skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well no, but is it ever that overt? Its still bad: It’s a ridiculously one-sided arbitration clause that most customers don’t fully understand & “agreement” is using the app.

Maybe it’s worse because they are doing it preemptively without saying it aloud until it’s too late.

This whole practice of “by breathing in our airspace you’ve agreed to arbitration” has to stop.
Then AI Adblocker should be processing screen output...
How is that any different than any software? Configuration and trial and error is the name of the game no matter your stack...
I have been using GPT since the inception of GPT-2.

You're correct, I should have specified. I rarely if ever use GPT-3.5. I have 7 paid / premium accounts, and I primarily use GPT-4.
The intent is almost certainly for people to install the app so they can receive ads and information on deals and other push notifications, which drives them to McDonalds like other royalty program, not so they can agree to arbitration.

The title of this submission "McDonalds is giving free French fries in return for waiving the right to sue" is also editorialized compared to the linked article's title "McDonald's New Terms And Conditions Have People Deleting The App" which is directly against the HN guidelines.
This is incorrect. I have seen Madrid and Barcelona. Nobody is living off the land in those cities. They are fed by massive agricultural complexes and include alot of imports.

Both those cities are way too dense for the population to feed themselves on home gardens and rabbit hutches.
Trying FrankenPHP now instead of nginx + phpfpm for the first time for a new project, since its being pushed hard as hell by the Symfony guys, especially Kevin Dunglas. Fingers crossed!
I've always just used the right-click-Open approach. Does that not still work?
> why would anyone buy the book? If I could ask ChatGPT to "summarize

Summary is not the same as reading the book. Anyone can read reviews, human written summaries, on internet, or even some analyses, instead of asking AI model or buying a book. AI model usually cannot reproduce even small fragments. But it can indefinitely 'creatively' fantasize in books universe. Usually messing facts and mixing it all with other books.

By the way model doesn't have to be as big as ChatGPT. Anyone with good gaming GPU can get an open source free model and train it for academic research. Mixing fantasy with something else can produce interesting results.
Just to spare anyone the time: When they say "reproducible" they mean "can be done again" and not "can be done again with a consistent result".

No lockfiles, no checksums, URLs that may disappear and change at any time strewn around everywhere. There is none of the many nowadays common mechanisms in place that would ensure reproducibility (as the term is used in other build systems like Bazel or Nix).
Vietnam is in the middle of a cable-car bonanza
https://textpattern.com/weblog/memories-of-dean-allen

https://om.co/2018/01/18/dean-allen-rest-in-peace/

https://daringfireball.net/2018/01/dean_allen
This is why I use chatgpt as a type of Google. It's like a stackoverflow almost; generally useful but sometimes the person is wrong, but it helps me get leads.
Ranked: Foods with the Largest Environmental Impact
Not to be contradictory but my understanding was, that absolutely is the main motivation.

It was to solve the age old "it runs on my machine".

Open to being wrong but when docker hit the scene I remember that being touted left and right.
finding and summarizing nonstandard clauses in t&c for consumers seems like it could be a useful and good application of llm technology.
> usage of the app ToC has nothing to do with being harmed by their food, employees, condition of property etc.

In an ideal world, yes, a regular consumer could just make that observation and *poof* common sense would prevail... but I'm very cynical that it'll work that way in practice.

The multi-billion dollar global corporation and its battalions of lawyers will say that your tort falls under the words "arising from" and is resolved "exclusively" by private arbitration:

> You agree that [...] any claim or dispute (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) you may have [...] arising from or related to the online services or these terms will be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration

Are there examples of consumers cheaply and easily escaping this kind of language without spending oodles of time and money trying to "put the system on trial" first?
Thanks, I've read that one, it's quite good. I was actually curious about the zen garden in portland, though!
Depending on the agency it’s not very small.

