skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reality is that your data is worthless, and your use of the service is a liability rather than an asset. And you'll be equally worthless to any competitor, which was the GP's actual point.

I disagree. Bulk usage data is a type of platform moderation which makes certain content more or less popular, and it improves the quality of the platform overall when fed into their algorithms. That's how google search is made as well. That rises the number of users to the platform. Out of that number, some don't mind paying for it, and some don't mind being tracked/showed ads.

In a nutshell, mine and your usage usage/engagement, regardless if we block ads or not, helped them improve heir platform, which resulted in increase in paying users.
They have a patent, which IIRC should be expiring fairly soon (the original patent anyway)
Oh that makes sense. I was thinking that there’s added risk of spammers and botters on mini and they’d want to gate that
It doesn't prevent the sale of X - it incentivizes vendors from producing X + X^1 + X^2 + X^3 + X^4 etc with the additional production going to pure waste.

Look at the nature of production to meet demand before and after fast fashion .. there's been a sea change to not simply meet demand or provide a little additional choice but to over produce as a means of changing consumer behaviour to milk out every cent with a by product of magnitudes more landfill than has previously existed.
Have nerdy friends? We used Mumble+XMPP for years until my (highly technically inclined) friend group merged with another substantially less-so one.
Sandstorm requires rewriting of every app to make it compatible with its security architecture. You can look at Cloudron to see what it's missing. Last I checked, Yuno was a close second, but not nearly as polished.

Regardless, that does not diminish its usefulness. I ran it for several years and love the idea of isolated instances one can share with unique links. Learned a lot just hosting it, so thanks again, Kenton - he was on IRC chat when I had a question. True geek through and through.
> Your position re: "the sticker" is a substantial retraction of your initial argument, that piracy is not immoral.

That was my original argument, from a week ago. You can go look at it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38453647

Don't know how I could've made it any clearer. Genuinely curious whether/how you will update as a result.
Because VCs are not out to gain a small profit. They are out for large returns, so letting their investment funds stagnate for multiple years in a low-growth, slow-burn environment lacks that potential for a massive return... that is a failure against their investment goals.
Ive have gotten maybe one or two a week for the previous month and then 4 yesterday nearly back to back.

But at the same time I've been having legitimate (including manually marked not-spam, repeatedly) get dumped in spam instead
This is from Nov 25th. Since then, russian forces have made marginal advances in Eastern Ukraine.
How about having a leader willing to make big bold bets? Whatever you may think about Zuck renaming Facebook to Meta, it certainly seems to demonstrate that his company hasn't fallen prey to stasis.
Yes. This is on the money.

Wasm component model enables the stream processing operations to be natively available to wasm compatible languages.

Fluvio core streaming engine is implemented in Rust.

The first generation stream processing, transformations were initially implemented in Rust needed binding generators to work in Python, JavaScript, Go etc. Also state and window operations and offset management needed to be expressed in application logic.

In the current generation of stream processing wasm component model enables a native support for polyglot stream processing.
I remember a while back 10 years? On HN someone did a poc ( code ) of Shazamn like and he was sued or asked to remove everything.
I like that idea, but more because it would discourage oh-so-clever names for projects.
I'm expecting your checks pronto!
And it was very nice of YouTube to not follow this
Not really. ARM TZ has been repeatedly blown open, in part because it’s not really a separate core or virtualized workload, but a different “mode of operation” that the standard CPU cores switch into temporarily. Basically going back-and-forth between TZ and your OS if I understand correctly. Turns out that’s a side-channel attack nightmare.
The governor should convince Google to build a data center there and paint it blue.

Then it can be the Google Azure Amazon data center.
Willingness is almost antithetical to having the motivation to grind in my mind. In order to do something persistently, you need to trade something for it, and often times you need to ignore the fact that the trade isn't worth it, or not have anything else competing for that attention in the first place; in otherwords, some level of compulsion as well as willingness.

