skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're in favor of every US government agency, no matter how flawed or harmful, as long as it theoretically serves some important purpose?

Marijuana criminalization is necessary and it's childish to criticize it, because without drug controls, cocaine would flood the streets.

Life imprisonment without chance of parole is necessary and it's childish to criticize any use of it, because some specific criminals merit it.

Government censorship of any kind of speaker for any kind of content is necessary and it's childish to criticize it, because specific types of information (classified national security information, for example) require it.

Even worse than taking this kind of children's storybook view of the world is applying it to the US military among all militaries, with an incredibly long undeniable track record of incompetence and war crimes.
> This is completely irrelevant if they are a monopoly and subject to anti trust laws.

No legal precedent supports the idea that the Android or iOS app stores are monopolies under US law. We are in a thread discussing a final verdict against that proposition which is now binding in CA9.

“This is completely irrelevant if [this decidedly false fact]” is not really a useful statement. Wishcasting that courts will misinterpret the law is not the way forward, the way forward is new laws.
$75 a month seems ludacris
Have children would be the main one. Now I'm in my early 40s and still haven't had any yet, and it's starting to feel a bit late. I know it's technically still possible for a while, but there starts being problems for men in their mid 40s, and also now I don't have quite the energy I would have had 10 years ago.

Do everything I could to buy and hold bitcoin would be another one, and get used to buying stocks back then as well, also try to max out my 401k as often as possible. I dipped my toe into stocks and retirement then, but didn't really understand it or prioritize it enough then. Now I'm playing catch up.

I think I'd also get into streaming on Twitch. Ten years ago it was still pretty early, and if I did that and stuck with it for years I bet I could have decently well with it back then, and built up an audience for the games and whatever else I worked on. Also it would have been easier to dedicate the necessary time to it. A lot harder to do that nowadays.

For startup ideas, even though it already existed (founded May 2013 apparently), I think I'd have the best chance working on a competitor to something like Patreon. They went without any real competition for a long time, and their website never seemed all that complicated (creator page, sign up for a few different subscriptions, blog with membership tiers, I did pretty much all of that except taking money for my personal homepage I made in PHP 20 years ago) and seemed to barely evolve the entire time, so I bet I could take enough of a chunk out of it to make it worth my while.
Let’s extend the streak!
That's a political problem, and requires a political solution.
Charles Mann had a really good book on the pre-Columbian Americas back in 2005 which covered this as well as a bunch of fascinating other things.
My memory may be failing, last time (15 years ish? ) I looked at living / staying in Korea most places asked for a full years rent up front, then additional rent each month. You are supposed to get it back at the end of the lease. It would be trivial for a land lord to abuse a foreigner in this circumstance on the VISA, its not like you can stay around after the end of your lease to take them to court to recoup your money.

I'd be very careful about this.
I agree.

Inheritance is extremely unmeritocratic yet is somehow completely acceptable even among hardcore libertarians. Why?

Most 'tax the rich' talk revolves around income. But real rich people don't make an income. They make capital gains or take loans against assets. It's a complete red herring.

Gifts and inheritance should be the target of any fair-minded individual. As with any power passed down by familial connection, it leads to a less efficient use of resources. We have all of history to tell us it's a bad idea.

People who earn their wealth in life have, as good as any, a justification to know something of how to allocate it. That is, in the ideal society where wealth is a reward for growing the economic pie. We're not there yet. But this is the closet thing we've got.

People who inherit their wealth have no such justification. Let wealth die with the person.
Charles Stross dealt with the singularity quite a bit.
Phrasing like 'Now businesses are attempting to capitalise on this ancient method ...' is true, but as others here have noted, this is not a new area of research, or a new area of business.

Can recommend "Burn - Using Fire to Cool the Earth" (2019) by Albert Bates & Kathleen Draper- which looks at various, often surprising, uses for biochar.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43866589
Amazon forces their users to leave the app, not Apple.
Sorry, I guess I'm wrong for thinking the empire that literally installed a brutal military dictatorship in my country is evil. It was actually benign the whole time. Please torture me, it's actually good to be tortured.
I have seen people out early in the morning collecting glacier ice for that evenings cocktails in high end restaurants

Neat idea but have never bothered myself
The question then becomes, are they moderately performant?

Japan’s bubble resulted in deflation because a bunch of zombie firms spent decades paying down balance sheet debts rather than resolving things quickly through bankruptcy. And the Japanese keiretsu structure mostly disadvantages businesses outside of the massive conglomerates, particularly small and medium enterprises.
And in the event that a human being accidentally attacks a hospital[1], the AI will successfully argue that it didn't happen, as doing so would violate the acceptable use policy.

1: https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth
> So anyone who wants to be able to exercise their legal right would have to, individually (or as a class, I guess) take Apple to court over this?