New York MTA has a farebox recovery of about 40-50% in any given year, and few people or organizations could stomach a pay cut of half without serious damage.
Stocard app worked for me. Simple and has an Apple Watch app to boot.

https://stocardapp.com/
I made a cheap barcode display-er with a Bluetooth MCU and an E-ink display, that works for all 1D only barcode scanners.
Like everything, probably yes but up to a point, as decided by a judge.

For example if you order an item and they happen to be out of it and your party is ruined, you would almost certainly not be able to sue for damages in court. If your child ate the food and died, you would almost certainly be able to take it to court.
Yup! Now we're thinking alike. Split only DNS and bingo, native ad blocking.
Monbiot is awesome. Even if I don't agree with everything he has said, his insistence on rigor and willingness to call bullshit is just indispensable.

One could almost see the blood dripping off his rhetorical knives here.
> UDP based protocols (like QUIC) are the way forward.

Sure, but QUIC was written by experts who probably had been burned in the past by thinking they could just throw away TCP and profit. Things like slow start and congestion control are there for really good reasons and you can't just casually toss them away like anachronisms. Modern networks are really big, but ultimately things like switch buffers are still finite.

Rolling your own UDP based protocol is kind of like rolling your own cryptography.

Amazon in 2001 was using lots of UDP on top of Tibco Rendezvous when I got there and it absolutely melted the fuck down in Christmas of 2003. All of the FAANG-class companies have probably rediscovered this kind of lesson independently, maybe multiple times. I certainly remember chuckling at some Facebook press release in ~2007 when they were bragging about switching to UDP and wonder how that turned out.
I'm not sophisticated enough to know for sure, but I wouldn't give that much extra credit for airplane hours. For example, if I thought that 500 helicopter hours was sufficient to entrust my life to someone, I wouldn't take someone with 300, just because he had 200 (or even 300 or 400) hours flying a completely different type of craft.

If it were going in the other direction, I might be more likely to be accommodating, since my sense is that helicopters are harder to master than airplanes. But I'm no expert here, and I would definitely ask around to see if my understanding is correct.
I guess, I should have specified that I meant raw UDP for simple request-response protocols.

The other major use-case for UDP is for protocols where loss is preferable to retransmission delay, it's still very much valid. But in this case, UDP is used within a stateful context, with multi-stage handshakes and everything.
This is factually and morally wrong.

- Israel is not intermittently but continuously under attack since 1948 for its mere existence.

- Since when does being "oppressed" give anyone the right to launch rockets on civilians and commit suicide bombings? There are many people in this world who are much worse off than Palestinians who would never imagine engaging in these sorts of acts.

- The Hamas wants Jews erased. It doesn't matter what Israel "stops" or does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Charter
Five researchers and one admin is cheaper than two researchers, two postdocs, a grad student, two admins, a compliance officer, an HR office, a grants office, a budget office, a legal office, some Deans, Vice Deans, Vice Chairs, Vice Chancellors, etc. You get my point.

I'm sure there are particular examples of places with high overheads, even higher than the 70% at top universities, especially in the biosciences, but historically pure soft money places have been relatively cheap to operate.
My understanding (possibly incorrect) is that competing with DocuSign is hard because of the need to follow obscure state and National laws (many of which are defined by case law rather than published law) in order for the signatures to be legally binding.

Is that the case? And if so, is there evidence OpenSign has done this kind of SME research to make sure the electronic signatures are legally binding, or is this more "we brought in some devs and UI designers and built something" without actual legal review and guidance?
Off topic, and apologies

But is there a recommended client for chromebooks?
Is that what is required so I can do my server.local and have it work? I’ve struggled a lot of .local stuff with various routers and port openings etc. I know that .local isn’t a standard or something and I’m meant to use something else. I’ve never known what to google to fix it though
>… he couldn't fathom why his fiancée, who had just landed in London, was bleeding and seemed traumatized.

> immigration and medical officers had whisked her away for a "clearance interview". When she finally came out of the room, the 35-year-old Indian school teacher wouldn't speak.

