skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems with monetization and micropayments are not technical and no easy-to-use API is going to help with adoption.

Dealing with money is a real pain due to fraud, security, and legal compliance and those problems don't go away when the amounts are small.
"When your attorney is wrong, you get to point at the attorney and show a good faith effort was made."

And possibly sue their insurance to correct their mistakes.
> Deeply flawed? Not really.

Python's performance problems are unfixable without wholesale redesign of the language and standard library. Its package
management is a bad joke. The developers give no indication that they have any intention to fix those problems, rather than keep stuffing more unnecessary and badly thought-out features into it.

Obsolescence should be gauged by how modern the design of a language is, rather than its popularity. By that measure, Python is manifestly obsolete, and has been even when it debuted.
The price on onerep for monthly payment is $14.95 vs Mozilla's $13.99. Both offer discount for yearly payment and they will be almost the same. Of course, this is the price for individual. onerep offer better, cheaper plans for family (6 for $28) but Mozilla doesn't offer that (yet at least). So I'm not sure if it is a lower cost.
> I want them punished. Why complicate things?

Probably because satisfying your want for revenge isn't a good enough reason to have the big expensive system that is prison.

Presumably prison should be solving some wider societal problems.
Clang has a -Wreserved-identifier warning, but that's only for reserved identifiers in the C standard, not for POSIX (e.g. names starting with double underscore or a single underscore followed by a capital letter).

The C standard has many more such adhoc reserved identifiers, for instance anything starting with `is`, `str`
or `wcs` followed by a lowercase letter is technically a reserved identifier, hell, even any preprocessor macro starting with an `E` followed by a digit or uppercase letter is reserved.

Theoretically those reserved identifiers in the C standard matter more than _t because they affect all C code, not just C code targeting POSIX, yet nobody ever brings those up (because these are really only theoretical problems, and should they turn into actual problems one day they are trivial to fix).

It's important to differentiate between the C standard (e.g. what C compilers care about) and the POSIX standard (which C compilers do not care about), since not all C code runs on POSIX systems. It's only on some UNIXes where those two worlds overlap.

In the real-world, using _t typenames really is a complete non-issue.
The Road to RBAC: Evaluating and Implementing Authorization Systems
I wonder what that perfect circle gap is at 0:06, south-west from center?
Ever feeling bored and want to ignite an online all-out war? Comment that the GDPR doesn’t apply to someone living in the US and running a web server there. Once that firestorm is rolling, observe that people would lambaste the US if it claimed its laws applied everywhere.

(I genuinely believe both of those statements, and don’t mean either of them as trolling. Boy howdy, does it ever have the same end result though.)
If it was from one of the usual suspects, then it was definitely Szabo.

If you read about it you will come to the same conclusion.

All others can be easily eliminated.
btw recently cleaned up my wal cache busting code quite a bit if you're interested.

https://github.com/Logflare/logflare/blob/main/lib/logflare/...

Need to make a lib out of this!!
It's a narrow use-case that doesn't cover RDMS. SQLite fits it though.
Could you explain further?

General purpose computing directly implies that each user is free to do what they want with it, just like the MacBook Pro they bought from the same company.

The world would be a lot more awesome if people weren't entitled to feel "uneasy" about what people they will never meet are doing legally in the privacy of their own homes.
At some point we have to wonder what kind of institution are we are encouraging here - are we trying to educate the public, or create an elite ruling class that spits on the rest of us? We have to choose.

I remember a time when CUNY schools would accept nearly everyone but had more Nobel Laureates than all of China even today. Perhaps this is a better model.
Threads has been promising to integrate with ActivityPub since it launched. To date they've done very little and their timeline extends until the end of 2024.

I'd personally be very happy if Threads gives up control over their users but it remains to be seen. ActivityPub also lacks the very strong account portability feature that made AT Protocol necessary.

AT Protocol is completely open source and the Bluesky network is completely open. The Bluesky network has had an open API for a year with full access to all public data (no auth required):

websocat wss://bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos

More info on: https://atproto.com
Indeed! It reminds me of the early scenes of the movie Alien where William Hurt’s character has the Alien stuck to his face :-)
I apologize in advance for the cynicism but this is how I see Bluesky's virality/stickiness playing out: everyone's going to move to it, it's going to be an unofficial but incompatible "fediverse2", VC type of folks will pretend the actual Fediverse doesn't exist, and then the actual Bluesky public benefit corporation (or some derivative, come on guys you wanna get filthy rich) will eventually turn to a data brokerage/ advertising play to enshittify the entire thing.
Getting Started in Clojure [pdf]
William Knudsen was even commissioned directly at O-9 (Lieutenant General) during WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Knudsen
Pwned.

