skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but let's strong man this instead of finding reasons not to consider it.

If they get caught it's $100 and they need to delete it. Caught with the same data its $1000.

Furthermore, if they are caught storing data in a pattern, say 100 people catch them within a year of the first, the fine retroactively becomes $1000 per incident over the time of the pattern.

With a Judge having discretion to raise fines, retroactively and inclusive of new violations, for companies that simply refuse to comply.

I feel like this could work.

In fact, I would think most companies would start designing their systems to ensure they didn't violate by accident. Which is what they are supposed to be doing, but not.
Greece has adequate supplies of natural gas for winter
Or just rinse (water pick even better) with a dilute bleach solution (0.25%). Make the solution fresh each time or every 24 hours, since sodium hypochlorite tends to decompose easily.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9292655/
This looks nice, unlike Google's recent decision to completely redo their colors to look like Apple's terrible, faded colors.
Your answer is not really answering and is liable to confuse someone asking the question this person asked... the answer to their question is a simple: No.

Current fine tuning techniques can only contribute to knowledge indirectly (getting better queries for an external data source for example), you cannot directly embed new facts in the model is any generally efficient/effective manner.

There are toy examples of fine tuning in facts that are not of use outside of academic considerations at this point, and I sense it's contributing to the widespread confusion about fine-tuning's value proposition
Worth being clear that bridging to another non-idempotent system necessarily requires you to pick at-least-once or at-most-once semantics. So for emails, if you fail awaiting confirmation of your email you still need to pick between failing your transaction and potentially duplicating the email, or continuing and potentially dropping it.

The big advantage is for code paths which async modify your DB; these can be done fully transactionally with exactly-once semantics since the Job consumption and DB update are in the same transaction.
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iOS Development. Protocol Oriented Programming
> There is always a charge at the point of service and a bill is generated.

I was thinking more broadly than just the US or Canada. In Scotland, for example, there is literally no charge at the point of service.
San Francisco. US.
Were automakers significantly less profitable 40 years ago, such that labor had a larger share of revenue and was able to earn enough for a single-income family to live comfortably, or why does it seem so much more like everyone is struggling today?

I haven’t looked into this at all, but I suspect it has something to do with the financialization of the economy and that as the dollar was devalued and interest rates came down, labor took on more debt to maintain and expand its lifestyle and this debt just grew and grew, funding more of the lifestyle and companies didn’t “need” to keep wages growing the same way.

My thinking on this is that everyone of a certain age seems to talk about how people didn’t really have much debt in the 50s, 60s. Small mortgages, no such thing as credit cards or car loans. So companies had to pay enough for people to live on without any debt supplementing their lifestyle. But now everyone just binges on debt in lieu of fighting for higher wages.

Another related concept: when education loans became a big thing, tuition skyrocketed because colleges no longer had to have the discipline to keep tuition affordable without debt.
>> Some flukes have evolved a behavior in which the larvae join into shapes that mimic small organisms. In doing so, they entice a fish to eat the larvae, so they can continue their life cycle inside the host.

>> These passengers, it seems, act as the infectious agents, waiting to infiltrate the gills or intestines of a fish that swallows them. The sailors, meanwhile, do the hard work of moving the blob through the water—but in [sic, doing so] sacrifice their own opportunities to reproduce.

That's fascinating! Dr. Ian Malcolm, your quote forever echoes.
Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One’s Potential
I did. ZWO cameras and mounts. Amazing astro equipment engineered and produced in China.
> it's difficult for new competitors to emerge

Counterpoint: Tesla, Fisker, Rivian, Lucid, Faraday Future, not to mention all the new Chinese brands that I don't follow. Difficult maybe but far from impossible, and not at all a natural monopoly.
I do the same but per track flac and stream my music with navidrome. When I am out of the house I VPN in and stream my music at work or while driving.
Why is it “supposed” to work that way rather than collective action for better pay like we are seeing?
I'm surprised that the exif data was accurate to the millisecond. Quartz clocks won't typically maintain that precision over the course of a single day.
Are you thinking $100 can’t support 60-90 minutes of a cook’s time and turn a profit?
I recently published a manifesto and code snippets for exactly this in Postgres!

delete from task
where task_id in
( select task_id
from task
order by random() -- use tablesample for better performance
for update
skip locked
limit 1
)
returning task_id, task_type, params::jsonb as params

