skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can read my other reply which agrees with you that law is a spectrum rather than a binary.

> I cannot count the number of times I sat in a meeting and looked back at a contract and wished some element had a different structure to it.

The only way to have something "bullet proof" is to have experience in ways in which something can go wrong. Its just like writing a program in which the "happy path" is rather obvious but then you have to come up with all the different attack vectors and use cases in which the program can fail.

The same is with lawyers. Lawyers at big firms have the experience of the firm to guide them on what to do and what they should include in a contract. A small town family lawyer might have no experience in what you ask them to do.

Which is why I advocate for more standardized agreements as opposed to one off generated agreements (with GPT or a lawyer). Think of the YCombinator SAFE, it made a huge impact on financing because it was standardized and there were really no terms to negotiate compared to the world before which the terms Notes were complex had to be scrutinized and negotiated.

> Augmenting the lawyer with GPT to save billable hours so you can turn up to a meeting with your lawyer and extract the most value in the shortest time period seems like the best play to me.

The issue is that a lot of lawyers have a conflict of interest and a "Not invented here" way of doing business. If you have a Trust for instance written by one lawyer and bring it to another lawyer, the majority of lawyers we talked to actually prefer to throw out the document and use their own. This method works well if you are a smart savvy person, but for the population at large, people have some crazy and weird ideas about how the law works and need to be talked out of what they want into something more sane.

Another common lawyer response besides "It depends" is "Well you can, but why would you want to?" So many people of a skewed view on what they want and part of a lawyers job is interpreting what they really want and guiding them on the path of that.

So the hybrid method really only works if you find a lawyer that accepts whatever crazy terms you came up with and are willing to work with what you generated.
There's still far more people working in games than got laid off. It's a really bad time, much as it is in the rest of the tech landscape (with largely the same fundamental root cause) but the industry itself is going nowhere.
Citus is indeed an example for "distributed PostgreS". There are also serverless Postgres (Neon, Nile, AWS Aurora) which do this.

If you are interested in partitioning in an OLAP scenario, this will soon be coming to pg_analytics, and some other Postgres OLAP providers like Timescale offer it already
I'm in. Old Order Netizens unite.
https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-http
>FB is still surprisingly strong in growing markets.

In a lot of those growing markets, Facebook is the main (or only) way of having a web presence for their business. WhatsApp is similarly the main way to have IM support, as well.
Fish shell by default does the expected behaviour of inserting in and allowing you to edit the command (multiline if needed) before executing it with [enter]. I've found Fish shell to have a lot of sane defaults and have yet to find a thing I would like to customize except for the prompt.
I've spent hours on the phone to many Google internal numbers that I can find trying to get someone to help me.

I think my best action is to use one of the sim-swap services myself to intercept the SMS to the guy who owns the number now.
Global warming skepticism is everywhere but since we are on US site bias is natural.

In every topic here about energy in Europe there are always comments how Germany is pro-coal etc etc. In every topic about US car-culture there is critical mass of comments explaining how it is necessary.

Per capita CO₂ emissions, 2022 [0]

- France: 4.6t

- 'coal-driven' Germany: 8t

- USA: 14.9t

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
> I think the gaming industry in general has use[d] the passion that devs have for games as a good excuse to not pay more, which obviously has worked.

It's a simple supply/demand calculation. "Game dev" is high on the dream-job list -- "internal framework developer for MegaCo" is not. Game engines have made game dev more accessible than ever, the raw talent pool is bigger than its ever been.

It's a lot like being a professional musician. The hours suck, the environment is usually crap, it spills into your home life all the time... and the pay sucks unless you're the 0.1% (or a business person in the field instead of a performer) but lots and lots of people want to do it and will grind away at being a pro musician, because they're passionate about it.

If there's any set of devs that needs a union or is most like other fields where unionization is beneficial, it's game devs.
I spent a lot of time with M&A lawyers and this is 100% true. The other answer is "that's a business decision".

So much of contract law boils down to confidence in winning a case, or it's a business issue that just looks like a legal issue because of legalese.
Anyone else seem to observe people who previous tended to move to bluesky and kill their twitter happened to be radical and potentially dangerous politicians (I can think of one in sf off the top of my head
This is exactly why we built ParadeDB :)
This won't get you the bonus, it'll just get you possibly sued and/or prison time.

I think a better fix is to just not give to a company what you would regret giving. Don't put in 80 hours a week for months unless you have good reason to think it's going to be worth it and do it with the full knowledge that you might be gambling on the company's generosity.
I agree that we need a "quick fix" before things get too far out of control. I'm really concerned about things like the Gulf Stream weakening and the resulting rapid climate change.

