skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been a few rounds in the Church's history of gradual accumulation of feasts followed by a simplification.

A little while back I wrote some code to calculate a liturgical calendar based on pre-60s rubrics. [1] It was a fairly complicated project. There have been a few edge cases that have come up over the years. (E.g., if Christmas Eve is on a Sunday, does it take precedence over the 4th Sunday of Advent? If the Feast of St. John falls on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, which takes precedence?)

[1]: https://github.com/joe-antognini/tridentine_calendar
For domesticated cats and dogs, being inside the home is their natural environment (or can be, to varying degrees).

I've owned cats and dogs. I can let them outside and leave the door open, and they may go outside to explore or play briefly, but they'll want to come inside shortly afterward. Especially my dog - he doesn't even want to be outside by himself, except to relieve himself. He has herding instincts and is uncomfortable being alone outdoors for more than a short time. He would much rather be around people, but if he had to be by himself, then he'd rather be indoors. (Observation: if I were to leave the house, and left the back door open, he'd still spend most of the day inside rather than in the yard.) My cat acts downright frightened being outside.

It's not really possible to discuss what is "natural" here, and I'd recommend being cautious about the naturalistic fallacy [1]: the idea that because something is 'natural' it must be better. It is 'natural' for humans to die of all kinds of diseases, yet we do not wish to, and so we treat ourselves with antibiotics and other medicines. It is 'natural' for children and women to die in childbirth, but we take substantial steps to prevent that, and so on.

In the case of domesticated animals, it's hard to reason about what "natural" even is. The animals have adapted to living with humans; they want to be around humans. They aren't feral, and wouldn't want to live by themselves in the wilderness any more than a human would. They have a choice every time I open the door.

(And yes, if they ran away, I would feel obligated to find them, but that's because I'm responsible for their health and safety, not because they are my prisoners. The point is that they don't even come close to making the choice to do that. It is far more likely that they would simply get lost outside than actually intentionally run away. This has happened once before to my dog, and his emotional reaction upon me finding him demonstrated compellingly that he felt lost and was happy to be found and reunited.)

I might feel conflicted if I ever had a pet that behaved like it wanted to escape from me, but that's never been the case. Even pets that do enjoy to spend time outdoors alone - and I'm happy for them to do that - always want to return to the safety of the home after a time. I would not enjoy having a pet if I thought at all that it felt like a prisoner.

Lastly, I would remark on the fact that these animals were raised from infancy by humans and around humans. They are socialized to be part of the family, just like people are. While it is true that they would have different personalities if they were raised in the wilderness, the same would also be true of a human child. If a human child were abandoned alone in the wilderness and somehow survived, then this human would undoubtedly have great difficulty socializing as an adult, and fitting into a family - yet we would not say that this wild person is somehow better or more natural. We would say that their upbringing was cruel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
That's way more obnoxious than I thought it would be.
I wonder if this has to do with all of the other outages today.
> You never chose option 1 or 2 :)

You provided a false dichotomy, I don't have to choose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

> Exactly so to resolve the current situation, Israel has no options.

I support removing Hamas but not cutting off aid, electricity, fuel, food and not indiscriminate bombing. And I think pairing that with a robust drive to a 2-state solution is also key. You have to provide hope and show you are not just trying to take land or engage in ethnic cleansing, e.g: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-palestinians-conce...

> Doubtful that the court would convict Hamas anyway for just killing a few jews.

I would expect that some of both Hamas and Israeli leadership will be charged and also some will be found guilty of war crimes if ICC filed charges. ICC has been gun shy to get involved though, so it isn't clear if it will happen.

> Any long term solutions can come later.

Always! This is why the occupation has lasted so long.

> Also assume the US should just bring a UN court case against the Houthis in Yemen as well instead of using force to defend ships?

Israel isn't charged at the ICJ for self-defence. It is charged with genocide with is different and not what the US is doing in Yemen. Many leaders said things that sound like genocidal statements and it has cut off food, water, electricity and fuel. 80% of starving people in the world are in Gaza. Here is the UK pleading with Israel to turn the water back on and let in food: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/israel-must-act-now-t...
I think you are looking at it the wrong way. The licensor doesn't guarantee that the licensee can exercise the granted rights. But the license requires that the distributor can guarantee that the recipient can exercise those rights.

If I write up a license that says anyone distributing my software must give the recipient the right to drive a tank on their property, I can distribute it, because I am the copyright holder and can do whatever I want. But in practice that software cannot be redistributed, because those license terms probably cannot be fulfilled by any redistributors.

