skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Here's my question (because I'm assuming Spotify's ToS also includes mandatory arbitration):

What happens if you try to challenge insanely overbroad terms in arbitration? Because you almost certainly signed away your right to sue. I'm not super-worked up about attorneys putting the most restrictive language that they can in a contract, knowing that in 'real' court a judge will simply throw a bunch of it out for being unconscionably one-sided. But if you never get a real court hearing, but instead are shunted into arbitration..... Do judges in arbitration even assess unconscionability?
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Thanks that getting started post looks really useful.

i have recently started running development stuff in VMs (shared folder so I can use my usual editors etc) and this might be a nice alternative - but the biggest draw is that it is declarative and looks easier to get to grips with than Nix.

ARM support is not important to me at the moment - those are just personal things (a tablet, a Raspberry PI) that have limited use anyway.
I like the concept too in theory, but I haven’t seen it work in practice yet and I don’t know how supportive of it the large tech companies (Meta, Apple, etc) will be since it could hurt the financial gains they get from app stores. I don’t mean they’ll stop it. I just believe they might never support it as much as the app store, which could end up making the app store experiences better over time.

It would be awesome though and I’m curious: what are some great WebXR experiences you’ve tried? I’d love to check some out and explore building in the space.
"Whether it's merited or not" you want the might of the federal government to "threaten" businesses, acting within the law, that have interests you don't agree with?
The model itself is only 13.6GB though: https://huggingface.co/LargeWorldModel/LWM-Chat-1M-Jax/tree/...
Flagged for being political rage bait
Sincerely — who cares?

There isn’t a human right to make money from art.

People make decisions based on what society deems valuable. That changes over time and has for the entirety of human history.

Maybe there’s a demand for more customized art. Maybe spite patronage will make a comeback.

Anyone telling you they know how it will shake out is a fraud. But the incentives we’ve set up have a natural push and pull to get people to do what society values.
Entities have rights because they are comprised of citizens.

We don't get to label a group of citizens and then get to violate their rights because we labeled them.
Can we please stop taking everything Google says seriously? This is a white paper for bad CTOs with made up terminology and self serving predictions.
[dupe]

More discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378235
I think there's plenty of merit when a massive, multi-trillion dollar corporation (which already has a long history of exploiting workers, exploiting laws, and buying favorable laws) tries to exploit its workers even more.

I'm all for allowing corporations to have goals that aren't 100% in line with the country's best interests, but those goals do NOT and shall not ever take legal standing over the country's interests. We need to have serious repercussions for when corporations try to usurp government in a race-to-the-bottom attempt to further weaken labor laws or measures designed to protect common citizenry.

Fining the board and C-Suite executives collectively a sum of 5x the company's market cap should be a start.
Took a .dxf file and fed it to Magika.
It says with confidence of 97% that that must be a PowerShell file. A classic .dwg could be "mscompress" (whatever that is), 81%, or a GIF. Both couldn't be further from the truth.

Common files are categorized successfully – but well, yeah that's not really an achievement.
Pretty much nothing more than a toy right now.
Sounds like something Chuck Tingle would write.
That's not useful at all. I normally want those pages, but not when I'm doing a German search.

Kagi is not broken in general, 95% of the time it's still fine because almost all my searches are in English, so without !de in the German region. It's only the regional search that is not working properly anymore because they went further into "we know what you actually want to search for" territory. Not doing that was a huge part of what I loved about kagi.

In addition, this worked fine all the time. I've been using Kagi since the earliest betas, they only broke it very recently.
Is it really necessary to learn things in depth when AI can do it for you? e.g. Recent Gemini 1.5 result of learning a language just from grammar book? If AI can do this, can't it be expected to excel at lower-level stuffs trivially which are more deterministic than a human language. After all, we don't learn / teach assembly as our first programming language.
In many countries, especially the USA, good luck winning that battle against Spotify or similar, unless you are just absolutely loaded and want to piss away money.
Sure, I've basically just accepted that I'll need to trash and rebuild my various Linux daily drivers every 1-2 years because of environment decay. All solutons I've seen (Qubes, Nix, etc) come off as a massive PITA given that I just want a FOSS laptop upon which I can tool around a little and maybe watch Netflix. For now I just use docker for Unix-y isolation, but still cumbersome. If Python could finally figure this out I think it would be a reason for massive celebration. Conda got close, but never quite nailed it
Yes. Social Security income can be deposited directly into any bank in the world.
It's conjectured, but not proven, that there is no efficient algorithm on classical computers to compute discrete logarithms over elliptic curves.
Isn't this kind of crap in basically every TOS though? These things are written by company counsel to be as one-sided as possible and to grab as much as possible. "We give ourselves the right to do anything we want, forever, worldwide, and permanently, and you waive everything you have, forever, permanently." Sprinkle in a severability clause, so that everything the company claims has to be litigated separately, and then hit publish. That's every TOS I've ever read.
there is no VR in the future IMHO :)
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot
AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon Go creator
I wonder how this will play out. The first episode was released on Comedy Central's website in full so if that keeps happening I'll watch it there. If not, I will absolutely pay Paramount Plus $6 a month to see John once a week.
So the entire point of a "valuation" is to determine the sale price, right?
> Free of charge in Germany