Rereading your comment, I apologize. You were citing the most common "cons" of it, which are totally valid reasons not to buy one.

AND it's still the best VR experience we've got :)
Lawyers control government, at least in the U.S. Expect laws banning or severely restricting the use of AI in the legal field soon. I expect arguments will range from the dangers of ineffective counsel to "but think of the children" - whatever helps them protect their monopoly.
What's the thinking on BGSes? I haven't seen much talk of who's expected to run them or what they'll look like, but they seem to be the linchpin of reliable data portability.
Adam Neumann got kicked out of WeWork – now he wants to buy it
> it’s been going on for ages

“All day long they work so hard
Til the sun is going down
Mending all the highways and byways
And wearing, wearing a frown
You hear them moaning their lives away
Then you hear somebody say:
That’s the sound of the men
Working on the chain / gang.”

Sam Cooke, 1960
https://youtu.be/zBn5aIfZElE

My my my my my my my my my my my my
My work is so hard
Give me water
I’m thirsty
isn't that what man(ual) is for?
Btw on safari on iOS long press the image will show the name of the country from the Wikipedia link
More, smaller networks seems like a big improvement over a handful of too-big, everyone's-there networks.
> The article alludes to the problem of too many drivers, which is the bigger issue than customers ordering less because of an additional $5 fee.

Reducing the number of drivers may increase the time it takes to deliver food, making it colder.

I don't fundamentally think "get delivery from anywhere" can exist at this price point without somebody getting screwed.
Two Scientists Have Advanced Marine Ecosystems Research in the Arctic
The problem I have with Google's authentication flow (and also Microsoft's) is that there's no right way to use it. They both make unpredictable demands at unpredictable times, so you can't rely on being able to authenticate when you need to.

Randomly losing account availability like this is completely unacceptable for critical services like the ones they provide.
An AMD GPU on a Laptop that will primarily be used to run Linux? Gonna be a hard pass.

I have been using a T495 since spring 2020 and only after upgrading to Fedora 39 in December have I been able to run it without having to reboot at least once a day due to the amdgpu driver hanging up.
Ferrets: The Cutest Working Cable Guys [video]
I have a Framework and have probably procured 10-15 total for my company & a few clients. It's great that you can swap out any part of the laptop. That said, I broke my input cover [0] and tried to order a new one, but the listed part 404'ed. When I reached out to support they said there were none in stock and they didn't know when they'd be back in stock. So my Framework anecdote was that I found myself worse off than if I had a non-modular computer. When I checked 1.5 months later, the part was in stock.

[0] https://frame.work/products/input-cover-kit
What about if your lawyer is using chatgpt? :D

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/08/lawyer...
The worse judges are at being perfectly removed arbiters of justice, the more room for lawyers to exploit things like emotions and humans connections with those judges, and thus the worse LLMs will be at doing that part of the job. A charismatic lawyer backed by an LLM will be much better than an LLM.

At least until the LLMs surpass humans at being charismatic, but that would seem to be its own nightmare scenario.
Mama mi je rekla zašto tate nema zato što je on ratni zločinac?
Moj tata je otišao dečki, pomozite mi... unovačen je, dovraga!!!
I've seen it here before, but it's rare.

Amusingly for the typical HN CJ, slashdot fell off my radar when Google Reader left us. I had been an avid /. reader for years, but had transitioned to reading through RSS. It went downhill during that time and I never picked it back up.

Still, good memories.
Which has nothing to do with the article at all. These are private company employees giving information to the government.
>If you mean toxic fuels, most do not.

Hydrazine is quite common and quite toxic, of the "seek medical attention immediately" variety. 1 ppm is a threshold for exposure for a few hours, satellites can launch with hundreds of pounds of the stuff.

A crashed satellite would not be safe to be around, you might get liver failure if you go poking around one and get a good ammonia-like whiff of hydrazine.
All these comments seem to fuel my suspicion that we in fact shouldn't use databases, because we don't use any of these features. We just use them as external data storage for a single application. And not even that much data, like <10 gigs.

But the updating I would have expected to go more smoothly. If you make a point of using a software dedicated to managing data, I sure as hell would expect an update to go so smooth that I don't have to worry about or even notice it. In reality updates more often than not seem to come with undocumented errors. That is a constant source of frustration for me.
> A "what's your name - is this you in LinkedIn?" is more than enough for me.

What about all those people who don't use LinkedIn?
"What if they were liable?"

They'd be sued out of existence.

"In terms of being convincingly wrong, it's not like lawyers never make mistakes..."

