skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This will be bad for everyone in this country

Whole heartedly disagree. It will be very good for some people and for others it will not be good.

We have been homeschooling for the last 8 years. Our kids are more mature and far exceed anything public school would have done for them. However, we see home schooling as a vocation and something we have to put effort into—not just something we sign up for on a website and then let our kid do all the work online.

Given the right reasons, homeschool will always be superior because the student/teacher ratio is so low. Plus you know your kids better and can adapt to their needs.

Given the wrong reasons, sure, it will fail people. But arguably those folks are already failing—and being propped up by a system which tries to support them but ultimately cannot.
I can't help if that is how you interpreted what I said, but I fully agree apple is well within their rights to block this type of usage.
Yes, I read the article. It's full of expectations.

There is the expectation that someone should be punished severely for hacking a multi-billion dollar corporation.

There is the expectation that that punishment will result in them just never hacking again.

There is the expectation that a person who is arrested and threatened will respond with patience, and not with their own violence.

There is the expectation that the well-known symptoms of Autism will just magically disappear whenever they conflict with the above expectations. If not, it's the fault of the person with Autism, not whoever set impossible expectations.

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All of these expectations have a common theme: they are leveled at this one person. He's a teenager with Autism! It doesn't matter: we have expectations, and they have to be met.

Fuck that. I have expectations of my own.

I expect that a justice system will actually try to meet people at their own level.

I expect that a justice system will attempt to resolve mental health with treatment instead of violence.

I expect that a multi-billion dollar company will respond to hacks with the only effective method there is: strengthening their own security. Anything else is just a waste of breath.

My expectations are not being met. There's not a damn thing I can do about it, either: I'm not the one with billions of dollars at my disposal.
Using California as an example, they are charging $0.12 / kWh more for non-Teslas than for Teslas. I don't see any reason to assume that delta would be different in other locations.

Since the Tesla-Supercharging business is running at break-even, you're looking at something like $8.40 for a non-Tesla adding 70kwh.
Do you really need airbags and safety belts? They add a lot of weight, cost and occupy space.
Synthetic Restrictions
Not sure if I'd call that severe autism. That's psychopathic behavior, when you don't feel any remorse for your crimes.
The original assertion was about "none of [videos in a political context that could change the course of an election or lead to political violence] having transpired". Of course a single example of a deepfake appearing in a political context is evidence of the contrary.

As formulated, it isn't necessary for either election outcomes or political violence to be attributed to said fake videos, and I would say that demanding that kind of evidence is unreasonable (it's a common denialist tactic to require an absurd level of evidence). So why exactly are those not evidence of the contrary according to you?
Built a Restaurant Waitlist App
Acquired the original business from an absentee founder. The site was at least 10 years old and the original build was on Ruby/Rails. We revamped the brand and rebuilt on PHP.
Corporate decisions to increase prices have taken a lot out of paychecks.

Not sure what any President could do without control of Congress and passing legislation against millions in lobbying by corporations.

https://thehill.com/business/economy/4057722-greedflation-is...
I don't think you're accurately representing how this will go.

This is an incredible volume of data, and very encouraging. What it will justify is the ramp from 10k trips a week to 100k trips a week.

As they go, they'll start rapidly collecting much more safety data, which will then be used to justify the ramp to 1M trips a week.

As they roll out to new environments (snow, harder and new urban settings, airports) they're taking it slowly enough to collect strong evidence that it's a justified decision.

And local regulators are scrutinizing this aggressively.
It's not an Android issue, though. It's Apple gatekeeping it. Like for instance if they allowed Android users to use this Beeper app, the experience would be good for all users.

Apple degrade the user experience to spite their own customers. Quite bizarre.
This reads to me as a somewhat resentful protest of the need to change, when living in a society. Yes, the world changes - yes, you need to adapt to it.

What immaturity, to assume that there exists anything like a 'final state of perfection'.

Be like water.
As you note, the "luck" debate often bogs down into a false dichotomy of extremes when the reality is usually in-between and complicated. In my experience, most people (and companies) have the opportunity to encounter approximately similar amounts of "good" and "bad" luck, when averaged over the long run. However...

* This is gated by the ability to recognize those opportunities when they appear, willingness to act decisively to maximize the probability of positive outcomes and the preparedness to exploit such advantages. This tends to require mental preparedness, emotional maturity and a willingness to invest scarce resources and/or time - in advance - toward maintaining situational awareness and some excess reserve resources. Doing this is hard but these traits are learnable.