Paid solely by taxes instead of some taxes and some out of pocket
> Certainly nobody wants to be a martyr.

Some people do. If you believe the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and you truly believe your death will significantly help others, then maybe you do make that (incredibly hard) decision knowing full well the consequences.
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
Jfokus 2024: Java Language Update [video]
Run shell script in Jupyter with live output
The Inochi2D project may be going on an indefinite hiatus soon
In the lobby, by the elevators. Offices generally don’t rely on walk-in traffic the way that retail or food/drink do.

The biggest challenge I see is in how to segregate commercial and residential traffic. Residents will not mostly want to live somewhere that they encounter random strangers walking through their hallways all the time. A purpose-built residential tower can limit access per floor fairly easily. In low-rise buildings with living area above retail, you segregate at the door to the upper floors.
Have you seen the health of an average American?
That's a meaningless statement. Any interacting physical system is an "input output" pattern, as long as you're only looking at the inputs and outputs. Behaviorism fell out of favor for a reason. It's whats transforming inputs and creating outputs that matters. For that matter, you need to be able to define what an input and an output is for humans, given that we have bodies.
Because the vast majority of people are neither Elon haters nor Elon simps. They're just people doing what they were already doing because changing habits is hard and there's no easy alternative.
Won't stop the scraping, but the terms go way beyond AI training. They more or less retroactively changed the ToS to revoke all your IP rights to a work.

> non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid, irrevocable, worldwide license to reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, and otherwise use any such User Content through any medium, whether alone or in combination with other Content or materials...

I don't know how much of it is enforceable in court, but I wouldn't want to take that risk if I hosted anything as an indie.
Paid leave has nothing to do with "workers owning the means of production."

My employees get a ton of paid leave because I respect them, not because our business is socialist.
Did Eagle get worse after Autodesk bought it?
Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (Rob Pike, 2000)
I also do not like the smell of weed, nor do I smoke it. I respect people and their freedom to smoke, whether it be marijuana or cigarretes.

I do not respect people who do it around other unconsenting people in areas that are meant to be used by the general public i.e. not in your own home (though even then if you live in apartment/multi-family dwelling it can become a major issue for your neighbors) or a designated spot since there is plenty of research documenting second-hand effects being harmful.
I am interested in Mojo but this is not the way of comparing languages. The author seems to be novice Rust user with no practical experience in serious Rust projects.

They are comparing orthogonal components and features. CoW works in Rust as well, you can use impl Into for much greater performance and ease of use. dbg macro being questioned is just farcical, it's use of T is justified cause it returns T back. You can't accept &T and return T in Rust.

Furthermore I am not sure what they are trying to prove with this article. I would use Mojo if it was open source, and even just 10-20x faster than Python rather than 100x if it supported entirety of Python ecosystem.

And I work in Open Source AI Platforms as my day job. Why write this nonsensical post, is this for clicks??

If I see another post like this I might just stop caring about Mojo from now on.

Why pay attention when devs are more interested in flexing than making their work open source? Is this some sort of scam? Will you make it Business Source License? Will and when will it support all of Python ecosystem? Are alot more important questions for me.

Also perhaps improve Python's tooling while at it. Astral.sh folks made ruff and uv, Prefix folks made rip, pixi and rattler-build... Maybe now improve something else?
Microsoft teases ultrapowerful next-gen Xbox – and maybe a handheld
You're actually 100 years behind it.
I'm sure it is very nice to have extra vacation. That might be why European salaries are lower than US salaries, and their tax rates are higher still.

Behold, a socialist "utopia" where people line up 3 days to see a "free" dentist: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/people-line-outside-dentist-third-... This is probably a little worse than average but I have heard many times that socialist countries with free healthcare will let you die before seeing you, because they simply don't have resources to live up to the promise. In that case you'd be lucky to have cash to get out and see a doctor in another country.
I wonder how many IoT devices rely on this service, and how many of those deploy will receive updates to move them so something else.
Competing dictatorships of experts seem pretty efficient when workers are free to move.
That sounds reasonable, almost all daily show clips are about some thing that was happening at a specific point in time. I bet the interview segments they have where it's just a weird person ends up getting a lot more views because that is mostly evergreen content. Very few people care what the political drama du jour was in January 2007.
Sources?

