skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The abuse really comes in when that connection gets exploited to foster addiction and then start selling “loot boxes” or worse withholding affection for payment. “You need to support me… I can’t be here with you unless you send help…”

How do you think these things will make money?

Check out the mobile gaming ecosystem to see where this will go. Now imagine that but exploiting deeper emotional needs. These things could really empty people’s wallets. I guess when lonely people kill themselves after they’ve been financially ruined they can’t sue.
I thought fracking was just high pressure water or similar, do they add cancer inducing chemicals?
Thanks, I'm sticking to iMessage.
Generally speaking, people work more if they can get paid more by working more.
Listen, I understand that I prioritize children more than most parents do, because given my economic and philosophical circumstances I chose to not have children.

What I have read is people talking about optimizing their child rearing for their jobs (and other things). This is bass-awkward. You optimize, as much as you can, for the child. Because everything you are doing while they are a child is done DURING THEIR FRICKING FORMATIVE YEARS!!

Don't drug your kids people. It's pretty simple.
Do any mainstream phones ship with a headphone jack now?
Be warned, most of the comments I’ve heard on HN are that self hosting options are disproportionately expensive to support. Charge accordingly
The Unofficial PyTorch Optimization Loop Song
Wouldn't actors be at the top then?
Disclaimer: I worked in the nuclear engineering industry in the '90s.

Move to Houston next to numerous chemical plants that blow up from time-to-time and let me know how those utopian talking points without regulation works out.

The problem isn't NIMBY's or regulations, it's insurance costs.
Not a strong one and I do it when “sober” too. Also when sleepy.
Generational effects from childhood lead exposure.
That's mostly because smaller ships don't need as much power as a sub or carrier. The wattage required for a large container ship is about on par with the reactor for a nuclear sub.
FTC v. US Anesthesia Partners, Inc [pdf]
I presume Harvard Health wouldn't be blogging about it if there wasn't.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-ha...
> Solar and wind are winning

Genuine question. What kind of solar/wind installation could generate 2GW of power on demand (including when no wind or sun) and how much would that cost? is it even feasible with actual technology?
Interestingly enough the source for the first graph in the article shows the opposite: https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world/electricity/ele...

Even more staggering is that from 2020 to 2021 solar+wind grew by ~15%.
In theory, E2EE is good until someone you are messaging turns on iCloud backup of messages you sent and now law enforcement can force Apple to give them your iCloud backup - with iMessage
If you want syncing between platforms to avoid double bookings and automated messaging, you need to use a third party.
That's true, but there is such a thing as component variation and there is also aging. It may well be that the specified product is well within the safety limits but the aging border case is no longer and if there isn't enough margin that may well lead to trouble.

Depending on the amount of variation that trouble may arrive sooner rather than later.
what's hard to understand is why there is no evidence that such a genetic component exists. so far all claims are unproven speculation
I don't think the idea is to stream a windows session ala vnc, rdp, citrix, etc.

What they're trying to do is to migrate the OS itself into something that can run on a browser and interact with the windows cloud vía xhr calls. webassembly makes this wholy possible.

this is how office 365 works, it's not windows office software streamed to your computer,it's office ported to the browser and cloud is your storage.
Well, except for the Theta II engines...though you could say they (generally) honored their warranty if you want to look at the bright side.
Commercial and military use encryption with well known backdoors on HF, using bands only they are licensed to use with proprietary hardware.

https://www.wired.com/story/tetra-radio-encryption-backdoor/

This is why proprietary solutions are non-starters.

Civilians deserve real encryption they can control with provable privacy.
No, but they might care about the difference between being employed by a company and doing gig work for other people with notionally no overarching structure.
I just drew a game and it works
I mean with the iPhone SE starting at $429 new Apple has a lot of price brackets covered.
It's getting quite easy on Apple hardware, too

https://asahilinux.org
"Primordial" and "US" don't really go together. The USA is only ~250 years old.
I agree with the first paragraph and strongly disagree with the second. If you are a US citizen and live in the US, for any pass-through entity, you will likely be taxed and need to register as a foreign entity in your home state. Probably easiest to just incorporate where you reside, unless you're looking to raise capital, in which case you should just go straight to DE.

Conversion costs and/or re-incorporation complexity varies considerably by state. Some states allow for simple statutory conversion; other states expressly prohibit it. It is not accurate to to say that reincorporating is just a bit of work. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it's a lot of work. If you're serious about raising capital, start as a DE C Corp from the gun. Especially if you have multiple founders.
Yeah, there's a "waiting list" but mine went through in less than a day. https://bard.google.com/chat
So, I view this case as likely unsettled under current US antitrust law.

