skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adobe / Figma, and Amazon / iRobot.

And to the point of the discussion, there are no "limits" to what jurisdiction governments have. Governments--the United States especially but many others--does it all the time, especially as concerns financial matters. Many countries have declared that they have jurisdiction over crimes against humanity committed any time, anywhere, by anyone. China has penalized American companies for activities involving Americans in America.

However the EU probably has self-imposed limits (or imposed by the member states) and as a practical matter only large or powerful states can get away with it.
You're being flippant to the point of absurdity, and past the point of being rude. "Yeah" when you don't mean it, and "you must be biased"

I wish the Quest 3 was as good as the vision pro. It isn't. It's not even close. The display specs are way more than enough to be able to observe this.
I could've written this article at that time. I was all about Weechat and IRC in general. Unfortunately, the Freenode situation was what finally made me jump ship.

I've been using Discord every since and while I'd still prefer to use IRC, I don't mind it nearly as much as I originally expected to.
There’s always a trade off though. Append-only storage models are great for use cases where they are truly necessary, but they also store substantially more data than mutable databases do, and designing for something like Datomic carries a heavier cognitive cost than a simple RDBMS.
Ask HN: How are you testing your LLM applications?
I'm looking to test an LLM application that uses a combo of LLM calls, Tool calls, code, and RAG. Testing will be both in production (errors, regressions) and in development (isolate a part of the system, iterate, run experiments). Would you use a platform or roll your own solution?

LangSmith looks interesting with tracing+playground, but I'm not using LangChain. I'm seeing established companies like Weights & Biases and Arize, but they seem more model focused than application focused. I'm also seeing startups like Parea and Scorecard that could be interesting.
I meant individually like open source? Like anyone in this forum.
Only if you read the algorithmic "For You" feed instead of the chronological "Following" feed.
As someone deeply involved in immigration advocacy in USA I can assure you that the Canadian points based system is terrible. It is the classic case of grass is greener on other side effect.
I find the HTML fragments needed to be HTMX to be unmaintainable for large projects. The static typing for the fragments isn't there either when you're trying to compose fragment components.
I really love that, super good ideas. I also generally love to create workflow optimizations. Will probably create some of your stuff for myself (I especially like the dictation replacement, could be super useful to me).

Wondering: How big is you monthly OpenAI bill when using all these tools? Only a few $$$, or is it higher?
How do you centralize without having a government requiring KYC?
It's a small wrong to right the much bigger wrong of the tyrannical Chinese government preventing people from taking their money out of the country.
Indeed. If you follow that line of thinking, there's probably lots of both men and women that struggled to support their partner before divorce, and are relieved of that burden after divorce. You could easily see effects from this on both side at the same time. All it would take is for the primary earner income to go down, and for the low or no income partners earnings to remain the same. This results in a net reduction in income for both genders.
Where have you seen this? If the function does it properly (SupportsShouldProcess) then it should pass down automatically.
Apache CloudStack 4.19.0.0 Released
Just can recommend this great talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVk1ahRF78

Amount of kids is strongly linked to child mortality and access to health care access.
PlayStation 3 ran Linux just fine so it can be classified as a computer and forcefully opened. Not sure why do you all think this is some "gotcha" when the corpos you defend proved you otherwise already.
but incomes are generally much lower
But what about that ragebait headline I read the other day? Clearly the entire system must be burnt to the ground.
> I like Bill Gate's book on the topic.

So what's the book?
I've tried to love Matrix multiple times in the past 8 years or so. Sadly my current feeling is that the spec is simply too complicated to build reliable and performant systems on. Hopefully that feeling changes at some point. I really want it to be good.
When people say crime is getting out of hand, while it's actually decreasing, they are just wrong and ignorant.
Are US banks just a lot more strict about source of income than Canadian banks?
Yours for only $135k (starting)! Supposedly it's designed for eight nines (99.999999%, or ~30 seconds of downtime a year) and a MTBF in the decades. I'm curious if at that point, assuming it lives up to it, if other factors outside of it, like DC power and cooling availability or internet connectivity, won't also be difficult to achieve.
I wish the world was much butter. It would be more tasty.
Everything you write is also true if you replace Canada with Australia.
That's why I said "at least." Those practices inspired Aldo Leopold (among others) but he was the one to do most of the work to convince US government agencies of their merit.
They started off as an opium bank, that heritage and culture still pervades their business practices.

