money from their existing customers and I'm not referring to the recent license changes. Nightmare company that you should avoid working with on enterprise software at all costs.

Blackboard - within the education section their LMS is challenging to migrate off of and they will bend you over backwards because they know it.

ServiceNow - they've seemingly given up on making a better product and have invested all their efforts in extracting more money out of their current customers.

PagerDuty - whose sales rep who told me straight up that they didn't need to negotiate with us because it would be too difficult to switch away from their product.

For specific product lines IBM, Cisco, and VMware also do this but I don't think it would be fair to characterize that as their overriding business strategy like the above.
But that doesn’t mean Matrix makes backdoors. So you can use it too.

What’s wrong with helping organizations including law enforcement encrypt their communications?

Because they are public servants and We the Public should have ways to be able to decrypt those communications.

Secret meetings and intelligence agencies are what leads to totally avoidable wars.

https://community.qbix.com/t/transparency-in-government/234/...
Google is just one of the parties they are suing, it looks like they are also suing the local government and the landowner (the bridge is on private property).
Fair enough to share the information but I take the opposite tack: if it's good enough for LEOs, good enough for me.

I would also be excited to find paying customers when trying to build free software.

In any case I get the feeling if I were to avoid technology built by companies with government contracts I would be left with my retro 8bit machines. Lets be pragmatic.
Thank you! API docs here, we should put it more front and center. I will adjust that.

https://loops.so/docs/add-users/api-reference#rest-api
I'm kinda glad you didn't; it might have made the book I read as a kid (and again as an adult, and again with my offspring) less interesting somehow.
IIRC Waze supports almost exactly what you're describing. Which is kind of ironic since Waze is owned by Google.
Actually I quite agree with this. I used UBI as a better-known shorthand for "providing for human needs."
IANAL...but Google still serving up the wrong data - ~1 year after the fatal accident, and also after the lawsuit was filed against them - seems unlikely to score sympathy points in the jury box.
You are simply wrong.

The mutations described in this article are a sufficient condition to develop ALS, period.

That means that if you live long enough, you will get ALS.

The fact that there are other, yet-to-be-discovered genes that could also cause ALS is irrelevant for the individuals that are already positive for the SOD1, for example.
Disney is the worst value for taking a trip. If you must, go when you're a kid, go when you have kids, and go when you have grandkids. Even three times in a lifetime is too much though. Spending most of your time in lines and being force fed 'entertainment' is a waste of days that could be spent on a vacation.
> water rights to use them

There's some rather sweetheart deals at play there. In some places, those water rights cost as little as a single digit number of dollars per million gallons.
Not really. When you are the size of Google you should be responsible. If they cannot ensure that Google Maps data is correct they pay the issue in fines.

I see very basic issues with Google Maps that are not addressed that make me think they are not caring enough about the quality of the product. I imagine that a company that produced so many cutting edge stuff could handle this kind of problems. They also bought Waze to have realtime information.
Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency
I like the direction Netmaker is making. We have all been waiting for this moment
> The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a huge step in that direction - regulation that mandates that if the large centralised messaging providers are to operate in the EU, they must interoperate.

Wow. Not interested in winning the war this way.
I think we should give Isao Takahata some credit too though. Grave Of The Fireflies is quite famous and that’s all Takahata. And Miyazaki has said that Takahata was very influential on him.
> But my point still stands. You think you don't have to convert between miles and feet? Okay: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Typical-multi-lane-hig... . There's a highway exit coming up in 800 feet and another in 1/2 mile. How many times longer does it take to reach the second exit compared to the first exit? You have no clue. In metric it's 250 m and 800 m, and it obviously takes about 3 times longer to reach the second exit.

I’m having a hard time seeing this as much of a problem in daily life. That sounds more like a word problem in math class than something someone would want to typically calculate on the fly. And my sense of how far something at a given distance is in the car is informed more by experience and intuitive sense than measurement.
It's not really a pulse of implementers either. It's a particular kind of engineer. Having been early in a big tech and watching it grow and now being in another startup, I can tell you that the attitudes for SaaS in the industry are much more either positive or calculating than the broad negative attitudes and the constant calls for NIH on here. If anything they remind me of my cohort of college undergrads, excited to write lots of code and poo-poo existing solutions because of how "easy" they are. Our attitudes changed once our time was worth more.

