skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't there still not a lot of information on YouTube's profitability?

I don't think it takes $29 billion to run it but if it hypothetically took say $24 billion that is a 20% revenue loss from take a loss in the billions.
I'm quite certain that that's precisely what they would say.

Their closest analogy they would have to social media sites would be newspapers. Newspapers were never required to publish everything that came in to them. They'd find the notion absurd. They'd tell you to go out and buy your own printing press.

They might be distressed that a small set of private publishers would become so ubiquitous that they could be mistaken for being synonymous with speech in general. If it had occurred to them they might have given anti-trust legislation a firmer grounding in the Constitution. But that's a general matter of commerce, not specific to speech.
Ah excellent. Thaks for correcting my erroneous correction attempt
I just happen to read about DMCA exemptions legalities recently (which I submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37961007). Turns out that exemptions to DMCA are recommended every three years. I noticed one especially relevant to this one under the section category of "Proposed New or Expanded Exemptions":

> Proposed Class 7: Computer Programs— Vehicle Operational Data
> MEMA petitions for a new exemption to ‘‘access, store, and share vehicle operational data, including diagnostic and telematics data’’ from ‘‘a lawfully acquired motorized land vehicle or marine vessel such as a personal automobile or boat, commercial vehicle or vessel, or mechanized agricultural vehicle or vessel.’’ 182 The petition limits circumvention to ‘‘lawful vehicle owners and lessees, or those acting on their behalf.’’
> The Office encourages proponents to develop the legal and factual administrative record in their initial submissions, including describing with specificity the relevant TPMs and whether their presence is adversely affecting noninfringing uses, whether eligible users may access such data through alternate channels that do not require circumvention, and the legal basis for concluding that the proposed uses are likely to be noninfringing. In general, the Office seeks comment on whether the proposed exemption should be adopted, including any proposed regulatory language.

- From Page 14, of October 19, 2023 – Notice of Proposed Rulemaking at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-10-19/pdf/2023-2...

The US Copyright Office goes on to say *they want feedback on this potential exemption*:

> The Office encourages proponents to develop the legal and factual administrative record in their initial submissions, including describing with specificity the relevant TPMs and whether their presence is adversely affecting noninfringing uses, whether eligible users may access such data through alternate channels that do not require circumvention, and the legal basis for concluding that the proposed uses are likely to be noninfringing. In general, the Office seeks comment on whether the proposed exemption should be adopted, including any proposed regulatory language.

Note that final sentence!
Debatable - the objective is to play on an attacker's greed and convince them to go for the BTC before any other credentials. Too low of an amount and the other credentials in there might start to look more interesting.
I like the idea of a set of tags that can be used to filter content, if so desired. It would need a set of agreed-upon tags with the option to add others. And yes, voluntary would have to be a requirement.
That's quite a poor assumption I find. Most modern leaps in progress have been publicly funded (see for example penicillin, the internet, anything resulting from the space race, and for a more comprehensive list, the entrepeneurial state by Mazzucato). Capital owners typically just take this publicly funded work, slap a sticker on it, and put it behind a paywall. Not much added value imho.
My cheap home thermostat has that frustrating +/- 5 degrees F accuracy. Is it very difficult to build an inexpensive 1 degree sensor?
Most of Europe is a good example of how much better policing can be done than we do it here.

A pretty huge part of the problem is that our police act as vastly inferior substitutes to just proper social services. An incredibly simple and good example of how this could be done better is being demonstrated in Denver, where they have unarmed mental health first responders, because most of the time someone is in crisis they're only a threat to themselves, so being armed only makes the situation worse.

They're also trained to view the public as the enemy (warrior training), making them a walking threat. Our police kill people at a rate many times higher than other comparably developed nations; about 60x the UK, for reference. Yes our gun ownership is higher, but the relatively low rate of police deaths shows that their readiness to resort to violence is unjustified.

If we allocated even half of our police budgets towards social services, we'd live safer lives.
I'm just getting an infinite reCAPTCHA loop on that page.
More like the exact opposite, at least recently.
What? That’s faster than track cycling world records! The 200m flying start record is 9.1s which translates to 79km/h. The makers of this device are proposing to let humans run faster than a world record track cyclist!
Assuming the bitcoin is held as an ‘investment’ anyway, is it really that much worse for it to held on a password manager as opposed to an exchange?
Ok the long message I wrote got lost, great.

In short people, there's no need for cryptography certification security etc, what the governments push for would require websites and services to make at most exactly the same decisions!!!

There's no certification required that I'm aware about, websites operators are required to make the decisions themselves exactly like in this proposal !!

Conundrums with user content, hosted services, legal responsibility, same!!!

The only difference is that with age verification the website would have to decide if he needs to prompt the age verification system, with this if he wants to send the header!