If you want to read more about this: https://philebersole.com/2013/02/15/hsbcs-history-and-the-or...
That sounds difficult. Also, ML processes every modern smartphone photo. Will they be marked?
where are you observing this?
Isn't it to be expected? I guess that they have to make demands on your behalf to have your data removed. I guess that's optional because they can still work without it is some cases, and ask you on a case-by-case basis for others, but that's extra work for you and for them, so they may not do it, at least not on the lower tier pricing.
These sites deliberately are slow in the removal of requests. So there is both manual sending but also needing to re-check if the site actually removed your info because brokers just kind of suck.
The two groups that talk about crime are more or less equal in their self-delusion. The left-wing folks aggressively deny there is any sort of problem and the right-wing folks insist such and such a place is a warzone and anyone who goes there should be afraid.

Mind you there are plenty of people who are fairly reasonable who you don't see talking about these things publicly much, usually because the people who respond are so very obnoxious.

You have people denying reality vs. people exaggerating it, neither really have very good information.

I have personally experienced both. I left a formerly nicer neighborhood that took a turn to avoid robberies and too frequent gun shots for downtown where I feel much safer... and manage to offend both sides when I mention this.
You can blame the media. And social media included.
SUVs are more profitable than "regular" cars. Therefore they are marketed more heavily. Consumer choice is obviously not entirely driven by marketing, but if it didn't have an impact, car companies wouldn't do it.

American automakers are obviously much further down this path, but European automakers don't have to pay for externalities either.
> It feels like people just want to stay stuck

They don't necessarily want to stay stuck, but they generally don't want to put in the hard work to see change through. More likely, as you point out, people would rather talk about it. That requires way less effort.

But what can you do with that? If not the "ACKSHUALLY" response, then it's just going to be:

* "The crime is bad in this city."

* "Yeah, I agree. So, um... did you hear about Taylor Swift?"

Either way, it's just an acknowledgement of something having been said. There is nothing actionable.
See related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274631 (blog.mozilla.org)

Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers

(posted 5 hours ago, front page with 150+ points, 120+ comments)
I wasn't sure about the Vision Pro until I saw how negative HackerNews was about it. I'm sure it'll be a massive success now.
Dental Denial of Service
Tangentially related, there was an undercover Vice News report on the connections between Chinese Triads and the Mexico/US fentanyl trade a couple months ago [1]. I also wouldn't be surprised if there were underground networks of capital in Canada that were related to these mortgages.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8wEGVIPJ_4
Except there is incredible luck and bias. Being born to rich or connected parents. Being white. Being male. Business culture has rarely been a meritocracy. Like the post above you said, there really isn't a lot going on here that millions others don't have. Its luck, failing upwards, and cultural biases and corrupt business culture making these people leaders.

Scientifically, the only trait we've found these people have in common is that they're all low empathy, dark triad types, sociopaths, etc. That is to say, to climb to the top, like in the royal courts of old, the system tends to choose not those with the most merit, but those who are the most ruthless and dishonest socially.

Steve Jobs was a ruthless bully and had a mess of a personal life. Apple workers accepted being screamed at him as part of the job. Elon Musk walks the floors of his factory and fires people on whims, then bought twitter to spread hate speech. Torvalds is a bully of the highest order and regularly has child-like tantrums over code suggestions. etc, etc.

The meritorious in our system tend to get locked down in skill worker positions, bullied out of jobs, burned out by being the hard worker to the 'idea guy' or the 'chummy country club guy' or the 'rich kid' or the 'bully' or the 'loud mouth political player', have their work and labor surplus stolen, etc. The game-playing sociopath is the one who ends up in the c-suite.

You do not live in a just universe. This is trivially provable.
When was the last time "the people" were actually in charge?

I think "democracy" died in ancient Greece, along with its actual meaning.

The only modern interpretation that is consistent with the original meaning is a dictatorship of the proletariat.
Even for gas vehicles, new-car buyers famously under-value efficiency (mpg) at a pure economic level. (This is part of the justification for using manufacturer regulation to induce higher car efficiency rather than gas taxes.) So why would we think the efficiency of electric cars factors much into consumer's decision to buy them vs gas cars?
There is no selected prompt, humans ask the models (blindly) some questions in a chat and then select the best one for them.
> In real life, people may like it or not, may still use it or not, but the discussion seems way more casual and nowhere near as singularly anxiety fixated as when the topic comes up here.