[1] https://taylor.town/pg-task
PipeWire? Also not Rust.
That would defeat the purpose of having a vector map app.
I can and I don't have gold-plated cables nor am I part of an audiophile community. The people who say you can't are worse than the audiophiles themselves, who I didn't even know before all the whining that there is no one in the world who can hear the difference. One guy had an audio test site and I did the one on my Chromebook with the Chromebook speakers and got 100%. I can definitely hear the difference between a real flac and mp3. The quality is not necessarily better but the highs go higher with flac. MP3s don't go that high, they're clipped and you can hear that. That's how you can, I can tell with songs.
In addition, when I play the same song over bluetooth with my iPhone (Spotify, highest quality) and Walkman A55 (Flac) over a 300€ sound system, even my father can hear the difference and he is 53 and worked his whole life in a factory.
The statistics on the subject that I have read (from discussion links because I was perplex people said no one can hear a difference) clearly said that most people don’t hear the difference, but that there are indeed people who can tell the difference!
I'm living that interview prep life (sadly)

I would be willing to try, but the front page gives me no real insight as to what it is, so my thinking is: why should I sign up just to see?
Can you link to the service? I haven’t seen it
Yeah - this is why it wasn't a good idea to use those during COVID, but it's amazing for doing work.
Flow: Trip and Travel Planer
Is there really any surprise no one wants to pay $45000 for a compact car? What is the profit margin on EVs that its cheaper to not sell cars versus making them affordable and within reach of more customers?

Edit: actually I can't tell if thats their cheapest car, VWs website sucks on mobile so I gave up. You'd think it'd be easy to just show the prices
As a father I can't even imagine how horrible it would be to lose a child and then being accused of doing it.

Also this brings to my mind a recent conversation I had with friends who live in the US (I'm Braziian) on how horrible the health system (even private) is. Hospital refusing emergencies to avoid litigation risk, no service given but bill sent anyway, totally superficial diagnosis no even touching the patient...

I'm not surprised that DRs and Nurses would simply make absurd statements like the ones in the article.
Just like no one could possibly perceive over 60 FPS, right?

I call BS.
It does work for me FF/Linux.

Does this work?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/50.9349/-2.6296&layers=P

You should end up with a view of a small town in South Somerset, UK.
I see this kind of problem hit people all the time -- the space is still early and teams are figuring it out. Sometimes its just that there is nuanced differences in some of these tools that make it hard to understand "why something doesn't work here since it works there".. like jQuery abstracted browser APIs and unified them into a single one.

We built Extism[0] to help ease much of this complexity, and if OP would try this instead of the lower level runtimes directly, they'd see Wasm can actually "just work" the way they want it to.

[0]: https://github.com/extism/extism
Not to mention the double-compression if listening using bluetooth.
I took a ride in May in Austin. It was my first time in an driverless car. I took a bunch of notes and emailed Kyle Vogt my thoughts. In the past he's been quite generous with his thoughts on our pitch deck. Anyways, one of the points in my email was that there were several points along the route that seemed to be choke points for cruise. We tried to do the most scientific ride three slightly inebriated people could do. We rode all the way across Cruise's range and tried to experience as many different areas as possible. Generally it was better than I expected, but I still wouldn't feel comfortable putting my kids in yet.
If the camera is pulling location from GPS then it's likely pulling time from it as well.
The scientific method is limited by the historical method, unless you perform the experiment yourself.

Determining the correctness of somebody’s experiment is pointless if the underlying observations are intentionally incorrect.

Just as you should be cautious trusting Josephus to be critical of the Romans, you should be cautious trusting a researcher report observations contrary to the interests of their social institutions.
Canada has given them an 11 figure subsidy to build EVs here... I wonder how that will play out if there is not the demand.
> Figjam is mildly ok, though I suppose if my company had been willing to give the team better tools it might have worked better?

I think FigJam is pretty bad with a mouse and keyboard, honestly. It wasn't until I started using it with an iPad that it made sense to me and it wasn't until I got other people doing it that it was actually any good at all. It also suffers if you have the sort of group that needs a facilitator for these kinds of processes--I had a PM who had formerly been at Figma and their process for trying to get people to use it at the new job hurt me physically.

(The funny thing is, while I do like FigJam I don't like Figma at all; I am an Illustrator man and will be until I blow away like dust in the wind.)

> I’m certainly not going to make my team move to my city and rent an office for those meetings, but getting together a few times a year can allow for solving some tough/intractable problems much more easily/efficiently.

