skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution to this is a centralized model, where users top up their account with money. Then they get a button in their browser where they can click to pay for features in the current open tab or donate if the page is free.

The top up could even be a recurring payment if the user wants.
I was ruminating around this topic the other day and came to conclusion it is probably terribly missed opportunity for certain advertising company. Now it sounds super scary privacy-wise, smells monopol-y and overall may not happen anymore (I think), but consider:

In situation when "all" users are being in fact "logged into" their service anyway, then features such as
- pay to hide ads on this particular web (basically "overpay the advertiser"),
- pay to keep ads and support the author of this particular web,
- pay for extra features but remain anonymous for web's author,
- provide data about yourself that the company gathered about yourself to the web's author,
then it sounds like quite low-hanging fruit.

Web authors would gain "auth" for free, integration would allow some "serverless" features for otherwise basic webs and so on. My initial idea was (probably akin to Brave(?)):
- pay advertiser one centralized "ransom" to disable X ad impressions, so they can be distributed to websites authors as I go, just the same way as if I was exposed to a real ad.

For favourite websites I could either top that by also allowing ads again, or paying them more, obviously with certain share ending up as a fee for that mediator.

I guess there was/is some blatant obstacle that prevented this (perhaps advertisers would all bail out when the could be legally "overpaid" by users?) or it in fact had been implemented somehow in the past (distant enough I missed it completely), but it was a fun thought exercise anyway.
https://archive.ph/M6xbs

The above link is an older version of the article. Here is a paywall free link but I think you will have to enable JS for it to work.

https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/toyota-motor-reports-r...
I recently used Willful to create a will and was pretty disappointed with the result. The template was extremely rigid on matters that I thought should have been no-brainers to be able to express (if X has happened, do Y, otherwise Z) and didn't allow for any kind of property division other than percentages of the total. It was also very consumed with several matters that I don't really feel that strongly about, like the fate of my pets.

I was still able to rewrite the result into something that more suited me, but for a service with a $150 price tag I kind of hoped it would do more.
People aren't "trapped", they are there because they broke the law. The work should be voluntary though. Also Portland is showing exactly how well allowing hard drugs to flourish works. The voluntary uptake of drug rehabilitation offers has been terrible as most skeptics suggested. I'm glad they are doubling down on it for the forseeable future so the rest of the country will be slow to enact "shoot up heroin on the corner lolz" laws. Weed is fine but fenty, crack, meth, etc will destroy people and kill any will they have to recover from it. Imprisoning addicts is ridiculous. Imprisoning drug dealers and other 1 step removed killers? I have zero problems with that.
There are more details addressing a bunch of the first thoughts people might have here: https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/
Participation in prison labor significantly improved post-prison employment outcomes, but it yielded mixed results for prison misconduct and had little overall impact on recidivism. When we examined the extent to which prisoners
participated in prison labor, the best outcomes were observed for those who spent a
greater proportion of their overall confinement time working a job in prison. As the
percentage of prison time spent working increased, we found significant improvements in
prison misconduct, post-prison employment, and several measures of recidivism.

Work programs aren't magic, and they're certainly not going to cure sociopathy. They're a means to train and habituate people whose criminal behavior may have been significantly affected by their inability to maintain gainful employment. Of course we should continually try to improve them for relevancy and effectiveness.
No, the EU cannot dictate what companies do in other countries. They can only require them to meet standards for services and products that are sold in the EU (or maybe if the companies are headquartered in EU).
> Those are issues (though nobody will allow federally funded police departments in the US).

What? Not only are those allowed, we already have them. That's what the FBI is.

Also, if funding is your concern, it's routine for state police to be federally funded.
I like WX.
They are a challenge for composition, often.

Great for discoverability though, and that doesn't require graphics, just context.

There should be a button I can push in my shell that lets me ask "what does the token at cursor mean," and a button that lets me type a plain language search string that wires down to a contextual search (i.e. I'm in the middle of typing out "grep" I should be able to ask "how do I search folders?").

We didn't have the tools to build this when grep was invented; we have them now.
Damn bro, now my favorite billionaire is getting tracked xd
One reason is new applications in legacy enterprises that are slow at adopting newer/better languages for a variety of reasons. I used to work as an embedded SWE for a Fortune 500 that made heavy use of C++ and was very resistant to Rust/Zig/others, but was much more willing to adopt newer versions of C++ for new projects. Although I would have preferred to work in Rust, having features like these would have been great in that environment.
>There's also stackable moderation coming shortly, which enables other individuals/orgs to operate moderation labeling services that users can choose to use.

Will people be able to opt out of your moderation services?
That’s not an issue we’ve seen with either the AMD-powered Framework Laptop 13 or 16. A large chunk of our user base are Linux users.
There are a lot of DCIMs out there, where netbox really shines, is that it's got a decent API and is pretty flexible.