It’s been common in my circles as we have aged. In our now mid 30s most have ceased its usage other for that reason other than myself who took it up following a spinal cord injury. For what it’s worth, it did seem to give me anxiety at first but time (and mixing with a cbd strain) seems to have solved that.

edit

We do all work in IT for the most part so…maybe that is something.
It was fine, but more importantly borderline sustainable, until post covid explosion in Indian student visas, more than system can realistically integrate in short time line involved. The point of skill based immigration is you drain the brightest (and richest) who can generally pay their way and be net contributor right away (tuition etc). When I was in Canadian uni around the 00s, around explosion of PRC international students, they mostly come from wealthy backcgrounds, bought a condo, studied and transitioned into skilled work. They generally didn't work part time while in school. Brought money into economy with stupid consumption. Still drove up RE market / rent, but not the to levels now in the last few years. The richest Indians with $$$ goes to the states due to their remarkably successful Indian disaphora network, Canada gets what's left over, which is still bright/hardworking minds, but they're poorer, and many have to work driving down wages in all segments. Which might be fine i nmoderation but with sheer numbers involved, in the time frame involved, is driving up cost to visibly levels in the few cities where immigrants settle.
Assuming you're going to use your car over a period of years, buying any vehicle is also a bet on the energy markets. For a three year lease, that's probably a pretty safe bet, but for people who're looking to buy a car outright and drive it for 10 or so years it's a bit riskier.

That being said, I think hybrids are still the idea car for most people today.
Does Unilever prevent people from using their own vaseline however they like?
I was at the store looking at them recently and all the toothbrushes advertise having "AI", an app, wifi/bluetooth etc. I guess it's hard to come up with reasonable upsells on this stuff.
I will be even more specific - most modern conservationists are generally pro-logging! It's a renewals resource that's carbon negative!

Anti-logging activism is a holdover from a specific time in the 80s when we had no other environmental concerns other than to superficially preserve the beauty of nature.

Anyone who tied themselves to a tree to stop a logger is now in their 50s and 60s. A minority, but at a peak age to influence policy.
Meanwhile .NET land requires writing reflection free specific code for AOT, while GraalVM can handle reflection just fine.

ART also does PGO for free, as does OpenJ9. Both of which also handle reflection.

The thing with Java ecosystem is choice of implementations, instead of Microsoft's single implementation, specially now since most of Xamarin's work has been consumed into modern .NET.
In the last few days two people told me they are not happy with their EVs. One already changed back.

I really want an EV but reading all the forums and what kind of issues people have really puts me off. I love our hybrid and when it runs on battery it's such a nice and smooth ride and I'm dreaming of 100% electric now. I guess the next step will be PHEV but I really, really want 100% electric. Unfortunately experience of other drivers, like I said, is putting me off for now.
I like lego, but the magic that made them what they are is waning. The capitalized big on partnerships with entertainment brands, but that's feeling played out. When parents pick up gifts for birthday parties they'll get lego star wars or lego ninjago gifts because the birthday boy is into star wars or ninjago, lego is secondary.

Lego is still great, but their lack of emphasis on the creativity that has been the promise of lego for decades---think this ad[0]---has been making them less great each year.

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/ea/f1/71eaf11fd3ade672821b...
We do have an anti-abuse tool to help flag abuse. It is obviously important that PDS operators not allow themselves to become overrun with abusive users.

Anyone technical can run their own single-user or low-user-count PDS and probably not have to worry about any problems.
You can just send a transaction from your exchange.

Like, let's say I want to send you $0.10 right now. I would just go into Robinhood and send 0.1 USDC to you on Polygon or Solana, that would arrive in your wallet instantly from a Robinhood-owned address, you would have no idea who I am or my previous transaction history. Robinhood also owns the private keys and account recovery process here - it's just using blockchain as the payment rail.

Go ahead and post your address and I'll send you $0.10.
Private Relay does work, but it circumvents the Pihole (so no adblocking).
I guess the company has to be really small. In my <200 company the CEO changed and the new one (despite being here for a year and change) I bet he cannot name 6 engineers in the company. He doesn't care.
>It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.

I'll disagree with all of that. Awful, better, and improving are all measured differently, however these observations will push, pull, and merge with other observations. Quality of life is not so clean that we can dismiss any part of it as trivial.
18 years and counting! Still living in IRC. I use the old and humble Irssi as the client with ZNC running on a Debian VM on Linode as the bouncer to maintain a persistent connection.

It is simple, reliable, and well established. I initially used to hang out on multiple networks like DALnet, EFnet, etc. but I quickly settled on becoming a regular at Freenode and OFTC because those are where most of the free and open source software communities were active.

The biggest recent event in IRC that happened recently from my perspective (user perspective) was the controversial change in ownership of Freenode. I switched to Libera like everyone else. The migration took only about 30 minutes or so: point my ZNC to the new server, register my nick, register my channels, and done!
The EU has no jurisdiction over what a company does outside of the EU or does not have a business nexus in the EU.

Just like the US couldn’t have jurisdiction over a company that only operates in the EU.

Apple could easily not make a subsidiary. But make it a fully independent legal entity that resales in the EU.
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I mean, Solana does 3k tps on a good day (with less electricity than a google search and a fraction of a penny fee). So it’s not un-believable there will be a decentralized ledger that hits visa levels of throughput in the next few years.

