skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listening to Security Now Episode 961 (https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/961) highlighted a trend where sites like FoxNews.com require email sharing and agreeing to terms of service before content can be viewed. Delving into Fox News' Privacy Policy, it's clear the extent of data collection and sharing is vast, including personal and activity data, with provisions for third-party sharing for advertising. Such practices raise serious privacy concerns, especially given the extensive user profiling and data monetization involved. This approach could set a worrying precedent for content access, prioritizing data collection over user privacy (https://www.foxnews.com/privacy-policy#fi).

I don't care about Fox News specifically, but I hope this trend requiring sharing an email address to view ad-supported content doesn't become more popular. An example of this on Fox News is this article, which requires an email address to view: https://www.foxnews.com/world/navalnys-body-reportedly-found.... Technical users can limit tracking by using email relays, but this is a big ask for non-technical users.
Yeah, it's actually a loss function minima, just trying to ELI5ify it a bit.
From the landing page:

"You can write a plugin for Lapce with any programing language that compiles to WASI."
> ..to be totally honest with you, a lot of Safari iOS's quirks are unambiguously good, pro-privacy practices that frustrate the shit out of surveillance marketing firms and I quite hope Apple keeps it up.

So do I.
Please show me a single wind/solar installation that has storage priced in. These projects are being priced without storage nor are any that I’m aware of being constructed to supply baseload power precisely because grid scale storage for intermittent renewables is expensive and unsolved. So no, I don’t agree that evaluating the price of non-baseload power projects tells us anything about the costs involved with baseload power plants.
Also things these silly America sucks conparisons convenientlh forget:

1.The US is a republic of mini countries or states.

2. Norway is roughly the size of new england.

3. Norway has 5.4 million people vs America's 330 or 340 million
In order to get the information such as the name of the torrent and its files from the hash you do need to connect to someone in the swarm to download that metadata. You won't know what it is until after you've already connected.
Hm? Quote: "There won't be another 'EU Apple'".

But now, reading it again - I indeed might have misunderstood the comment as "There won't be a company like Apple coming from the EU" (which I agree to), while they might actually have meant "Apple can't split in half to apply different rules for the EU and the US". That I would absolutely not agree to. Apple is apply to comply with Chinese laws to the fullest extend, which at least at this point in history still differ quite a lot with the US ones ;)

It's just that Apple for now is still taking Chinese authorities more seriously than the EU ones...

(But maybe I am now misunderstanding YOUR interpretation of the parent-posting. Dunno.)
> top 25 most violent tribes

Where'd you get this information? These are just the tribes they have data on, they didn't cherry pick it as far as I can see.
It's not very far fetched to detonate a nuke in space. The Russians can already do this without developing a brand new weapons platform.

The idea has been around a long time. This was the plot of CoD MW2 If someone nuked above the US and knocked out our grid it would be the most cost effective attack you can possibly think of.
> Stop sending your content for free and get them to agree to some contract and authorize/license their access to your stuff.

Agreed, we need to wrap the public web with DRM immediately. We can't expect companies like OpenAI to waste time worrying about pesky legalities like copyright and content licensing.
https://archive.ph/c6bWr
You know, GM has twp joint ventures in China, and Wuling especially has popular EVs (behind BYD, and Tesla of course). Below commenter also points out GM isn't aggressive in China...

Maybe should have picked Ford as a better example.
That’s exactly the experience with McDonalds here in Ukraine. Mind blowing how modern it is.
I believe you can set up Web fronted, but ours is accessed via a news reader program. (I use Thunderbird.)
We shouldn't be surprised when capital tries to eat its children.

It'd probably be best if we all learned some agriculture and opted for simpler lives, rebuilt our social capital (aka community) and learned to do leisure like sane people. The rat race has never thanked anyone for participating, not even software engineers.
I didn’t see a demo, only the closed bar with some timing stuff. Does it open to do more?
Oh no, poor Apple having to honor their own policy.
Yes, it was a fun game but that was my only minor criticism. I did that all the time. I came to make the same suggestion: the domino's at the bottom should only select that domino, not toggle between the two.
Instant in history -> GMT+0/UTC

Future shedule for humans to coordinate (contracts, meetings) -> ZonedDateTime

Personal alarm that should be kept in sync with the sun (e.g. go to sleep) -> LocalDateTime

What’s good example/purpose for OffsetDateTime?
I'm of the unpopular opinion that buses should be closed and ride sharing should fill the gap to connect people to light/heavy rail.
The underlying conceit is that a marketplace-oriented model is the only, or even the right, way to encourage creative work.

A significant amount of the spend on creative works goes to overhead pretty much only enabled by copyright. No copyright means a massive reduction in legal and accounting complexity. I'd suspect copyright also tends to encourage a "short tail" of highly successful works. We only have one official source for Oppenheimer or Stairway to Heaven, rather than thousands of tweaked and extended versions sharing the same market.