It's the same with skateboarding, or any other interest that is difficult, time consuming, character building, and that requires obsession.

The defining characteristic of programming, as opposed to some others, is that it's complex and only intellectually demanding, whereas the others are some combination of physical and mental stress. People don't know how to navigate that from the beginning, but the ones who have the disposition to simply throw themselves at it regardless of failure, repeatedly, figure it out eventually.

The ones who actually succeed in a career of it are probably the ones who figured out how to dial it back as an obsession, and stop when they're 10hrs in to take a different approach.
Styling based on js, eg striking through if an item becomes deleted, etc
Emergency rooms are required to serve everybody.
my friend, anyone can come to these conclusions by reading your literal words:

>capitalism is not the simple proposition that profit justifies anything, even if some people sometimes suggest that it is

>in order to advance their agenda

>in a rather deceitful manner

so by very clear implication:

>capitalism doesn’t prioritise profit over everything else

>people say otherwise because they have an agenda

>those same people push their agenda with lies (deceit)

just a stab in the dark, but is all this very dramatic bluster and outrage simply because you levelled your accusation at people GP agrees with rather than at GP directly? did you expect a level of plausible deniability because of that? is that why you’re so angry?

if you’re so unable to say what that deceit or agenda is, why did you say it at all? were you trying to sound “in the know” or smart?
The AARD code (which was a non-fatal warning that didn't stop you from using Windows) never actually shipped. It was patched to be non-reachable in the final release, probably a binary patch to avoid a regression and long build times (including a large packing problem: optimizing floppy disk layout)

FWIW DR-DOS was a dead end product at launch. It was abundantly clear to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that people/OEMs were not going to buy two operating systems: a GUI OS and a DOS that also acted like a bootloader for the GUI OS.

The idea that there would exist, for any significant length of time, a market for a standalone text-only 16-bit DOS was complete and utter fantasy. DR-DOS was never significant in terms of sales. Even if the AARD code had actually shipped in the final Windows 3.x release it wouldn't have mattered.
Sometimes people with bad ideas also have good ideas now and then. Rand falls in that category.
They do, albeit it's a bit confusing

https://stylexjs.com/docs/learn/thinking-in-stylex/

> There is no runtime overhead here

Specifically

> No runtime style injection.

There's still a runtime though

> Optimized runtime for merging class names.
I thought the point was ownership and how flimsy ownership lead to Piracy. Not a personal rant on how your bad customer service experience justifies your decision to pirate.

I don't care if people "steal" from billion dollar corporations. But let's not mince words and pretend it's some Robin Hood act of altruism. The companies already took that piracy into account on their budget book anyway; they won't change their ways over this.

That whole Gabe Newell quote about "piracy is a service issue" goes both ways. Piracy isn't always convinent and plenty of people don't wanna set up plex servers and search torrents and organize their library to get "the best experience". They just want to turn on device and play/watch/read seemlessly
Sounds like you're on the fence about leaving, first step is decide if you want to leave or not. Then plan how to exit and retain some value in the equity (if it's worth it). Be open about your plans to exit the company and if the founders trust you, they'll work it out with you.

You should try to negotiate a conversion of your ISO shares to NSO shares, and extend the exercise window by 7 years. This will change the tax profile a bit for the shares, but allow you to keep your equity and still leave to do something else. It's a common option, but not given as an option to every employee, only those who are well vested. But it's way better than losing your shares with a 90 day exercise window.

If they won't go for that, you should ensure that you know what the current 409a value is for the company. Ask one of the finance folks to help you answer that question. If it is lower than the strike price on your ISOs, you are underwater on the options and you should not exercise and instead let them expire. You'd be better off investing the $25K on something else with better returns.
who cares?

If I'm on instance A and my friend is on instance B and she is talking to someone on Threads (instance C) and instance A blocks instance C .. it just means I won't see posts from instance C. So maybe my friend on instance B gets into a conversation with someone on instance C. In my view I just don't see the C side of the convo. No harm, no foul.

