skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obvious answer is that people want it.

I follow a bunch of musicians. I love going to concerts, and it’s the easiest way to find out when they announce tours. The unfortunate reality is that scalpers make buying tickets a terrible experience, so unfortunately I have a strong interest in knowing exactly when tickets go on sale to improve my own chances of getting tickets.
Becauae nobody would buy a $4090 package just for that feature.

Because it would be of no benefit to repair technicians.

Because everyone who wants to know the code behind the light can buy an OBD reader.
> it's even easier to believe commonplace unintended software defects

Note the fact that this was actively exploited by the Chinese. That sort of reduces the chance of this being an accident, especially since they've done this before.
You can easily buy a house for 200k in my city. It just won't be in SF or NYC.
HSBC DOING SHADY SHIT? Business as usual, remember when they took in all that drug cartel money? They shouldn't exist.
The container is a great format, battle-tested, easy to parse and generate. It's really good!
> but the number one reason is build up of vegetation on the forest floor that contributes to a ladder effect moving the fire from a ground fire to a canopy fire.

So to go off on a bit of a tangent, in a fantasy book from 1998* there was a fire mage who had been preventing wildfires for decades. When green mage (plants/trees/etc) finds out about this she chews him out about the dangerous conditions he's creating by not letting the buildup on the ground burn away. By the end of the book the wildfires have reached the forest and the fire mage dies trying to stop the resulting firestorm.

Now yes it's fantasy but the way ambient magic works in this series plus the way the whole situation was presented I just kinda figured this risk was well-enough known, so it's been weird to me over the past decade or so how it keeps coming up.

* Circle of Magic #3, Daja's Book
I'm not sure why you didn't bother looking this up before commenting but JPEG XL is royalty-free and open source. There were some concerns raised well over a year ago about some specific subset of JXL's compression and they were completely settled and it's a non-issue. Google's decisions have nothing to do with paying royalties or licensing fees.
I think the contrary is more likely to be true: that people from that era had a vivid inner life and curiosity about the universe. They talked about things with each other. It's hard to censor thoughts, or discussions between people. A good book about this is The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, focusing on the trial of a single peasant in the 16th century.
This site is pretty good for checking out the various risks by county or census tract for about 15 different climate risks.

https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/map
Why would column order need changing? You have control over output column order in SELECT. Do not `SELECT *` in code.
I actually think it will be the informal cultures who will have an easier time integrating it.

Because pockets of “Sir, I recognize you are my boss but you still need to do this properly through the regular channels” are, in my experience, more common in a non-authoritative setting then in an authoritative one (my familiarity is mostly with armies, not with Asian societies).

And if these bubbles do exist, I think it is easier for them to expand in a disorganized, distributed manner; unlike an authoritative society where everything like this must properly flow top down.
Even doing it on Android is a minefield of trying to pick the right device with the right compatibilities.
That's a very nice figure for context. So the energy required would be about 26% of that. That means it's more power than we could ever hope to capture from solar alone, as only about 29% of the surface is land and some of that isn't particularly great for solar (looking at you rain forests and Antarctica:)

Unless we use space-based systems instead, which would make that a kind of power requirement trivial, ignoring the costs of course ;)
Yes. If the drafted language falls below reasonable care and damages the client, absolutely you can be sued for malpractice.

Wrong Word in Contract Leads to $2M Malpractice Suit[1].

[1]https://lawyersinsurer.com/legal-malpractice/legal-malpracti...
What benefit is there to society or really, anyone to public records for private property ownership?

In my city, you can go to a website, type the first three characters of a name, and instantly get the full names and addresses of anyone who matches and owns a home.

To my mind, this is beyond absurd. This is a major safety risk with no benefits whatsoever. It's also the #1 reason I continue to rent.
Will this work against ads on major streaming apps like prime, hulu, and netflix?
Agree!

I'll go further. PowerShell covers a lot of the concerns in the OP out of the box. It is extremely well thought out and is one of my favorite cli models to buy into.
Removing any association with users as perverts. Google made that mistake with glass…
A paid web could eliminate the ad ecosystem and all its toxicity (surveillance technology, etc.)

I don't see any solution that was based on customer goodwill ("that was cool, here's $1") as something that there is much demand for.

What we need is a browser-mitigated micropayment ecosystem. Maybe browser vendors could come up with a standard where you can "charge up" your account like a prepaid phone card, and then when you browse to a URL you get the option of an ad-ful experience like today or a micropayment option, e.g. "nytimes.com requires a subscription or a $0.50 payment to view this page OK/Cancel". Micropayments would avoid the fee overload of the credit card companies and your browser could display your balance in the toolbar. The server could be provided with a cryptographically signed receipt and there could be a periodic reconciliation.

