skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but don't forget to take into account the harm done to the general public if you restrict the ability to "copy styles". Personally, I think that's a much larger concern.
Qbasic was also my first language too. A friend and I spent the evening drawing a face on the screen then updating it so it moved back and forth. No formal training or anything, just childhood curiosity and experimentation. It is very approachable language for a novice.
It’s despicable but man the CIA is tasked with one job: kill all the terrorists leaders. We support that mission with who we elect to government.

When all those leaders gather in one place how can our angry pitbull not froth at the mouth? Not saying it’s ethical, just that it’s purely rational.
I never understood selling of the company unless you've been working in it for 20 years. Like isn't the idea to be your own boss?

And why sell it, if you don't have the next idea for the next business up and running? I don't know any tech startup entrepreneurs, but I do have relatives who started their own businesses but always had backup plans and diversity.
Every time you view an image online you’re making a copy so that argument is spurious.
All good points here. For those reading just the title, the article asks to critically examine what values you hold and whether selling is compatible with those values. For me, I see selling as just another step to growing the hoard, as you state in the article, but I don't think it becomes draconic in practice.

The key in my opinion and experience is making and selling micro projects, not banking on any one taking off. That way, you can have cash flow and a hoard. Throw the hoard into VTI and let it grow while living off the cash flow (and/or reinvesting it into the business), until the investments become enough to live off of entirely, ie the 4% rule. Pieter Levels or Daniel Vassallo are good examples of this.

Just keep trying, don't be saddened by another startup failure, at least you already have one sold which is a lot more than most founders can say.

I'm also in NYC, let me know if you want to chat, as you stated at the end of the post.
Is the article just propaganda for this diet the researcher suggests? I mean from a mainstream perspective it sounds healthy and probably better than 95% of Americans. But the demonization of red meat and saturated fat seem totally unjustified.
Early .Net is hardly an independent data point from early Java. Not only was .Net directly influenced by Java, it also had to support a direct migration from the Microsoft JVM specific Visual J++ to J#.

The handful of languages I know either do not have a top level object class that supports a randomized set of features ( C++ ) or prioritize a completely different way of concurrent execution ( Python, JavaScript ).
People are free to leave a place which taxes them, or to homeschool their children, etc.

This situation is not an exception. There is no compelling reason to force people to have their work ingested by an AI. Unless you believe that large companies have the inherent right to disregard the rights of individuals?
It's very likely that people posting on Hacker News may hold equity in a company like Apple, may have their primary form of income derived from that company or may be able to attribute their sizeable wealth to its growth.

It is no surprise that people will come to the defense of this giant when you stop to consider this. Apple doesn't have to care about them, it already has.

I am of the opinion that there should be some sort of disclosure of financial interest.
Does that actually happen often, if you use a VPN or live in one of the countries that don't care about piracy?
I think the old style of pronouncing numbers still lives on, especially for two-digit numbers and in certain dialects/sociolects. I certainly use it without making conscious effort, and I'm a 90s kid. My children again understand the system, but they rarely use it.
Agreed, While there may be people who think they're defending Apple "on principle", I hope those folks also realize that there is no "principle" that is ingrained in nature. We're all just making up rules, laws, taxes, as we go along. Just because a law or article of constitution is old, doesn't make it any more 'natural' than others.

There is no "right" of any student for their debt to be forgiven, but we want to do it anyway. Apple has taken advantage (as have others) of a ridiculously broken tax code, availed of the strong US legal system, property rights, etc. How about we shift the balance back?
Revolut.com provides virtual debit card with a bank account.
You pay 99 per year. But this definitely doesn’t cover their cost. The review process is very labor intensive on their side
But he has neither a youtube channel nor a podcast... /s
> Stop thinking about the potential millions lost...start thinking about how you are going to lose the next million.

:)
You vote with your wallet.
Consent is not needed to copy and reuse public information.
Not everyone has a garage
You know, in retrospect, I think Kagi expects O(thousands) searches per month per user, so doing per-user usage accounting in the DB is fine -- thanks to row-level locking.

Well, at least until you get a user who does 60k "in a short time period"... :-)
Apple Passed Samsung as Top Phone Maker in 2023
Indeed. Iraq was a case of the nation being conned by evil men (Cheney and Rumsfeld). We tried our DAMNDEST to prevent that war. Biggest protests in America ever. Did nothing.

Europe is now in its second, third? year of seeing what life without Uncle Sam would be like. Peaceful Lithuanian and Polish villages filled with the corpses of raped girls.