It turns out that we've been accidentally doing geoengineering like this for years, and we've suddenly stopped due to regulations: RhodesianHunter posted this link in a different thread:
(https://www.thedailybeast.com/weve-been-accidentally-geoengi...)
Incredible sample size for an incredible error rate.
Interesting. I've had the same issues. Is there a captive portal whitelist somewhere?
> I want them punished.

Funnily enough, studies of families of murder victims where the murdered was sentenced to death show that they tend to disagree with you.

It "satisfies" for some very brief moment, but the loss is still there, and it doesn't make anyone's life better. It doesn't improve anything for anyone.

I'm reminded of American History X. A character is raging against everyone and anyone he has perceived has hurt him, his family, his home, his country. Immigrants, POC, whatever. He has responded with hate crimes, destroying grocery stores, forming groups of likeminded (or white) people.

His efforts end him in jail, and he's still raging.

And then a teacher asks him, says: "There was a moment, when I used to blame everything and everyone for all the pain and suffering and vile things that happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Used to blame everybody. Blamed White people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn't get no answers 'cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions."

Like what?

"Have any of the things you've done made your life better?"

They give voice to anger, rage, revenge (that's honestly a more honest word, in your case - you don't just want them punished, you want revenge on them). But none of those feelings improves anything.
> We're also up against a century of planting trees at 2x natural density after logging. Logging can be a useful management tool, but if we plant 2 trees for everyone we cut we're not building healthy forests, and we're just increasing fuel loads.

I'm thinking that mother nature generally plants trees at far higher than 2X density.
Toolhub – connect LLMs to over 10k APIs
> - Developer onboarding and review (Legal and KYC)

Don’t do it at all? On Android, you can just run an app with no involvement whatsoever from Google. There is no customer to “know”.

- App submission and review (standard, priority, exposure, etc)

F-droid apps are neither submitted to nor reviewed by Google.

- App distribution (origin storage and download)

That would be the alternative app store’s job, no?

- Push notifications

This is genuinely tricky due to battery life and data usage considerations.
Sounds like any other Chinese company. The country is run by Engineers vs America being run by Lawyers. On paper is sounds like China is better until you realize that everything shouldn't be run like an engineering project.
I don't actually know how the interests are intended to work, but I can say that the key feature of Bluesky is feeds. (I know this isn't at all obvious.) Feeds are third-party created, for the most part, and essentially function as filters. So, for example, I follow a movies feed. Any post which includes the movie camera emoji, the word "filmsky", or a few other keywords is included in the movies feed. It makes it very easy to swipe over and see discussions of cinema.

That sounds (and is) a lot like tag-based feeds over on Twitter. However, there's additional potential. Behind the scenes, a feed is a service which takes the user info of the person viewing it and the firehose and decides which posts to include based on that input. So "include all posts with these keywords" is valid, but so is "include the top 100 posts with these keywords, as measured by likes." Or "show a feed including only the most recent post from every user the viewer follows."

In other words: feeds are the way a third party can build their own algorithm for the firehose. Very powerful, very useful.
We should expect to be able to install whatever software we want on hardware we own.
These people stole that money. Paying it back is part of their sentence. A sentence for a criminal act. The criminal act of theft, or embezzlement. They are, in fact, being "sent there because of their other crimes." If they had taken out loans for that money and failed to pay it back, they would not be in this situation, they'd just have shitty credit ratings.
This is consistent with meta or any other large social media platform with user uploaded content. They outsource to cheap locations and mods are subjected to the worst videos that are flagged for review.
> I’m some big stan for Big Banks, but crypto was (is) just so absolutely riddled with scams and crime that I just can’t anymore. Decoupling the Web Payments API and crypto is certainly the right move right now.

Completely disagree with this. Fiat money is riddled with scams and crime more then cryto ever was and can be at this point. Because the world operates on fiat and. Arguing that giving central banks the Monopoly over this is a good thing is just stupid. But OF COURSE Google will not dare to bring anything cryto into the web browser. It could be the opportunity for something really revolutionary with a private coin connected into this.

People with this mindset are just horrible gatekeepers. Cryto has so much scams BECAUSE its moving fast and its easy to trick people who are after fast money. Its a sign that crypto actually works and is valuable!
What does it mean to visit an ER for cannnabis? Wouldn’t that typically be an anxiety attack in the first place?
> Mann's graph looks like a hockey stick lying on its side, with the blade sticking straight up.

Is this how “hockey stick graph” is regularly interpreted? I always assumed it was that if you held the blade flat to the ground the handle went up and to the right. I never imagined it lying down nor do I see what that adds to the metaphor.

Edit: The Wikipedia for Hockey Stick Graph (Global Temperature) uses the author’s interpretation, but the more general entry for Hockey Stick Graphs shows my interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_graph_(global_tem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_graph
It is never that simple. Some geographies naturally trap smoke in ways that make controlled burns disruptive to nearby communities. There must also be resources available in case controlled burns get out of control. All of this takes coordination and costs money. Going from a general agreement to a specific implementation is turning out to be difficult in many areas.
Tech Layoffs Just Keep Coming as Sector Resets for AI
Fine tuning is just more training -- so it's definitely possible to teach the model facts this way too.

