skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they're not. Only Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy. The others are constitutional monarchies.

If they're absolute monarchies, then so is the United Kingdom.
Was losing net neutrality as bad as we all feared?

No, not immediately. But safeguards are important to the future, and we want to prevent this particular slope from getting any more slippery.
I switched to it after using both Fink and macports and it was the first time I felt like I had a package manager as reliable to apt on Linux. Both Macports and Fink would routinely break my whole system by putting extra versions of system libraries where other applications could find them. Since, I’ve switched to nix.
Makes me think of VRML back in the 1990s which unfortunately got compared to contemporaneous games like Quake just as people compare Horizon Worlds unfavorably to Grand Theft Auto games from 15 years ago.

The big trouble I see is that the average business just can’t afford the cost of video game authoring techniques. Maybe they can afford to pay me $5000 to spend a few hours with my lightfield camera and build a model of their place of business but they can’t spend $100,000 to have it all built out of polygon and textures by hand.

Similarly when it comes to scripting you still have to do motion capture and/or hire animators to program the slightest details of movement and at best you can do emotional scenes that are up to the standards of TV and movies.

For it to really be accessible to people it has to be high enough level that you can either pick a named character or make one with a character creator from a. idea game and say something to the affect that “Orochi says ‘so long’, blows you a kiss, and walks out of the room” and the system animates it - it doesn’t matter if the ‘code’ in English or something a little more technical, it can’t be much more complex than that because it is hard enough to be a writer for the screen that you can’t expect everybody to be a director, VFX artist, colorist, composer and the 100 other job titles you see in movie or video game credits.
I always hear this and I'm interested where the point of view comes from. Can you elaborate?

Fair warning I am one of the people who thinks it's all the same. Even though I have a lot of experience in the space when you zoom out a tiny bit for the average person it starts to look a lot like us arguing vi vs emacs - religion and meaningless and esoteric distinctions to the 99.999%.
First HVDC Undersea Power Project in the Developing World and Saudi Entry
They instead hit consumers with data caps which you either pay overages against, or they had you sign up for additional add on which was, on average, $20-$30 more a month increase in your bill, for the same traffic, under net neutrality terms, that would not have cost more, because this would not be allowed.

I've seen the margins ISPs make on these connections, and they went from acceptable but good to absurd, its not like they were starved by net neutrality either.
"Trust but verify" is a nice way of saying "don't trust".
I disagree. I don't think anyone has any justification to feel remotely confident in any particular Satoshi suspect, and Sassaman is no exception.
Is that a reference to the game Uplink?
And many times small variations matter.
The authors assert that the ngram statistics for "said" are wrong, and imply that they have evidence of the contrary, but they don't provide the evidence. Looking at their own website, all they provide is google ngram statistics: https://www.etymonline.com/word/said#etymonline_v_25922.

This coupled with the huge failing of not displaying zero on the y-axis of their graph, and even interpreting the bad graph wrong, makes me not believe them at all. A very low quality article.
Not to a level that would make them one of the main culprit's for the housing crisis, no.
Good. VCs—particularly the growth expectations thereof—have ruined more products than they have helped. By far. When we talk about enshittification, we're generally talking about the results of choices that came out of this process. Bootstrapping has its own problems, but I would never go the VC route again, or work for a company that did.
Why should I care about OpenTofu?
Most people believed it was on Google's side, possibly even on purpose to make people use Chrome vs. Firefox. It is no coincidence that the Firefox / Google Antitrust case kicked off two weeks ago and this magically started working better.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopol...
FastStream: Effortless Kafka/RabbitMQ Event Stream Integration for Microservices
FastStream simplifies the process of writing producers and consumers for message queues, handling all the parsing, networking and documentation generation automatically.
Here's a look at the core features that make FastStream a go-to framework for modern, data-centric microservices:

- Multiple Brokers: FastStream provides a unified API to work across multiple message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ support)

- Pydantic Validation: Leverage Pydantic's validation capabilities to serialize and validates incoming messages

- Automatic Docs: Stay ahead with automatic AsyncAPI documentation

- Intuitive: Full-typed editor support makes your development experience smooth, catching errors before they reach runtime

- Powerful Dependency Injection System: Manage your service dependencies efficiently with FastStream's built-in DI system

- Testable: Supports in-memory tests, making your CI/CD pipeline faster and more reliable

- Extendable: Use extensions for lifespans, custom serialization and middlewares

- Integrations: FastStream is fully compatible with any HTTP framework you want (FastAPI especially)

- Built for Automatic Code Generation: FastStream is optimized for automatic code generation using advanced models like GPT and Llama. Please check out the tutorial available here: https://faststream-gen.airt.ai/Tutorial/Cryptocurrency_Tutor...
I've done some comparisons for inserts of various data sizes on mariadb, postgres, and sqlite without indexes.

