skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but to me, its not about the actual emissions (which you are correct about in absolute terms) - its about selling the message to the average Joe who is being asked to make a sacrifice that the people who are pushing the message, are not being asked to do.

Side story: during Covid, teachers at a local school wanted mandates for all the students (the people least at risk of actually getting very sick), but they pushed very hard not to have to get it themselves - i.e. they wanted all the benefits of having a vaccinated population around them, but they were unwilling to take the risk on themselves (they lost this battle btw)

Not to conflate the issues, but its the same principle - don't make me(the public) do something that you (the ones in charge) are not willing to do yourself.
This is really reassuring to hear, thank you! I make sure my posts are reviewed by people with a range of experience and familiarity, without them the posts wouldn't be as accessible as they are. I'm glad this is working. :)
>The main problem with the new one in my opinion is that they're shoehorning a mobile experience on the Mac. Something Apple does more and more (and not just Apple, gnome does it too)

A cost effectiveness measure over a well-thought out one, methinks
Cairo is in a maintenance-only mode. Nobody develops this library anymore and it only has a maintainer or two. Since nobody really worked on Cairo in the past 15 years it's not optimized for modern hardware.

You can see some existing benchmarks here:

- https://blend2d.com/performance.html

Both the benchmarking tool and Blend2D are open-source projects so anyone can verify the numbers presented are indeed correct, and anyone can review/improve the backend-specific code that is used by the benchmarking tool.
Could be shortened to just "Microsoft Is Spying on Users".

If you use a modern MS product, you are sending them lots of data, full stop.
Also interested in what people have to say - especially if anyone would recommend any API marketplaces.

Where did you find the .0015/img?
I think they are agreeing with it not reading as nicely. But you still need the comma. Otherwise it sounds like:

"It is with great pleasure..."
Should be easy to obfuscate if true - use gloves, use dirt/grit on the screen, use oily fingers.

Edit:why disagree? I bet you could even create textured screen protectors with randomized patterns to obfuscate they swipe.
> Giving someone a loan with low enough interest is basically just handing them money free and clear with extra steps

If you ignore the "getting your money back" part yes.
It's precisely those differences that make me concerned about what they are doing with the side loaded versions.
Most banks saw their valuation drop by 90+% during the recession. Is that enough responsibility considering that banks employed millions of people, the majority of which and nothing to do with mortgages?
Don’t we get paid the big bucks precisely because we have to fix stuff like this? I mean, if maintaining and fixing software were easy, I guess we wouldn’t be earning 6 figures.

In software engineering We have all these principles and patterns and whatnot precisely because we have to deal with a pile of things that don’t work well together.
> We're at the point where mobile has been the dominant computing platform longer than desktop.

I do see your point. What I mean is that we have oversized UIs and hamburger menus on the desktop which makes me feel like for a while now, the desktop has been an afterthought when it comes to web design.
I do, but not often.

Got my start in Objective-C back in the 2000s tinkering with OS X apps and used it at work for writing iOS apps from 2015-2017, but I embraced Swift pretty quickly (IIRC I started to take it seriously around 2.x).

It required significant shift in mental models, but having so much more built into the language (needing fewer dependencies is never ever a bad thing, especially when using CocoaPods), less silent breakage, optionals, no awkwardness from having to maintain C compatibility, no need to maintain header files, etc was a big deal for me.

These days if I’m using it it’s in personal projects to swizzle or access private APIs or in super simple projects that don’t really benefit from Swift’s frills. Aside from that, some projects still have Obj-C dependencies which I’ll need to delve into the source of to debug issues occasionally.
Retail H2 stations close in California while H2 heavy trucking expands
I do not like M$' behavior in general but this is almost certainly not spying.

The OP seems to think that because the users region was recorded its spying on sessions. With a self righteous "I didn't read the TOS but This just confirms it".

Microsoft would obviously be recording region metrics, maybe even keyword/request trends. None of this information is identifiable and makes complete sense to be monitoring for improvement on a new product area.
Hah yeah that's confusing.

https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro is actually the documentation for pytest-playwright - their pytest plugin.

https://playwright.dev/python/docs/library is the documentation for their automation library.

I just filed an issue pointing out that this is confusing. https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/29579
> I don’t get the argument in OpenAIs favor

The argument, or at least one of the arguments in openAI's favor is that the training is fair use because it is transformative. Is the resulting AI a replacement for the original work? I would argue it is not.
Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter
That's 100 people that are interested in what you have to say. Each one of them made a decision they'd like to hear more.

They could be 100 clients. 100 potential employers. 100 people that will go on and tell others.