The military is important and software engineers need to read more of the news from the last 2 years in detail to understand that we’re still the good guys.
KeepassXC can act as a TOTP client and can fill it just like it can do passwords.
https://archive.ph/MqVzh
Here's a little story / timeline from 2009-2010 (from my perspective as a dev on Kindle for iOS):

* we submit the Kindle app ...including an in-app bookstore... to Apple for initial app review

(Note: multiple ebook readers with in-app bookstores are already on the app store at this point)

* several weeks pass with no response

* Apple announces in-app purchasing (to be released several months later)

* Apple rejects our app: we have to give them a 30% cut of all sales through the app, or remove the store and all references / external links to it. We chose option 2.

* Apple forces the other ereader apps to remove their stores or go with IAP. Several (most?) just gave up and pulled their apps entirely

* Apple negotiates agreements with most of the major book publishers that if they want to sell books on iBooks, ebooks must be listed at the same price on ALL stores, and have a 30% margin

* Apple launches in-app purchasing and the iBooks store (with the iPad announcement, IIRC)

...aka even if we (or any other ereader app) wanted to sell books via our app, the terms Apple set forth effectively meant that ALL profit from those sales must go to them (and we would have to eat the bandwidth / service costs on top of that)
IMHO, any significant growth in 500s (that's what I was getting during the outage) warrants mention on status page. I've seen a lot of stuff, so if I see an acknowledged outage, I'll just wait for people to do their jobs. Stuff happens. If I see unacknowledged one, I get worried that people who need to know don't and that undermines my confidence in the whole setup. I'd never complain if status page says maybe there's a problem but I don't see one. I will complain in the opposite case.
The article covers this, one can just get tired of it all and want to divest. It's also better to be diverse in your investments rather than putting all your eggs in one basket and hoping it doesn't fail after 20 years, which can definitely happen. Sell, live off the money you made from selling, and take a break until you get your next few ideas.
and the other way round - have it built in for self-fuzzing and healing the infra.
Not to mention the individual packaging, printed material and cooling sinks/fans for each of those separate parts.
The executives behind an ad platform, which they have to sell to advertisers, are in no way a reliable source of claims about how the users want or don't want to engage with that platform.

> “Most CTV users envision and desire a TV experience that enables them to easily purchase the products advertised to them,” said Tony Marlow, CMO at LG Ad Solutions.

Right, and Tony not only has he no incentive to manipulate the truth, he faces harsh consequences for doing so, so it must be true.
>Inheritance is extremely unmeritocratic yet is somehow completely acceptable even among hardcore libertarians. Why?

I think you grossly misinterpret the philosophy of serious libertarians. It's not simply about meritocracy, it's much more about being free to control what's lawfully yours such as personal and business assets (including your body and voluntary economic agency). This of course includes having the right to decide who gets your money after you die.

>it leads to a less efficient use of resources. We have all of history to tell us it's a bad idea.

Do we really? Inheritance taxes are a minority of government revenues, and they fall well into being offset by the sheer waste of resources and money that most governments routinely practice. You consider them being handed down into often useful foundations worse than this?

>People who inherit their wealth have no such justification. Let wealth die with the person.

How about letting the people who created their wealth decide what's a fair use of it? They're in a practical sense more justified than anyone else in having that decision. You or some bureucrat are somehow more justified than the creator of a body of wealth in deciding what should happen with it? How so pray tell?
Something is not moral just because it makes a profit or because it is legal, and revenue is also not profit. And I think if a company operates outside societal norms, which I think Apple with regards to European societal norms, it should expect to get regulated to fit those norms again. Maybe the US is too dysfunctional to do this any more, but the purpose of government should be to align the laws and regulations with the morals of the people being governed.

My bank generates revenue by offering me a service in return for my money, not by monopolizing access to my money and then charging people who want to sell to me for the honour of allowing me to buy their goods and services.

Very few companies that I deal with as a consumer have similar business practices, and the ones that do, like Visa and Mastercard, is also something I think should be cracked down upon.

There are many things the EU messes up in my opinion, but cracking down on this clearly immoral business practices is not one of those as it aligns 100% with my morals even though I'm incredibly pro "free" market (i.e. pro minimally regulated market, as every person who has ever been pro "free market" is).
Slightly off topic, is there an open source robot today that could transfer clothes from a washing machine (Front loading) to a dryer autonomously?
Perhaps I am unfamiliar with this usage of the word horde, but is it possible that you mean hoard?
Mate, "muck spreading" is still totally a thing.
Great plot device for a science fiction movie.
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The contractor badges at google were red until at least 2015. And as it was explained to me, it was not a coincidence.
I see, so theft is right so long as you get away with it?