In the following wikipedia article Russia's murder rate is near the world's avearage, close to the US, and 8 times lower than Jamaika.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti...
That's one thing -- if you took a contract signed ten years ago that granted "training" rights and tried to use that for "AI training," a judge would likely find that customary business usage has changed in that time and there was no "meeting of the minds" to support a grant of AI training rights. Take that same language and sign a contract with it today ... different story. (Interesting question for contract lawyers: if you take the contract from a decade ago and execute it today, does the usage at the time of contract drafting control, or the usage at signing? One would assume time of signing, but for an adhesion contract that might not have undergone substantive changes I think there's an interesting argument that the interpretation most favorable to the signer controls. Probably some case law out there addressing this.)
There's the construction cost, and there's lost income from the people who voted for you. Not all of the money spent on construction is tax dollars.

Think about every time you've been stuck in traffic because there are 3 roads that get you from A to B, and some jackass at city hall thought it would be a good idea to permit road work on 2 of them on the same day.

We are used to highway on-ramps being replaced in days to weeks, but removing an entire street, digging up everything under it, being careful not to nick the utility lines and pipes, then packing dirt back in around them without tearing them, then rebuilding the street on top, that's a lot. Especially for the businesses on that road.

We end up with transportation solutions that are suboptimal because we don't have the political will to tear off the bandaid. This on-ramp is in the wrong place because the old one was in the right place, but was built in a terrible way and had to be removed for safety while still handling daily commutes.
I'm comparing it to other things in their menu, back in the teens.
The left and right side of her face are almost... a different person.
This part of the study describes what they implemented:

>Instead of using the transistors as the sensors, which need to be disposed of after each use, a system with a reusable printed circuit board (PCB) containing a MOSFET and disposable test strips were employed. In this approach, synchronized double-pulses were applied at the gate and drain terminals of the transistor to ensure that the channel charge does not accumulate, and there is no need to reset the drain and gate paths to mitigate the charge accumulation at the gate and drain of the sensing transistor for sequential testing. With the double-pulse approach, it only takes a few seconds to show the result of the test, due to the rapid response of the functionalized test strips and resulting electrical signal output. As an example, the LoD has been demonstrated to reach 10−15 g/ml and the sensitivity to 78/dec for COVID-19 detection. Similar approaches have been used to detect cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), cardiac troponin I, and Zika virus.27–30

> In this work, use of this double-pulse measurement approach to detect HER2 and CA15-3 in saliva samples collected from healthy volunteers and breast cancer patients was investigated. The voltage output responses of the transistor correlated to the HER2 and CA15-3 concentrations, detection limits, and sensing sensitivity were determined.
Exactly this.
I missed the episode, and caught it days later on YouTube.

I've always wondered how a company like Neilson Ratings can make any measurements with every streaming service and YouTube.

While at same time, the streaming services have ton of user data, probably down to exactly how many times, and for how long, you paused it to grab a beer, but don't really like sharing it.
If it takes corralling people into a meeting and interrupting their day to 'hash out' some aspect of a project, then it's a management failure where the importance of this particular thing wasn't communicated or emphasized before and how the individuals' inputs matter. If everyone understands how this project, regardless of the parties' full ownership or not, or whatever contributes to success because there was clear communication to that fact then people might be more inclined to resolve the issue sooner, even if comms are async.

I see it like this: people are going back and forth over email and waffling then it's probably not that important, why should it be any different in person aside from the fact they're performing for management.
The reality, and this is how a private party, PE firm, traditional bank or public market will determine this:

The company is generating profits currently at this rate Y, and is growing at this rate X, that means that over 3 years it should return those profits + the growth of that profit back to the buyer (in cash as dividends and/or in enterprise value), and that is factored into a rate of return - if that rate is greater than the rates elsewhere, compared to the risk, then it makes sense to buy it at that value.

Consider comparing the business to a traditional investment. How much money would you need to have invested in medium-risk markets to return $236k/yr? To beat the market average you'd need about $2M invested to generate those returns. Now factor in that the company itself is growing, and the company will likely generate >$236k next year, and more the following year... so how much do you need to invest today in traditional markets to generate 236k+360k+500k (1.09M) over the next 3 years? It's around $3M now. Consider that in 3 years time you could have taken $1.09M out in profit, and you now own a business that is worth $4-4.5M (based on future earnings potential).