Sort of? Apple's appeal was essentially:

1. The federal court was asked by a single litigant to rule on whether this provision of our agreement with them is unfair.

2. Because the role of courts is to provide relief to the litigants of the case, this court has exceeded its authority by making a ruling against all agreements that Apple has with other parties.

I don't know that they necessarily expected to win on that claim, but it doesn't seem to be entirely without merit. There is risk in a world where courts can use individual cases to effectively act with executive and legislative powers.
I have GitHub copilot. Is it better than that? Nd if so, in which way?

Offline would be one for sure. Cost is another. What else?
This seems very cool but perhaps additional explanations vs non-ai are useful?

I'm having trouble visualizing benefits of using ai as opposed to traditional data analysis for these purposes:
- Track changes in forest cover
- Allocate funding for environmental
justice
Shouldn't rich people be able to get hassle free visas? Why ban them from your country if they just want to live there and spend their money, regardless of whether they earn some more or not?

Just prove you have 100k and you get to stay this many days.
From memory, you get this back at the end and need to keep paying rent each month. You can't 'spend' the deposit like some countries allow.
In most countries if you stay long enough and qualify then you become a permanent resident.

The sneaky trick that SK is doing with its maximum term of 2 years is ensuring that no one on this arrangement will be eligible (which apparently requires residing there for 5 years at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_South_Korea).

This makes the program entirely pointless for intended audience, ie. people dead set on living in South Korea (not just have fun for a year).
I've put together some small scale SMD stuff. My hands are no longer steady enough to be able to do this stuff reliably, a USB connector is about the limit of what I can manage (under a microscope, at that) manually so that rules out simply connecting to the module directly.

So any kind of use of this device starts off with PCB design whereas the most obvious uses for me would be to use them to create computing fabrics so I'd like to be able to just send power and networking to them but then I'm suddenly back at the regular raspberry pi. I don't see the point of having 400 lines into and out of a compute node. I'd simply like a denser version of the Pi that still has enough RAM to make it count.

The Pico with castellated i/o is about my comfort zone, but it is hard to use that for any kind of networked solution (or you'd have to go wireless).

Of course you could use a breakout board and just wire up power and ethernet but then you're already back to the same price of a regular Pi and you lose the density advantage.
well, that's the problem the static link solves; it's not such a difficult thing to implement if you let procedure values (function pointers) be two words instead of one. gcc emits trampoline code onto the stack at runtime to support this without breaking abi compatibility, so the pointer to the nested function actually points to the trampoline, which just supplies the static link and calls the real nested function
> Apple has always been adamant that the fee is for the service of using the App Store, not the payment processor

So charge developers for the service of using the App Store, perhaps with a per-download cost. To "give away" the service of the App Store only to recuperate your costs (and then some) via payment processing is just daylight robbery.
I think the root of our disagreement is in Israel’s motivation. We will see when the ICJ rules whether Israel’s intention is merely counter terrorism or—as it is accused of—to destroy Palestinians in whole or in part. In the latter case (which is what I believe) the motivation is indeed hard to defend.
Getting "forever chemicals" out of drinking water is expensive
and yet this has been happening long before Apple and App Stores were a thing, and nobody has been sued to stop it.

Also, as some other comment has pointed out, the % Apple takes is from their role as one manager. Ask an actor or sports ball player what happens if they don't pay their manager the % owed.

I just haven't figured out why software devs think they are so special that they don't have to pay to play. I have seen no honest answers to this other than Apple === BAD. Devs are pretty much "all monies are belong to us"
Estimation Isn't for Everyone
Chamath Palihapitiya had some interesting comments about this topic that I think you guys might enjoy:

Narrative violation for the "progressive" left: The American Dream is alive and well.

12% of American Families are now Millionaires
"Perhaps most noteworthy, there really are a lot of true millionaires. About 16 million American families—just over 12%—have wealth exceeding $1 million, up from 9.8 million families in 2019. Nearly eight million families are multimillionaires, i.e., their wealth exceeds $2 million, up from 4.7 million."

Who are mini-millionaires?
"They generally earn between $150,000 and $250,000 a year. Rather than being left behind as all the gains in the economy accrue to billionaires, they have in fact seen bigger wealth gains over the past three years than the top 10% of families."

Who saw the biggest gains in wealth?
"Indeed, the biggest wealth gains between 2019 and 2022 were among the approximately 13 million families in the 80th to 90th percentile of the income distribution. Their median wealth jumped 69% from 2019, adjusted for inflation, to $747,000 in 2022."
https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1718016818118553622

here is a snippet from the allinpodcast thats related..
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1VXuOAyBqz/

definitely worth the 2 mins
That is a truism that applies mainly to the US, if it applies anywhere. The US differs from a lot of places in, say, Europe in that partible inheritance is almost universally practiced. That is, inheritances are divided equally between children. This accelerates the drawdown of the fortune.