Fortunately you actually can lodge lawsuits in such cases even if you can’t afford it so long as you find either a lawyer who works on contingency in expectation of a settlement or one who believes in something. In this case, almost any lawyer in the field of copyright would be eager to simply make their name with a case that sets precedent in such an important domain.

Fwiw, I make a considerable amount of money, yet also write and contribute to free software. I think it’s unethical and exploitive to take my labor given for free to the community and claim it as your own for your personal enrichment. I think I’m not alone in this specific community on hacker news. So, in theory you’re right. In practice, the libertarian ideal of mad max exploitation of anything you can find not bolted down appeals to a few small number of people, and the rest of us are happy to defend artists and creators from that small population.
Why do they have to take VC? The founder in this article bootstrapped their business and sold, they can always do that again.
It all depends on the multiple. If someone is giving you 3 years of profit up-front, that's probably not worth it. If they're giving you 10 years of profit, that could make sense. You avoid having to work for that period of time, and you avoid the risk that something could go wrong (with the company, the economy, the sector) during that time. It also allows you to diversify your assets.
1. Because you don't know how much vendors actually pay for the products

2. Because some products might be sold at breakeven price to attract and retain customers

3. Because some products might be loss leaders to attract and retain customers
Yes, sorry, hoard, not horde.
I think that's just another symptom. My theory is that Boeing is another engineering company that was overtook by MBAs.

10+ years ago I was working for a company acquired by Boeing (Jeppesen) and it was already a massive shitshow. Cost cutting everywhere but weirdly enough there were always money for some dumb initiative some highly placed and connected VP/Director had. None of those in my opinion led to an improvement in products, working efficiency, or any meaningful metric.

Sorry for being salty. Nowadays I feel I am going through the same st my current company and so this hits closer than I like.
GenAI should be as copyright-okay as search
I'm interested in the copyright-related issues arising from generative AI and I would like to hear some opinions on the following perspective. I'm not an expert on copyright and I am thinking in some kind of (50% moral, 50% legal) sense of copyright here, as copyright and especially fair use is legally quite vaguely defined.

Let's broadly distinguish 3 types of copyright concerns with genAI:
1. training
2. commerical distribution
3. end-user

I think while some disagree, many people could potentially agree that merely training on copyrighted works without commercial or non-commercial distribution of the results is kind of fine. Similarly, most people would agree that the end-user also has some role to play in regards to copyright considerations.

I think the main point that is causing trouble right now is the question of commercial distribution of genAI works, meaning that users give OpenAI (replace with others) some money and a specification, and OpenAI gives them a work according to their specification.

I think this process can be implemented in a way just as copyright-okay as google image search.

If I perform a query on google images, it spits out some samples of the distribution of reasonable images, conditioned on my query. If I do the same with genAI, essentially the same thing happens, except that the distribution is somwhat smoothed out, approximated, latent-space interpolated, however you want to call it. That is, genAI as search is fundamentally more original and less infringing than google images.

Why does google images not cause copyright outrage? Because no claims whatsoever are being made about ownership of rights. If you pay an artist for a digital painting, they are creating an original work and then selling you the rights for it. Google images does not sell you any rights, nor claim to own the rights. It is just a snapshot of a region of the distribution of reasonable images.

Afaik this is where genAI and search so-far differ. I think OpenAI atm does claim to own the rights of generated works and sell them to you, which leads to copyright infringement by OpenAI. However, I think if they changed their general terms and conditions to remove that, then at least the commercial or non-commercial distribution aspect of genAI is copyright-okay.

Note: I think some people would say google images is copyright-okay mainly because it will usually give you sources for the images it shows you. Well, then I think we should consider the following: Paid-per-query image-search with images-only, no links and no text. Is it okay? I personally think that since google gives no guarantees that their links actually lead you to the correct source of the image or its copyright owner, the presence of links should not protect them from copyright considerations. I.e. Then since google images is okay, the above is also okay.
Apple has few talents:

-putting disparate things together to form a whole and polishing it

-design

-marketing which includes cult building

All these talents are put at work together in harmony.

I own devices from Apple (which have both advantages and disadvantages) and other companies, but at no point I fell myself better because I own Apple devices, nor do I consider their devices better than anything else out there.

For some people, brands are a part of who they are. Apple, Gucci, Christian Dior, Tesla are not longer manufacturers of goods to be used. They are symbols that are used to craft ones identity, together with whatever ideology of the day.
For some compilers, yes.

