skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I desperately wish someone would crack the "micropayments for the web" nut. Most of the content I visit I would pay pennies, some even nickles or dimes, maybe even quarters... As long as I don't have to mess around with it, the friction would have to be fairly low. I include bogus sites swindling those micropayments to be friction.

I had high hopes for Brave Browser and BAT, but seems like Brave the company has problems, and the biggest issue is that I don't think anyone but Brave seems to be set up to take the payments.
Permissions that do not need a user prompt...

1. Basic Device Information:

Device Name: App can access the device's name, like "John's iPhone."
Device Model and OS Version: App can identify the device type (e.g., iPhone 14) and iOS version.
Carrier Information: App can access network provider details.
Wi-Fi Information: App can determine if Wi-Fi is enabled, but not specific network names or passwords. Battery Level: Accessible without explicit permission: Apps can access the current battery level without needing explicit user consent.

2. Contextual Information:

Current Language: App can adapt content based on language settings.
Time Zone: App can display time-related information accurately.

3. Necessary Functionality:

Push Notifications: Apps can receive push notifications without explicit permission, but users can control this in Settings.
Local Network Access: Apps can automatically access devices on the same local network (e.g., a printer).
Background App Activity: Some apps can function in the background for tasks like downloading updates or syncing data.

4. Permissions Granted During Installation:

Keyboard and Siri: Apps can request full access to the keyboard and Siri without additional prompts.

5. Accelerometer:

No permission required: Unlike many other sensors, the accelerometer on iOS devices does not require explicit user permission for the app to access its data. However, there are some limitations:

Foreground access: Apps can only access the accelerometer while they are actively in the foreground. Background access is restricted.

Privacy concerns: While user consent isn't explicitly requested, some users might still find accelerometer access concerning due to its potential to reveal information about device movement and tilt. Transparency in app descriptions and responsible data handling are crucial.

6. Barometer:

No permission required: Similar to the accelerometer, the barometer also doesn't require explicit user permission for access. It functions alongside the Core Motion framework, used for motion and environment-related data.
I would think it's obvious. Look at any commercially developed debugger for any language. Xcode. Eclipse. IntelliJ, VSCode. AllegroCL. Now compare that Emacs + anything. Atom/Pulsar + anything. Vi + anything.

Just look at the screenshots. What's missing? Literally everything is missing, because it's just a CLI in a window. Want to add a breakpoint? Type in the window. Want to know how many threads are running? Type in the window. Want to pause a thread? Type in the window. Want to inspect a variable? Type in the window. Want to drill down through a complex data structure? Type that 50 character line correct in one go bitch. By god! Don't you dare complain!

The irony of course is that all of these commercial products are using the exact same debugging infrastructure of the OSS counterparts. It's just that one group finished the job, and the other doesn't bother to finish the job.
I had the same thought, but wanted to know why the Author thought they were not.

For example, a major issue for self-containment is that EPUB content can embed external assets. A content document can legally include an image or font file whose src is a URL to a hosted server. This is not hypothetical, either; as of the time of writing, Google Doc's EPUB exporter will emit CSS that will @include external Google Fonts files. The problem is that such an EPUB will not render correctly without an internet connection, nor will it render correctly if Google changes the URLs of its font files.

The article raises some interesting ideas. Much like PDF and PDF/A, I would say an EPUB/A standard would be potentially useful.
Why would you possibly want a contract of anything enforced by the spirit instead of the letter? The whole point of a contract is to be explicit, to spell things out. If you're going to enforce social norms according to their spirit (and you should!), writing out a pseudolegal code is a waste of everyone's time (and, in my experience, actively harmful to the social health of your community).
It's more than the security of your project.

For example, NPM dependencies get installed not only on the build server, but also on the laptops of developers. These laptops are connected to VPNs, so malware can get into corporate networks.

Also, they can rootkit dev and production servers, so your coworkers and users might be getting served malware as well.
I just want to say that I love Josh Brown -- thank you to him and Michael Batnick for holding it down over on The Compound. Have learned a lot!
The robot I use just invests in each
company proportional to it’s market cap.
The science of encryption: prime numbers and mod n arithmetic [pdf]
Their marketing team wants us to call it this. Let’s just pretend SP is under the XR umbrella ;)
You can't really be serious in suggesting that all of this is reasonable to run a full featured third party browser.
So production isn't really subsidized in the traditional sense. Producers actually pay quite a bit in royalties and taxes, and employ people, who also pay taxes. It's more about these externalities like pollution that aren't factored into the total cost of production. Alberta has oil, and when the price is high, oil producers pay top dollar for people, which sucks all the air out of the marketplace, and makes it really difficult for anyone not in oil to stay in business because their people just quit for more money. Then when the price drops, a bunch of people get laid off, some try to start businesses, and the whole cycle starts again. It's difficult to have a well-rounded economy in this situation.