You don't need to be an evil wallstreet hedge fund manager to think like this - the owner of a business should consider the enterprise value of their business at all times in making decisions about their business.

This is how the entire economy works - if you're saying that is against your moral Muslim faith then you should not be buying any goods right now from public companies, hold any mortgages, or keep any money in a bank.
There have always been and will always be outliers that are super into anything. My point was that the kids who didn't really care about computers when I was in school still knew a lot more about computers than the kids today who don't really care about computers
chatgpt doesn't expose temp settings which is what most ppl use
> If there's no deliverable and no visibility, that's a failure of management, either to define the deliverable to a more granular extent where an update could cover the progress, even if async, which would also fix not having visibility. A developer piping up async and saying 'no updates, still working' is still an update and gives visibility.

That's really the bare minimum that a developer can say and still get away with when you have a lenient manager. HN tends to take the most adversarial take on managers possible, but it's not always necessary.

But, when you've worn both hats (manager and managed), sometimes employees simply don't want to do much work. Again, you can say "that's a management problem", but some people are bad actors and are very good at hiding it in "corporate speak". The internet is full of stories of coasting --- I can even attest to doing it many times and easily getting away with it. Getting someone in a room, or on camera, and actually running through their work can cut through a lot of bullshit and bullshitters. Some developers think "coding" takes precedence over the business -- but some of their "coding" time is completely useless to the business perspective. It seems crazy to insist that managers have no stake in trying to figure out if that's the case.

Sometimes you also need to have a meeting because in an async setting some people have no idea what they're doing. Even with clear goals and deliverables, stuff can easily fall through the cracks.
I Regret My $46k Website Redesign (2022)
Is it a love story? Is it a horror story? We will never know!
The courts have routinely said you can't sign your rights away. This has gotten muddy with arbitration clauses being sometimes upheld, but for example, you can't sign a contract to entry into slavery for example.
youtube music? (plus ad-free youtube is included which is always nice)
A deceased friend and I tried something like glicol in the mid-80's. We hacked a different crystal oscillator on a Zilog SCC board design donated by our employer to make a MIDI interface. My friend coded 'lxm', Language for the eXpression of Music. My job was to 'mxl', Musically eXpressed Language - to capture from the Juno 106 we were developing with. We weren't able to market it at that time. For your project, maybe find a US-based partner, there are plenty of Magnet and Charter Schools that can independently develop curriculum for non-core subjects. A possible way in is to find ones with a PTO (not PTA), the parents can drive this sort of thing. PTOs are independent corporations that serve one or a few schools whereast PTA is a top-down org and they are not the place to try to drive innovation IMO.

The way I think about investors, they are an extremely high interest loan. I have a money partner in my startup, I negotiated his equity down to 70% from the 80% he wanted. So if this product hits (already have a regular customer) and makes a million, he'll get $700K for investing less than $100K. I'll get $300K for investing probably about $300K worth of my own time and hand half of that to the IRS. Balance that with keeping 100% of $0 = $0.
Diagnosis is done via biopsy.
My initial reaction is - then why is the US leading in so many areas, if based on your chracterization it's such a laggard? I'd argue it has the best in all categories, it's just not close to even distributed. "Decent" is completely inadequate for education, healthcare and transportation. These are far too important for " good enough, usually" solutions.
Stop equating engineers with web developers. Some engineers go to meetings because coordinating complex projects is hard. I really didn't like 6 hour meetings, but when you have a expensive engine project, you have to.

Why is this industry filled with children? If you are sure you don't need to be in a meeting, decline. Why do these children need blog posts to be a bare minimum adult?
As someone who isn't a physicist, headlines like this make me think they discovered magnets that work with some non-ferrous material, which would be amazing. But then I was like "wouldn't that be crazy" and then came to the comments specifically to see what the actual explanation would be.
> The world doesn't work that way.

The human world works that way humans make it work. Pretty much what Jody Foster's character in the movie Contact told that asshole trying to steal all the credit from her, and take her place in the mission to go visit alien dad in Pensacola.
"Bard" both makes lofty claims of being as good as Shakespeare and as nerdy as a being a reference to a D&D character class.

Who knows what Gemini is a reference to, other than mythology and astrology.

I keep waiting for someone to name theirs GePeTto... though perhaps it's funnier hearing the pronunciation of GPT as "Chat Jippity" on YouTube.
Or, we could just accept that 1) the earth goes through warming and cooling cycles and 2) some warming is not a bad thing.

But, as jaggs, points out, follow the money - that's what this is all about.
You're trolling, aren't you
That's brilliant.

...not entirely related, but reminds me of this: https://wiki.wlug.org.nz/POSIX_ME_HARDER).