As far as the business types, why do you think they'd be here? The community chants grift, scam, and enshittification at pretty much any change in the customer contract these days. Is that the kind of environment that someone on the business side will find welcoming?
Are there any existing web-app stores? I always wondered why that wasn't more of a thing.

I like the idea of an all-in-one development platform and app aggregator. As a dev though I'd be concerned about feature parity with say firebase for storage and being limited to bitcoin for payments. I feel like the main value would be as a store front or app aggregator. Some UI feedback - the app sidebar covers a large part of the screen on vertical displays.
Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf on What They Did Right – and What Went Wrong
I'm guessing you know nothing about Cisco other than the fact that they make routers and switches.
My org's apps heavily use this simple key-value interface built on sqlite: https://github.com/aaviator42/StorX

There's also a bunch of other purpose-built tiny utilities on that GitHub account: https://github.com/aaviator42?tab=repositories
From the University of Alabama Institute for Human Right, "Food Insecurity in Birmingham, AL" [1]:

> In Alabama alone, close to two million residents live in a food desert, and almost 150,000 of them live in Birmingham. This accounts for 69% of the city’s total population. A 2019 update also found that there is at least one area that is identified as a food desert in each of Birmingham’s nine City Council Districts.

The University of Alabama's Innovation for Rural Alabama site has some information on food deserts in rural Alabama [2].

[1] https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2022/06/13/food-insecurity...

[2] http://innovationforruralalabama.ua.edu/food-deserts.html
> Swapping wasn't hard, but it sure wasn't easy. Did you find going from B -> C (-> D?) easier than A -> B?

For me, going from B -> C and C -> D (and then a long period of tweaking) was significantly easier than from A -> B.
So in your opinion what are some examples of highly effective RAG systems/implementations?
No wonder Comcast subscriptions are so expensive...
Thank you! I've ordered the book and skim/bookmarked that thread!

Definitely planning to limit the scope to the most basic functions at first -- I don't even want to implement volatile ones or spilling until the right time comes :-)
What, no biometrics?
Where I live, in the UK, it isn't possible to login to three of my bank accounts for admin or make credit card payments without a smartphone to confirm payments sometimes. I had to approve the debit card purchase of a small pizza via in-app notification from the bank last week.

Email, voice phone and SMS authentication used to be used but they are gradually being deprecated by some financial services.

One job ago I had to use my smartphone several times a day to approve corporate VPN logins on the work-provided computer, before I could access the Git repo, BitBucket and Linux dev VMs. All of us had to install a specific authenticator app on our phone.

Two jobs ago I had to use Google auth with my smartphone used as a security token, to access work documents and emails. When the phone broke I lost that access, despite transferring a backup to a new phone and most things surviving the transfer, because that access was associated to the device.
I'm looking at that Bing link and concluding the exact opposite.

Because news reports say the barricades had been removed and were missing. And he was driving at night and in the rain. And there are no streetlights there.

It's a tiny short collapsed area that you're easily just not going to see until it's too late. You might notice that a patch of the road appears darker but assume it was recently resurfaced black asphalt or something -- not that the road was entirely missing. Depth perception doesn't work on a pitch black area of vision.
I always imagined it was money laundering.
// unless you're actively regularly trading in the millions.