A lot of the fediblock stuff is not 'well they won't defederate from the BADPEOPLE so i'll defederate from them too!'. In fact I'm not sure I've seen an example of that actually happening. You often see grousing and calls for it, but I'm not sure I've ever seen it happen. Most of the block lists i've seen are simply instances of 'free speech warriors' who refuse to moderate calls for violence from their userbase, instances that are straight up 'we are nazis' here, or instances that are extremely sketchy porn.
- Styles colocated with markup/logic (I consider this an advantage with a component library like React, others may not)

- No global styles stomping on each other, styles scoped to a single module unless explicitly exported/imported

- Type safety, if using TypeScript

The main downside is often performance, though
Right, but nothing prevents YouTube to get rid of public video IDs and simply share an opaque version of (user, video) whenever possible.

It'd be awful, but Google nowadays is willing to do shitty stuff like this and atrocious stuff like engage with the military too (because obviously the only flaw of project maven was being discovered)
A platform like Sony should not be allowed to sell content for purchase if it doesn't own the rights to stream it to purchasers in perpetuity.

There should never have been a contract that required renewal with Warner Bros. in the first place.

Sure you can require renewal in order to sell it to new users, and if you don't renew then new users can't buy it.

But the idea that Sony didn't originally have the right to stream it in perpetuity to existing purchasers is absurd.

I don't care what the fine print of the user agreement said -- this is a perfect example of what consumer protection laws are for.

I mean, what's next -- can I rent a house for a year, sell that house to someone and pocket the money, and then at the end of the year they find out it's not their house anymore because I didn't renew my lease...? Because that's basically what Sony has done here.
Show HN: MittaAI
Hey HN community! I'm Kord Campbell, the founder of MittaAI. Previously, I founded Grub and Loggly.

In early 2020, as the world grappled with Covid, I embarked on a journey with Mitta.us (the precursor to MittaAI), aiming to create a personal tool for bookmarking, saving, and indexing documents for later search. During that period, I resided in Alameda, California, where I was lucky enough to encounter an OpenAI engineer. This chance meeting led to me gaining early access to ChatGPT. This use sparked an idea early on: build a pipeline system for processing the documents stored in Mitta using various calls to models and enable discussion with bots about those documents.

Over the past two years, I've been developing exactly that system, and have since launched MittaAI, which utilizes containerized pipelines for efficient document processing. My goal was to create a system that's fast, specializes in handling document sets, and is mostly user-friendly.

One of the challenges I found in building AI applications was been managing asynchronous data processing, especially with complex formats like PDFs and integrations with bot frameworks, like Discord. To give you a taste of how MittaAI handles this, I've uploaded a RAG-based approach for searching indexed documents and featured on the cookbook page, along with a few video guides.

Things with the system are still sometimes brittle, and we're definitely in the early stages of a startup, but I believe taking a risk posting this here has potential. For now, it's free to use, with your own OpenAI tokens. I'd love to hear your feedback or answer any questions about MittaAI. Thanks for reading and for your support!

Discord is here: https://discord.gg/SxwcVGQ8j9
I'm surprised open source printers are not a thing. I guess any intellectual property around printers must be rigorously defended?
WhatsApp (this mostly - I live in India). SMS.

Telegram (2 groups). Discord (3 groups).

Signal (with 1 friend) and iMessage (with 2 friends) — these 2 apps are more of a hobby (a thing?), we four usually use WhatsApp.

I mean I could fight it or just fall line. I fought and lost :D

Notifications off for all.
Yes, it was called A patchy server initially, and then that was made into a wordplay on the term Apache, and they used a colourful feather as a logo.

There is also sn interesting anecdote about Apache devs, IBM and open source.
Love the concept of having the features live embedded in the functionality rather than having UI elements everywhere.
> How do you know you could fix all if you haven't shown you can fix one?