Once there's a header (good old PICS) in a tls connection that's it!

(of course the huge difference with this system is that here only the services that explicitly want to be offered to minors would need to do something, as opposed to everyone - and as an aside this would limit immensely what's accessible to minors)
Whenever I think of Geo-Engineering I imagine someone getting into keeping reef aquariums, noticing some fish are looking less than healthy, testing and seeing chemical/physical properties of the tank are off, adjusting by adding/removing some chemical only to see everything die anyway, and then coming to the realization that maybe this hobby is a lot more nuanced then they imagined and isn’t for them.

Perhaps next time we’ll just get a freshwater planet, I hear those are much more forgiving ;)
Meta Quest 3 virtual monitors with color passthrough
Reached that years before Black Mirror was a thing.

https://flic.kr/p/4iRTN8
‘Everyone’? That is a vast assumption!
I wrote marcel. In my view, nushell and marcel are very similar. nushell has tabular output, which I haven't thought was all that useful.

Marcel is python-based. The nushell guys have had to invent a lot of language. By basing marcel on python, I don't have to invent language. Any logic to be added is expressed in python. E.g, do a recursive listing of files and find those that changed in the last 3 days:

ls -fr | select (f: now() - f.mtime() <= days(3))

The stuff inside the parens is a python function, applied to a File f, piped in from ls. (Marcel lets you omit "lambda".)

Lots of marcel examples here: https://marceltheshell.org
I guarantee this will do nothing to achieve its stated goals. Kids are far more resourceful than adults give them credit for and have an abundance of time to apply to obstacles put in their way. Never underestimate a hard drive of torrented porn circulating on the bus.
Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals
I think he is being sarcastic. Emphasis on the “I think” part.
That's a neat idea. It'd be cool if they also had a school garden as well, then everyone can learn to appreciate growing their own fruits and vegetables as well.

And I love your pun! :D
> Not every lab tech or PI can or should learn Python/R/your favorite scripting language

The amount of learning required is minimal, even more when compared to the contortionist required to process data in Excel.
Roblox has the ugliest design I've ever seen for an online game yet it's amazingly successful. What's their secret?
When there was one PC and one TV in the house it was a lot harder to hide what you were doing and parenting was easier.
You say that like they weren’t told to do this by the executive team.
It doesn't make sense to let one fuck up from a non-core part of the business destroy your entire perception of them.
We have a restaurant that only took cash for a long time. Because I usually pay everything with card, I have a card-only wallet and rarely any significant amount of cash on me. There is no ATM in the vicinity (it's in a small suburb).

The second time we didn't go there while passing that place, I dropped them a friendly mail. I must have been not the only one, because now they accept cards.

Sometimes talking to people helps. Though with a franchise there might be no-one on site with the power to "just fix" things. Regarding the gas station: Maybe charge at home instead? :P
Yep. It's a very clean, powerful and well thought out API. And I'm saying that coming from a place of love towards unix and its pipes. I'd almost argue it's better than the unix model. Almost.

Been able to give poweshell commands in FOIA litigation and its power is on full display with one liners where it's hard for a gov agency to say no to something so simple.
True, but a problem with no solution is not a solvable problem either.

And everything has problems.
Cyber startup CipherStash which beats hackers to the punch raises $4.8M
They must not have been conscious in the 80s or 90s or 00s. If anything it seems like piracy is way down given the better digital stores and fairer prices (during sales events at least ) - and many games being always online where part of the logic lives on a server you can’t replicate locally
Show HN: React-magic-motion, a package to automatically animate your components
react-magic-motion is a npm package for react.js that gives you a component named <MagicMotion>. All children of this MagicMotion tag will have all their layout changes animated.

This automatic animation built on top of framer-motion, so that means that you will get all of its features as well (spring animation, shared layout animations, etc...).

https://www.react-magic-motion.com/

https://github.com/etesam913/react-magic-motion
The one in my town shifted focus from hackerspace to Antifa-adjacent sex club.

The core founders who put in all the work to keep the space going either got squeezed out, got jobs and social obligations, or straight up died.
From what I have read in biographies on suicidal people in bands and performers, who show similar traits, they can/do enjoy things... it's just they are constantly looking for "more" and can't really get the easy fulfillment they used to, since it's hard to outperform their career highs.

I imagine it's similar with some pilots.
Yet nobody in the Windows/Mac world was ready (if you think they should have to care which maybe they shouldn't).
Validate your AI startup idea without a technical co-founder
Orval is great, I also recently wrapped up a project with Orval, React Query, and MSW. Generated my typescript models, helped me track changes in the API each time I updated against the swagger spec and let me test and demo the UI before our API team had a server running. Such a time-saver.
I saw Marcel's movie in theaters probably 7 times at least. Top, top movie. The YouTube shorts a great of course, but the movie is next-level.
> I found that for me, certain thoughts "flow better" in one language, and others in another.