Relying on market forces to bankroll creativity also optimizes for a weird niche-- familiar enough to be easily saleable, but distinct enough to avoid legal hassle. Does it incentivize pushing the envelope?

We could take the $28 bazillion a year we spend on content as a society, pipe it into endowments and grants, and increase the number of professional creatives. Yes, this might have to be administered as a tax-and-spend by the state, but it's certainly an alternative to consider.
Well we don't use AI now, so most code is written by humans. CI/CD can be hard but it's not actually harder than anything else overall. If you think it's hard for an ordinary software project, I'd bet it's either not your field of expertise, or you're dealing with a system that was probably set up by inexperienced people.
GitHub CoPilot charges $10 for a subscription that it loses an average (!) of $20 a user on.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/github_ai_copilot_mic...

"Make it profitable" appears a secondary concern in the AI space.
I don't like this business card :( -- me, a JS dev far too often

(but also, thank you for sharing this!)
I didn't see Gemini, I saw other demos only to learn later on that they were staged.
For an editor whose differentiating factor appears to be "written in Rust", having a first-time user experience of crashing/hanging is unfortunate.
How is a project with 30,000 GH stars a pre-alpha stage project?
KYC. No, Thanks
That's not the same Magic...
Defaults have a great power, and Red-Hat sponsoring most of its development as well.
That sounds like a very effective way to eliminate the oblique protests so common in Soviet fiction.
If you misfold the proteins, does it spread to other users and crash the game?
I'm never surprised when this happens. But I wish it didn't happen so frequently on this website in particular. Oh well.
Nope.

Apple and BYD had a contract dispute around 2015-17 [0] though it ended up getting dismissed by the USDCNDC, but CATL was always targeting the Power Electronics space like Siemens and Hitachi while BYD cornered the rechargeable battery market by 2010 when Berkshire Hathaway and Samsung took a minority stake in them

[0] - https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-cand-3_15-cv-04...
Vectorizing ML Models for Fun
What AlphaFold is doing is essentially matching a sequence of amino acids to solved protein structures, albeit dynamically, and with some advanced constraints. In essence, it's not predicting how the protein will fold, but rather, how the protein will look once it's done folding. And in many many cases, there's no matching fold for a sequence.

Also, proteins are dynamic. They interact with other proteins. They sample multiple conformations, they frequently rearrangle, or become disordered, and then re-ordered. AlphaFold is just a single snapshot.

If we want to understand how proteins fold, we need more than just AlphaFold.
Newton's 4th law: every huge business success causes an equal and opposite huge enshittification failure.
The reason I think Metros is more important than either city v city, or State v State, is that many metros can cross state lines, and may include multiple cities.

The Bay Area is a good example of the latter with Oakland and San Francisco being in the same metro area. It’s the metro where things like public transit become valuable options, or charging infrastructure for commutes is important, etc.
You’re considering those metrics as though they’re independent from APR on loans, which could easily double from where they are now in case we enter a recession and rate hikes prove ineffective. Try to sell an expensive car on a loan with an eye watering APR of, say 10-12%. This did actually happen in the past, and could very well happen again.
They seem to actually confirm it themselves, which I didn't know.

> We use third-party services to send a registration code via SMS or voice call in order to verify that the person in possession of a given phone number actually intended to sign up for a Signal account. This is a critical step in helping to prevent spam accounts from signing up for the service and rendering it completely unusable—a non-trivial problem for any popular messaging app.

From their blogpost
These are ways to make beautiful slides. But "beauty" is not typically the measure I aim to optimize when prepping for a presentation. Given the tradeoff between spending time making the content great, and finding a beautiful font, I will always choose the former. If your job is to make beautiful slides (e.g., you work for someone who gives presentations, and you make the decks), then beauty is your north star.

But for me, beauty is one small aspect of what makes a presentation good. I personally spend most of my time on the spoken content, and then build mostly-minimalist slides to accompany the content and help make it memorable. I spend near-zero time making the slides beautiful.
I actually like the digital menus, and ordering through a website. IDK why people get so worked up over it.
Maybe that's true in some places, but where I live empty houses are rented/purchased immediately
The thing I miss most is that usenet clients will track exactly which messages you have read, so when you come back to a long-running discussion you can immediately see what is new since you last caught-up with it, something which none of the newer online forums seem able to manage.
Too heavy appears in many forms as the reason for return. Another one stated at the beginning but not substantiated by interviews is

> The product can make users feel isolated from family and friends.

Which is my point with all those devices. The only ones that could work are in scifi.