I agree, there's probably a good reason I'm not dictator of Alberta. Several reasons, actually. Something something dehumanizing people something..
Didn’t like the tone of this post. Can’t wait for this person to be proven wrong.
The things nobody wants to pay for
I've often wondered, if there are multiple different prints of an older film available, they could be averaged or something using modern ML or computational statistics. I get the sense that "unsupervised" methods are underutilized a bit in film and audio restoration but I know next to nothing about this area.
> Well you missed the sarcasm and my point.

Poor assumption on your part.

> The terms ...

This is just a trite, banal, ankle deep quip hardly worth typing though.

Where's the sarcasm?
The best thing about the 90s web was VRML. A pity it never really took off.
Not really, just that lots of developers choose ThinkPads for Linux support, so they have teams dedicated to Linux support across their hardware. Most of it is patching firmware bugs.
What RAG systems do you prototype?
Not all shares are owned street side by Cede. Almost certainly most founder shares are directly listed with a transfer agent (in the west probably at Computershare).

That is to say, none of what you said is wrong but it’s not peculiar to private shares. Public shares are directly analogous.

Fidelity isn’t a great example as it’s likely too big to fail, but even if they did go under it would mean systematic collapse of the western equities markets. That said philosophically Fidelity failing _doesnt_ impact your legal claims precisely because Cede & DTC exist.
My Lawyer says not to tell you a spud gun can heave a line a good height/distance if you want to make a folded dipole antenna using an old growth fir tree.

Just tie your line through a hole in a soup can and put it over the muzzle before firing a spud.
I don't see that post as a convincing argument for codes of conduct. Indeed it's a pretty good argument for avoiding codes of conduct, e.g. the below:

> That’s why I mostly now make quasirules like “don’t be a dick” or “keep your vitriol to your own blog“. The general expectation is still clear, and it’s obvious that I reserve the right to judge individual cases — which, in the case of a small community, is going to happen anyway. Let’s face it: small communities are monarchies, not democracies.

> I do have another reason for this, which is based on another observation I’ve made of small communities. I’ve joined a few where I didn’t bother reading the rules, made some conversation, never bothered anyone, and then later discovered that I’d pretty clearly violated a rule. But no one ever pointed it out, and perhaps no one even noticed, because I wasn’t being a dick.

> So I concluded that, for a smaller community, the people who need the rules are likely to be people who you don’t want around in the first place. And “don’t be a dick” covers that just as well.
I do not believe he did either from my understanding of how it went down. My bad if my wording implied otherwise.

I played Death Stranding too, and very much so enjoyed the atmosphere and presentation. The story was charmingly creative and the initial intrigue from marketing was some of the best at the time. That optimism you mentioned, that pro "teamwork makes the dream work" quality to the game, was very nice too.

Also really liked some of the music, my mental jukebox still ques up like three of the tracks. I tend to really like music from each of the games, despite only having played one of them like I'd mentioned haha .

I'm as curious as ever to see what his next project is like!
I think the bigger problem with broadly available AI advisors is that its too easy for institutions to know in advance how the retail market will react. It's not good to be part of a large, predictable retail class of investors.
Hmmm. Does pgvector count? That's supported by NeonDB, serverless compute on PostgreSQL.

https://neon.tech/docs/extensions/pgvector
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. While this is based on good intentions to try to reduce traffic fatalities, I personally feel it's an overstep to try and mandate devices to track to limit a car's top speed. This isn't even considering the edge cases and ensuring this works properly.

The only close thing I can relate this to is an Ignition Interlock Device to limit DUIs, but that seems more acceptable to me since it limits the starting of the car instead of interfering while the car is running and it's required after someone loses the community's trust by having DUIs.
Really truly hate agreeing with brookings, but they are right here.

I find it interesting where the line between freedom and acceptable government intervention seems to be for many people. There must be an aspect of “what do I have to worry about” that doesn’t kick in until people explicitly see what they have to worry about looming.
Two issues:

1) For many people, myself included, the mainstream media's reputation is so extremely damaged that anything short of a full, complete, tear down and from scratch rebuild of the entire industry won't in the slightest bit convince me to even give them a second chance. I've already moved on.

2) Even if a network literally posts only verifiable true facts, even if they have a panel of 1000 scientists and 1000 experts and 1000 people of different political persuasions that all agree with each other that the printed facts are "true", the organization can still easily lie and manipulate the population by simply selectively choosing which stories to cover and which to ignore, depending on which stories benefit their ideologies or hurt their rival ideologoies. Just "telling the truth" isn't remotely enough, they need to be both politically and ideologically neutral, they need to cover all events impartially and equally.
> This is a common complaint about CL, but my experience is that the utility of debuggers is vastly over-stated.