> … she had undergone a so-called two-finger virginity test at the UK's largest airport.

> The schoolteacher's abuse received national attention after she shared her experience with The Guardian, describing how a medical inspector had examined her to confirm she had not borne children and was in fact entering the country as a virgin, to be married.
You can use it to play music, I go with audio books.

it's actually better at pairing with my iphone and ipad than my apple devices, which is wild.

Product page: https://www.amazon.com/MUSICOZY-Headphones-Bluetooth-Everyth...
Ah man…

Thanks for the links. Sad day. Dean was a great human.
Another reason why those companies are banned is because the US gov hasn't successfully inserted back-doors in the chips so therefore there is no oversight/snooping so they don't get to do business in the US market.
Why do they give their mobile number then?
I have to use remote desktop on a daily basis.

So for the past few years, originally it was anydesk. They enshittified their free offering so I shipped with rustdesk for the past 2 years.

Connection issues so found it can be run over lan or sdwan without connecting to a relay so direct connection. Its been bullet proof connecting since.

Over the past few weeks, found about aspia.org which again works locally.

Remmina also works but problems.

I'm running KDE neon with Wayland.

Biggest problems.

Alt tab and many shortcuts escape to local and not remote device. That gets annoying fast.
Software eng is spending 2 hrs in a 5 line change because of a 1 character typo
This is not the first time the NSA infiltrated Kaspersky.
Avoiding persistence was one of the desired requirements of the attack.
The Register has just won headline of the year, love it, and the initiative!
Elon Musk to provide Starlink connectivity to aid orgs. in Gaza
One thing to note here: although industrial agriculture in the US is criticized for using too much energy, we in the US use more energy cooking food than is used to grow it (including all energy used to fuel farm equipment and make agrochemicals.)

So don't think that cooking is somehow a trivial problem, especially for the world's poor.
Most countries in the anglosphere are not as liberal as the US when it comes to individual rights. They are socially liberal yes but in terms of rule of law, the US has much stronger protection for individuals, albeit rich individuals benefit far more from it than poor ones.
If you went back to 2021 with the knowledge you've today, what'd you do?

That isn't far enough back to make meaningful changes for me. If the weeping angels could send me back to the 70's with the knowledge I have today into my 70's body however then I could prevent many bad decisions, mistakes and could make better uses of opportunities that presented themselves to me. I could also save a few lives. It would be a massive list. I have not done much since 2021 for this to be useful however. Maybe I would get a different brand of food for the deer I suppose.
Trip Summer ISO C++ Standards Meeting
Generally gross negligence can't be disclaimed but otherwise, you agreed to it.
I really love barcodes and barcode symbology for reasons I cannot fully explain. I even wore the npm module named ‘barcode’ which I desperately need to update.

Fun fact about codabar, it is among the only barcode symbologies that can be implemented completely as a plain font.
> Is the Accept-Language header really so inaccurate?

I'd say so yeah. Many many old people here (in a country where English isn't the primary language) use 'misconfigured' browsers.

It's getting better nowadays I suppose with new installers defaulting to our native language but (even though I tend to prefer the English version myself) I think it's a good default. I do prefer an easy way to change it though (or a quick confirmation on the first visit.)
I think this is an ongoing issue with the current legal framework, there is no way for a lower level set of regulations to override higher level regulations, that should be it, a contract shouldn’t allow to give up upper level regulations
I find it refreshing. At least it's not preinstalled candy crush, advertisement in the start menu, forced updates, unresponsive and bloated software, and constant prompts to collect more telemetry.
Yes. I came here to comment that the author forgot the most important topic: legibility. I read exclusively on mobile and my days are filled with frustration. To save time and make my reading sessions more productive I had to self-impose a hard rule: to just abandon unreadable websites. Perhaps we need to coin something like “TLDR” but for legibility and accessibility, to warn authors that they should refactor their web experience. Maybe “NLDR” — Not Legible, Didn’t Read?
I'll get pondering. Having some sort of rube goldeberg-esque mega project was my original idea, but finding a specific form for it has been elusive.