The contact lenses in Rainbows End https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)

The glasses in Dennoh Coil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den-noh_Coil

The original Google Glasses were closer to something that people could wear together other people not wearing them. There was a lot of ruckus about the camera and privacy violations. The VP also have a camera but nobody seems to be worried about it. Maybe 10 years of ubiquitous smartphone cameras made that argument moot.
How ClickHouse Cloud Simplifies Your Data Stack
Note you have to spend $7,000/yr to break even on the additional CC points considering the price of Prime. I have spent way, way under that the last few years.

With the addition of ads to their streaming service, I am out. They don’t offer enough to be worth it anymore.
Hmm...I thought everything was an Eigenfunction.
Just be open to those technologies and learn how to integrate them into your day.

We don't actually write code or run servers, we add value with those skills, along with project planning etc.

Development is easy, doing what people want (customers, your boss) is hard. Or even figuring it out.

If this ever becomes fully automated, it is very likely that no other job will exist. Many trades people, medicine and lawyers would also lose their jobs.

Most logistics jobs would be also gone. In that case, likely everybody will vote against this, or just live from UBI. So, nothing to worry.

Who has to worry are folks that got nothing, never had a career and live in a third world country plagued by malaria, those will be the last ones to make a living on UBI.

Instead of being anxious about the future, just keep on learning and trying to have a good time. People like to follow those who have a good time.
Im not sure I don't define Usenet specifically. It wasn't the program (I've no memory of what it was, News or something like that.) The protocol is NNTP. Usenet wasn't a term we used a lot but when we did it kinda referred to the whole News eco system. So encompassing the software, protocol, forums and so on.

Kinda like we'd use yhe term "web" today to encompass HTTPS, browsers, servers and so on.
Isn't that the Chinese equivalent of the Odyssey?
> In Afghanistan this was fundamentally impossible

That's an odd idea. The people in Afghanistan aren't magically different -- instead, they're being oppressed by a comparatively small group of violent uneducated men (the Talibans).

This is how it used to be:

https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanistan+before+1978&tbm=...

That's more like in southern Europe.

But the Cold War and the US helping the Talibans take the power destroyed all that.
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Whatever. I am keeping mine. It's the future. It's addictive. It's magical. There isn't a lot of content, but I still haven't gotten bored enough to start coding apps on it.

I've done a number of hacks to get it to work, but using my Android phone as a Bluetooth keyboard is the killer app. Google keyboard swype plus the better Google voice recognition makes it usable. Also, I cut off the fabric of a backup light shield, so you can use it with peripheral vision. That's pretty decent for chores.

Give it a few weeks for bored people to start making apps, figure out how to limit YouTube on this thing so you're not turning into a wire head. I try to watch my 80" TV now, and it just feels too small and restricted.

This is just the news being news. If you're savy, and if you have a MBP, and especially if you're a developer, and especially if you have the money, it's legit. It's only going to get better. My thought was, better spend the money now and experience a revolution than wait a year for it to be even better, but too afraid to drop that amount of money when the second one is about to come out.
I don't think there's a technical solution that would work here. This is a law & enforcement problem
No... It's 30 degrees different.
Tyvm :D. There should be a colorblind mode in the settings (hotkey combo is szs). There's a kid I want to show the game to but he's colorblind too.
Different product categories, same vaporware/hype train potential. How good would the autocomplete demo have to be for someone to convince the unsophisticated to hand over $500M (based on a preponderance of the historical evidence)? That's the thesis. Not disbelieving the potential of the technology (considering Gemini 1.5 and Sora recently), but you're going to have to be fairly sophisticated to know the difference between what is real, what is show, and if it's going to have legs to carry a valuation vs being a flash in the pan.

(have done technical due diligence for M&A, but also realize a greater fool can be found; ask lots of questions, and ensure the people you're trusting to validate the responses to those questions have the necessary domain expertise)
One of the oddest pictures I have ever seen is of military pigeon holes with gas protection. I guess NBC suits would have been a step too far?
There was a book that touched upon this concept: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43306206-the-courage-to-...

The book is based around Adlerian psychology. One of the key theories is that you cannot be free if you are not disliked by someone.
Yeah but people literally have to use phones for basic functioning at work and private life, that was true 20 years ago already. Uncomfortable ski googles with many cons and little content costing up to 4k?

We all know there is going to be next gen which will be marginally better and marginally pricier. It will still not be enough to 'be there'. At that point the market for wanna-shop-this will be fully saturated. Good luck with that.

The only way to solve all this mess would be to have killer apps. So far what we have seen that even 3 trillion company can't put together much in this space quickly enough, so I am not holding my breath. And literally same problems are with other headsets released even 5 years ago - there is simply not good-enough and enough of content to make people buy it and keep using it. Apple must have seen this from 10 miles too and pushed hard, but reviews politely say all the same thing. Almost all folks here with earlier VR headsets write how after initial wow faded it collects dust in cellar now.