I didn't have the patience of OP though to push it to 1B.

https://github.com/eatonphil/databases-intuition
I suspect that they know that the average user won't actually change it back. Just like how, IIRC, Apple Maps is (or at least was as a few years ago) the most commonly used mapping software purely due to the reach of iphone's userbase
It sure feels like the temperature in Upstate NY varies by more than 10%!
Yesber AI Camera is an AI camera that generates professional-quality blockbusters online. It allows everyone to pursue beauty and handsome quickly, and have their own AI photographer!
Crisis at Evergrande deepens as it misses another bond payment
The worst you say?
I can hardly think of any better example on how much the legacy media has fallen than with how they treat Sy Hersh. They applauded him, they had high respect for him, they were always willing to offer him the front page for his superb investigative reporting ...

The fact that he had to go to Substack to publish the Nordstream investigation and that they all ran hitpieces on him as soon as he came out with this is such a clear display or how disconnected they are and how they are nothing more but government propaganda. They all turned on him, they acted like he was a different person now. A clear sign of the disconnect of the legacy media and how they are dying. Only government mouthpieces who want to work in legacy media now, all the truth tellers are working for alternative media now or self publish like Hersh does. And I am not complaining, goood riddance! We need no editor and other gatekeepers who bury important stories, who check back with the government if its OK to post or ask for edits from them. Who instantly dismiss everything that exposes government crimes as "conspiracy theory" no matter the seniority and reputation of the reporter.
Now splice this into the genome of black mold and release it in a coca-cola bottling plant.
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> I’m assuming you missed the part where ...

Yes, I did. I only know what the OP said, and that it's almost definitely about Rupert Murdoch. Who was the individual?
You might expand that initialism, I don't feel like it's a well known one. I assume MOC is a person?
I think it makes more sense to view android as a cheap way to negotiate it down to only 120B from a lot more money over the last decade. Search ads for rich consumers are insanely profitable, more profitable to google than android has ever been.

You and I would change our search engine but most iPhone users need an apple-maps-level mess up to go switch from the defaults (and even then that’s stabilized to a majority apple share now). Bing+apple could have been an existential threat to them in the mobile era; without android they would’ve had to pay whatever apple wanted.
No. This is the reality of mature software.
This is why I'm bullish on LLMs for application security vulnerability searches (like Shodan for code). It'll see what humans don't.
Will they be available without a Youtube Music subscription though? Those are separate subscription plans
The article is from Sep 21. An agreement has since been reached https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/25/entertainment/wga-strike-anal... .
The simple explanation is that it improves the relation with USA, Israel, and Morocco. Killing 3 birds with one stone, especially since Morocco has been pressuring by facilitating irregular immigration waves just prior.

The move would have been hailed as Expert Global Politics if done by the opposition itself. Instead we got a shallow conspiracy theory of "blackmail" that's not even entertaining because nobody can provide any substance whatsoever.
Unique icons for unique needs. Every developer and designer needs fancy icons to build fancy stuff.
Pixel used to be 3y of security updates. Starting with the 6 (2021) they switched to 5y. https://endoflife.date/pixel
Isn’t it basically auction-based pricing with more steps? That’s not a fundamentally evil thing.
I assume that a rate of 10% VAT is rather low in comparison internationally (e.g. EU is around 20 %).

Also for typical business customers it should be identical to purchase something for a net amount of x or for a net amount of x plus taxes. They can deduct the taxes anyway and the net amount is identical.
That is why usually you can display prices to business customers without VAT.

So as I understand it, it is a change, but not with any real business effects unless one of the parties had incorrect taxes before... Which would mean that this party before was subsidised by other taxpayers.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/value-added-tax-2023-v....
Given it's a completely impossible to measure metric I'm betting it's going to always be improving no matter what's happening on the platform to please the new ownership.
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> Okay. Net neutrality died and ISPs didn’t immediately turn the internet in to subscriptions to different cloud providers.

It didn't die, it temporarily stopped being the federal rule with the clear likelihood that it would be restored with the next Democratic administration and with a number of states adopting NN regulations.
Yeah, the ideal outcome for Google would be paying Mozilla whatever amount they need to stay afloat while still having no market share. As you said, 450 is just the cost of doing business. Though I wonder how effective the monopoly "shield" would be if Firefox continues slipping in market share. Maybe they just need it to exist?
Very peer-to-peer

Such decentralized

Trustless wow
"us Democrats" -> "US Democrats"

What a difference capitalization makes.

Or was it deliberate?
It's an archive.is issue causing Cloudflare DNS not to work, which Firefox uses by default.
Apple submits update that will weaken iPhone 12 modem to French government
I was trying to be funny in my comment. But thanks for a very informative reply!
I'm not versed in corporate taxes, but you're probably referring to a flat rate rebate on the client's taxes in case they don't bother declaring and proving all their expenses.