They have malpractice insurance, they can potentially defend their position if later sued, and most importantly they have the benefit of appeal to authority image/perception.
I don't want to have a semantic argument about the definition of "slave", maybe we can agree on the term "involuntary servant".

Prisoners should be denied as much freedom as is necessary to protect the rest of society and no more. Forcing people to work against their will does not protect anybody. It is not legitimate to say that if we deny one freedom we might as well deny all of them, they aren't free regardless.
It should be noted that there are other laptops where you can swap out most parts, e.g. the EliteBook is actually surprisingly good at this.
Reading testimonials from people who seemingly enjoy Bluesky, it sounds like the main perk is its exclusiveness and feeling like the good old days when Twitter was just for hardcore social media nerds? Is that that a recipe for success and wouldn't opening up undermine it?

I don't see how any Twitter clone would avoid the pitfalls that make social media like Twitter fundamentally annoying. It's not about the technology or being federated or not, but about such internet-scale communities just not working well. You'll always end up with online drama about the silliest things and terminally online power users.

Everybody hates Discord, but I think more communities should strive towards isolating themselves from the broader net to keep conversations civil.
You are losing your freedom of movement, not your rights, no?
Does anyone still get fooled by rags that call anyone who's not into 1984 "far right" in a lazy attempt to discredit people with genuine concerns?
> As an SF writer, it's pretty interesting, though, to think of the weird shapes a society would take when your astronauts are outliving entire civilizations.

Spin, a novel by Robert Charles Wilson, touches on this from a planetary perspective. Quite the interesting read, though I won't say more here for fear of spoilers.
So the idea is to buy the paintings, yadda yadda yadda, donate at a number that somehow exceeds your original price when taxes are accounted for and keep the other paintings forever?
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense -- 6th amendment to US Constitution

When an LLM is more competent than an average human counsel, does this amendment still require assistance of a human counsel?
> judges' personal views and emotions are a large part of these cases

That's a completely separate question. We're talking about automating lawyers, not judges. (to be a good lawyer in such a situation, you would need to model the judge's emotions and use them to your advantage. Probably AIs can do this eventually but it's not easy or likely to happen soon)
Is it valid to just use IaC as the source of truth? That's where I do all my IPAM
I like the term "explorable vocabulary." I can see using LLMs to get an idea of what the relevant issues are before I approach a professional, without assuming that any particular claim in the model's responses is correct.
Would you say it's slower than file IO too?
I find it somewhat interesting that a good number of the articles about this don't seem to go into details about eye strain. I don't think I'm mistaken in thinking that even if it doesn't seem like it your eyes are going to be focused on a screen image that is what? 2 inches in from of your eyes. Given the recommendations when reading a book (which is further away although maybe not so much to matter) how does that work with something that seems to be being sold for continuous use over a 2 hour period?

The FAQ from Apple does suggest breaks every 20 minutes "as you become acclimated". I don't quite know what that means for someone who, say, uses it for 2 uninterrupted hours a day to watch movies for example.
Yeah there are certainly some industries that lend themselves to this more than others.

For example, it makes sense for Loro Piana to own Cashmere goat herds so that they can have the best possible supply of cashmere for their knitwear.

Hermes own cattle farms for the same reason, they can remove things like barbed wire from their fields which can cause damage to the finished product.

Goat and cattle herding aren't yet an industrial process like making certain grades of steel or making glass bottles (for the champagne producer) though, so while it makes sense for vertical integration in some areas, it might not in others.
Did threads launch with compatibility? Because I know a lot of “nsfw” creators that choose Bluesky over Threads because threads rules over NSFW content.

Bluesky wasted a few opportunities they could have grabbed market share from Twitter simply because a) you needed and account to view posts (now fixed) b) you needed a code to sign up (now fixed).

But has their ship sailed? L
This vehicle doesn't have "self driving" or even auto steer. At most, he's steering it with his knees.
For context, "cool" in my comment above was of the "neat" variety.

With a sprinkle of sarcasm.
But you’ll have to find a lawyer that specializes in suing lawyers and their own malpractice plans.

Maybe that’s where legal AI will find the most demand.
the crazy part is that Payoneer would let you reset the account password just with the reset code sent by SMS, no need to prove ownership of the email address.
Ok, great, so you’re pro slavery Provided a court said it was fine

I think you’re a horrible person.
I'm willing to bet that this is a inference due to "Login with Google" being an option. Probably worth sacrificing a click in their sign-in funnel to prevent it though.
My main problems compared to old school enterprise modular Lenovo (IBM) and HP laptops:

- The only module option is a graphic card. There is no option for extra battery, extra CD-ROM, no module with 4x NVME SSD... I could put three batteries into my old lenovo

- it is build like a cheap plastic toy. It would not survive fall from table etc...