Note that there is no need for the complexity of a blockchain anywhere in this; IMO a blockchain just complexifies the solution and turns off people who don't trust cryptocurrencies.
Why does reinstalling iOS need to be prevented?
Kids? I am a fully-grown adult man and I feel scared in SF.
I think you greatly underestimate this group to retain their position as a monopoly. A huge chunk of politicians are lawyers, and most legal jurisdictions have hard requirements around what work you must have a lawyer to perform. These tools may make their practices more efficient internally, but it doesn't mean that value is being passed on to the consumer of the service in any way. They're a cartel and one with very close relationships with country leadership. I don't see this golden goose souring any time soon.
Being sad that you can't go through life openly unlikeable without having people root against you is like being sad that the sun goes down each night. Best to accept it as a fundamental rule and save your feelings.
This is an interesting take and I think it's a fairly common one. Is it possible that your first two sentences contradict one another? If, in this example, the US government can't repurpose it or use it for propaganda, can it really have insane oversight over it? What does oversight mean here by your definition? Are youth always correct in their worldview and never put at odds with their own societies by external or internal propaganda tools? I can think of a few examples of this in world history, some in the US, Europe and also China - so your statement here seems particularly interesting.
Introduction to AI Development
I've been looking through the internet about AI development resources and how to get a solid foundation on AI and the development process to get into the field.

Can anyone help with any recourses about, how the architecture in coding and programming of Machine learning and AI works and gets developed
IIRC about 40% of us politicians are lawyers, unfortunately I’m sure they will find a way to gatekeep these revenue streams for their peers.
I'm given to understand these data broker services make it as painful and time-consuming to opt out as they can. Supposing you can even find all the places you're listed (Optery supports 305+ sites), it sounds like a substantial time commitment to follow through on all of them.
You really shouldn't be surprised. Anything Apple fields is part of their eco system, even the Macs are getting more so with every passing day. Apple would like to impose their values on your hardware, whether you like it or not. You're headed straight for digital Disneyland.
Beware of E-Filing Your Tax Return
> Two, this would constitute starting a trade war over…browser engines. Good luck getting people who depend on popular votes to back you up on that.

It's so insane you'd be forgiven for forgetting that it already happened (with bipartisan political support): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Rather than piling on downvotes, I will respond to the valid question implied here.

Nature does plant trees densely. But most of them don't make it to maturity when the "natural" rhythm of wildfires is allowed to proceed.

Likewise the composition of species in the ecosystem also changes when the fire is suppressed.
Thanks :) It's a basic centralised idea - I'm working on a second version of the whitepaper to be more pragmatic with defining the solution, the current one is just conceptual.
> it's practically unworkable

That's how almost everything worked before the user hostile mobile takeover, not sure why it's not possible anymore. It's the previous state of affair and worked fine.
If she flies her plane on the Moon (chortle), or some other place without any tracking infrastructure, her plane's location won't be available to anyone, either.

Unfortunately for her, she wants to have her plane flown in areas with infrastructure, and congested airspace, where its location and identification needs to be known to everyone for safety reasons.

Likewise, she's free to buy a superyacht, and sail it out in the middle of nowhere with her transpounders off, but she can't be pissed if someone starts tracking every time that that yacht causes tens of thousands of cars to stop because the folding bridge on SR-520 has to be raised[1] to let it through...

[1] Thankfully, since the bridge was rebuilt with more clearance, this is no longer an issue. But in the years prior, I had absolutely zero sympathy for any of the rich pricks that would stop the movement of tens of thousands of people because they wanted to sail their yacht around the lake. If someone kept a website with a high score of who was the most disruptive Seattle millionaire when it came to that, I'd have been delighted.
Its not even that.

Look at Shitter and Reddit: they just turned off API access and introduced heavy rate limits to webpage loads. Good luck scraping your account details with that.

Enshittification is a thing with ALL commercial services. And eventually BlueSky will have their "The sky is falling! Crank the money extraction lever." And I'd move that timeframe up a LOT if they took VC money.

Feces, err, uhmm VCs want their hockeystick growth to be a hockeystick. They want their 30x , 50x, or 100x.
Seems to be affecting the US more than anywhere else so clearly there is a wider issue than the game industry itself. In fact, Nintendo and Atlus even increased its employee salary last year.
And we’re back to scare-mongering, because that’s the only thing that still works on (a smaller and smaller) part of the population.

What happened to science and facts-based science? What happened to the “if climate heats up by just two degrees then very bad things will happen” that were uttered all throughout the 2000s, even going into the early 2010s? Where are those very bad things?
My wife went to grade school with woman who went to college with a woman who went to high school with a woman who I worked with. There was a dinner and my name got mentioned and next thing you know I'm talking to my future wife on the phone. After that it was just one short date before she told another friend that she was never going out with me again.