I agree with this, FWIW, but not for the problem-solving aspect at a whiteboard. I use it for the sticky, annoying people-y problems where you do lose something over a teleconference connection when dealing with most people. (Some folks I've worked with, like me, have an on-camera background and can project effectively over teleconferences; most can't.)
Show HN: A database showing the monthly profit metrics of online businesses
This database shares different interesting online businesses and how much profit & revenue they generated last month, when they launched, their monthly website visitors etc.
Left my job in 2020 to do the same. Nowhere near as profitable as OP, but now make enough to cover rent + basic expenses in New York. Crucially: I didn't want to do hypeman social media content that (a) sold the dream of solopreneur as a marketing tactic, or (b) added excessive noise into the ether.

I'm not saying Tony did either -- I haven't followed along -- but certainly a lot of people do. I can't fully blame the people who do, though.

Anyway. The project I've built [1] is still going, and I feel proud of it on merits of software: that it pushes the bounds, however slightly; that it feels good to exist in the world; and that I genuinely care for the people using it.

All that's to say: I think there's a software solopreneur path that doesn't involve excessive hype, gross self-promotion (some degree of self-branding is necessary though), while allowing you to work by principles and also explore interesting software problems.

Feel free to DM me [2] if you have questions, or are interested in bootstrapping your own project. Especially consumer-facing. I do have some writing online [3] that covers this too.

---

[1] https://mmm.page

[2] https://twitter.com/xhfloz

[3] https://woolgather.sh
On it ! (I mean asking the code interpreter for ideas part)
> Still, 180B is a best to load up.

Best -> Beast
I'm not going to go threw the history of computing and argue ever point. The simple fact is your statement was way to broad and you know it.

And yes I know about IBM, I have heard of them before.

> Its a very strange view: If an entity is not dominating 100% all related markets its not a monopoly.

Where to draw lines in what is considered a market and a monopoly is always questionable. But its besides the points, because your statement was not, monopolies sometimes exist in the broader computer industry. Your statement was something inherent in 'Digital tech' was somehow extremely prone to monopolies. And I don't think that view holds water. Different market segments had different periods of consolidation and centralization.

Yes, IBM and Microsoft were sued in anti-trust cases, but in both cases they didn't lost their dominate positions because of those anti-trust cases.
Better Intersections website gathers data on long pedestrian waits in Sydney
> Fine paid directly to the individual. Make PII data property.

Correct. Specifically, establish personal sovereignty over one's data.

If someone's using my data, I get my cut. Pay me.

--

I'll have to ponder the notion of receipts (provenance).

I can imagine how the provenance of my data probably matters. Prescriptions, test results, reading list, etc.

But PII is so ubiquitous now, it's part of the public record. Which, counter intuitively, is a good thing.

Establishing a stable universal identifier unlocks the ability to encrypt our personal data at rest.

In our current world of no universal identifiers, linking personal data data across systems requires it be stored as plaintext.

The book Translucent Databases (2nd ed) explains the techniques.
Back in 2017 when I had a bunch of physical machines and unmanaged VMs we ended up putting netdata on the servers. The reason why was because most of the team was used to manually logging onto servers and diagnosing the issue manually.

The reason I liked it was because it exposes a standard Prometheus endpoint I can scrape and then view using something like Grafana. There are only about 20,000 Grafana dashboard modules available for netdata but generally you can find one that works for you. Having that prometheus endpoint allows you to springboard into the cloud and get like-metrics out of your cloud stuff as well, with a nice long historical data trail from your older/est machines.
Personally I want a pure rust (minimal unsafes) PDF rendering/parsing library and viewer, same for EPUB (basically minimal browser engine), a video player (with ffmpeg equivalent), an image viewer with the accompanying image format libraries. Also preferably that it wouldn't be too integrated into the "ecosystem" which usually results in something hellish(JSish) like 300 microdependnecies authored by 200 people for something basic, and would be more self-contained.
I cropped the pictures, and rotated Ron's picture by 0.2° (it wasn't perfectly vertical), so as to line them up on the lighthouse's door:

https://i.imgur.com/ISIGQrR.png

https://i.imgur.com/qLtZprZ.jpeg

Open both in 2 tabs on a computer, and quickly alternate between the 2 tabs, the 3D effect is quite visible because of the perspective differential :-)
You are clearly convinced that this was a decision made based on the market. I don’t believe that. I believe that as soon as they are not paying a percentage of every device to Qualcomm, Apple will ship this obvious feature.

As for the fear over regulation, why do Dell laptops and Apple iPads have modems?
That’s a key property leveraged in the Maildir mailbox format.
Types in Elixir are on the roadmap [1] but
I don't think there's concrete ETA

For now you have typespecs and dialyzer that tries to infer types and detect incorrect assumptions in code but I found it cumbersome to work with. Testing in Elixir is first class so I prefer that for now. You get doctests (documentation that is also a runnable test), like in Python, which I find very useful when looking at some package source.