I agree though that a centralized solution would be more performant, but it would have to have network effects for it to gain widespread use, which means it would be a monopoly and enshitify and start taking an unreasonable fee. So government should step in and offer something for online micro transactions, but at government speed we might be decades out.

So then we are back to decentralized ledgers…. Not technically better but organizationally, politically, socially better…
I figured it related to blue-sky thinking.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blue-sky_thinking
> You can't have the overhead and stress of figuring out and adjusting to something new every day.

you mean like literally everyone else who doesn't own a private jet does? Anyone who can afford a private jet can easily afford to hire someone else to figure out the details and make the needed travel arrangements for them.
What data though? How would it be valuable? From what I saw they are getting money from the device sale itself. These iot toothbrushes are like $400 and basically just track brushing time and pressure. Those don't seem like super valuable ad tracking metrics.
He's on IRC, @aaronpk in #indieweb within Libera.
3 billion devices run Java!

;)
Hypothetically, let’s say these toothbrushes connect periodically to an API from which they fetch firmware updates. If you’re able to MitM that connection, you could deliver whatever you like as a firmware payload to the toothbrush. Or maybe someone designed the toothbrush to open ports using UPNP to enable a remote connection to tell the toothbrush that the update server has moved to a new URL?
That's a bit reductive. It can be true that globally (or in some superset) crime has decreased while in some local context it remains the same or has become concentrated (e.g. worse for people in that context).

This whole article and commentary around it has also highlighted another issue for me: It's hard to have nuanced conversations about complex problems that can be simplified or generalized to something causes a difference in perception about what actual problems *are*.
>being a heavy terminal user . . . is one of the most important things

I wish people wouldn't conflate CLIs with terminals. I run (shell) command lines all day, but try hard to avoid terminals / apps that emulate terminals.

(To run command lines, I use Emacs, which I never run inside a terminal.)
Sounds familiar!

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/upshot/how-mortgage-fraud...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-209-bi...
RBC probably indulges in this as well. HSBC just has way more ties to Hong Kong and China than RBC does.
A warning about Philips electric toothbrushes: you cannot turn off Bluetooth on them, even if you are not using the smart features.

Also be careful with all Philips air purifiers that support Wi-Fi, because the remote control feature cannot be disabled. They create a Wi-Fi hotspot that you need to connect to with a smartphone to finish setting up the device, but if you don't use these features, the air purifier will create a permanent Wi-Fi hotspot, waiting to be exploited.
Warren Ellis at Thingscon 2017

"1. It’s hard. Don’t get me wrong. I know it’s hard. And Samsung and Apple and several other large corporations want in on it. On the bright side, that will give you lots of exit opportunities, and soon you could be drinking cocktails in Bali while Amazon deals with the backlash from the smart doorlock you sold them that still doesn’t work properly. And they’ll spend the money on iteration until the device either goes away or starts working properly, and the users will have to buy Amazon Prime membership for their houses. And then someone will hack your house through the buggy wifi thermostat you bought, and your house will start ordering DOWNTON ABBEY downloads and you’ll come home to find it’s 40 Celsius indoors and the sink is flooded and your fridge has been turned into a porn spambot and you’ll realise that your house is masturbating to DOWNTON ABBEY.

If you can get in the front door."
Eh I think we are overthinking the "strategy" here. This article seems like those who "trade" stocks with intense technical charts and lines.

The real reason Apple did this was they kind of had to? There is a sense that the future is something to do with AR/VR and Apple had not released a new product in a while.

But the headset still has all the issues of other headsets: poor field of view, heavy on the face and expensive.

I think the real signals here are that the current big tech companies have all tried and failed.

The field for disruptors here are open. If anyone has a real pirate spirit and can hack together a better ar glasses with a linux os, it might just be the beginnings of the next Apple.
I'm from the government I'm here to help!
Thanks. I guess the thing that sparked my curiosity / skepticism was that if there is a correlation between IQ and income, but none between IQ and wealth, it would seem to suggest there is also no correlation between income and wealth (or economic status, as these articles call it). I've only read the free snippets from the articles you posted, where this point isn't addressed directly but I have to assume they addressed it in some fashion in the full texts.
I'd say Lothar was a very big recent one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Lothar (albeit the name, cyclones don't develop if the ocean water is less than 26°C, and let me tell you that there was a solid 15-20°C margin in the zone).

Germany had some solid gust speeds, but when you look at France, it's not biting that much in the 100mph.
New Honda CR-V is PHEV if you want it. We have previous hybrid model and I tested the new one. It's amazing. The only minus point is that it became even bigger.