Also, code was a lot shorter in those days.
> Instead of critiquing existing designs - it'd be helpful to have a vision of what locally culturally distinctive designs for a coffee shop or AirBNB could look like. Help us readers envision what a better world..

I agree, but then I'd argue that simply pointing out the homogeneity of cafes (and everything else) might have been the author's goal. To just make you stop and think.
The finding of that authentic cafe is left as an exercise for the reader.
What will the city of the future look like? 8 options by AI
It's the best one that I've found for Windows, despite the somewhat infrequent crashes.
When you buy an Apple device you don't control the hardware or the software on it. Apple does.
He was elected in 2016 thanks to such online psychological profiling tools (CA).

The PATRIOT act will make it unstoppable. You all have already put enough online to deserve to be purged (murdered) in the eyes of some 2025 Cultural Revolutionary Red Guards.
Don’t abuse the system.
Both sits in different level of the needs hierarchy[1]. First level that is most important is food, water, shelter etc., then second level is medicine, safety etc. Internet is one of the most important invention for the top 2 levels.

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Maslow%2...
Ask HN: (RIP) google.com/inputtools any alternatives?
Google Input Tools seems offline, taken down? It used to be a practical tool, as well to select special characters and symbols from a list.

Do you recommend any alternative for the web?
> And I have no idea how any of the "all IPs from Russia" or "scan everything on the internet" could even work.

XKEYSCORE[1] probes were already a thing in ~2010. It just needs a LLM integration and additional search capabilities.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
> CC machines don’t actually have to support ApplePay specifically, as long as it supports tap to pay without insisting on a PIN, then ApplePay works with it. In essence your phone’s NFC exactly implements the same capabilities and protocols as NFC chips on normal credit cards.

IIRC it's not exactly the same. One user-facing example where things are different is that contactless payments with a regular credit card have a 50 € maximum. If there is a limit when paying with the iPhone, it's much higher.

I also seem to recall that the merchant's payment contract must support this, but I'll have to confirm with a colleague. Although Apple Pay support is very common where I live, it did happen a few times that some restaurant's terminal accepted VISA contactless but not Apple Pay.

I've also had a situation where my CC is set up to not allow payments outside my country. Payment with Apple Pay was denied as being "out of country", whereas the physical card worked fine. The store is from a big national chain, in the heart of the capital city.
Not all routes are a straight line. The time of day also matters…
If Apple can't run the App Store just on developer fees, then I'm sure somebody else could. But that's conveniently not allowed.
> How exactly is capitalism seeking a monopoly on resources?

Why? To dictate the terms of the market. How? With military.

Moreover, it is a generally well known economic principle that capitalism entails cyclical crisis periods for self correction. Usual way to deal with it is debt and expansion of markets. Debt levels today are unprecedented while there are no significant new markets to expand into (China and Eastern Europe including Russia are already absorbed into the market). Raw materials (including fresh water and air) are more valuable than ever.

> Financially we’ve never been better: our PIB is at an all time high and people enjoy Teslas and city breaks, ski vacations and shopping trips. Compare it to the 80's when we were cold, starving in lines for half a bread and a bottle of milk.

Huge part of personal wealth in Eastern Europe is actually a relic of socialist times - housing. Eastern European countries have by far the highest rate of home ownership as a result of socialism. In the developed world, China is the leader of home ownership rates.

You do know that 80s were quite unpleasant everywhere? In the decades prior USSR was outperforming the US economically. Also Yugoslavia, a socialist country outside the Iron Curtain, had a better living standard than some countries in Western Europe prior to 1980s. This is actually quite an achivement given how devestated and underdeveloped the region was following WWII and no Marshal Plan to help.

Anyway, I actually live in Eastern Europe. It is a great place to live in, but it is not economically prosperous. A great majority of people certainly cannot afford things you list (I know many people who live 30 mins away from ski slopes but the majority can hardly afford ski passes) and live a very spartan lifestyle.

Russia also has plenty of rich people taking holidays and driving expensive cars, but a great majority of Russians certainly cannot afford those things. While we are at it, look at how many Chinese tourists there are. In most expensive Western cities (eg. Sydney) property purchases by Chinese have driven property prices up significantly.

But none of that means anything. Plenty of people from Eastern Europe still want to emigrate. Birth rates are decreasing every year because it is very hard for young families to purchase their own home (see for the situation in Poland [0]). And whats more, there are plenty of people that are still quite nostalgic for old times due to social security it provided (again see Poland [1]).

[0] https://serwisy.gazetaprawna.pl/nieruchomosci/artykulyhttps:...

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12330