Taking inspiration from Factorio in some way is an interesting proposition. Will consider!
why does Voxel art look more attractive than (less than AAA) 3d games I used to play? Can studios use those tricks to graphics that are subjectively more pleasing than realistic games but are easier on their budgets and gpus of end users?
Pokémon Panic Crushes the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
I legitimately don't think 99% of engineers should start a business.

Just constantly ride the narrative waves, preferably work remotely, and you can retire in 10 years without much risk or effort.

Friends I know who got 3 months of solidity made millions riding the Web3 wave, and have now jumped to AI and making millions more.
I now think that allowing political topics on HN was a mistake. I did cheer for it previously - sorry.
Agreed and it’s far easier to turn ac into dc than the other way around
It's taking advantage of another developer's $99 payment. I just took a look at one of these apps and the in-app purchase to remove ads is $1.99. I think if I did this I'd throw that developer the 2 bucks.

Sort of like when you bum a ride from someone, even though it's not costing them anything, it's good form to offer to split the cost of gasoline.
Feels like the best situation. Those who had their cash/investment misappropriated get it back, and someone who clearly should not have been in a position to have that much responsibility and power has been removed.
Matt.dev
Finally.

This has always felt backwards and I hope it leads to some more interesting modes across the bands.
That had to follow the change in societal norms though. When I was a kid if you called CPS because somebody let their kid walk to school they wouldn’t have done anything.

The norms changed due to different assessment of risk, then, perhaps other risks followed
Are the account data end to end encrypted? What data does Mozilla hand over in the event of a subpoena or data center raid?
>* Publish the changes on GitHub as an open-source & linked fork;

Great an open-source license that mandates the use of
a proprietary Microsoft product.
Selenium is a fascinating element. Very necessary for healthy life, UpTo to a level, then it may be toxic. Different areas of the planet have more present in the soil. So on some places, it is added as a supplement to feed(especially animals - horses cows), but if that feed is given to an animal that doesn't need the supplement, it may kill it.
(See polo pony kerfuffle.)
There are various states of selenium which makes analysis, and chemistry complex.
Se^-2,0,+2,+4, and even +6.
Similar(but not) to sulphur and in strange ways to iron.
Certain oxidation states are more reactive(obviously) and therefore are more toxic. But when dealing with environmental issues, finding which state of selenium is present, is extremely difficult, and requires very complex laboratory procedures.
Total selenium does not answer most questions.
Chemistry can be fun!
Castles made of sand.
Reply with sites you think should be in this list.

I'll start: Napster. Ok it's mentioned (as being app rather than website).

Another: Slashdot

Candidate: Tucows
I upgraded my PiHole running on an Allwinner H3 SBC last year. It wouldn't start, turned out some indirect dependency wasn't compiled for the ARMv7 platform.

No worries, just specify the previous version in my launch script, literally changing a couple of digits, and I'm back up and running in seconds.

I'm sure I could get it done using apt, but it was literally changing some numbers in a script and rerunning it.

As someone who just wants things to work, Docker has made things significantly better.
> For many Americans, rising interest rates and high car prices have pushed their monthly payments above $1,000.

This is insane. I have never bought a new vehicle and thought having payments like this was the exception, not the norm.
Healthy food is significantly cheaper than random food selected from what is easily available from a supermarket.

For instance, I live in the European Union and I eat very healthy food that I cook myself from raw ingredients, and in most days the food consumed during all day does not cost more than 5 EUR. Buying random food could easily cost ten times more than that.

Nevertheless, there exists much cheaper food than the healthiest food and the people who cannot afford the healthiest food choose cheaper alternatives.

For example, the largest amount of my daily fat intake comes from extra-virgin olive oil, followed by cold-pressed sunflower oil (used to add enough linoleic acid and vitamin E within a lower amount of calories than would be needed when using only olive oil).