Didn't work out the way she thought though.
> You can actually look at what was imported and exported

You will have to elaborate on that. Do you mean that somewhere, online, are listed all the INDIRECT emissions of everything that was imported? Where?

> 2.2 Billion tons / year isn’t difficult to track down.

It's not like a country imports parcels of CO2, how do you think it works? If we could track down the CO2 emissions of goods, we could write it on the packaging and let people choose the one they want.

But we can't, because it's everything but simple.

> Even if you assume we’re going to extract all the oil and natural gas that exists the worst case is net zero by 2100

You do realize that it is still largely enough CO2 to make large portions of Earth (around the equator) literally unliveable for humans? Meaning that billions of people will have to relocate, meaning global instability, wars and famines absolutely everywhere, right?
> But more than a year later, D.M. was so dissatisfied with the bank’s response that

I only recognize the HSBC name from scandals in the news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Controversies
This is something you can do at the post office at Burning Man.

If you write to someone in the city, someone will deliver your letter/card.
If you write to someone outside the city, they will pop it in USPS in Gerlach.
If you write to someone no longer living, they'll deliver it to the temple.
If you write to your future self, someday, someone may put it in USPS.
Godot Support for VisionOS
I had Coil too. They shut down.

https://www.coil.com/#:~:text=On%20March%2015%2C%202023%2C%2....
An often-cited example is the considerable investment we've made into spread-out living spaces that require that people are doing long, daily car-based commutes. This kind of planning creates a situation where an increase in the price of gas is devastating to people's livelihoods and ability to move through the world, which is a lot of why gas prices going up can be a make-or-break political issue for so many people. The flight to suburbs is a relatively recent phenomenon that could be reversed with different infrastructure choices. We could invest into mass-transit and, probably more importantly, better colocation of the resources people need to live, especially in an era where a lot of job functions can be done remotely (and a considerable segment of the economy clearly want to work remotely if they're allowed to)

Obviously this isn't going to just naturally occur, but we are already pretty artificially supporting the situation as it is: Part of the reason gas prices can stay low is that we already dump considerable subsidies into the already-profitable oil and gas industry
But we don't live in that brave new world and we're talking about now, not some hypothetical.
They were all idiots too cheap to pay for GPT-4. Got caught by hallucinations.
Misleading headline. The root issue, that Vision OS has no support for 180 degree side by side video, isn’t specific to porn.

I’m sure there will be 3rd party video players that support that format and other common VR video formats in no time. I have some ripped 3D Blu-rays I’d love to watch on a Vision Pro in SBS format.
Agreed. Brave actually implemented this exact thing[1], and then got dumped together with other crypto scam projects, which continues to happen in this very thread.

Crypto haters are quick to shout that cryptocurrencies have no practical use, and introduce many problems, but this is a perfect use case for them. The negative discussion has detracted from some truly disrupting technologies being adopted, which is a damn shame.

Brave Inc. has made some missteps, sure, but I don't think they're overall an evil or scam company. A solution like BAT can eventually move us away from the current ad-infested web where advertising leeches serve as sleazy middlemen between users and companies, and scams and fake content flood the web in order to trick SEO and get easy ad revenue. The modern web is a minefield corrupted by advertising, and things will only get worse as AI generated content gets widespread adoption.

If browsers integrated with a decentralized wallet, that can either be filled by watching privacy-preserving ads OR by manually adding credit to them, had Humble Bundle-like sliders for users to control how much of their credit is allocated for each site, and the web had standardized APIs for websites to set their minimum price, then it would solve the monetization issue once and for all. The basic customer-business relationship would be preserved, where customers actually pay for the services they use, instead of the corrupt business models of today where web users are not even the customers, but a piece of rock gold can be mined from, and its value milked in perpetuity.

I think the single largest reason this hasn't happened yet is because it would negatively impact the profits of adtech giants who are running the web, and have a strong sway in directing its future. If any solution has a chance in getting mass adoption it needs to happen outside of the web, and be built from the ground up by avoiding the mistakes we now know have lead us to where we currently are.

[1]: https://basicattentiontoken.org/
That's like asking what monthly fee I should pay Subaru when I fit a bike rack to my car. They have nothing to do with my bike rack.
Right. 70% of governmental staff are people with a law education. So I mean lawyer in a broader sense
The oak savanna was a highly constructed world managed by humans for acorn production and other reasons. What is "natural" and why do we desire it?
HEIC is barely used and seems very cherry-picked to find something that IS still royalty encumbered.

>Pretty much all modern video/audio/image codecs are

The exact opposite is true. The most popular modern codecs are almost all royalty-free. WebP, AVIF, JXL are all royalty-free. VP9/AV1 are royalty-free. Opus is royalty-free.
HSBC was created to deal with opium money following the opium wars because other banks would not.
Yes, I wish more things were paired like that.