A lot of people/organizations bet in the millions.
Exactly. Their personal anecdote about something that happened years ago doesn't reflect the reality that many Walmart and McDonalds employees rely on government assistance to survive.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...
Kinda? The era of technological or business innovation for large airlines may basically be over. If you take that bet you want the airline you invest in to focus on financial wheeling and dealing to ensure they save a few pennies on fuel in 2035 or earn a few more pennies on affiliate credit card spend in 2027.
FTC lawsuit targets serial acquisitions by private equity
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The defendants are Welsh Carson, a New York-based buyout group, and US Anesthesia Partners, a business it created in 2012 that has acquired more than a dozen anaesthesiology practices in Texas. The FTC alleged they carried out a “roll-up scheme, systematically buying up nearly every large anaesthesia practice in [the state] to create a single dominant provider with the power to demand higher prices”.
Thanks, your early support means a lot! Hope we freed you up to spend less time on email and more time on the rest of your company :)
It seems unlikely to be false and made up, it's not like Canada goes about saying stuff like this, historically. At the same time it's not hard to imagine a case where revealing the evidence/sources would compromise the capabilities/assets used come up with this conclusion.

Perhaps the early announcement is a misstep from the Canadian PM, but I really doubt that they would make this stuff up. They have very little to gain by coming out with this, if untrue, and a lot to lose.

And if the allegations are true, Canada still is probably in an unenviable position of not wanting to come stir problem unnecessarily, but also not being able to let it slide and be seen as a push over. Extraterritorial killings by foreign nations is a big deal, and being soft on this is opening the door to a whole lot of problems.
Is very heads down engineer like to not know anything about marketing.
Thanks.

That settings app is not a happy place.
> I assume they think customers with lots of miles banked won't go through the effort of dropping them entirely. I think they're wrong.

I agree with you on this. Nobody who flew Delta did it for the value of SkyPesos anyway. The airline miles on Delta have historically had the lowest value among US major carriers and that hasn't gotten any better, so frankly I have no issue giving up my miles. I flew Delta for better hard product and a better set of co-brand + FF perks. By changing the latter, the difference on the former is mostly ameliorated, and the miles are basically meaningless. At most a skypeso is worth maybe 1 cent. A million skypesos is only worth $1k in EV, and that's being generous. A one-time cost of $1k that isn't even a fully realized loss (I can always use the miles later without seeking status) is nothing compared to the betrayal of the program changes.
Reasonable people would say, there are no inalienable rights, in extremis we give some up for something else. Anyone can be stopped by the police given a reasonable pretext, for example, despite an ironclad right to freedom. We like it because it saves us from violent people, for example.

The government is saying that it is nuking online privacy because children. To argue against, it is not sufficient to say you have a holy and unmovable right to it, because you don't really have a holy unmovable right to anything - everything gives in the end. Personal freedom, freedom of speech, etc.

Hence I'm curious about the other side of arguments. The "this is bad because it limits my freedom, yes, AND... doesn't achieve the goals?".
I mean, based on Goro's movies, it's clear he just isn't as talented as a filmmaker as his father. Besides, Suzuki Toshio is the Tim Cook of Ghibli.

I have no doubt that Goro wanted to be his father's successor (why would he have made multiple films under the Ghibli umbrella), but his father clearly recognizes that Ghibli has a potentially larger future than becoming a lesser studio under his son.
Typo fixed above.
Great response, I downloaded Godot because I was looking for a lightweight engine that doesn't take two minutes to load. This seems to explain the reason for the performance, I'm glad its one of their focus
Due to me procrastinating with my notes, I was able to remember that I had touched on this before. According to my Obsidian notes:

"Zeigarnik Effect Directs Our Focus Onto Unfinished Tasks"
Email provider Proton has built its own censorship-proof CAPTCHA service
many people gamble in many options continuously all the time. did trades like this occur in the market for Splunk every day? did this trade significantly affect the price or volume in Splunk options? If it's part of a very common pattern of random trading, then the unusual thing is the acquisition, and not the trade.

And a suspicious trade itself is not enough evidence, there needs to be evidence of an inside information conduit to make the case.

I'm not take sides on the suspiciousness of the trade, I'm pointing out what the language of the evidence should look like to raise suspicion.
As of right now, you can connect to hue devices directly with Zigbee.