The underlying behavior seems really objectionable and should be illegal. The question is whether it is actually illegal under the law.

If a bunch of firms use the same software to set prices but do so independently and without any attempt to coordinate with each other… that’s a pretty decent defense?

(Can they argue that they had no knowledge of their competitors’ use of the software? There may of course be internal emails saying “we know X is also using it.” Suppose there aren’t AND the software vendor promised exclusivity to all of them independently. Would we want this to be illegal? What if all of the firms offer similar products and set prices by estimating the same demand curve?? This becomes a little far fetched of course.)

I don’t view this as obviously “per se illegal” territory. I would love to be wrong bc yeah it’s really objectionable, but I don’t think the case is a slam dunk.

So called “algorithmic collusion” of which this is likely an example is an unsettled area of theory
I can understand trying to suppress LLM usage that might teach people how to make poison, or inducing someone to commit suicide (although simply using Google is usually enough to find such content).

But sexual content? How can that be harmful? It feels like this kind of censorship is simply the default in legal departments and it's not worth the risk to try to do something more in line with common sense.
It's a coincidence.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070203124309rn_1/www.cpsr.org/p...
The raids were done by the government.

Are you familiar with rico laws? Where a cop can notice you have $10,000 in your possession, and just confiscate it, never charging you with a crime?
In the EU people use WhatsApp (not SMS) anyways.
Isnt this kinda shit wht multilateral treaties and international agreements exist to address?

Do they just need a tad more leverage in material terms to ensure future moron governments' feet are held to the fire to the extent they cannot escape rare or what do you think is the ideal enforcement mechanism?
Also note that the potential for catastrophic meltdown / contamination is proportional to how much fuel you have on board. If you only have ~3 months fuel for a 20MW reactor, then it's not like a 3-mile-island or Chernobyl situation. There are plenty of modern reactor designs that don't turn into a giant cloud of radioactive smoke under duress, but shut down relatively calmly and safely.
Oh if you mean someone doing a full time job for a weird nebulous computer contract without any kind of company or human leadership behind it that would be liable... does that ever actually happen?

A company that makes their own chains and contracts isn't really any different from a normal company situation.
Extra weird considering 1) the link didn't work for me, 2) parent is a cyber security expert and his cyber security posts look to be mostly open and when not have more details before the paywall. Why is the thing you're not an expert on the thing that's paywalled...

Nuclear energy is a pretty sophisticated topic and I'll be honest, as someone with a degree in physics, who has worked on radiation shielding, and worked at DoE labs (in CS, not physics or engineering, but I was talking to those folks quite a lot given my background and worked on analyzing data), I'm not even confident enough to put my face to my statements. I'm not putting my credentials to boast, but to say that this is a threshold for "unqualified."

It's just too easy to get something little wrong which makes your whole belief collapse. I can tell you, I even see people on the pro-nuclear side make a lot of blunders that have meaningful changes (I've even seen this in shielding even when I have slides showing Geant4 simulations and the results are expected from the math). Nuclear is a pretty tough topic and requires a lot of nuance. Climate even more so. I know a lot of people have strong opinions on these topics but I hope those opinions also do not come with high confidence. A paywall to me suggests higher confidence. Plus is a weird move to advertise your substack. Advertise your domain expertise! That's your quality content.
How can BG make you unemployable? Who has he done this to?
They did coordinate: the software had a policy that you had to take their recommendation at least n% of the time (I think 80?)

Edit: Per discussion below, it was merely strongly encouraged and effectively followed (in practice) to take the recommendation at least 80% of the time... in order to raise prices together...
That's why food photography is an art form. Often the actual food is substituted by something that is more resistant to the thermal onslaught of the lighting but that looks identical.

As to the number of takes and food: one particular set I recall was for a cookie brand, they did endless re-takes and the actress that had to eat the cookies started to get sick enough to vomit. We were all pretty happy when the director was finally satisfied with what must have been his masterpiece.
I believe plutonium also has a couple crystal phases with significantly different densities, which allows for a sudden compaction.
The lawsuit accuses RealPages of not just being used for the collusion, but actually orchestrating the collusion. It claims RealPages went to the point of attempting to coordinate lease start/end timing across landlords to prevent oversupply, and having daily pricing calls with their customers where they pressure them not to deviate from the algorithmic suggested price. That's in addition to using non-public rental and pricing data from its customers to calculate the algorithmic price in the first place.
Yes, I am assuming the OP considered that in their energy calculations. Solid waste recycling is another issue we desperately need to address to be sustainable.
Someone you love? If the affection is mutual they're not going to cut off communication with you because your phone doesn't run their favorite chat app.
Ah I think I see what you're saying. The overall group dynamics work out such that to make the distribution economically viable I'd still wind up paying the same.