In Europe I have heard it is more common, although perhaps not a norm, to practice a meritocratic form of primogeniture. One child, who is not necessarily the eldest son but who is seen as the best steward, is chosen to receive most of the fortune, and is trained how to maintain it. Other children may receive much smaller amounts.

The fortune is much more likely to persist if not divided, preventing the liquidation of large holdings and more importantly managing expectations among the gaggle of heirs about how much they'll get.
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Yeah, I'm sure Russia and China would be far less aggressive if the US had lower military spending.

What you're suggesting is the geopolitical equivalent of "ignore the bully and they'll get bored and go away". And you call others childish?
That's the world view that my family came from - very leftist and peace loving.

"If only everyone put down their guns there would be no need etc etc".

But it's not the world we live in - we live in a military world - that's real and not a hope/fantasy about a different civilisation without war or weapons. We have to have a society suited to the world we live in.

And by the way I remain very much left wing and at the same time extremely pragmatic about the need for a nation to defend itself.
> aberrated(after Ernst Abbe)

Are you saying the word aberration comes from Ernst Abbe's last name? Because it doesn't, it comes from latin. https://www.etymonline.com/word/aberration
I also enjoyed John D. Fitzgerald's (Great Brain author) semiautobiographical novel "Papa Married a Mormon".

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/564854.Papa_Married_a_Mo...
Depending on the developer, there is also quite a lot of trust I need to impart on them too. I am reasonably confident in Apple keeping my data secure. I would likely be confident in it for the bigger apps out there, like your Netflix or Spotifys. But some rando app, would I be comfortable putting my personal and financial info on their server, instead of just using Apple's?
If you have a truly off-grid capable EV with solar, that would be superior to an ICE (assuming rule-of-law still held).
In theory, perhaps, in practice Apple will only audit the developers that use the special entitlement.

Ironically, this is something that is bothering the appellate court as well if you read between the lines of their judgment[0].

They gently criticize the district court for both saying that developers should be able to link and sell outside the app while simultaneously saying that it’s undesirable for Apple to audit developers because it’s too cumbersome.

But the appellate court isn’t meant for do overs, just for when courts have erred in a significant way, so they only gently lament this, instead of doing something about it.

0: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/04/24/2...
Tate isn't doing anything new. Anyone remember those The Rich Jerk ads that were everywhere around 15 years ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YdMPJS1l0A
rofl, this will go well
I don't think digital nomad visas are about demographics. This provides a legal way for people to do something that's already happening in many of these countries, so that's a good thing.

Further, I think these countries are aware that people would immigrate given the chance. They simply don't want the immigrants, and it's not really your place to demand they take them.
Totally missed this incident, just want to say thank you to the Kagi team for an awesome product. Love the search and also Orion.
I don't know what he did, but for me was very basic sleep hygiene added with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), there are several people on YouTube sharing how to do it.
With their guidance, I fixed myself after years of suffering from it.

The tipping point was going to bed only when sleepy and forcing myself up at the same time every day as much as possible.
Problem is, some weeks will be super rough, but I kept trying and even with an imperfect execution that made me sleepy again at bedtime, which I thought was something I had lost forever. To lay down and sleep.
The best feedback I can give is that my whole family now uses Kagi over Google Search and I’m a regular user of the summariser tool too.

Big ups, you’re smashing it
>All it takes is to talk to hundreds of candidates for various roles and see how inconsistent the candidates quality is and tie it back to employment history.

Oh good idea. I'll make sure to never hire "former recruiters" now.
The same principle applies, though. They can tell you maybe a dozen, maybe a few dozen, concepts they've learned and use in their work. But what about the thousands of concepts they use in their work they can't tell you about? The patterns they've noticed, the concepts that don't even have names, but that came from seeing things in the world world that were all created by other people?
Apple is hosting, distributing, and directly marketing apps in the app store. They are reviewing submitted apps for compliance with their policies and security requirements.

If you want to compare it to desktop computers, great! Compare it to the macOS App Store which… takes a 30% commission.

Whether or not you personally agree that 30% is a reasonable fee, you can't simply deny that operating the app store costs money and resources. Further, it isn't unreasonable for them to try to recoup those costs or even to make some profit off of providing the service.
My mistakes. I stand corrected.
I bought a machine to mine dogecoin in (2013?) and just never hooked it up... no ragrets =(

I was into the silly subreddit at the time, when they sponsored the racecar. Seemed like a fun time. Turns out they actually hit the moon after all...
If I ever run a company, all the interns will get red shirts
N2464 [0]: there was lots of implementation divergence on what realloc(ptr, 0) did (especially with BSD, which allegedly doesn't free the memory at all?), so they just declared it UB.