* Similarly, a portion of available conscious effort and scarce resources must be continuously expended toward being resilient to bad luck when it inevitably strikes. The net impact of misfortune can vary substantially depending on mitigation steps taken in advance. This requires accurate awareness of ambient risk factors and careful balancing of where you choose to place your limited 'air bags' and 'ounces of prevention.'

Most of these things are at least somewhat within your ability to influence, with the exception of initial conditions. At the "opening deal" of life some people are dealt better cards and some people are dealt worse cards. This is not fair, but it is what it is. The silver-lining is that, after the initial cards are dealt, it can still be a long game with many rounds. How you choose to play the cards you have in each of those rounds can lead to substantially different outcomes. Because it's a game like poker with randomness, hidden variables, subtle cues and second-order probabilities - it's easy to conclude it's almost all luck. This is unfortunate because not understanding the 'meta' of the game, or even knowing there is a meta, does make it mostly luck for some.

I think NVidia's 'good fortune' is the cumulative result of playing the meta-game effectively for a long-time and thus leading to them having the capability to maximize their outcomes when eventually finding themselves in a high-opportunity environment (aka "lucky").
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.
Using California as an example, they are charging $0.12 / kWh more for non-Teslas than for Teslas. I don't see any reason to assume that delta would be different in other locations.

Since the Tesla-Supercharging business is running at break-even, you're looking at something like $8.40 for a non-Tesla adding 70kwh. So that's pretty close to your gas vehicle estimate.
That depends on what your "it" is, and I agree here that framing is really key. Consider the difference between your formulation:

> should the government be able to force you at gunpoint/threat of imprisonment to carry a fetus for 9 months?

and:
When should the government be able to force you at gunpoint/threat of imprisonment to carry a fetus for 9 months?

You can take my version and reduce it to yours with "always" and "never" responses, but the world is not digital, it is analog. My question allows for a lot more answers, a lot more debate, and compassion for one another.

A binary response leads only to argumentation because we can't find the edges that we agree on, only the boundary we fight over.
> What would be the advantage of implementing it in the application?

It is always implemented in the application. The question is about whether you do it in your own application or use someone else's application.

The disadvantage of doing it in your application is that you have to do the work that someone else has probably already done, and are likely not as great of a programmer as that other person, thus more likely to screw it up.
Gyms are notorious for sending unpaid dues to debt collection. Even if the designated cancellation process ought to be illegal, you still have to end the contract to end your legal obligations.
Recent and related:

Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38183454 - Nov 2023 (236 comments)

For a bunch of earlier threads see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38184288.
I don’t think the engines will switch their happy-paths to splats until artists have the proper tools to create assets with splats. As cool as generating splats with AI is, the assets in a AAA game must fit the art directors vision, which means having artists in the loop.

I feel like the visual style of games will change as a result of generative AI to be whatever style those AI models have a hard time generating. Essentially the games that will stand out will be truly original, art wise.
It’s faster, you can do online schema migrations, but it’s hard to say unless a specific database is used as an example.
I do not find your pricing any more desirable or palatable

I currently use DocuSign, for my plan, it would be more expensive to use this

I really want a self hosted, self branded, embedded solution with API access. You have this, but it is only available in the most expensive Enterprise plan. I'm not an enterprise and there is no discount for self hosting

My plan, given the open core alternatives are missing the mark for me, is to use the Google Workspace solution included in what we already pay (https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/esignature-g...)

I'm open to reconsidering if you offer the right features at an acceptable price. I'd prefer a fixed price for self hosted, rather than something based on users and docs sent counts

...thoughts from a potential customer...
Honestly I feel like it is really overrated
…and not one mention of the term “standard”.

Something can be open and not a standard. Like the HN API.
> You can do the same with bluetooth/BLE.

Not anymore you can't. Sometime before 2020 apple, and also google, started treating BLE scanning as an operation needing location permissions. (I had to deal with this transition while submitting an iOS app that connected to a BLE device which actually had a GPS module in it)

As of now, I still have to turn on location on my android phone to connect to some BLE devices.
Who do you find is generally right about the tech industry more often?
No, you don’t. This study is very clearly comparing to human drivers on the same streets and time period. Thus, you definitely can say that the human drivers are worse.