I never claimed I could. In fact I never claimed I could fix even one one of those things.
see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24807542
> it dominates

Not compared to insertion sort, which is the actual contender here.

Weirdly aggressive comment.
I think the GNOME project owns you some cash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary_(e-mail_client)
> A question, when GPT-4 contradicts in explanation, how much of them were in fact correct?

It was mostly when a card is good in a vacuum but not as good in a specific set. WOE (which this was trained on) skewed pretty aggressive, so GPT-4 was tended to overvalue strong expensive cards (compared to what good players thought at least).
That's my memory from college: bubble sort is fine when the data is almost completely sorted.
Google is always free to stop serving me anything at all if they choose to.

However, once they serve me something and it’s received by my user agent, I will use that user agent however I see fit to parse and display (or not display) that content.
The more optimistic the more one is likely to act, i.e. succeed in one's endeavors. No?
Should be skewed slightly toward optimism.
Van Buren protects it from CFAA.

The only avenue that is untested is based on Terms of Service.

I did a OSS WhatsApp reverse engineering project and got a C&D from 800 billion dollar Meta's lawyers all based on violation of their Terms of Service.

As far as I'm aware, there's no precedent for interop against ToS.
Depending on your age you've either been paying for the service that is youtube with your data and content for your entire life or for at least as long as Youtube has existed. Please don't waste any time feeling bad about Google not getting what they're owed. Trust me, at this point they owe you.

The story is a bit different when it comes to the creators themselves who would get money from those ads. They offer their videos for free, and you have no obligation to support them monetarily, but if there is a youtuber whose content you really want to support there is probably some means already to pay them directly without giving anything to Google.
Thanks for the great feedback. Yeah, you are right in that similar things have been tried and I would also think that with the more of these types of platforms that have failed, it makes it even harder.

I wanted to hear your thoughts on one thing maybe that is I made the platform F2F first with the hopes of trying to bypass some of the normal pitfalls. As you said in your last line the goal is you start off by going to one of the events like sports or art clubs or car meets and then join a community and the online aspects like posts are to strengthen ties with that community that you are trying to foster.
Refactoring and knowing where styles are used. In css sometimes the btn class does something and sometimes not. With stylex it is explicit.
Something I've always thought about.

Northern Canada we run our wood stoves for ~8 months a year. Temp on the surface of the stove is 200C to 300C. Outside is -20C to -40C.

Let's say an average of 200C temp delta across the TEC.

Throw a radiator on the outside of the cabin, use coolant with a tiny pump to circulate. How much power am I going to generate with a square foot (or two) of TECs strapped to the wood stove, using the coolant loop to cool the other side?

It feels like we have such a huge temperature delta we should be able to do something with.
> Same as everything you use on your computer

Thank you. That's my point. There is no point in stating that some open source code is somewhat safer because "it can be audited". No. As you said, it's the same as everything I use on my computer. Unless we can establish a consistent safety level for certain type of projects, we can't claim an arbitrary category of software is somehow better.
Any descent alternatives to Grammarly premium?
I had Grammarly premium for many years as part of my university studies until it was dropped today. $30 a month for premium is a lot, and I am hesitant to pay the discount annual. Searching the web reveals a lot of alternatives, but I am not sure which is good or bad. Any ideas ?
10x for data seems insane. Wondering if anyone has more context on what these costs are, and why they're so high.
That's just splitting hairs. Chrome is not holding back features from Chromium, so Chromium has everything that Chrome has. The only things it's missing are things that literally don't matter to Chromium users (like google sync, what are you going to do, make your own google corporation?) or things that literally can't be open-sourced (non-free codecs).

The point here is that open-source "won" because nobody is trying to push features on the W3 Consortium without providing a reference implementation that is also the live, production code in the flagship browser of the largest browser company.
And how is it these reactors are operating with half of the bioshield missing within a foot of my face and yet I feel no ill effects of acute radiation sickness?
And anything in Beta
Good ol' fashioned rent seeking. Why try to get money by creating value when you can skim money off people who do?
The Greek prime minister wants to have a word...
I’m skeptical.