Often sales is about "I have a product, now I need an audience" rather than "I have an audience, what do they need?" The latter's surely far more powerful.
same problem, credit card fraud/chargebacks happening anyway, that’s why you have an intense verification process to reduce the fraud going on.
Jank-free page loading with media aspect ratios (2019)
Sam's visual tutorials are as good as ever (doggos are very important, by the way).

And if you want to try some code, I've prepared three toy Bloom filter implementations to accompany the article:

JavaScript: https://codapi.org/embed/?engine=browser&sandbox=javascript&...

Python: https://codapi.org/embed/?sandbox=python&src=gist:e7bde93f98...

Go: https://codapi.org/embed/?sandbox=go&src=gist:e7bde93f98c5e4...
That's why I prefer the label "anarchism" even if the desired end state of anarchism fits Marx's definition of communism as a "state-less, class-less" society. To paraphrase Bakunin: I don't care if the stick I am beaten with is called The People's Stick, I want there to be no stick at all.

Vanguardism by trying to utilize the existing systems of oppression to bring about communism fails the instance it succeeds in taking over those systems because the interests of rulers are not those of those ruled over. Aspirationally communist states like the Soviet Union or Mao's China merely succeeded in abolishing the capitalist class by replacing it with the bureaucracy. But under communism there must not only be no capitalist class but also no working class because the perpetuation of a working class means there is still a class system and the oppression that comes with it.

Anarchist practice means creating federated, horizontal structures and dismantling oppressive hierarchies (i.e. the systems that enable people to exert power over others). You can still have individual bad actors but the damage a bad actor can do in a horizontal structure is negligible compared to what they can do in a hierarchy, especially one that rewards bad behavior (cf. people complaining that sociopaths make the best business people).

So at worst, yes, you will have other people holding the sticks but the sticks will be much smaller and thus easier to overcome if used against you.
I agree with you. It's hard to see how OpenAI wins the trademark portion of this NYT lawsuit. There is no fair use clause to trademark law that covers attributing hallucinations to a trademarked entity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law)
What about the "and afterwards" part, where the banks that were too big to fail were split up, and regulation was improved?
i-just-think-they're-neat.gif

Have loved bloom filters for a long time. If probabilistic data structures that make use of hashing are your thing, you should also check out: https://djhworld.github.io/hyperloglog/
Can you drive your own car without a key ?

You don't have a 'right' to use the services. So the answer to your question is "It depends if the service lets you, so 9/10 cases, no. Rightly so"

Edit : I can see a lot of people don't like this. But like it or not, right or wrong, that is how it is. Expecting anything else is just fanciful.
I thought scraping is kind of dead given all the CAPTCHAs and auth walls everywhere. The article does mention proxies and rate limiting, but could anyone with (recent) practical experience elaborate on dealing with such challenges?
Why can’t this be done with a textarea for notes? Any chat system or ticket system has this.
JRM's Syntax-Rules Primer for the Merely Eccentric
I love LibreOffice and use it everyday. However, IMHO, the LibreOffice homepage is not very advantageous. I thin it should advertise the product features and UI instead of the organization. Replace the damned stock photos with screenshots :-)
> I’m sure the terms of service—if I bothered to read them—gives them that permission.

I can’t tell if this article is parody or not, and that’s concerning, haha
> only I could be in so much debt and the govt gives me a loan with such generous terms

This was the CARES Act.
The growth potential comes from future devices that are facilitated by this security model. E.g., you can't have Adobe Creative Cloud's updater process, Zoom, Dropbox, etc... all running their background processes on a resource constrained device like say, AR glasses. This is why Apple is betting the farm in this security model despite its ongoing issues. Apple's future of computing is easily, verifiably, incompatible with a Mac-like security model. This isn't up for debate.

If your argument is a more open model than Apple currently has for the iPhone that might be good argument. But I was replying specifically to the authors comparison to the Mac. My point is that Apple believes having a Mac-like security model for the iPhone would make it less successful, as evidence by there aggressive push to make Mac security more iPhone-like, without enforcing iPhone-style revenue sharing (e.g., you can buy and download software from anywhere without giving Apple a cent).
do not disturb mode is your friend here, or even airplane mode
I don’t like either party’s claim. Many AI owners are lazy, shilling their hallucinating calculators while pretending they are thinking persons. It’s anti-scientific and it’s dumb.

At the same time, copyright law is a heap of patchwork nonsense that strips protection from small creators and grants powerful weapons to the biggest and worst corporations.
Ask HN: Help, any US-based companies that allow you to work from Europe?
Hi HN - a bit of a personal post here. I'm an American citizen but due to some personal/family reasons I have to relocate to the EU this year.

I will be relocating without a residency visa, but there are a handful of visas out there that would allow me to work for a company outside the EU (eg "Digital Nomad" visas). The only thing I'd need is permission from the company to let me work from the EU and I could handle the rest of the visa/immigration challenges.