Tautological puff pieces are what Tesla does with many of its cherry-picked stats, but this data is much more definitive.
It still looks like magic when I see cars without drivers here in PHX. We'll have them on the freeway soon enough - potentially a game changer for our city
He'd need a dedicated handler, and even then judging from the article's portrayal he seems like a hopelessly unmanageable type. He'd fit in with a modern-day A-team, come to think of it.
> Just because I said your headline is unoriginal...doesn't mean you have to rubber band reflex the other direction that "I MUST BE A LIAR!!!" as the only explanation.

I only got to that point when you gave a claim you would not back up, not because of your "headline is unoriginal" opinion.

To answer your opinion, look at my archive [1]. I have some original titles:

* "Your Loved Ones Are Prisoners, and You Made the Chain"

* "The Scourge of 00UB"

* "Head in the Hurricane: Securing a Web Server"

The one thing those headlines have in common is that they did not go viral.

Sure, a headline may be unoriginal, but if it gets more people to read it than an original headline does, why wouldn't I do that? I think my writing deserves reading more thwn it deserves original headlines.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/archive/
This is a bad take. The police are a lot more problematic than you seem to think
> The blue bubbles are a luxury item / luxury signal that let's apple differentiate their products

It's also an abuse of their market position to discriminate against the competition, and they have done so very successfully.

There are far more subtle, less othering ways to indicate a participant in a conversation isn't capable of the same functionality as others.
Cloudflare Year in Review 2023
Hard-won experience? I vaguely remember when Sudafed got put behind counters because it was used to make meth. I don't frequently get sick. Often, the last medication I bought is expired by the time I need it again. One year, I found something that worked for me. Another year, I thought I bought the same thing, but it just didn't work. The one I had originally bought (same brand) had a behind-the-counter version that worked. It's annoying to catch the pharmacy when it's open, but now I just ask the pharmacist for generic Sudafed with the smallest-lasting dose (so I can decide if I want to take more).

I've found with most medications looking for an active ingredient and an amount is helpful. You can search for effectiveness or side-effects. The brand I got last time isn't always available and they'll have 3-hour or 12-hour versions with warnings about exceeding recommended dosages (or mixing medications). Or company annoyingly package similarly-branded things that just aren't the same.
Let's not leave Big Pharma out of this. They charge the US 2.5x compared to countries with universal healthcare [1]. Why? Because Medicare and other large population sizes here are prevented from negotiating drug prices.

We also need to consider hospital, ER and ambulance costs.

In this case, having a single universal plan can greatly reduce those costs.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2022/11/how-much-does-the-united-s...).
That is exactly what is happening here. The Mastodon server is handling the firehose, and creating sub-streams for each user based on followed accounts and tags.
There isn't much special about iMessage you can't find on other messaging platforms. Since iMessage is the default messaging app, few iPhone users bother installing anything else. Apple doesn't want good messaging compatibility with Android devices because they want to retain iPhone users. For the last couple years, Apple's iPhone innovation has stagnated, and one of the ways they can maintain their market share is by keeping customers in the walled garden.
The major difference is that people can choose a different network if they are unhappy with the moderation from any specific network.

A channel on youtube can't just decide that they are unhappy with the moderation by youtube and replace them with an other moderation team. They can leave youtube, but then they also loose access to existing subscribers on the site.

Youtube users can also not decided they are unhappy with the moderation of youtube and whitelist videos or channels that youtube have blocked. They can leave youtube, but then the channels also need to leave or the user will loose access to videos.

The distinction between centralized power and decentralized power is how much power each actor has in the system. In a decentralized system the user control who they want to see, the content creator control who can access their content, and the network control what content the network will advertise to users. In a centralized system the network control everything, and neither the user or content creator can overrule the network.
Funny, I don't have that problem with Facebook Messenger, Instagram Chat, WhatsApp, Matrix, etc. I hope Apple can hire some smart folks to help them with these totally-not-self-imposed challenges!
A bunch of hacky comedians deemed it a social fopaux to not be able to afford an iPhone for some reason. I hope they got their tik tok engagement out of it at least.
Sorry to glom on to you, but how do you set that up?
Good job Fastly. I would love to see metrics on bandwidth consumed from Arxiv. I always wonder how it and services like package repositories are able to provide their downloads for free.
I actually read a whole book on the weaponization of human rights, and how some groups portray their cause as “noble” to get around the sticky questions such as motive and self-benefit. I’m not saying this exactly that, but there’s a lot of, “we’re doing this for you!” speech here that’s a bit out of line with the stakes of the problem…
WebKit Initial WebGPU Support
I don't think the founders need any more money.
Detecting an asteroid years or decades in advance in the first place would be an extremely difficult task, I believe.
Lawyers have to fight to get that to apply for digital video. So it would take a specific law to make that carry through to pharmacies.