In practice we've found that it's a bit of a balancing act to teach the model the new knowledge without destroying existing knowledge, but it's just a matter of tuning the parameters carefully. We're also researching whether we can fine-tune a brand new expert in a MoE model like Mixtral, I've also seen work on fine-tuning just a fixed set of weights. I'm sure there will be more developments in this space soon.

In terms of how you refer to new knowledge and not base knowledge, like many things in LLMs, you just ask the LLM :-) For example, if you look at this session https://app.tryhelix.ai/session/62905598-b1b7-4d93-bc39-5a93... and click "Show Info" at the top, you can see the system prompt is:

"You are an intelligent chatbot named Helix that has been fine-tuned on document(s) e1ef2e896c in document group 62905598b1. The document group contains 1 document(s). The user will ask you questions about these documents: you must ONLY answer with context from the documents listed. Do NOT refer to background knowledge."

It does a pretty good job at this, although I'm sure there are ways to improve it further.

Referencing the specific document IDs in the fine-tuning was an innovation that has really helped us.

In terms of training time, yeah - 5 minutes on a news article, 10 minutes on a typical length paper. Pretty usable. We're experimenting with reducing the number of epochs and increasing the learning rate to make it faster at that too.
NetBox is indeed intended as a source of truth. It it tightly focused on being the very best DCIM + IPAM solution it can be, which means that discovery / reconciliation and assurance / monitoring are not a problem we're currently trying to solve.

Other products do those things well, and can integrate with NetBox via our extensibility facilities including API, plugins, and scripts. In fact, we just announced partnerships with a couple of vendors that do those very things: https://netboxlabs.com/news/strategic-partnerships-reduce-ad...
> I don't want to learn new things

I've learned a bunch of new things (running all the things - not fun, putting biz logic in the application layer - slow).

Putting them in the database is simply simpler and more performant. And it requires less code and time to develop (and maintain).
This is an accurate theory of mind for the vast majority of people.
This might actually be done pretty often.
Box seats, but with a view of the sky.
I applaud the efforts to give away free documents like this. That is actually what happens when you have a lawyer do it: you pay pretty much nothing for the actual contract clauses to be written (they start with a basic form and form language for all of the custom clauses you may want), but you pay a lot for them to be customized to fit your exact desires and to ensure that your custom choices all work.

The idea of "legalzoom-style" businesses has always seemed like a bamboozle to me. You pay hundreds of dollars for essentially the form documents to fill in, and you don't get any of the flexibility that an actual lawyer gives you.

As another example, Northwest Registered Agent gives you your corporate form docs for free with their registered agent services.
>But day after day, over decades, surely the minuscule amount of heat being generated by activity on the surface has SOME cumulative effect.

No it doesn't, because the heat escapes out into space, so the minuscule effect is only an immediate one, not a cumulative one. That's why the greenhouse effect, being cumulative, is much stronger. If I put on an extra coat every day, it's not the heat output from my muscles in putting the coats on that is making me feel hot, it's the increasing number of coats that I'm wearing. Likewise, if I burn a tonne of coal, then that heat will have essentially disappeared overnight, but the global warming-causing CO2 will stick around in the atmosphere for another [very big number] years.
That website doesn't load for me but anyone who uses ChatGPT semi regularly can see that it's getting steadily worse if you ever ask for anything that begins to border risque. It has even refused to provide me with things like bolt torque specs because of risk.
is there anything particularly compelling about it compared to a centralized platform? honestly still just waiting for the android app to not have terrible startup time and for there to be anybody on it
Affiliate programs have application processes intended to filter out bad actors and mis-alignment with a brand. To use an extreme example, a web site promoting terrorism would typically be rejected. Approving data brokers as affiliate partners for a data broker removal service is viewed by many as questionable. To use an another extreme example, how would you feel about an anti-virus software company that approved as affiliate partners creators and distributors of computer virus programs.
My experience on Bluesky was:

1. A direct port of the ragescrolling, today's-main-character culture of twitter
2. Complaining about mastodon and linux on a premise I haven't been able to tease out but appears to relate to open projects being inherently untrustworthy and private projects that receive funding being trustworthy.
3. Hyping Bluesky's ease of use (it is identical to Mastodon in every meaningful respect, except where Mastodon offers some additional functionality like private posts).

I got out. I love a lot of the people that moved there, but the rage culture alone was what I originally left twitter to avoid. It's kind of a cultural AOL in the post-twitter-social space, with all that entails.
You can change type.