For you. So not an absolute truth as in “it is obvious”.

> The obvious parallels between one's inner voice and the workings of an LLM are left as an exercise to the reader.

Another obvious? Hmm.

Perhaps obvious to the techno-animists.
Genuinely curious, which jurisdictions is it actually illegal?
Careful there because it’s more likely that the already more popular person also happens to be the person that gets the most donations.
I had an issue with my bookmarks where I used chrome for about a decade and then one fateful day, I allowed Microsoft edge to try to clone my bookmarks. It corrupted everything. Now I have hundreds of copies of duplicated folders and links. It would be great if this or another tool could help get it restored.
I read virtual cores on a Processor, got excited for a bit but realized it’s not the same as a soft core processor.

I hope FPGAs take off one day and software can compile hyper-optimized processors that do very specialized tasks.
I wrote marcel. I picked the name because of the short that preceded the movie!
Unless you're being specifically targeted because you're a high up position (ex. CEO) I'd imagine .05 BTC is plenty to attract the attention.
Same with Minecraft. It's a perfect example of how gameplay > visuals.

The "secret" for both those cases is likely that they were lazy and just used some low effort placeholder at first, then the game blew up and the style became too intertwined with the popularity to change.
Yes, I think there's a better way (which would make Samba faster on your system :-). Can you ping me at jra@samba.org and I'll explain !
The people that have the most kids are exactly the ones who have difficulty managing this, in my experience.

The ones who have no difficulty managing themselves often just opt out entirely.
I also worked in digital signage a few years back. We had a similar kind of refrigerator in our office, likely with an LG screen. The door/screen was transparent glass like the old fashioned ones and a layer of LCD. The upside of that kind of design is that the see-through door still works if the screen is off. And of course, you actually would see the real contents of the refrigerator once it's digital signage content deactivated (e.g. detected people by camera). On top of that, depending on the animation you would see through darker parts of the door to get a peek of the actual products inside (useful if you're unsure what you're looking at).

IIRC we displayed our office calendar on it, among other things.

On the other hand, the screens in the article seems to have made away completely with the glass, leading to completely opaque, black rectangles if they are not running. What a mess.
The same also extends into media systems and commercial AV. There’s a disturbingly large portion of the product space across domains that’s actively hostile to any form of integration outside of their own shambles of a product ecosystem.
I walked past a third party ATM last week. It was showing a Windows CE error.
I am infinitely less qualified/smart than you, but I will steal your format for my own shitty and lame accolades and accomplishments nonetheless
The top hit for "Naruto run" was some random anime video. It was not at all clear that it's a meme and the joke went way over my head.

Just as a heads up, not everybody watches anime.
Yeah but you couldn't ever open it to a desktop with Explorer and all that
Goodhart’s Law strikes again
Announcing Insight Prediction Partnership
>There are ratings for movies and games, we can use them

These are provided by a private entity. What we clearly need is an official government morality commission.
Just dont put your name on projects like this. Had to learn myself the hard way 15 years ago. Just do it, fly under the radar, stay pseudonymous, go the hacker way.
> 1. This will not make headlines in the UK.

That probably needs some qualification since it was the Guardian which broke the story (and the prequel story two weeks prior) and that's two headlines right there.

If you check the front page of The Observer for 2023-10-01[1], the prequel ("Education ministry keeps secret files on critics of schools policy") is fully a third of the front page. Which is also a headline.

[1] https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/observer-front-page-2023-1...

(Oddly, no-one seems to have The Guardian front page for 2023-09-30 that I can find.)
It amazes me how many ATMs run Windows (CE or XP), it seems like Linux would be a no-brainer for them

Now that I think about it I do recall encountering a POS system running CE. But I never got to interact with it.
This one seems to be a few minutes earlier. Although todsacerdoti seems to (automatically?) post any 1Password blog, based on history
Show HN: Roadmap – A Personal Growth Game for Social Anxiety
I reached out to Samsung support to ask. After being sent from one department to another and receiving some very clearly incorrect advice from their sales support they eventually sent me to an online form for the memory department. Am still waiting for a response a week later.
I try to live in urban areas because walkability measurably improves my health in every metric.
Well I'll be... that ugly design has a purpose
He's no different : https://skwawkbox.org/2023/03/02/starmers-labour-abstains-on...
What’s your alternative?
“found no compromise of user data or other sensitive systems, either employee-facing or user-facing”

Does not mean it didn’t happen
FANUC probably sells more industrial robots than anyone else, and their teach pendants (the attached device for operating those big yellow robots) runs Windows CE.
It's very disappointing to see Signal in the list of "Winners". I'd have expected Mozilla to do some real research before recommending something. It looks like they based their review off of Signal's privacy policy which hasn't been updated and has been outright lying about what they collect and how for years.