Me, I prefer watching movies from 4m on huge screen, the social aspect with family and simple freedom of movement in more cinema experience is great. For gaming these days PC monitors offer much better visual experience than even these VR goggles, over 40" high refresh say oled with good ie Sennheiser headphones and you are as deep as you want to be, and for many games (that I like to play if I have some time), mouse is simply a superior controller to anything else.
Check out invoke.ai for an example of something much closer to a professional tool.
No, I am not. TeX, by itself, really shows its age, and how it was built as a "a faster horse" rather than hypertext's automobile:

- despite the window dressing of LaTeX, it is ultimately presentation-oriented instead of structure-oriented; many widely-used forms of formatting markup rely on precise character dimensions and positioning; changing page dimensions may sometimes require fixes throughout the whole document

- bad character set support: things like \mathcal{3} displays the wrong character WITH ZERO WARNING: see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/84041/ and duplicates

- parsing is undecidable; the parser can be arbitrarily reconfigured at runtime, and can perform Turing-complete computations, which means processing arbitrary TeX code in any other way than to execute it as written is next to impossible; even a 100% correct syntax highlighter is unachievable

MathJax fixes or ameliorates some of these flaws, but in trying to be compatible with TeX, it cannot avoid all of them; and in the meantime, it imposes its own syntax quirks and burdens the client with running bloated JavaScript, incurs significant pop-in latency, and leaves indecipherable mess of TeX code to clients which do not run JS. TeX is just PDF that's easier to edit, and MathJax is the Cufon of math markup. (Remember Cufon? Be thankful if you don't. Good riddance!)
I'm sure that can happen, but it hasn't been my experience.
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> I worked at a place where this sort of thing was done. It became practice to setup fake meetings or conduct real meetings with vague titles as a misdirection.

I don't get it.
I am constantly confused by text editors pitching themselves on speed. Is the world really full of developers going crazy with frustration because they’re waiting on vs code to do something? I opened a 100,000 line text file a few days ago & it rendered in like half a second, considering I do this about once a year it’s really more than good enough.
Was this written by LLM?
There were at minimum 200,000 Vision Pro sold.

At industry standard return rates 2000 returns would be normal.

Easy to find enough people to interview.
I've gotten your deckboxes a few times. They work great, especially for games with factions with smaller decks that don't need a full Magic-sized deckbox.

Like I've got them for each character's deck in Bullet, and each team in Baseball Highlights 2045. I have a few for my KeyForge decks as well.
Not really. Sure it adds some overhead but it's well optimized and not overly significant, especially for incremental collections. It can even pay for itself by defragging your memory, making subsequent allocations cheaper. The big problem with GC is the pauses it causes when doing full "stop the world" collections, which can be noticeable in animations, or even on server-side in high-volume latency-sensitive services. But there are strategies you can use to reduce or eliminate the need for those if you're willing to put in the effort (beyond the scope of this comment).

Note that pauses _can_ happen in non-GC languages too, if you have to delete something that references a bunch of other stuff that you have to recursively delete as well, though in the real world this is not very common.
Amazing! Thank you! Pretty cool information!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Company

Somehow it wasn't in theit Wikipedia either - it mentions briefly something about batteries for common electronics but doesn't details or mentioned Apple. Anyway, thanks for the source!!!
>This thing is heavier than a Quest 3 and doesn't even have a battery in it.

Apple has almost always been more form over function. Premium materials and slim, shiny looks over ergonomics. See the Apple mouse.

I think the last product Apple ever made that cared about ergonomics was the sunflower iMac G4, the best Mac Apple ever released, then the downfall started where everything needed to be unnecessarily thin and lacking in any adjustments for the sake of thinness and minimalism that look good in a white sterile showroom but suck at daily usage.
I'm sure it makes its way into the Einstein sales intelligence platform (TM)
>Architecture doesn't matter anymore

That is...exquisitely false. Especially under the tensions of scale, architecture matters a great deal. Yes, computers are ridiculously fast these days, but it is quite easy to architect yourself into a situation that cannot be solved by more hardware, not even theoretically. There are plenty of problems that would require more memory than there are fundamental particles in the universe if you model them wrong.

As for your offered examples, you seem to be thinking in terms of glue code and how well it could be replaced by an intelligent agent with its attention focused on a browser, reading one tab and entering data in another. This approach is going to break at any kind of scale greater than 1, and probably be quite brittle at 1. I'd argue that such an agent, if properly trained, will quickly realize that the cost/benefit ratio of it doing the job manually is not nearly as good as if it wrote a program to perform this mechanistic task. In which case, architecture still matters but the agent doing the architecting has changed.
So...the same as Scala?
I still don't understand how Zed or Lapse can build a viable business out of an OSS editor but at the same time there is an OSS VC funded Python linter so it's probably me.