We use it as a front end for managing physical datacenters with a host of services that take or store their state in netbox.

Services check boot targets, hosttypes, connected switch and power ports, the service and role a host will or does provide, lifecycle tracking, etc . . .

And, we can give it to our physical datacenter techs and they just set the fields and boot the host.

It's a really nice way to manage a front end, because netbox handles things like ldap and UI and we just write services that make the datacenter look like netbox.
Yeah, I've tried to seek out and post technical stuff but it's mostly people virtue signalling, rage baiting, and complaining about other sites.
Flattr tried to do something similar, but yes I agree. It's unfortunate that bitcoin became a hoarding/speculation thing, rather than a useful thing.

Decentralized micro-transactions would have been cool had they been used with a decent friendly UI and been integrated into a browser or two as an extension.
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More discussion days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248649
> When I checked 1.5 months later, the part was in stock.

So, are you good now? Or was the part in stock too late for you and moved on to another laptop?
I thought so too until I ignored the philosophy section.
Ask HN: Who is still thrilled with their M1 Mac (Mini or otherwise)
Follow-up a few years after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25584421

Are you tempted by M2 / M3? I'm still happily plugging away on a base m1 mini (8/256) and don't feel like I've noticed any degradation here 3 years later.
And it rejects my german phone number. So, double fail. What's this obsession with using phone numbers. It's 2024! Any scammer can buy a burner phone. Owning a phone proves nothing other than that you own a phone.
YAMLScript – a functional programming language whose syntax is encoded in YAML
If you truly hold this position you’d be well served to familiarize yourself with Scandinavian prison system which focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment and various American atrocities such as the war on drugs and the private prison pipeline such as “kids for cash”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
right, which is what they parent commenter is talking about - since the user will not understand this level of abstraction how do you answer why does it work differently between iPhone and iPad?

Or perhaps I'm misreading you and your post is just in agreement?
Nice.

Now this is out could we get a TrackPoint keyboard please? https://community.frame.work/t/thinkpad-keyboard-mod-super-e... is getting there I am sure with a little support it would happen finally.
Music producer Mark Ronsons uncle too.
The account portability is probably the biggest problem with the fediverse right now.

I finally signed up for Mastodon despite reading little to nothing positive about it on hn. It was easy to use, and the signal to noise ratio was vastly improved from my Twitter experience.

However, that lack of account portability means users can, have, and will continue to get cut off. Servers cost thousands of USD per months with no revenue and domain name ownership can magically vanish for many reasons. With no business model for server operators, these are significant issues.

That confusion for users may even be the primary force that drives them over to something like Facebook's Threads.

There are analogies to e-mail here for the server operator. If I said any numbers I would be making them up, but I'm assuming 1 Mastodon user costs a lot more, both in compute/bandwidth and support, than 1 e-mail user. Free servers are not going to scale.

Account portability doesn't solve this, but it means if something happens to one server operator, that user doesn't churn in to the ether and never return. I've been keeping an eye on https://fedidb.org/ (not my site.) While total users and servers keep going up over the past year, active users keep dropping. It could be something related to how they record usage, but it isn't a promising thing.

I'm less skeptical about long term adaptation. Most of the negative sentiment I've read on hn about Mastodon just was wrong. Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft are all fully accelerating in to ad business models which will make much of their products less unappealing by the day. If history is any lesson, when a new competitor shows up without ads and a similar or better experience, the incumbent is in trouble.
This is not true at all. You get full 1080p detail on a Quest, with excellent color and contrast.

The AVP gets you to around 4K detail.

It is nothing at all like CAM. Not in color and not in resolution. It doesn't even make sense to say that because the display specs for these devices are well known.

God rays aren't really a problem watching TV content because they're most prevalent at the edges of the display, but you place your virtual screen in the middle. So they're basically a non-issue. (And TV's can have glare problems of their own if you're not watching them in the dark.)
To be clear they didn't manage to wrangle that yet. They're currently trying to argue that and are just behaving as if that's already the case; the actual question on if the iPad counts as a separate store hasn't been decided on by the EU.

Personally I highly doubt this trick will work in court; moreso than any other Apple product, iPad and iPhone are running the same software and the stores have enough overlap that you can find iPhone apps in the iPad store.
Thank you I'm happy to forward my correspondence to you
You jumped from -10000y to -5000000000y to make a strawman case.

I see you are strongly passionate about your beliefs.
By Fediverse I mean the W3C ActivityPub ecosystem. Yes it has a diverse collection of applications but they all talk a common protocol and interop to some degree.