If VLC wants to put something on the Unity Store that includes LGPL code, then their responsibility (and the Unity Store's responsibility, as they are now distributors as well) is that people downloading that Unity VLC bundle in order to use it in their game must be able to replace the LGPL code in it with modified versions. And that part may actually be possible, so this may be ok.

But then the game developer that uses the Unity VLC bundle must also pass along the ability to their end users (that is, the people that buy and play their game, for example) to replace the LGPL code with modified versions. I think that's just not possible with the Unity Store model[0], so the terms of the LGPL cannot be fulfilled.

If this is the case, it's not unreasonable for Unity to ban LGPL code in bundles, because they know that their customers (game developers) will not be able to abide by the terms of the license.

[0] Similarly to how an end-user wouldn't be able to replace LGPL code in an iOS app with a modified version and then run that on their iPhone, at least not without paying Apple for the privilege, which is an added restriction that violates the terms of the LGPL.
> could be changed at any time seems both futile and immoral

You [to the robot]: Say something nice about me. That always picks me up and makes me feel better.

Robot: I'm sorry, that feature was deprecated in RoboOs v16.4. Would you like me send you information about a premium subscription?
While the Federalist Papers are great works, I don't agree with taking them as enlightened guidance from on high. They were theorizing. No one of them really knew how a modern democracy/republic would actually work in practice.

Remember, the authors of the constitution (large overlap) stated on the record that they expected they got a lot of it wrong, and expected large swathes of it to be amended and replaced once actual experience was obtained.

Yes, for those on one side of the spectrum the ruling orthodoxy is textual originalism. The founders themselves would have told the modern Supreme Court that it's bonkers.
The other poster wasn't participating in an argument with Matt Walsh. You don't seem to understand the basics of logic.

>You just don't like what he said because it's true.

Cute following up with a fallacy of your own.
I've had a Google Home for close to ten years and I don't think I've ever used a single one of these features.

Then again, 99% of my Assistant use is kitchen timers and Spotify, and I systematically disable it on my phones. My kids are still salty about Song Quiz going away last year though.
Is this sort of sharing big enough to warrant dedicated and open-source devices just to do this? A sort-of glorified USB Drive with a sharing protocol and nothing else. You walk around and it just syncs up with things around you. Something that looks like an original iPod with a screen and folders of files.

I don't know anything about the AirDrop or NearbyShare protocols, but I wonder if they can be implemented in such a device?

All the recently announced dedicated AI devices make me think people might be into it.
Harmful diagnostic errors occurred in 17.8% of hospital records reviewed.
I strongly agree that it's dependent based on what you order. I've had mixed experiences in the past so now I basically only use Amazon to order used books. I don't expect them on time (nor do they promise it) and they have almost every title I could ask for!
character.ai is in for a hard time.
OpenStreetMap Tile Attribution Issue Tracker
Tool for reporting and tracking sites which are using tile.openstreetmap.org servers but not attributing OpenStreetMap.

Following OSM data license (that effectively makes necessary to attribute OpenStreetMap, in way visible to user) is necessary in general. But enforcing it is much easier when someone who violates OpenStreetMap license also uses also OpenStreetMap servers.

See also official announcement on https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/websites-using-osmf-ti...

(I took part in creating it but per https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html it does not qualify for show HN as it is not interactive)

(disclaimer: I am heavily active in OSM, including being part of OpenStreetMap Foundation board)
It's your distance to a warehouse and if you order what everyone orders. If I order a winter coat in summer while in Florida, I'm gonna have a bad time.

I live driving distance to two amazon warehouses. I can get a great number of products in the same day.
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Technical Writing: Write Less
Wirepas requested a meeting with us at our office several years ago. They were very polite, but in all honesty, we knew even less about implementing their product afterward, and felt as though they weren't really interested in working with /us/ at all.

Most of our questions were about implementing their firmware in our hardware (which largely went unanswered), and most of their questions were focussed companies we have ties with, that they were interested in reaching but have so far been unsuccessful.

I hope they're doing well as it was an interesting product.
Unilateral disarmament doesn't really work. You can sit on your hands but your adversaries might choose differently and that just means you are more likely to loose in case of a conflict. So, yes, that was never going to work. OpenAI might choose to not serve those customers. But that just creates opportunities for other companies to step up and serve those customers. Somebody will do it. And the benefit for OpenAI doing this themselves is a lot of revenue and not helping competitors grow. Doing this on their terms is better than having others do it.

I think the sentiments around AI and war are mostly a bit naive. Of course AI is going to be weaponized. A lot of people think that's amoral, not ethical, etc. And they are right. In the wrong hands weapons can do a lot of harm and AI enabled weaponry might be really good at that. Of course, the whole point of war is actually harming the other side any way you can. And usually both sides think they are right and will want the best weapons to do that. So, yes, they'll want AI and are probably willing to spend lots on getting it.