I'm hoping somebody out here could provide any insights or leads on companies hiring who are flexible on location. I've been attempting for months to find a fit but so far have come up short; hence why I am reaching out to the network here.

The HN community has been amazing over the years so here's hoping somebody out there will be able to help!

Roles I'm seeking are Customer Engineering positions (really any technical customer facing position) such as: Solutions/Sales Engineer, Support Engineer, Success Engineer, etc

Thanks all - wishing everyone a great week (contact info in my profile as well)
> can a private person not default in the USA

They can. But there are some debts which cannot be discharged that way. (Meaning some debts go away, but others don't.)

For example if you owe child support payments that doesn't go away just because you default. Or if you owe someone debt because you caused them an injury in a wilful and malicious manner that cannot be discharged by defaulting. These are explicitly defined exceptions in the USA law. And so is student loans.
> I was born ugly

One of the ugliest people I have ever met was also one of the most charismatic. This person looked like a troll from a fairy tale, just hideously ugly. But he could hold a room like you wouldn’t believe. And people were drawn to him. Before getting to know this person, I did not think an ugly person could have any charisma.

I have since learned that charisma is very much a skill that can be learned. You may be unable to do anything about your ugliness. But you can learn to hold a room, or learn to be someone people want to be around despite being difficult to look at.
A more precise yet general headline: “Microsoft is spying on users”

It’s nearly impossible to install their products without opting into layers of spyware and adware cloaked in dark patterns and requiring extraordinary measures to back out of hidden spyware installs done without permission. Microsoft has always been a fairly malignant business, built in shenanigans of various sorts, and as the market perfects new shenanigan vectors they’re right there pushing the envelope.
It's interesting how in the US people rail against government moves like this in Vietnam while giving a pass to private companies doing the same thing. Ostensibly, it's OK because the companies don't have the law to enforce participation, but practically speaking there are lots of ways to coerce people into giving up their privacy by making the consequences of not giving it up such that they are effectively excluded from economic life. Of course these companies do sell the data, and they sell it to governments, so the end result is the same. The extra step allows the middleman to turn a profit, so in western neoliberal economics it's not only permissible, it's laudable.
That's a common response I get from people who only have lived experience in the US west. You may not be aware but east of the Mississippi all the land is lived in, all of it. It's not empty like in the west outside of cities. Living in Wisconsin in one of the vast areas you assume people don't live in I've never even seen an EV station. I live in a duplex and would not be able to charge an EV car (no outside outlets, no way to run an extension cord across the shared parking lot, only one NEMA 50 outlet used by my oven). Forced EV policies unintentionally discriminate against the poor. And yes, 50% of people might be in large cities, but 50% are not.

Looking at that supercharge.info map I see the EV stations are 50 miles apart and only on major interstates. There are significant fractions of the population (ie, probably 1/3) more than 75 miles from any charging station. And the vast majority of destinations are just as far from them. There's literally only 30 for the entire state of Wisconsin and half are clustered in the two moderately large cities in the south. Why link the map when you knew it didn't confirm your assertion?

edit: I was wrong about the grid not being high capacity enough and I am happy to be corrected and learn I am wrong about that.
> At some point, someone needs to explain to me

It was likely an unusual activity automated trigger. Her account is reactivated. No need for the hysterics.
I don't think such thought-terminating clichés are useful in the modern era.

So only criminals don't file their SEC statements or their taxes? Yes. That is true. And we make it true because otherwise the injury society suffers granting such flavors of privacy is greater than the benefits society gains safeguarding such privacy. It allows bad actors too much freedom of movement in the dark if we don't enforce tax law or SEC disclosure law.

As always, privacy is a balancing act between personal integrity and public need.
Match made in Hell.

I liked my Vizio TV at first, but it gradually became awful through firmware updates, to the point I sometimes actively hope the thing will break. Walmart will no doubt find ways to make it even worse, but this brand is no great loss.
Here's a Notion vs Anytype comparison from the company's blog

https://blog.anytype.io/notion-alternative/
Getting peak sequential read speed out of SSDs and USB flash drives usually requires issuing read commands that are much larger than 4kB, for two main reasons: the page size of the underlying flash memory is larger than 4kB, and SSDs and some USB flash drives stripe data access across multiple channels so you need to ask for at least a full strip of data. Queuing many commands for contiguous sequential reads can usually get close to the same performance, but has more overhead (and isn't an option for USB drives that don't support UASP).
Vizio electronics tend to have pretty decent value, especially the sound bars. But know what you are buying: Vizio doesn't make anything good, just good enough. Vizio, TCL etc are great for, let's say, guest bedroom TVs, kitchen TVs but if you can afford it, the Japanese and Korean electronic brands tend to be a lot better for your main electronics.
The US empire needs to catch up with Putin, who just got rid of his most effective critic.
Making scheduling decisions requires information that only the kernel has (for starts, what processes are even running). Since userspace programs can't read kernel memory, you have to copy this information into their process before they can work.
> Why not just start the CPU in "long mode", which is what everyone is using it for, in the first place?