It is possible to patch a running CL system by simply setting a breakpoint and then revaluating a function.

I am unaware of any other language that is possible in.
This Lisp feature is only made possible through a debugger.

I know, because I've done it.
I think it is possible for AI to actually deliver a better experience than an expert. Like with the trip booking example, the expert still has to look up the flights and so on but an AI can process them instantly. And with language models it seems possible to be as flexible as a human. I think the biggest issue is trust - nobody trusts an AI right now (and rightly so), but an expert has a reputation and that is really what the rich people are paying for.
You should sit this one out. You already said you aren't familiar with the systems being discussed.
I think it comes down to quantitative differences resulting in qualitative differences.

It's not unreasonable for anyone (public or police) to notice when I am out in public, and what I do in public. But at some point an accumulation of these OK interaction becomes not OK, in the same way we already recognize that an individual simply seeing somebody in public is a protected right but stalking is not.

When the technology exists to track everything I do in the public sphere, catalog, summarize it, and sell it for profit, we are dealing with a qualitatively different animal that has entirely different implications morally and with respect to our rights as individuals.
No, I don't. I'm specifically commenting on the Japan birthrate trope they reiterated.
You ate it earlier than 1947? Or what do you mean by earlier?
Do you buy a TV from LG expecting to be able to install whatever you want on it?
I use PgVector myself but here's the advantages to a true vector db.

- Vectors are massive data wise. In our current production database they take up 95% of the memory - should they be stored separately?

- Better support for easily re-embedding, hybrid search, certain RAG workflows

- Stronger performance once you're dealing with millions of vectors.

I would still stick with PgVector until you're dealing with non trivial scale.
Boeing's Letter to IBM (1967)
There is an upside for not having to work through indirection.

There's absolutely no upside to talking to a robot. Or a "hold" line. And it's worth keeping in mind that for services, the money flows in the opposite direction - work is buying your time on the keyboard/screen, but you are buying a non-robot experience.

And rich people buying convenience won't ever die out.
Isn't this true of everything? If you were good at writing, you wouldn't work for the Wall Street Journal. If you were good at programming, you wouldn't work for Google. If you were good at cooking, you wouldn't make stuff at home for your family. All of that value you create could be captured and only used for yourself, and you're letting other people have it FOR FREE!!!

The fact of the matter is that a bound on theoretical returns is not what dictates people's choice of career. You have to consider the lower personal risk that you take on investing someone else's money and only getting a percentage of it versus investing your own money and getting 100% of it. You have to consider the aspect of being able to learn from others as you work, versus having no mentors when you lone-wolf it. You have to consider that being a financial advisor is not just looking at investments and making trades. Maybe they look forward to their 45 minute call with Jeff Bezos or whatever, and that's what driving them to that career option.

Finally, I think people are hiring financial advisors for prudence, not because they expect to beat the market. For example, how much of your money should be available in 1 day versus how much of it might be stuck in the market for 10 years because some politician made a dumb decision? How much of your stock should you sell this year in order to replace your roof, or should you get a loan? Nobody is expecting to beat the market; they just want to avoid doing dumb stuff that can be avoided.
For the developer - adding the following to the viewport meta property stops the double-tap zoom on mobile (note: stops all zooming on mobile):

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" />
I'm not sure I see a bootstrapping issue. Time and chaos will remove non teleological agents, doesn't it ? it would just emerge out of selection.
I think this is a misunderstanding of what wealth management is. I have friends in private banking who have told me that some of their clients are hedge fund managers and they aren’t looking for stock advice, but more for things like tax help and succession planning. And a banker who will see to it that they can get their yacht financed using their Rembrandt as collateral, since even billionaires don’t necessarily have much liquidity.
"A first annual install may result from an app’s first-time install, a reinstall, or an update from any iOS app distribution option — including the App Store," [0]

So update do counts it just in a year (12 months) install, reinstall and update is counted as one. But once user bought a paid app and installed it then next year if that user update app developer will have to pay for this update

[0] https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/
TBH they should really mandate bidets.
>Real-time recommendations, but driven by vector (and other kinds of) retrieval that looks more like a search engine - not batch computed, nightly jobs common these days.

This is already the case. Recommendations are just a fancy search where the query is a vector representing the user. Whether the learning is batched or not doesn't change the fact that it will use vector search for at least candidate generation.
The dude modified a forensic hard drive image with like PowerISO or something [1] and tried to pass it off; he deserves to rot under a jail.

https://mylegacykit.medium.com/faketoshi-files-ii-the-madden...
Which is what Epic said at the time but never did, right? Just seemed a little fishy that it was convenient for a legal battle to look like that was a plan, but then nothing came of it.
> If we’re talking about the mass affluent - $100,000 to $1 million in investable assets

This isn't really affluent on the level of being able to hire a personal assistant unless you're talking about the upper end.
Probability distributions.