The way I see it, fragmentation is a feature not a bug because it drives a certain amount of competitiveness (Cory Doctorow calls this Adverserial Interoperability) among implementations and users are free to go anywhere else (it's just another sign up):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
Prisoners lose most of their rights. They have no privacy rights, they can be searched at any time without a warrant, they often don't get to vote, they don't get to own weapons, they don't have freedom of association, they don't get to choose their style of dress.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248649
Similar thing (catastrophic aircon failure due to a flood in a crap colocated DC) happened to us too before we shifted to AWS. Photos from the colo were pretty bizarre - fans balanced on random boxes, makeshift aircon ducting made of cardboard and tape, and some dude flailing an open fire door back and forth all day to get a little bit of fresh air in. Bizarre to see in 2010-ish with multi million dollar customers.

We ended up having to strategically shut servers down as well, but the question of what's critical, where is it in the racks, and what's next to it was incredibly difficult to answer. And kinda mind-bending - we'd been thinking of these things as completely virtualised resources for years, suddenly having to consider their physical characteristics as well was a bit of a shock. Just shutting down everything non-critical wasn't enough - there were still now critical non-redundant servers next to each other overheating.

All we had to go on was an outdated racktables install, a readout of the case temperature for each, and a map of which machine was connected to which switch port which loosely related to position in the rack - none completely accurate. In the end we got the colo guys to send a photo of the rack front and back and (though not everything was well labelled) we were able to make some decisions and get things stable again.

In the end one server that was critical but we couldn't get to run cooler we got lucky with - we were able to pull out the server below and (without shutting it down) have the on site engineer drop it down enough to crack the lid open and get some cool air into it to keep it running (albeit with no redundancy and on the edge of thermal shutdown).

We came really close to a major outage that day that would have cost us dearly. I know it sounds like total shambles (and it kinda was) but I miss those days.
the funniest and most shallow reason I ever thought that Dorian was somehow involved was he literally said " Ill interview with whoever buys me lunch "

which tbh is just the kind of thing someone involved with bitcoin would say, its just funny and ironic.
It makes sense if you take in context that Flux, the most visible and well-known product of Weaveworks, is a donated CNCF open source project, and that companies like Microsoft, VMWare, AWS – can all engage with it directly, or by forking, or by building support for it directly into their own products.

How do you place a value on Microsoft building Flux into Azure Arc? I know it isn't worth $0 but do they actually need a contract with anybody (at Flux or Weaveworks) in order to go on doing that - no. They don't need one.
Do you mean you've been offered 3x your current salary and haven't taken it?
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Ah okay, didn't know that, I've read some time after the launch that it was going desert, somewhere on an article linked here, I am not a social network person, so wasn't following it
All the governments in the world would do everything in their power to get people accept this suggestion as a truth and use LLMs instead of human lawyers especially in criminal defense. Now, why is that?
Maybe it's not the technical knowledge that is the most important feature of a lawyer?
Barbara Streisand has entered the chat.
Having two distinct things doesn't mean placing them in separate processes. Or we'd all be writing Erlang by now
My guess is he was transparent enough about it that he was able to avoid it being a crime.

In general, fraud and similar requires lying (either by omission or directly). Investors can’t complain if they were told everything up front, even if it was obviously a bad deal when they sober up later.
Writing down and graphing out these relationships is a good way to identify and normalize them.

I once had a system with layers of functionality; lvl 0 services were the most critical; lvl 3+ was "user shit" that could be sloughed off at need.

Had some stub servers at lvl 0 and 1 that did things like providing a file share of the same name as the lower level services, but not populated; so that inadvertent domain crossing dependencies weren't severe problems.

There was a "DB server" stub that only returned "no results." The actual DB server for those queries was on the monster big rack SPARC with the 3dz disks that took 10min to spin up fully. When it came up it took over.
That's not a very inspiring answer :( The consequences of taking VC money are going to come home to roost at some point.
I was just trying to integrate with my banks this past weekend because of this, with no luck. I was pointed at OFX (Open Financial Exchange) as an integration method, but it seems banks have since moved on from that to FDX (Financial Data Exchange). But FDX seems to be under maintenance and individuals can't register? Is this the right method to integrate with your personal accounts to get transaction information or do you need to use a service like plaid?
Super cool concept. I checked out GPS and it has a nice variety of results: https://encyclopaediaautomatica.com/article/GPS

The idea of collaboratively adding to the content is fascinating. It is like a crowdsourced extraction of the training data in a newly organized and more contextual way.
I'm hoping that my next laptop will be a Framework 16, and I expect/hope for it to be a Ship of Theseus.

In the past when I've replaced laptops, it was usually because I wanted to update just one or two components. Retiring the entire laptop always felt so wasteful.

So the piecemeal upgrade process to which Framework aspires would be perfect for me.