And if you think about it, a lot of conflicts are actually needlessly bloody. AI might actually be more efficient at avoiding e.g. collateral damage and bringing conflicts to a conclusion sooner rather than later. Or preventing them entirely. Sort of the opposite of what we are seeing in Ukraine currently.
Perhaps this is really a personal preference, but in maths I really dislike ambiguity. There are is just way better notation for this. For example Einstein notation or Rici calculus? Besides being succint, it is explicit and well understood. Even just using plain i,j indicies is not too cumbersome. But for a b scalars and A a matrix

B = aA + b

is not well defined.
Number of Americans in their 100s expected to quadruple in the next 30 years
Stressing components to destruction is a commonplace product development activity, including rocketry.
"We're doing cost cuts and layoffs and here's why this is great for you".
Probably worth to take a look https://atlasos.net/
It looks like Amazon created the same thing Google did. Paying keywords for ranking and if you don’t they decide what comes up organically.
They crawl and decide which goes into what order.
>The other poster wasn't participating in an argument with Matt Walsh.

not required.
> The value comes from the videos themselves, not from the service.

And the value that the service to creators is that they pay $0 for hosting, have a large viewing potential, have a comment system which they don't have to run/host themselves, and are able to monetize their videos fairly easily.

How many videos would be made if creators suddenly have to deal with all of that?

The value of the videos being created exists at all is because the creators don't have to worry about infrastructure.

> If the videos were hosted elsewhere, I’d gladly stop bothering Google with my traffic.

If.
Why can't today's young adults leave the nest? Blame high housing costs
> And government should only have as much power as you think the worst possible people in charge should have

The problem is the worst people NOT IN GOVERNMENT already have more power than that, and can thus easily crush such a government and turn it into a de facto oligarchy.
Really? That's super surprising, I probably buy a dozen or so books every year now (and used to order far more when I was living abroad and there wasn't a decent english bookstore in my city) and have never had an issue. Now trying to use goodreads... that's a mess
Archive: https://archive.ph/hzDIG
Agree completely. I think the author misses the big insight here. Rather than universal deferment to authority, I think the insights here are a) that people overstate their confidence and b) not all science should be treated equally.
>The only way to have a sustainable government is to have strong checks and balances and putting multiple factions with different interests against one another

Completely American myopic POV. Stable, healthy democracies that are unicameral parliamentary systems include Norway, New Zealand, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Portugal, and Sweden. (Most of those countries don't have strong judicial review either. Or federalism). That's without even getting into bicameral countries where the upper house is actually a lot weaker/just for show.

You don't have to separate the executive & the head of state, and you don't need to have checks & balances- that's propaganda for presidential systems. In fact I'd say the opposite is true- it's the countries with the checks & balances (by having a separately elected legislature and president) that are much more unstable and prone to autocracy. See Juan Linz on the Perils of Presidentialism
You get severance and can claim unemployment for a while too if you're laid off. Getting people to jump ship themselves avoids severance payouts and UI claims.

If you plan to jump ship, negotiate with HR to get the severance package and voluntary leave, especially if you're hot shit and can get another job quickly, otherwise you're leaving money on the table. The only thing you lose here is eligibility for unemployment, which you won't need anyway.

Healthcare is a shitshow. You can do COBRA, which lets you maintain your health plan by picking up the tab the employer previously paid. I've never done it myself but heard premiums were like $800 per person per month, years ago.
I mean the alternate vision isn’t compelling. “AI safety” has a nice ring to it, but the idea seemed to be “everyone just… hang out until we’re satisfied.” Plus it was becoming a bit of a memetic neoreligous movement which ironically defined the apocalypse to be original thought. Not very attractive to innovative people.
It was fantastic. It's worth noting that Pixel's At a Glance does still tell you when to leave (and you get a notification), but as far as I can tell, the parking features are completely gone.

That being said, I no longer have any clue what features exist in Google's ecosystem because their A/B and feature flag rollout system is so fundamentally broken and misused by the product teams that some features literally never arrive for some users until they factory reset their devices, and suddenly they get a fresh set of feature flags. I am still waiting on just about all of the new RCS features Google announced months ago, and just yesterday I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why my partner's devices never received cross device timers while all of my devices do. That feature was launched in May of last year. My partner does a lot of the cooking, and our kitchen Nest Hub usually handles the timers. But only my phone and tablet receive it's timer status...

I say misused above, because it strongly appears that they announce features before completion and then use an extremely shallow rollout to finish the features with the cover of "finding bugs". Is it actually released if the only Google accounts that receive the flags are the dev and product team members?