Signal started collecting names, phone numbers, photos, and most importantly contacts and is now keeping that data in the cloud, but they refuse to update their privacy policy to detail that. Mozilla thinks that Signal only collects your phone number, and optionally your name and photo but that simply isn't true. If you include your name and photo in your profile Signal collects that data without asking and there is no way to stop them from collecting your contacts.

Mozilla also claims that the data Signal collects can't be seen by anyone but that's a very open question considering how they're storing the data (SGX) and how it's protected (a simple PIN). See: https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

Most telling to me though is how Signal communicated the change to collecting this data (which was extremely evasive and resulted in a lot of confusion and misunderstandings) and their refusal to update their privacy policy - the very first line of which reads: "Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information.", but if I were a whistleblower or a human right's activist I'd absolutely consider a list of everyone I was contacting using Signal to be "sensitive information" and Signal is designed to collect that data and keep it forever in the cloud.

Signal promotes their app to the types of people whose freedom and lives depend on their communications being secure so I think lying to those same people about Signal's data collection practices is sickening, but I suspect that doing it so obviously may also be the folks behind Signal doing everything they can to warn people away. That would also explain some of Signal's other recent questionable actions like adding weird crypto stuff and removing one of their most popular features: the ability to use the app for both secure communication and unsecured SMS/MMS.

I'm sure that Mozilla means well with this project, but I guess this is just a reminder to do your own homework and not take people's recommendations at face value, especially when you're dealing with highly sensitive data.
I bought a Kasa Smart Plug (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LN3C7WK). It has an API for reporting energy usage. Luckily there was already a library (https://github.com/python-kasa/python-kasa) for calling this API. I wrote a small console app that checks energy usage and when I detect a drop, I know that the dryer is done. Then the app uses Twilio to send me a text message.

This is my second attempt at solving this problem. In the first incarnation, I attempted to do audio recognition for the sound that the dryer makes when its done, but I just couldn't get it to work well. The sound was too short to generate a good signature.
That's a lot of money in any country.
Crooked Timber Is What We Have to Work With
If we look at “best” more broadly, popularity isn’t a terrible metric. I want a library to be actively fixing bugs and I want support if things aren’t behaving as expected. Stars is a rough measure, but we can look at resolved issues as a better metric.

A popular project will have a healthy distribution of types of issues, from novices asking newbie questions to experienced devs making feature PRs. It will also have several contributors.
It’s almost certainly not a legal takedown request, but this is always been an issue with the DMCA… it’s far too easy to make fraudulent requests, and there is almost never real punishment for them because they require financial harm, which is going to exclude anything except other companies.
Your argument says that we can improve the police, not that the police is net negative. You said that there are strong arguments for the police being net negative, that is very extreme.

Net negative means that society would improve if we just removed it without replacing it with anything. Can you defend that?
So, could PMTiles be used as a cheap/dirty/fast way to host other forms of geospatial data that isn't strictly "map tiles"? Such as a large-ish, infrequently updated POI database?
Some versions of the Mobile Apps Distribution Agreement (MADA) have found their way into being accessible through previous lawsuits.

The versions available are almost 10 years old now (e.g. https://www.vox.com/2014/5/3/11626422/a-look-at-googles-not-...), but more may become available in future given the increase in court cases like this.
The extremely simplistic design allows for rapid development of games, along with a very visually simple interface for young children to use. There's a reason Roblox looks like Duplo blocks.
The eLife website says they're an independent nonprofit. Presumably the BoD or equivalent made this choice - how does one wind up on the Board for an organization like this? And what capacity do academics have to apply pressure?
+1 seems like a much "better"/more valuable signal to game for startups built on OSS than for individuals.
When I wrote to the various U.K. MEPs in 2018 regarding the (awful) proposed EU Copyright Directive, the only ones that intended to vote against it were the Euro-skeptics and the Greens.

I was impressed at how the Euro-skeptic MEPs understood my concerns and took the time to write back to me in detail. They seemed by far the most democratically engaged of all the MEPs I communicated with

Make of that what you will.
> About 0.2 degrees C.

Is that a mean? a median? is that the mean predicted value among predicted values that lie above the average, or is that the overall mean prediction which happens to lie above average? Who's Baldrick?

> Do you mean "above what average?" The average of the last few years.

That's a good question but it's a different question. I assumed there's some well-defined baseline average in use here. My question was about what the predicted deviations from that average.
Suppose you could use the argument for robbing everyone of their possessions. I believe communists did that. Imagine if the state built based on humanity’s collective property. Didnt go well did it?
it's designed to break/degrade use contrary to the license, not simply point back to it

ala macrovision (circumvention of which was ruled to be unlawful under the DMCA)