The new system opens more doors for deduction, but they can still continue the way they did before. And flat rate deductions have always been accepted to cover cases where there was few or no expense in the first place, it's not an unintended effect nor a surprise, and it makes everyone's life easier overall.

Edit: BTW in the new system there's still additional flat rate mechanisms at different levels. They really love it at the tax office.
I prefer the lack of advertisements in Apple Maps.
But in your scenario - which part is adding the value?

Your deep multimodal models or the MRI imaging?

What you are essentially saying is the signal is so subtle that only a large NN can reliably extract it.

While that may well be the case, it would be better to have a scan/diagnostic that doesn't need that level of signal processing to interpret.

For example - you don't need a large generative deep multimodal model to read a Covid antigen or PCR test.
HN in general doesn't like "editorialized" titles. HN titles are meant to be a factual representation of what you are going read without the attention grabbing (albeit clever) title.
> and it could make sense, since "watered-down" can be considered redundant.

I don't think that makes sense and isn't correct, a translation should be a translation without subjective copy editing. It may be redundant or not, but it's not the job of the translation tool/service/person to decide.
A struggle over carbon pipelines in Iowa is becoming a presidential flashpoint
Guys backed with guns funded by fiat (tax revenue).

It's unbelievable to me that crypto people don't see/understand/refuse to acknowledge the huge difference.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Or (in this case) their gambling.
I would say a "data-driven business model". Google is not "closely observing us" in the sense that a policeman surveilles a criminal. And it's not without our knowledge or permission. Google won't learn much about you unless you volunteer the information. At worse, it might learn that a certain browser visited X or Y website (until the browser cookies are cleared). Plus, they collect data to improve their services and serve relevant ads, not to put people in jail.
(to migrate users to YouTube Music)

YT Music seems to be where Google Media apps shift their users to when they retire.

--

Must be fun to be on that dev-team:

"We have a new high-priority ticket: Add podcast-support to inherit users from podcast app. Ok, so I guess we move the 'Compete with Spotify/AppleMusic' stories back to the funnel"
I would expect Google aren't paying based on market share, they're paying based on the number and quality of users they get access to. If market share goes down but total market size rises, and the cohort of users selecting Firefox have more disposable income (hence are more profitable for search advertising), paying more for them over time would be a rational decision.
I guess youtube music is youtube sound now?
I think you're mixing up some things. If you run the image "docker.io/wordpress:6.3.1", then the container will be updated when the image with that tag (6.3.1) is being re-built (which is a best practice, because that's the only way how you get security updates for the libraries in the base image). The tag is just a pointer to the latest image hash.

Many Docker images also provide "semantic version tags". Wordpress does too, so if you run the image "docker.io/wordpress:6.3", you will get the latest 6.3.x version.

It's up to you (and the image publisher) to decide when to auto-update, and when manual intervention is necessary.

Of course this requires trusting the publisher of that image. But even if you build your own images, you still trust the base image. It's turtles all the way down.
That's their secret, Cap. Every other business unit in Google is a funnel back to the Advertising Money Printer Machine. Sure, if the business units make money, that's good to offset costs, but at the end of the day, if Google is paying $120B over 10 years to keep Google as the default search engine for Apple devices, they're making more than $120B over 10 years on Apple users.

Not to mention that Google can do first party ad injection on results to shift people towards Android, decreasing the cost per user for impressions and sucking more data out of them to again, fuel the ad machine.
I have never liked this format, unfamiliar with the origins.. not shocking news here
This title was most charitable as rolling anything into YouTube is a fate worse than death.
With a New Commissioner, FCC Finally May Try to Reinstate Net Neutrality
This project dropped at the perfect time for what I'm building at work. Simplifies so much of what we were trying to home roll on our own. A side note: it's interesting that they're utilizing ChatGPT to provide a code generator. As someone who's spent years writing Ruby on Rails apps, this reminds me a lot of its scaffold generators. I wonder if this will be come the new norm with OSS projects moving forward?
I upvoted this comment because it seems like an opinion that is not uncommon, and I want this visible so others reading the responses have some context.

I do not agree with the opinion that the only responsibility with child-raising lies with the parent. Schools, businesses, government, random people on the street; my opinion is that it would be best if we all felt an obligation to help young people learn and grow into healthy adults. If not an obligation, then at least a shared value.
There are so many people I will never meet, and it still feels right to support their well-being. I could see this perspective still being a selfish one, based on my experiences around the world and feeling enriched by a diversity of cultures and perspectives.
‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. and Far Thirstier
>Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock are threatening America’s fragile aquifers.
My sister was ardently opposed to screens for my niece.