Google, you've perverted a fantastic engineering practice into a broken mess that reduces your user's confidence in your product and breeds confusion that hurts your brand.
If a company creates a back door for a government in a way that it looks like an oopsie vulnerability, it gives them plausible deniability. If someone reports the vuln and they don't fix it, this somewhat shatters the plausible deniability.

Operation triangulation https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hard... revealed the use of four different vulnerabilities, hidden code and undocumented features to take over Iphones. Its sophistication points to an APT. Apple did not deny helping the attacker TMK.
Where are you located? Not specifically, but urban, suburban, rural, remote?

Anecodtally: I am in a super-urban location. I order Prime 2-day, on average, twice a week. It has been late maybe once in the past year; often, it comes a day early.
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/10/2024/google-lays-off-h...

Note that there has been a significant layoff days ago in the assistant team to "improve Google Assistant as it explores integrating newer artificial intelligence technology into its products". Probably they're trying to replace the backend for the assistant with some LMM-based models and see those functionalities are the blockers? Of course, this could be (and should be IMO) done in more gradual migrations rather than this sudden deprecation, but who knows what those execs have in their mind.
>Cute following up with a fallacy of your own.

oh please. HN's bias is exactly the same as reddit's. -4 for posting facts, and fallacies. It couldn't be more obvious.
LibreWolf is still working just fine, as far as I can tell.
Could they also have become extinct, hiding their genes in a population of Grizzly or Kodiak bears, for the “polar bear” genes to be selected upon again after that close escape?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly–polar_bear_hybrid:

“Genetic analysis has revealed multiple instances of introgressive hybridization between bear species, including introgression of polar bear DNA into brown bears during the Pleistocene ("grizzly bear" is a local common name for Ursus arctos whereas "brown bear" is used internationally and in science to refer to the species as a whole)“
> I think it's good to realize when it's stretched too far.

Who is the arbiter of when it's stretched too far? I am working with the data we have to make an empirical expectation. Speculation is fine, but if we are going to make an effort to ground it in reality I feel like prior art is as the best bet we can make.

> Just because you find a similarity with something that happened in the past doesn't mean you can just abandon all critical thought.

I think I am actually applying critical thought. I am challenging a narrative that doesn't seem to have a precedent and looking at examples from the past that were similar unprecedented technological changes. This seems to be a reasonable approach to set reasonable expectations. Of course I could be wrong, but I feel like at least my pitch is based on some historic data.

FYI the book reading this wasn't just an aside in a newspaper, it was a cultural concern shared by many.

https://timeline.com/what-technology-are-we-addicted-to-this...
This, a thousand times this - there’s a logarithm in there, folks.
It sounds like you're still using tracking, just without cookies. I understand the push to eliminate cookies was motivated by Google announcing it would force the decision eventually but it sounds like you're still using alternative means of tracking and identifying users.

Laws like ePrivacy in the EU do indeed have specific provisions regarding cookies but e.g. the GDPR is much broader than that and would still apply. How truthful is it that eliminating cookies is motivated by a strong stance on privacy rather than just getting a head start in marketing instead of having to scramble when Google pulls the plug? It doesn't sound like you reduced the tracking and behavioral analysis beyond what was technically unavoidable?
Cookies or passkeys? Seems very complex when you can use something simply to track state and identity. Passkeys sync across cloud storage, for example, even if you’re using a uuid as the username.
That's not the same logic at all.

OP choice was protest or participate and influence to safer outcomes. Your choice was protest or participate without influence to safer outcomes.

Also the AI participant would be OpenAI either way, whereas your inadequate alternative is participate with the US or NK will participate. Also, not the same.

So, wrong on two counts.
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FWIW, Simon Willison's `llm` tool just uses SQLite plus a few UDFs. The simplicity of that approach is appealing to me but I don't have a good sense of when+why it becomes insufficient.
Ahhh, but perhaps a good working VR system may finally be enough for said surgeon to use it for a complex operation.
There are byproducts likely unknown to us, with each advance on technology. (Good or ill.)
I'm not a regular but I might become one. I hope topic based websites run by enthusiasts make a big comeback.
I came for the article, I stayed for the domain name.
The cows killed by the meat industry exist because I want to eat them. The birds killed by oil, gas, and wind industries are all tragic waste.

Plenty of people are fine with killing animals to eat, and are also not fine with animals dying for no point. That should not be difficult to comprehend. Other people get upset when they learn how the sausage is made because they don't have a very strong imagination, or a strong understanding of what American capitalism tends to do to "resources" like cattle.
Its a place that sells lumber. Usually a small business