The US has had 1 revolution and 1 civil war. I’m not sure either was caused by cost of living increases. We’ve had several economic rough spots worse than the current time.

Maybe you’re referring to other parts of the world but the US is still a pretty good example of people not revolting for purely economic reasons.
This company is such trash. I had to call all my financial institutions and prevent any klarna charges because of how they enable fraud.
Emulator based WhatsApp accounts are highest risk of bans just f.y.i

If you're worried about using beeper due to bans then just get a second hand burner phone (needs to have had WhatsApp before so it is safe from being identified as "poisoned") then make an account on there to use with beeper.

Beeper is very helpful NGL.
The governor even made a video [1]. A professionally produced video (which means expensive, obviously paid by the taxpayer) to convince (!?) Jeff Bezos.

What does he really expect? That Jeff will go "Yeah, you got me, I was waiting for this, here are some billions of dollars to you" ?

[1] (Note it's from one year ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYeYCqsD1hg
I think MS won't bother but instead build an xbox portable on the same type of platform with a tweaked version of whatever bastardized windows runs on xbox. Then maybe they will license the software stack to your ASUSes and whomever.
The OP already linked to that, and it looks like it has still an up vote button? Couldn't the count go up?
I don't quite want to entertain the parallel, it's a bit too gruesome... In a way it would imply there is a paper form one has to fill to call the "hunters" and allow them to shoot. So then the state would raise an objection about not filling the paperwork, while also objecting that the human lives were put in danger. But then if they sat down and started to fill out forms and mail them in to get permission, they would have gotten in more trouble over putting lives in danger for even longer. So it's a Kafkaesque kind of a situation.
They didn’t “force” anything, they made it available to download if you wanted.
No, I don't think that is so. For one, you still have to decide what is worthwhile to prove. The subject matter of mathematics is very different from that of programming.
My last name is "Grec", which is how you spell "Greek" in French.

Every Greek yogourt container in Canada (and France) has my name plastered all over it - surely I deserve some cash!
I am from India - WhatsApp is messaging here. Scratch that - WhatsApp is communication here. So that’s not really a choice. Maybe you’d have the app for your region unless you’re from USA where I’ve heard it’s iMessage.
Once metal 3d printing is affordable in the home, I'm absolutely downloading a car.
AG Grid: A fully-featured and highly customizable JavaScript data grid
I got tired of my job that involved 95% meetings and 5% coding so I quit in August 2022 and decided to figure out what's next. But, since I'd spent a few years not doing as much coding as I'd have liked, I felt rusty. I probably could've gotten a decent job if I'd tried (I have lots of years of experience) but I didn't have confidence and had lost the joy of it.

So, while I tried to figure out what to do, I worked on my hobby NES emulator for Apple platforms, Blackbox[1]. It's written in Swift and uses SwiftUI.

When a potential contracting role (100% SwiftUI) dropped in my lap, I had the confidence and skills to go for it. It's been great (my meeting-to-coding ratio has inverted!) and they're wanting me to extend my contract for another 12 months. I know the project helped make them feel confidence in my capabilities, but I think it's possible that they'd have gone for me regardless. But, I would've struggled, and I probably wouldn't have even gone for it in the first place because I'd have known that my skills weren't where I wanted them to be.

[1] https://github.com/glhaynes/Blackbox
Enforcement via FATCA was a last minute amendment to a 1,000 page bill. No one read it, and it was overly broad - meant to capture people in the US hiding cash offshore but instead captured people who live outside the US and legitimately have local bank accounts.
I saw a screenshot that showed a UFO in a review of the show and I figured it must have aliens in it.
It's not new that you do not own DRM uncumbered files.
It's true that it was expected that you'll lose access due to drm server disappearing not pure deletion ...