And for that matter, I doubt the video store law applies to bookstores.

(A judge confirmation process ran in trouble because of video rental records - so a law was written ... which addresses only video rental. For maximum inefficiency or something.)
It doesn't look like any of these even tried opsec - which isn't surprising because such crimes committed against individuals or small companies effectively became decriminalized in the UK so opsec would just be a waste of time.

Their mistake was to think that embarrassing the establishment by breaching high-profile (Nvidia, etc), culturally-relevant companies (BT/EE) would be met with similar inaction.

Also, with regards to skill, keep in mind that the establishment has a huge interest in making the hacks sound much more advanced than they really were to minimize the embarrassment of the affected companies. It would look really bad if it was widely known that these companies were pwned with nothing more than basic phishing, bribery and social engineering, something anyone can do.
Centralized superapps seem incredibly dangerous to privacy, given that the limited mobile privacy models are designed around per-app permissions.

1. Create app that does 1 thing
2. Add more features to app
3. Abuse superset of permissions
4. Gov leans on app owner
5. Gov abuses superset of permissions
Growing up as a teenager in a time where there wasn’t iPhones it was tennis shoes. My kids dealt with it too—specifically backpacks (if I recall correctly). Point is, after we got out of high school it didn’t much matter and we got on with our lives in our off the rack shoes and no name backpacks.

We didn’t need special intervention that made all shoes Nike or all backpacks JanSport.
Just like with email addresses, there are a nontrivial number of people who share the same phone number.
I don't see how the grand-scale theft and extortion run by Lapsus$ is remotely comparable to the behavior of a "typical socially awkward gamer teenager", even a particularly unethical one.
I think you're mistaking quality as a proxy for determining value to the purchaser. It might be low quality, and still absolutely worth $150 to folks who buy it.

Even if you can be 100% objective on quality, the only way to make any kind of sweeping price/quality assessment is to compare it to other things on the market. What do other things in this price range give you? What do similar quality products cost? This is where I see some valuable comparisons actually being made in this context.

> I don't think it has. How about you?

I just can't see how this adds to the discussion at all in light of the above. It reads like "this isn't worth $150 to me" and I just think, ok, it's not for you. /shrug
Is the HN api proprietary?
The main advantage is it's WAY faster if you are writing a lot.

The big disadvantage of foreign keys is they do verify integrity. That means making lookups on every write/update which can be very costly especially as the model becomes more complex.

If you have a read heavy application with low levels of writes then by all means put in foreign keys to you hearts content. But if you are at a point where you have millions or billions of records in multiple tables, they simply aren't feasible.
He wasn’t sentenced to life.

He was ordered to remain under supervised medical care until a doctor determines that he is mentally fit to stop causing harm. This is as a result of both his hacking, his assaults on caretakers and destruction of physical property.

He also told the court that if he was released he would go right back to doing crimes.
It's a real thing. The minute you throw the door open to extreme views, they start pushing every other view out. Soon all the people capable of civil discussion have moved on, and the bartender is witnessing a tiny beer hall putsch.
Ask HN: What's preventing you from using .NET?
I had the chance to do research on C#, F#, .NET (I must admit, I'm still confused with all the various names and versions), and ASP.NET (core?). I genuinely find the technology stack intriguing and am considering using it in a few side projects. If things progress well, I might propose it to my employer. What factors are hindering your adoption of .NET? Is it because of the Microsoft label? concerns about the desktop GUI support? License? Could it be related to tooling, or are software requirements and packaging considerations playing a role? or something else?
Crypto prices really took off when speculation went thru the roof due to govt "stimmies". Look at the increase in $ nominal pricing of non-standard crypto (everything not BTC, ETH, xmr), the largest upward move recorded in history will be the period 20-22 in the aggregate

NFTs at 100K , etc.

Thats the "craze"

Before that it was still a speculative play, but hardly pervasive and available to so many.
This was recently discussed extensively:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38464057
I don't feel remorse for his crimes. Am I a psychopath?

Hacking a game company just so you can show people what is being worked on should not be a crime.