- No hot swap, you have to shutdown the system, fiddle with screws for 20 minutes and reboot. My regular laptop with removable lid has similar level of modularity.
What's $100B among friends?
Nice, hopefully it'll drown some of the more niche streams and surface more mainstream ones.
Well, telling is easy. You just tell them. What you're really wondering about is how they would compel Apple to do it, not just tell.

If this were found to be a violation of DMA, they could fine them for absurd amounts of money. If Apple paid the fines but didn't fix the underlying issue, they'd be fined even more. After suffient repeat offenses the EU would force Apple to make structural changes such as break up their businesses. If Apple chose to not pay the fines, break up, etc, they would need to stop operating in the EU, or run the risks of their assets being seized, their employees arrested, etc.

It's only at the point where Apple left the EU that there's no more leverage on them. And this is Apple, they're not going to leave a market with money. They didn't even leave China.

(But the real key question is whether there's a reasonable interpretation of the DMA where the companies need to comply even outside of the EU.)
tl;dr it's an acronym that explains how the operations happening inside a database are reliable.

For example, when making a bank transfer, the database guarantees that the update doesn't happen twice by accident.
I sometimes think about the problem of sending a message to someone in the far future such that they'd be guaranteed to receive it, regardless of their location on earth or attentiveness to the arrival time of the message.

It's a fun creative thinking exercise.

You can 'cheat' a bit by thinking of ways of sending a message such that ~everyone on earth would get it at the delivery time, including the intended target. But personalizing the delivery (thus adding privacy) makes the problem far, far more difficult.
True, but it isn't available on Cybertruck yet. The software is effectively incomplete.
I'm saying no because it's far more likely it's just incompetence all the way to the top, and not a conspiracy.
> At least until the LLMs surpass humans at being charismatic

Look into "virtual influencers". Sounds like you should find it interesting.
Slavery is slavery, regardless of how bad the person is.
There is a service I've heard advertised on twit.tv podcasts called DeleteMe that I've been interested in that does a similar thing and seems to cover way more data brokers: https://joindeleteme.com/sites-we-remove-from/

OpenRep is another one I've seen mentioned. Covers 190+ sites: https://onerep.com/sites-we-remove-from

One thing I can't find is a list of sites that Mozilla Monitor covers.

Here's a comparison. I only listed the individual plans since Mozilla seems to only offer that. The other 2 offer plans for multiple persons

DeleteMe: https://joindeleteme.com/

brokers: 750+ https://joindeleteme.com/sites-we-remove-from/

edit: I just realized looking through that list that they are a bit deceiving. They have qualifiers next to each website:

* Included in Standard Plan and above (90 sites)
** Included in Business Gold, Diamond, Platinum and VIP Plans (27 sites)
*** Included in Diamond, Platinum, and VIP Plans (1 site)
ᵒ Exclusively in Platinum and VIP Plans (13 sites)
~ International requests (12 sites)
^ Custom Requests (665 sites)

Seems like the majority need a "custom request" which defeats the purpose of signing up for something that is supposed to handle things automatically

pricing: https://joindeleteme.com/privacy-protection-plans/

- individual plan: (they also have couples and family plans)

- $10.75/month if you sign up for 1yr
- $8.71/month if you sign up for 2yr

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OpenRep: https://onerep.com/

brokers: 190+ https://onerep.com/sites-we-remove-from

pricing: https://onerep.com/pricing

1 person: $8.33/mo, they also offer family (up to 6 ppl) and teams (10+)

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Mozilla Monitor: https://monitor.mozilla.org/

brokers: 190 data brokers (could not find a list of data brokers they cover)

pricing: https://monitor.mozilla.org/#:S1:

- "Monitor" - their FREE tier where they scan the data brokers and just inform you which ones have your info and you have to manually go in and remove your information from each one through whatever process each site uses.

- "Monitor Plus" - Automatic Data Removal - $13.99/month, or $8.99/month if you sign up for a year

Both tiers come with "Data Breach Alerts" which I guess is similar to haveibeenpwned's notify me.

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edit: adding one more: https://www.optery.com/

brokers: 305+ https://www.optery.com/pricing/#data-brokers-we-cover

pricing: https://www.optery.com/pricing/ & https://www.optery.com/business-pricing/

will only cover the personal pricing:

free - self-service (similar to Mozilla's free tier)

3.99/month - removal from 110+ sites

14.99/month - removal from 200+ sites

24.99/month - removal from 305+ sites
Building anything in this space is so time-consuming and needs just to be commoditized.