There are many vegetable oils that are at least 6 times cheaper than the relatively cheap olive oil that I am using and at least 3 times cheaper than cold-pressed sunflower oil. Many people choose those cheaper oils even if they are less healthy.

Similarly, I eat a decent amount of proteins with balanced amino-acid profile, but it is very easy to reduce the cost of the food by replacing ingredients with high protein content with cereals like maize or with potatoes, which have lower protein content and higher starch content.

So if you plan a healthy diet you can save money in comparison with eating what you first see on the shelves, but eating an unhealthy diet can save significantly more money.
Researchers are welcome to try our platform, and give us feedback

Send me a note on linkedin, and I can grant expanded functionality, eg access to more models.

We generally believe in the value of AI research and will be supportive where possible.

We will be able to do more to support research as we grow our compute resources.
Swappa Apple Activation Lock
If anyone is looking to buy any Apple device, USED, whether it be on Swappa or any online marketplace, verify ASAP that the device has the activation lock removed. Otherwise, years later after a hardware reset, it will trigger an activation lock. The idea behind activation locks are useful, if someone steals your phone, you can prevent the thief from using it, but in all other cases it can be problematic. What it is does is requests the owners icloud information in order to use it.I I am literally going through this right now as I bought an iphone 3 years ago and never used it. Went to reset the phone and update the latest OS and boom, activation lock.The seller does not remember their icloud information and the marketplace (Swappa) has told me that do to the length of time that has progressed, there is nothing they can do.( If there are no protocols in place on apple products, I would be very skeptical buying anything in the future without the steps I mentioned prior.) Therefore, I am out luck with a bricked $600 dollar paper weight. Be safe out there. Learn from this experience.
It's even worse, it could be you lose you right to sue without even getting fries.
This is not all. There is "Machine Learning Mastery Series" linked at the bottom. You may think that will make you a master...
I had a driver's license and my own truck when I was 16.

So glad that I never had kids because norms around raising kids these days are crazy and I definitely would have been reported to CPS.
>That is what LLMs can do, they don't write something inspired by it they write down a copy of it with switched out words and grammar structure.

That's not at all what they do. This myth of "supercharged interpolation" really needs to die. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09485

>It doesn't matter if you personally aren't using them like that, the fact that they can be used like that is the problem.

Of course it matters. You penalize people when they have done something wrong not if they have the capacity to.
In terms of quantity, sure.

A whole lot of shit is still shit though.
Even more galling about that 20-30%: it is really, really hard to measure. Believe it or not, you can't measure the draw even in fans in a traditional rack-and-stack server enclosure (that is, they are either not on their own voltage regulators or not regulators that have PMBus support, or the PMBus support is not plumbed through the BMC -- or all of these). And these aren't the only fans! In a traditional rack-and-stack, each server has AC power supplies -- and these supplies also have fans! These supplies are often entirely dark: they don't have PMBus support at all -- and definitely don't provide insight into how much power they are dissipating in their own fans. (Just empirically: if you don ear protection and walk up to your local 1RU/2RU server under load, those power supply fans will be cranking, and you will feel a hot, stiff breeze from just the power supplies alone!) This is where all of these effects start to reinforce one another: the per-server conversion is stupidly inefficient and the geometry is stupidly inefficient (power supplies are forced to have even smaller fans than the servers!) -- all of which results in more draw, none of which is observable.

The Oxide rack is really the opposite in all of these dimensions: we do our AC/DC conversion in a power shelf and run DC on a busbar; the geometry of the sleds allows for very efficient 80mm fans; and (importantly!) every regulator is observable through PMBus and plumbed through our service processor and management network -- so you can see where it all goes.

And if you think I'm worked up about this problem, you should talk to sufferers of at-scale rack-and-stack who have been burned by this. ;)
CCP bad, capitalism good
Monbiot rants most excellently. It's just wonderful to see nonsense dismembered so thoroughly.
Magic Leap's new CEO specializes in M&A