[1] https://youtu.be/giYbq4HmfGA?si=BjNyOc5cjWWA7ER6
What do you mean "tap somewhere else on the Keyboard?" Once I hold down the space bar and then let go, the keyboard disappears. And I just tried some combination of this and got into a frozen state where the keyboard was missing and I had to kill Safari.

EDIT: Oh, I need to use a second finger. Cool.
Key part of the article: "But orders from corporate clients — which account for around 70% of the IDs built at the plant — have been plummeting since a federal subsidy for battery-powered company vehicles expired this month, one of the people said."
Now that we have foldables, I see no reason not to put a hardware keyboard to the bottom of one of the screens while the phone is unfolded.
What's wrong with a random 13 year old making a library? It's not worth using unless some corporation is funding a team of developers to work full time on it? Come on.

Somebody has to make all this stuff. Be somebody. If it doesn't do what you want, fork it and make it do it. If it's unmaintained, fork it and take it over.
> This phenomenon, in which one member of a species forgoes its own chance to reproduce so that another can, is called kin selection.

So why don’t the one species die out? When do they reproduce?
"In which language?" And now you have another problem to solve.
Just blowing your nose the next day and seeing all the black iron shavings was enough for me.
Not a googler but sometimes the paranoia on this forum is really over the top. Even in the barren privacy wasteland that is the United States you can’t provide a product that is advertised as an opt out mechanism and then make it not do that! Even burying that in the terms of service won’t fly. They would have to just discontinue it.
You also need to weigh cost/benefit though. Everything may have side effects, but the mere presence of side effects is not alone grounds to not use something. For the particular case of ozempic, the effectiveness appears so strong, and obesity causes so many complications and such a massive loss of QALYs, it's probably worth it even if there is an increased risk of thyroid cancer, unless that increase is really huge.
Every time I pick up my pinephone I feel immense disappointment in what forms of interaction most devices are stuck with today, despite how easily alternatives can be implemented in an open platform as the pinephone has shown. But for just editing text, I find vim and emacs surprisingly usable with a touch keyboard, as long as numbers and needed symbols and modifiers are on the base layer.

Precise pointing / fat fingering is solvable for text editing and in general by using the touchscreen for relative input - like a touchpad. That's possible on the pinephone with a userland program that directly interfaces with evdev and uinput in a really simple way[1], taking the ability to run desktop software well beyond being a party trick. All it's missing is a scheme where single, double, or two-finger taps and drags are either relative or absolute to avoid having to switch modes. Or, because the touchscreen, like most, reports touch area, one might have a go at cloning force touch.

[1] https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/TouchpadEmulator

For swipe input, wvkbd[2] has experimental support that works amusingly well for how sucklessly it's implemented (see the readme), albeit only for long words or reduced dictionaries - so many possibilities, like having zsh write completions to a file. It does need a patch to not interfere with normal typing. Spacebar swiping would also be straightforward to patch (or on sxmo into lisgd instead*). Alternatively, a small key could receive a 4-way swipe gesture like the trackpoint that Windows 10 Mobile had. (btw, hey, the MessageEase patent expired...)

[2] https://git.sr.ht/~proycon/wvkbd

* <rant>I don't know how the devs tolerate the latency that sxmo_inputhandler.sh brings - handling basic OS shell gestures in a long shell script on a platform where every expansion piped to grep causes a noticeable increase in latency is very unsuckless!
Orthogonal Fine-Tuning for Stable Diffusion
It never worked though. It would just pop in randomly at unexpected times. It sucked.
I think the technique there is largely covered within the op, but it seems like this may be a somewhat well known technique.
This is way too strong of a complaint for just capitalization.

And except for the capitalization, everything is a standard unit and nothing is incorrect. That wiki article is irrelevant. You may be unsure if they were intending base 10 or base 2, but that doesn't affect the correctness. It's both, because the numbers are very approximate.
What motivation do they have to do this? Are you talking about, like, Civil War re-enactors? Pretty sure the police aren't going to roll up on some dudes in wigs and toy bayonets in a park. Those people usually get permits for that kind of thing anyways.

If you're part of a group with a manifesto, ordering weapons and explosives and doing practice drills to take down the US government, then yeah... it's highly likely that the feds are going to pay attention.
Doesn’t high inflation help asset owners even more? Their assets rise in value alongside inflation, while the majority of regular people with few assets have to rely on wage increases keeping up with inflation.
Agree. Targeting the very boundary where people notice leaves no room for error. Target 2% and natural fluctuations that central banks can only react to will keep it for more unnoticeable.