But that's a good point regarding column order, sometimes I find myself wanting to do that.
>I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow.

Both of those places seem to have gotten their initial swell of "actually using it" users from anti-Twitter/Musk people and pro-leftist/progressives. They also seem very militant about making sure that they are the gatekeepers/rulemakers of these new kingdoms.
Or you know, we could actually log the lands like these agencies were supposed to enable in the first place.

There's a lot of healthy logging that can exist on the spectrum between clear cutting and total preservation. So for conservationists to advocate literally letting the forests burn before considering even a bit of actual forest management is insanity. We're sitting on one of the largest reserves of renewable resources in the world, and we would literally rather let it burn to the ground.

Most of these forests in question (USFS and related agencies) shut down logging on these lands decades ago, mostly as an act of conservation hubris. And the irony is they are now spending more money on replanting and thinning than they ever did when they were getting paid to do it by logging companies.

Managed logging not only thins out the forests so that burns are less damaging. And trees being logged instead of burned not only reduce the carbon, they act as a store of it!
Chinese Coathanger malware hung out to dry by Dutch defense department
What kind of cannabis are people trying to treat their anxiety with? If it's high-THC dispensary strains and oil cartridges, no wonder; such products have hardly any medicinal value.
Its a digital headcrab, eating your attention.
Unbound with tags?

* https://unbound.docs.nlnetlabs.nl/en/latest/topics/filtering...

* https://try.popho.be/securing-home3.html

* https://git.sr.ht/~moviuro/moviuro.bin/tree/master/item/lie-...
https://github.com/electric-sql/electric
What does this break, if anything? Anyone run into sites or apps where Adguard Home needed to be disabled? How easy was that?
You would be a vexatious litigant.

https://www.courts.ca.gov/12272.htm
At least we get to enjoy the American elite losing their marbles over the fact that there is a mass-platform where they have no control over the narrative. Imagine if we had TikTok during the ramp up to the Iraq war. May have turned out differently.
Yikes :| Yeah so luckily I've never come across those...
> Frequently, the data will not be removed entirely, or re-surfaces later on. You're entirely dependent on the good will of the data broker sites, who are likely trying very hard to stop automation like this.

This was my instinctual, cynical assumption, too. Unless there's a GDPR-like law in place and some standard for differentiating identities, they're just going to find loopholes to recapture peoples' data (e.g. remove middle initial, modify address format, etc.).
A less easy fix, but one that's better for everyone is that we all
just stop buying mountains and mountains of absolutely useless plastic
and digital crap.

Sure we need lots of human labour to keep the world going round, but
dealing with the obscenity of consumerism is where a better world
begins.

These are the results [0], a kind of misery and 'poverty' (an
'affluenza') caused by unchecked material indulgence.

Surely we can address this culturally on the demand side?

[0] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/techno-clutter-farnell...
Raspberry Pi interface to Honeywell/Ademco keypads and panels
Supports both addressable (ECP) and non-addressable protocols. Includes a browser-based keypad GUI.
> Speech is not a crime, listening to hate speech and starting to be unjustly hateful towards people is a crime.

I'm confused. You start off talking about merrits of blocking payment related to hate speech (or lack thereof). And then you point to the danger of government deciding what "hate" means.

That is all good and well, but to get back to the original issue - I'm wondering if you feel paying money to people spreading hate speech amounts to a crime or not?
Not even new is an understatement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Augustine)
That's awesome. GPT vision is unreal, to me. It's neat that you can finally get the computer to describe the album covers, something that no-one would have thought to bother with previously as it seems so trivial. A lot of album covers are surreal, so you're really going to put GPT to work there!

My grandma was blind, and I just spent 6 months looking after a guy who was blind (but has now had surgery and beat me in the eye test at the doctor's!), so I think about blindness a lot when I design.
This website hijacks browser history and should be avoided.
I've been using Threads pretty exclusively lately. It's not perfect, but it's got what feels like critical mass and is being actively improved.

It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out.
>Push notifications

It is far fetched that it will get any industry wide traction, but unifiedpush.org/ provides a solution
Why Private Investment Isn't Driving a Rapid Green Transition
China's Economy Dodged Neoliberal Shock Therapy – and Boomed
Learning how to self-host things on Docker and a NAS has been a lifesaver for me. Almost every SAAS I've wanted to use at a consumer level has an open-source equivalent on Docker that I can reverse-proxy to access from anywhere.
Careful, there are plenty of True Believers on this website who really think that these "guess the next word" machines really do have consciousness and understanding.
Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–1940
Yep. Contrast with music, where every major service has “all” music and as a consequence piracy is very low.
Here is a decent explanation as to why not:
https://youtu.be/CHJKKsOHtAk?si=FYd1FawD-_GN_Cex
When you're developing as a third party can you interface with their protocol while also generating your own public/private keypairs?