Now that I'm thinking through your lens my way might even result in preventing anything other than what is defined by the majority as mainstream programming from being released. Largely because I doubt shows have anything close to an even distribution of watchers so certain genres would naturally be oversubscribed.

I wonder if this is really pointing out to separating the business model for new content versus old content. I very rarely watch a new show, there's so much existing good media, in that case I'm not trying to pay for creation of the show, I'm just trying to pay to have the media available to me, so that's bandwidth, delivery and hosting of said content, versus the continued production of said content.
It has nothing to do with finances. You can buy a perfectly good used iPhone for less than $100. It has to do with taste. Not wanting to date a guy with an Android phone is like not wanting to date a guy because he's a Weaboo.
I'm not sure modern journalists are any better than the journalists of yore. It was easier for the yore journalists to get away with bias and incompetence, because there wasn't an alternative source of news.
I remember that most with renegade x to renegade thinking it's basically the same graphics wise in my minds eye but nooo.
Protobuf is great, but wait till you hear about JSON!

Jokes aside, while JSON is bulkier, binary protocols like protobuf, avro, thrift have one big penalty: they are hard to read/understand by humans without some tooling. The value of seeing the network call and being able to actually understand what's going on without having to translate the format into something human readable is hard to overstate.

The bigger payload size of JSON is not enough for me not to see the main benefit : I can check what's going on with any tool: from curl, to postman, to my browser's damn network window. With some compression, JSON is not that bad size wise either.

To read and generate protobuf, you mostly have to rely on some tooling/library provided by Google, and those, like most of their software (looking at you, Guava), is the reverse of backwards compatible, despite what they're advertising. Just search Google for "protobuf version mismatch".

Maybe I am speaking heresy here, but software by Google (like k8s, protobuf, guava, etc) for me has been notoriously backwards incompatible and overly complex, and I try to steer clear from it as much as possible. I gotta give the crown to K8s here, it specifically is an absolute clusterfuck, the pinnacle of what happens when 1000s of good ideas are combined together in a sloppy, quick execution and without regard for previous versions.

You can achieve schema with any other binary format like avro (which doesn't tie you to using google libraries, which i hate with a passion), and you can achieve a schema with xml and json, so after reading the article, there is still 0 reason for me to use protobuf, if not for performance and only within a google ecosystem.
I had an introductory course on OS and learned about hard real-time systems. I had impression hard real-time is about memory, deadlocks, livelocks, starvation, and so on. And in general about how to design system that moves forward even in presence of serious bugs and unplanned-for circumstances.
I believe it's this one, I'm not a lawyer.

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...

Perhaps they were not bought in bulk then, I don't know.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2012/jul/05...

Here's a Deloitte talk recommending businesses to buy used licenses: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/pl/Documents/...
I was just greeted by the following message when opening Gmail:

Time to use the latest Gmail

Starting January 2024, this version of Gmail (Basic HTML Gmail) will no longer be supported, and you'll automatically start using Standard Gmail. Switch to the latest Gmail version now.

Sad to see it go. I was always pleasantly surprised that they kept offering that no-nonsense version for as long as they did.
Yeah this is the crux.
Middle of the ocean has been done already. 36 launches. No idea if they sought government licenses. Probably at least some kinds because few projects need to launch that don't use government business or support. For now. The point is, you can. Go for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch
Yes. Just as I have a right to be on a public highway with whatever personal items I want in my trunk. I will agree to speed limits. I will not agree to letting any member of the public look in my trunk.
I call it deliberate self-delusion. It's incredibly powerful.
She was taught to as long as I was, but she was a poor student so I assume she didn't pay much attention to her teachers nor the coursework.

Hey, even the worlds worst teacher has a bf or a husband. Is he supposed to think she's amazing just because he enjoys spending time with her doing other things?
Also solvable: encrypt messages (and everything else) in iCloud backups (by default and not as a hidden special mode with scary warnings).
Talent Density at Coinbase
They're only looking for people with an extraordinary ability such as:
- Are an Olympic athlete
- Have elite armed forces experience
- Developed a large audience on social media platforms
- Won chess tournaments, coding or video game competitions
- Researched and discovered breakthroughs

The CEO and COO now have to approve all candidates? Sounds like they want to slow down hiring aka hiring freeze...
At least they don't all stop working at the same time.
The other L4s before it showed that caps are useful and can be implemented efficiently.
I've only seen iMessage get used in familes where everyone has an apple device for family chats and stuff.
*WR plants take too long to build, tie-up too much capital for too long without ROI, and have messy logistics.