The SkyConnect from HomeAssitant/Nabu Casa works quite well: https://www.home-assistant.io/skyconnect/
Revolutionary new Toothbrush-Sponge cleans perfectly, and in just 15 SEC
The silicone-sponge is anti-microbial and perfectly hygienic, and even much more sustainable and ecological than all other tootbrushes.
In 2013 the electronic disclosure part of the 2012 STOCK act was removed, so they can just disclose in some way you can't follow.
Pretty sure this is by design, not by a side effect. National ID systems are not super popular.

Inefficiency is strangely sometimes the only reliable way to prevent consolidation of power.
I think the UK is perhaps the home of such things. I for one would love to build a Caterham one day.
You should care, but spend some time to appreciate the issue before rushing to judgement. There is too much armchair laweying going on in this area. I just watched louis rossmann's vid about cars collecting sexual histories. Too many people don't know what these user agreements are in the real world. BMW doesn't want to monetize your sexual history. They probably couldn't do that even with user consent. This sort of language is about protecting the car company from the user when the user is suing the car company.

Example: Car company collects location data for legitimate uses such as safety, product development or legal requirements. Then a leak happens. Some blogger looks at the data and notices that the local mayor's car parks at a gay bar ever Friday night, often remaining there until saturday afternoon. The implications are clear. Mayor then sues car company for collecting his "sexual history". The car company can then point to the user agreement. They are covered for not just the location data, but all the things that can be inferred from that location data. These seemingly outrageous agreements are more lawyers covering their asses than companies actually attempting to collect.

A better answer may be to adjust laws not to ban or unban such tracking, but simply to mandate off switches. A mechanical switch that disables the GPS antenna would cost maybe 10$ per car, comparable to any number of rarely-used mandatory features in cars these days.
not so much "nudge the target's board to approve" as "allow the target board to approve"

a board that approves a 0% premium (barring unusual exceptions) will be sued to oblivion
The guy asked

> Twenty years later, I still can't fathom why we're spending so much money on Splunk, DataDog a the like.

And the poster above answered that question
> This is why it is vital to use libraries, frameworks, with a stable, unchanging LTS branch. Failure to do so, means a security update that needs to be applied instantly, cannot be done, without extensive app changes.

It's also another reason why it's important to provide such things.

It's amazing to me how many people seriously argue it's fine to aggressively drop support for old versions and old features to focus on the newest stuff (and that it's totally fine for table-stakes of "having software" is to have engineers continuously working to keep up with changing dependencies.

The reality is the cheapest thing for society is to offer very long term support for old versions, even if it's just security patches, or well-tested backwards-compatibly features in newer versions. It's not sexy work, but it's important.
Exactly, they've all been rare missteps from Ghibli (but interesting as experimental works -- particularly Earwig and the Witch).
"The statement: ‘Carbon Neutral’ is currently meaningless."

That's overly broad.

If a factory takes in raw materials, outputs products, does so using 100% renewable power (like rooftop solar), and doesn't otherwise release greenhouse gasses in the process, then "carbon neutral factory" would be a reasonable claim.

Of course that does not say anything about greenhouse effects of producing the input materials, use of that factory's products, or effects of the logistics involved.

So, more accurate: GHG emissions is a complex subject. And there's better or weaker ways to do the accounting.
Thanks.

Personally I hate those "give me more free info" responses. Do your own homework.
>I don't see who the "victim" of this crime would be

The person that sold the options. They were offering cheap insurance for a very unlikely event.
Do they keep the money if they get caught? If it’s the SEC, they directly can’t send someone to jail, only fine them? Is that right?
if we could somehow structure our incentives to be a net positive for humanity overall, we'd be in a much better spot
I sometimes wonder if this site is really Hacker News. While sanity or decency aren't something he seems to be particularly well acquainted with, Musk is obviously not telling poor people to work for peanuts here. He's telling talented people, the sort of people who have their pick of jobs, to take a chance on something that might benefit humanity and push back the frontiers of knowledge rather than simply chasing money for themselves. The sort of attitude that, y'know, hackers might find cool?
It’s an option on iPads, surely Apple has the ability to work out a way of making this work?

Apparently not.