Another one: land/property tax increases paired with income tax decreases.
> And for users, being independent from Bluesky requires owning a DNS name and paying for it yearly

This is not really true. DNS allows you to set your name to a domain, but ultimately all of your posts are tied to your DID. If you wanted to move from steveklabnik.bsky.app to steveklabnik.whatever.app, you could do that still, no DNS required. You won't lose anything. The DNS stuff is effectively vanity.
A thread about anxiety does seem like it would attract people with anxiety who want to talk about anxiety.
I had to dig to a wiki to see what the interface looks like, would like it on the homepage.
Perhaps obvious, but if you’re using mixpanel or posthog for analytics on anything you build, you’ll have to put them on exclusion lists, in order to be able to use their analytics platform.
On using milliseconds as a measure of network latency
Lawyers seem to be the prime group to prevent this outcome using some kind regulation. Many politicians are lawyers.
> This is just such a childish take.

It certainly lacks eloquence compared to a tactic such as name calling...
Just to clarify, how did you typically consume cannabis?
ITT: Ideas that have been tried before that nobody used.
> Apple advertises the security, safety of their locked down ecosystem

Unfortunately this advertisement is just an illusion designed to lure naive customers, as has been amply proven by the long list of CVE's revealed at the end of 2023, due to which the Apple devices have been completely insecure against those who had known them many years before the public.

After such a precedent, any argument that Apple prevents third party applications for the benefit of the customers has become completely baseless.
Ask HN: Which JavaScript lib for metering APIs should I use?
Currently building out an API that will be billed on a per-request basis. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, I could use stripe, paddle.io or chargebee for charging, but I was wondering if there are any good express plugins that would make my life easier. Any experiences would be appreciated
I would vote for this future.
I don't think it is contradicting the first part, but I was wondering about the second part since it is based on DIDs. I think it adds some important notes past that.
Thinking for yourself required knowledge and actual study, not just something people can do on a moment's notice.

For example, thinking about the movie 300(2006) required some knowledge of how aristocratic Sparta actually works. It's basically a fascist movie glorifying the brutality of Spartan warriors with no question on its actual efficacy as a fighting force(unremarkable). I recommend this essay on why Sparta sucks.[1]

1. https://aeon.co/essays/who-are-the-leaders-in-our-heads-and-...
Gosh I guess general purpose computers have never existed seeing as installing software is so "practically unworkable".
That's why companies self host GitHub for Enterprise.

I know of no reason why a company should use public GitHub for private business.

Every company I have contracted or worked for, all used on-prem GHE.
I thought it was cheaper not to look at the content, than to look at it. That just leaves legal responsibility as an issue.
> making him a minority among mostly Chinese-Canadian co-workers at the Aurora branch.

Not trying to point fingers on whether the branch workers were in on the whole thing, but maybe it was easier to perpetuate the fraud because of cultural familiarity?
And not just legal either.

I uploaded all of my bloodwork tests and my 23andme data to Chat GPT and it was better at analyzing it than my doctor was.
I think that you are wrong, I am well versed in climate science. The costs to avert now are significant, even more significant than the changes needed for sea level adaptation in our lifetime.

Most of the costs will be borne out by subsequent generations.
DD is dishonestly saying "the cost of this new law is $5/order". That's obviously not the case.

GH just actually adjusted prices so that they are not (presumably) losing money. I'm fine with that, and they show me the new fees.
> Just like if you are smart you could use google before to do your own research.

Unfortunately people stop at step #1, they use Google and that is their research. I don't think ChatGPT is going to be treated any different. It will be used as an oracle, whether that's wise or not doesn't matter. That's the price of marketing something as artificial intelligence: the general public believes it.
> I’ve been fighting this for decades and it doesn’t get better as I get older.

As someone younger than you quite possibly suffering with the same thing, that’s saddening to hear. Is there anything you did that you wish you’d done sooner? Have you tried any (pharmaceutical) medication?
I wouldn't read too much into this story, as any people who do benefit from THC probably wouldn't be visiting an emergency department for cannabis-related reasons. I'll also say, as someone with an anxiety disorder, that it certainly didn't make it worse. For me, it worked pretty much like Xanax: did wonders for my anxiety, but I couldn't manage to get anything done, so I had to switch back to my usual not-completely-effective meds.
Why? Should we restrict other investments with similar logic? For example should non-residents not be allowed to purchase vacation properties and lease them?

The impulse to enlist the government to regulate private property and investments is not productive and results in endless encroachment of individual liberties and rights to governments.
Agreed that it is a smaller risk. That's why I do not oppose geoengineering despite being reasonably confident that once we start that path we will be wholly incapable of quitting it.
You know what? I just had a chat with Spock here on the bridge....He suggests logic may be our best ally in this debate, not the sector of our Starship crew's employment...