It's fast and cheap to deploy zillions of solar panels. It takes a bit longer to truck in the massive components of wind turbines and do a site install. We're already at 30% renewable production of all electricity worldwide. There isn't a compelling rationale for needing nuclear energy, more often it's individuals fixated on it because they want it. Business people or a nonprofit running an energy utility will look at the possibilities and the opportunity costs, and find nuclear isn't a very good fit given the alternatives apart from rare circumstances.
What makes you think you're not arguing with one now?
Private property does not just exist for the purpose of making money. Your food is your private property, and it exists to nourish you. Your primary residence, if you own rather than rent, is your private property and it exists to give you shelter and a place to live life. Your car, if you have one, is your private property and exists to allow you to go places. Making money is but one of the uses property can be put to.
Religion is a helluva drug.
The landlords were clearly communicating pricing information to one another with the intent of profit maximization. I don't see how software mediation changes that.
You should check out Clerky - great tool.
So he says, but LLMs will tell you that too.
Perhaps it only seems that way because they are better at deceiving doctors and researchers.
Luckily the current self-hosted version has not been much of a burden to support so far.

But I do wonder if/how that might change with an alternate licensing model.

In the examples you've heard about, do you recall where the most significant support costs oftened stem from?
That is an entirely different question than IF someone would want floating reactors provided they are safe.

Read through the comment chain

>> What if we could make them safe?

>It is not a technical problem. It is a social one.
From the parents posters comments, the developers could very well be putting together quick proofs of concepts.

I’ve set up an “RnD” account where developers can go wild and click ops away. I also set up a separate “development” account where they can test thier IAC manually and then commit it and it gets tested through a CI/CD pipeline. Then after that it goes through the standard pull request/review process.
And you think chronic, crippling loneliness can't make someone lose their will to live? If you don't know what tulpas are, there's an entire, fairly large online community of people willingly inducing schizophrenia in themselves just so they have an imaginary friend to talk to. Surely, AI companions would be a healthier alternative to that.
Sigh. "basic and fundamental."
> Also what happens if they encounter an explosive growth or burst usage event?

TFA states that they maintain their AWS account, and can spin up additional compute in ~10 minutes.
A conditional move is not guaranteed to be faster than a predictable branch. It varies a lot by microarchitecture. It was just an example. Imagine if you had a store in the else branch. Now optimizing away a store means that load elimination may kick in. Folding branches in the compiler unlocks tons of downstream benefits.
If you're in Taiwan, then Taiwan.

Incorporating in Delaware means that you'll be filing a U.S. tax return every year, the cost of which would likely exceed your business maintenance costs (if any, depends on the state). If you need to raise money, you can always incorporate a Delaware subsidiary (or parent) then.

I know that Delaware is a popular choice in the startup community, but that is because it is what VCs want. Delaware is very rarely the proper choice for the founders, it is generally not the right choice for small businesses (meaning fewer than 50 employees or $50 million in annual revenue), and it's almost never the right choice a small business that have no physical presence in the U.S.
Aberystwyth University is a gem of a school on the Welsh west coast, and encourages interesting research like this.

Here are more Aberystwyth innovation stories if you're curious...

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/rbi/research/aber-research/150-res...
If you want to be educated, you can do it it home.. probably better than listening to average public school teachers. If you want the world to be safe, thats pretty hard to do from home. So I believe the soldier is giving you something you couldn't get without him... Safety.
You need to pump air into a plane to provide oxygen. That implies that you need to let air out. The pressurisation system in planes is able to deal with a moderate amount of air exiting the aircraft without losing pressure, and the lower the altitude the easier that is.
I think the point is that if the same shooters had only more 'normal' guns available to them, they would not have been able to cause nearly as much death and injury before being stopped.
how many chat services do you use? and how many are making money off of you in other ways?
So now we are going to deploy thousands of mostly metal and plastic devices into contaminated seas to produce fuel and water, which will in turn just be used to make humanity even more efficient and expanding....

What I hate about this device is that it doesn't give anything back to the polluted sea. It doesn't try and clean anything. It just takes...takes away from an already wounded wild environment fuel and water, and leaves it just as polluted as before.

That's how we are -- always taking from the earth without giving anything back. We should have the philosophy that whatever we take, we should try and give back at the same time. So, if we remove 1 cup of water, we should try and remove 1 cup of toxic substances too or construct some natural, protected area in return.
I mean, “fleet” semantics aside, surely $150,000 of servers is enough for at least one full-time person to be maintaining them. The point is that there are absolutely maintenance and ops costs associated with these servers.
Do we get free returns and refunds for 30 days