[0] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2464.pdf
I never would of joined Palantir out of university. I was on an awful team, and it shaped my world to be negative for a long time. I was exploited and got less out of the experience then I would have elsewhere. If I could do it again, I would of tried to join Amazon, Apple, or Google. Feeling financially safe matters a lot, especially if you want to take a risk like starting a business. So my advice to myself would be: Fuck your ethics (in large part). Make money at a innovative tech company so you can learn and be financial safe.
If you believe there is more fraud in the securities markets than there is in the Bitcoin markets, I have some stolen North Korean Bitcoin to sell you.
> That’s a nice spin and I see why you’re determined to use nicer terminology, but in this case it’s a cartel, so own it since it’s your idea here.

No, the aim is not to 'fix price'. A cartel sells a resource at an artificially inflated price to a group of consumers who have no idea that this is happening (unless the cartel owners happen to advertise the fact). Typically cartels are illegal.

> The aim is to fix a price, and the price you are trying to set is the price at which another business buys units of your software or services for resell.

No, it is not about setting a price. It is about setting a (reasonable) cap on a margin on your own price. That's an entirely different thing.

> That’s the price, and their right to charge it has been upheld, but your proposal is to band together the small, medium and large businesses that virtually fill the App Store and have them War Doctor around going “No more!” or dictate a lower price. That’s collusion, that’s price fixing, that’s a cartel.

No, that's much closer to a union than a cartel.
What I wish I knew 10 years ago, and thus would have made different decisions:

- prestige and optic matter: I always maximized my interest over money; and money over prestige. Too late in life I realized once accrued, prestige can open doors, which can lead to interesting projects (and money). More concretely, I had several high-profile opportunities at FAANG and tier-1 financial institutions. Taking any of these opportunities would have made great difference in my career. Instead I worked on some random then-interesting projects. Interests come and go.

- the brain is a part of the body (duh!): people, especially those considered intellectual, often have this Cartesian division of mind and body; and they think that through sheer will, the mind can control the body. It's the opposite. the bodily state determines the operations of the mind. Caffeine and alcohol, when used consistently, do no good for the body, and thus the mind.
What's interesting is in my neighborhood I've seen growing inequality at the ground level over the past 20 years. We are an old neighborhood of decaying middle class housing still occupied by the elderly remnants of long-term owners. As the elderly move out they are replaced by one of three possibilities:

1. A large immigrant family moving in with one family to a room, sometimes sublet to several families, with no maintenance being done and the house falling apart.

2. An upper middle class family typically with Teslas moving in and doing a full remodel of the house.

3. An upper class family tearing down the old house and building a 6,000-10,000 sqft+ mansion for the husband, wife, and zero to two children.

In the first case above, the poorer section, city services, roads, shopping continues to decay, with ever more liquor stores, massage parlors, pawn shops, tire repair, and used auto lots. This is by and large the largest area and population of the neighborhood.

In the second case above, roads are repaired, a few new restaurants, but largely a decaying infrastructure. A large area but not as big in area or population as #1.

In the third case above, all new roads. New full rebuilt shopping. A new school. A new public library. The smallest area by far, but once you enter it, it's a different world. Literally one side of the street is nightly robbery dilapidated midrise, and the other side behind the walls with their own police force are new mansions that start at $3m.

Note what's missing from the above: the middle class. They don't exist here. They die off and are replaced, largely by the lower class. I've seen this happen on the ground, over the years. Inequality at the ground level. And it's still going on: absolutely no new building or improvements for the poorest, a little renovation for those with salaried jobs, and continuous rebuilding of luxury mansions for the upper crust.

Doesn't seem sustainable from the Piketty perspective. I only hope it can be resolved peacefully. I'd even be fine with we all get new things but some get nicer ones than others. But this, you get the same thing, worse even, every year, and we get more and more and more, doesn't fit well with human sense of decency.
Judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines
Does a gas station “get away” with charging for gas? They are selling a service and can charge anything they want for it. You are free not to use it, as is anyone else.
I think it’s the word ”Queen” (which is not normally used to refer to the ancient ruler). If I just google “Cleopatra” I only see results about the historical figure.
It's one of our big barriers over at Figma. Creative tools in general hit this limit pretty quickly. For context, I was a very heavy user of Photoshop back in the day. Even a decade ago I remember hitting 20GB of active memory use for Photoshop.

Things get really big really quick, especially when you're storing uncompressed versions of raster elements in memory. To frame things in a different way, 4GB is 22 seconds of 1080p video if you're loading the raw frames into memory.
Has OpenAI done any PR/outreach explaining the recent changes? It'll be much harder (or impossible) to undo the mistrust after the fact.