Liquidity.

You don’t invest $100 and make $120 after a year for sure . You invest $100 and maybe an all knowing “god” knows the outcome but there is a probability distribution (a model which can vary based on opinion) for us mere mortals. Depending on your investment goals you might trade to have more risk and more expected upside. You may diversify away from US to mitigate US specific risk but maybe such a portfolio wont perform as well long term.

Liquidity. Investing a million vs. investing billions needs different approaches. Someone doing something sophisticated may only be able to invest so much without revealing their hand. Someone investing a million people’s pension will act differently and probably more prosaic and predictable. No one will fire you for turning 100k into a million over someones lifetime but they will be angry if you turned it into nothing.
That's because at a certain point those things became time-saving as opposed to picking up a phone and asking someone to do them for you. Things will change to the exact degree that the robots are able to provide more real time-saving value than humans, meaning a higher degree of accuracy and satisfaction.

FTA:
>> Rich people don’t attempt to save money by agreeing to sit on hold.

This is the salient thing. If dealing with something for an hour saves you $1000, but you could have made $5000 doing something else for that hour, you won't deal with it (even if you don't, in fact, spend that hour doing something productive).
I dont always use latex but when I do I always hate it.
China plugs in the system by being a manufacturer for the whole world. It is no wonder that it squeezes others out as this has been planned by the world elites long time ago.
Hey Whipple, Squeeze This [pdf]
Some timeless hands-on advice applicable also to a world outside of advertising.
Could you please explain how did you make the UI of the application very modern and startup vibe. I am really into UI like that and I have no idea how its built. this is beyond bootstrap UI, is it true?

I geniuely thought after looking at the screenshot, I would need to learn Swift and understand how apps are made in Mac to make an app to look like that.

My background is in Java and C Sharp. Looking at Microsoft UI framework, it does not look at all what you made.

Could you please show a good place to start to make and mock UI like that ? I find your work more interesting since your background appears to be backend/cloud!
We just can’t stop developing methods of hijacking our brains… it’s the holy grail of business. All we can do is try our best to recognize it, avoid it, and keep kids away from it.
During flight, high-rate flight data is written to volatile RAM, and 1HZ data is telemetered to Perseverance. The high-rate data is not written to disk until landing, because writing to disk is slow and CPU-intensive. There was a brownout during or just before landing, and sadly that meant the high-rate telemetry data was lost because it was never written to disk.

And by "disk" I mean non-volatile flash memory.
I had a similar reaction to the out of the box config. However after spending a little bit of time with the doc, I turned off all the useless stuff like my docker version and but left stuff like git branch, status, exit code, etc.
> They're the same picture.

That juxtaposition is just uncanny. This japanese mission is surprisingly kerbal.
I thought the topic was about countries running out of workers. Western countries are doing fine, as they're able to import workers.
That's not true. Huge numbers of Indians aren't Hindu and do eat meat. Less than 40% of the country is vegetarian. There are meat dishes that pre-date the arrival of the British, although it's true that almost all Indian food has been altered by British colonialism.
Fair enough, I have neither, so it’s been great for me.
(Neon CEO)
It’s about to get a lot better too. Pgvector now supports multi-threaded build

https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/409#issuecomment...
All in america? Does that include SF?
ASML licenses its fab tech from the US.

Regardless, the point is that the EU has zero muscle when it comes to building out consumer-facing software. All it knows how to do is regulate.

The EU's answer to AI? To nuke its only successful AI startup, Mistral, with the AI Act [1]. They had to gerrymander an exception in for Mistral.

The EU pretends to care about consumer privacy and then introduces Article 45, completely destroying web security and privacy [2] more than Meta/Apple/etc ever could.

Fundamentally, the EU does not understand what it is doing. It is a broken clock that is right twice a day. All it has demonstrated is the ability to rent-seek and grift from international tech companies, while enacting protectionist laws that conveniently avoid its own (few) companies. Why isn't Spotify targeted by the DMA? Who knows!?

You can say "it doesn't matter, follow our laws!" Okay. But don't be surprised when your TLS communications are being MITM'd by the EU and when companies maliciously comply with these ridiculous laws. The EU can only push things so far, and miss out on so many "industrial revolutions", before it becomes an irrelevant/unprofitable market, impossible to build for.

[1]: https://twitter.com/arthurmensch/status/1725076260827566562

[2]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/article-45-will-roll-b...
Okay, so we do have a subset of the flight data.

Thanks for the info.
I wonder what the best example of a cross-platform app that uses the native toolkits on the various platforms is.

I’m going to discount/ignore things like browsers.