She quickly capitulated when she learned that iPads are magical nannies that will totally occupy your child and give you precious time to get other stuff done.

So "screen but only with approved content in moderation" became the norm.
ChatGPT 4:

> "Ursula von der Leyen elogia il compromesso sulle emissioni dei veicoli attenuato"

> Note: "Watered-down" is translated as "attenuato" in this context, which means "weakened" or "diluted." The term can be subjective, so ensure the tone and implication match the intent in the original context.

ChatGPT 3.5:

> "Ursula von der Leyen elogia il compromesso sulle emissioni dei veicoli ridotto"
I am about to finish my first time through the series (listening to the excellent audiobooks). And I agree with OP that somewhere in the second or third book, Rand annoyed with his slow character growth and refusal to accept that he was the Dragon. I think the second book is even my least favorite of the series. The early books are also somewhat repetitive in their structure: Rand goes on a quest and defeats a Forsaken at the end.

However, the series starts to shift in a few ways not long after where the bulk of the books is about his allies on their quests scattered throughout the continent and they are far more interesting than Rand’s brooding. It also occurred to me in the last book or two that Rand’s slow growth may not be the most enjoyable to read but it is realistic — the story only spans two years or so and Rand has little time to actually process what is happening to him. He kind of acknowledges this in the last book, when Moraine remarks that the three boys she took out of the Two Rivers have grown up, and Rand says something to the effect: “no, only Perrin has, and when it comes to Matt and myself, I just hide it better.”

There is also all the growth that you mention as well as his somewhat immature attempt to harden himself in preparation for The Last Battle and his final realization that strength does not come from suppressing all his emotions.
Yes, not exactly "clicking a link" but still at the same level ("add to contacts"). Also many apps have users with profile pictures. An attacker can send a link that will open in an app (eg. Instagram, facebook). Also within browsers could this still leak whatever is currently rendering on the page?
I'm curious how they solved the hydrogen leakage/seepage problem through the walls. Even though it is designed for many (daily?) cycles and not long-term storage, it seems that H2 is in the tank anytime there's a charge ready or building. Maybe the pressures are low enough that it's insignificant even over 30k cycles?

Or does it just require occasional recharging with water or H2, and if so, what is the value of "occasional"?
At the point where you spend >$400 you might as well buy hardware to purify the air... Unless you have a very specific molecule in mind, a standard HEPA + carbon filter will fix 99% of your problem.
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> A difference that doesn’t matter to most people most of the time.

This seems to be about the first time I see Mozilla knowing its own users better than a random HN user know Mozilla's users.

Mozilla/Firefox is meant for users who care about privacy, it's literally the first taglines you see when visiting the landing pages for Mozilla or Firefox.

So, with this newfound knowledge about who is using Firefox and who is using other browsers like Google Chrome, maybe now it makes sense why Firefox wanted local translations instead of sending them off somewhere else?
I didn't read all of the comments on the issue, but it does look like it was a fix on the Google side: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1703668
That comes with exclusive content, though - not the same thing at all as what the NN acolytes were warning us would happen if common carrier status was lost. The goal-post shifting is not admirable. We were told there would be the end of the free web, and we're almost 6 years out. Time to admit that the evidence suggests this was fear mongering, and not grasp at straws.
> I've heard Linux support was down to like one guy [...]

Linux support is down to you. It's down to all of us. Install rr (https://rr-project.org/) and capture a crash with it.

Then you can replay the crash, find out that it's actually crashing in your closed-source graphics driver, which will motivate you to switch to an open source driver and fix your issue.

Also, while you're at it, update your linux kernel and wayland. They've both had bugs that could manifest as random firefox crashes in the last several months.
Remember when it was a problem that 19 flatpaks had 19 different versions of a library. Storage wasn't the primary problem.
ye gads man, did you even read the comment you're replying to?
It’s not sexy but having some bash script or the like copy/pull the gif repo every x minutes and then putting it in another directory linked to say a GitLab repo you control might work?
Is there any site that shows what phones are still getting security updates? I'm worried that this will be the thing that makes me retire my son's old Moto G... 5 I think? It's probably out of security updates. Which kills me, he's a careful boy and it's a solid phone, this is unnecessary E-Waste.
Look at ukraine russian weapons are not worth the money and every military has known this for years. The only countries buying russian weapons are the ones that can't buy from the west.

I don't think its a bad thing that the rest of the world has weapons that can't compete with the west, as a westerner I think this is a good thing.
3D Mapping Earth from Space
Why do people pay federal tax when they shutdown?
Which makes the point that there is hardly any UNIX inovation coming from them.

Please cite a USENIX research paper from Apple.
Benefits of being in EU, I guess - Oracle can't hide from you.