Are you sure it's "everyone"? No doubt it's "overwhelming majority", but that's not the same, and "everyone" is a lot of people.

As I understand how this works, the compatibility is perhaps slightly inconvenient to a small group of developers, but not that inconvenient and generally relatively cheap. So why not have and keep it?

ARM has a lot less history than x86. Yes, it goes back to 1985 in the BBC Micro, but didn't really see serious usage as a "generic platform" until the late 90s/early 2000s.
Is Ruby on Rails dead in 2024? No
Vizio was not “the last holdout”

They’ve been on the forefront of selling viewing data.
I am not sure you are under the wire on their updated return policies for TVs. It is close, might want to call first.
> Personally I don’t care about PWAs at alls. If you want an app, build an actual app.

Are you going to foot the bill for the development cost of building an actual app for a team that doesn't have iOS software dev expertise?

Thought so...
The White House’s AI regulatory order requires big cloud providers to monitor for and report foreign clients (ie Chinese) for using their services to train AI fyi. Monitoring for malicious activity isn’t nearly as invasive as what the government is requiring
"Outlasted", in the past tense? We won't know that until git is dead, will we?
The market is awful right now. You are not only competing with the unemployed ex-FAANG, you are competing with internal candidates as well (layoffs still ongoing).
Show HN: Python Client for Groq's web interface
I wasn't able to get an API key for Groq so I made a python client on top of the web interface.
Tiny Website Is Google's First Line of Defense in the Patent Wars
When privacy is the price of a hamburger, those who hold their privacy dear will cook for themselves.
As one of my friends, an SAP consultant, said - "The value of SAP isn't that it's actually good, but it's predictably scalable"

As in - you can setup a process in Germany, then replicate it globally with predictable accuracy. And predictability matters a lot in stable low margin businesses. Walmart can't spend a few billion on a project that may have -100% to 400% return value, when. they have the option of having a reliable 20%-30% return value.
> a headline to collect clicks for profit

The Financial Times doesn't bait for clicks. It's written for subscribers who should understand the difference between reserves and capital in shorthand with respect to bad debts. A large part of why I love the FT is its articles are short. That means I can process them quickly. But it comes at the cost of context.
AI-Generated Faceless Videos and Voice Cloning: Invideo AI
It's not any different from people that do not shop at WalMart, Amazon, etc because of differences with the corporation. It's not hard once you quit making excuses
In Chicago, every new thing that gets built is luxury condo high rises that further amplifies housing cost in an area
Well, this is concerning.
In general, the core language model is simply trained on a very large amount of unannotated text (which is the most time-consuming and expensive part), but a language model is not directly very useful in the role of e.g. a chat agent, it quite literally tries to continue text and that sometimes is what you want and sometimes isn't.

The second step is fine-tuning the model on a much smaller set of annotated data which specify that it should actually "do something" in its responses and what it should do; it "teaches" it that it should actually answer the questions instead of e.g. continuing on with a list of more questions in the same vein, and most such training sets also "teach" it that for certain questions the appropriate response is a refusal.

If you have the original core model (before that instruction tuning) then you can repeat the same process but instead replace the instruction training set with a different one, so you can "instruct" the model to behave differently. Here is a nice and informative article from Eric Hartford about how he did that to make certain 'uncensored' models - https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models
Website is here: https://www.tdcommons.org/
Also note that 'attuenated virus vaccine' means the oral vaccine that is prevalent in the developing world, and not the vaccine that, e.g. EU citizens get, I had to look this up, as it is not obvious.
Cairo's OpenGL support was removed, but I thought Cairo's X11 backend still has GPU acceleration for a few operations through XRender (depending on your video driver).
Agree with this article 100%. At my old company we chose to write our server in Go instead of Java. We ended up regretting it because it was significantly harder to hire developers who could write in Go vs. Java.

Later, I read a Paul Graham essay where he says that a company should choose its programming language based on how fast they can iterate in that language. And it clicked for me.
Correct, and it even seems self-evident from the phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat" that many communist theorists adopted as descriptive of their theory.
SwiftUI is so awful. The poor performance and general clunkiness of the macOS "System Settings" app should be a warning against using it to anyone.
What happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years (2002)
No citation available because it's an anecdote/sample data from 2 subreddit communities...
The nice thing about fingerprints is that if you refuse to give it to an adversary, they'll just cut the finger off. If your fingerprint doesn't work, you're clear.

If you refuse to give them your password, there's virtually no limit to the possible extent of the torture. You can't prove that further torture is pointless.

/s