(Also, being able to cheaply experiment with and replace component choices, e.g. keyboards, is a big selling point for me. My last laptop probably would have been from System76, but I really didn't like their choice of keycaps.)
Not sure what I think about charging people to remove this information—are they not also just as bad? This seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't require a victim to pay for, but for law to enforce this not happening.

As with for-profit healthcare in the USA, just seems scumbag to profit off of misfortune and misery.
Sqlite is running on billions of devices and has a test suite with 100% branch coverage.

Only a fool would put more trust in Oracle.
Hybrid is so underrated. I have always said this is the way!
Show HN: powerindex – calculate power indices from CLI
A python library (runs also as CLI) to compute power indices (political science concept). Can be also (mis-)used for cost splitting or resource allocation
> puts their own ads on top.

I haven't used Brave for years and don't own their token, but that's just not how Brave ads work at all.

The ads are shown as notifications and aren't replacing ads embedded in websites.

Why mislead people?
I had for a while Coil installed in the browser and nobody cared about it, so I uninstalled it half a year later. I honestly couldn't care less if there's a blockchain behind it or whatever, but as long no sites (useful to me) implement it... Under the line I paid Coil some money for nothing, so maybe for them it was a business success.
There is no conspiracy required for that scenario, it sometimes only takes one decision maker to place a toxic leader on an out-of-favor project.
The fact that the verification system is paid, and that is abused by bots, means twitter no longer has any incentive to remove said bots.

Its basically the entire ad industry, there's little proof ads work, the metrics for ads are all inflated, yet its one of the biggest money makers out there. Same deal with the bots grinding views and likes for marginal payouts.
Nope you lose a lot of your rights as well. I don't know about European prisons, though. When you break the social contract, there are consequences.
70 NYCHA employees arrested in federal corruption investigation in New York City
I tried out YNAB, Rocket Money, and Quicken Simplifi.

YNAB was a bit too opinionated and "hands on" for my tastes. Rocket Money seemed to be geared toward the "we'll cancel subscriptions for you" use case and was otherwise not configurable enough.

Quicken Simplifi seems much closer as a spiritual successor to Mint. It's mostly hands-off, though you can set up configurable rules and budgets. And it worked with all of my accounts.
This seems to be a good size factor to have a proper ergonomic split keyboard with a staggered layout. Has any mod like this appeared?
>Part of what’s driven the secondary market for Mainboards to date has been their use as single board computers with either the Cooler Master Case or in DIY projects like cyberdecks and gaming handhelds.

But how many customers/people actually do that? Is it a sizeable market to generate demand for these parts, or is it just a few tinkerers to post their DIY projects on reddit?

Because price and commodity wise, turning a Framework motherboard into a cyberdeck, becomes a more ugly, impractical and more expensive version of the Steamdeck. Who would do that other than only a handful of enthusiasts/tinkerers?
It requires running a separate process.
I can't process how $100/yr for a static accounting program isn't severely overpriced. Do banks and credit cards charge for API requests? Is the compute necessary to balance your books require leasing A100s to crunch your numbers? A terabyte of rack space to store my transactions?

Before the MBA enshitification of software, you would buy an accounting program for $60 and use it for years. And it would work great because accounting is well established and hasn't really changed in the last 100 years.

I'm just so fucking sick of SaaS and peoples total complacency with it.
> A while back there was a tread in here where someone had an inexpensive one-time license mac software, but I cannot find it.

I think you are looking for https://www.banktivity.com/

It feels a lot like Quicken which isn't a paradigm that works well for my brain and I moved to https://lunchmoney.app + a small app that consumes the API, does some transformations and exposes to Google Sheets' =IMPORTDATA formula.

This gives me:
* full featured transaction syncing that I don't need to worry about
* a nice UI for bulk editing, tagging, etc.
* a programatic way to perform transformations and add features Lunch Money doesn't have: I like to use categories and tags in concerts to give me per trip breakdowns of expenses by category of my travel
* the flexibility of a spreadsheet for reporting and quick iteration.

A very new player that I haven't tried fully yet is https://finwiseapp.io/
Young planets are flattened structures like smarties rather than spherical
Some team has probably been working on this for months does not work in FF
This is because you are logged out.

Please note that this is not me advocating for this practice. It has broken the web in immensely frustrating ways.
You think it is different in non for profit prisons? Wrong. And they are also making good money with it.

The question is, what is prison supposed to be? Punishment? Reintegration? Deterrence?
> Automated theorem proving is the only way to build better machines.

Sure, but that will just be one aspect of an integrated and wholistic AI, which can configure the parameters input to the automated theorem proving component, and act on the results.
I agree and there are so many nice options from Toyota.
“…there was no correlation between chronological age and time to death.” Umm…