skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been a public official your adjectives for the public official in this case made my hackles go up for a moment, but you're also absolutely right. The hidden assumption in those sorts of statements is that it's all good for volunteers to try to help, but one day "authorized" people will be able to do that work, but only if we are allowed to raise your taxes. Sigh.

The problem is, not all bureaucrats are evil, but all bureaucracy begins at neutral and tends towards evil, so there's a sad inevitability involved. And my hackles went up because even I, who consider myself pretty self-aware, ended up in some horrible conversations where I know I preferred the town having authority over something volunteers had historically done. We are all part-nazi, some of us just have more authority.
I see most printed things just use qr codes now too. And most phones can go to qr code url pretty easy
I simply do not understand your grudge against unions.

You're absolutely free to not join one, I have no idea where you are from so can't understand the cultural aspect of your grudge. It's just really tiring to read the same non-sequitur repeated ad nauseum, yes, you do not like unions, I got that, what else do you have to say?

Unions where I live are a central and core component of the labour market, the government does not interfere in the market, all employment contracts are established by employees and employers with the support of strong unions to provide the basics: minimum wage, working hours, additional benefits not covered by law, etc. That's a free market of labour, and the right of freedom of association working as intended.

If you care to expand the discussion further than being edgy about unions we can have a meaningful chat, right now you just sound like a parrot.
I wrote a blog post on that.
I'm actually surprised they did it without prepay.

The reason is the card transaction fees with most providers are usually a flat rate + %. $0.3+some% is typical I think?

And my last few month's invoices were 1.95, 3.81, 1.44, 2.09, 2.24 - those fees would suck at these prices.

I think if they had an auto-reload option it would fix the friction issue. Just a +5$ type of deal.
I'm not advocating for anything; I love Rust Enums and use whatever is close to them in other languages, which is usually better than the alternative of matching strings or similar (A convention in Python).

When I hear "These aren't really enums", my first reaction is to dive in and do research. (I'd been down this road before, probably after a similar HN comment...), but I haven't found usable or practical conclusions. It seems like the distinction is too subtle to be of use.

Stated more succinctly, let's call Rust enums "Choices", as I think this is causing semantic trouble. "Choices" are an excellent tool.

I'm looking at this from an engineering perspective; not a CS or abstract mathematics one.

I am curious what your pure Enum, and pure SumDataType look like in practice. I am also curious what existing implementations of either exist. Are they Haskell conventions?
> That's not true. The section the blog post is quoting

That's the beauty of reading: you can read more than just the quote, and read the paragraph immediately after. Or the referenced section in the law: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39565987
I don't understand what point your example or analogy is illustrating. Can you state the point you are making?

No one is alleging OpenAI committed tax fraud.
I've dealt with some spammers to various degrees. I think one of the most effective ways of dealing with spammers is to - "shadowban" them. Allow them to use your service, but don't indicate to them that you've identified them as malicious. For instance, when dealing with chat spammers - allow them to chat, but do not show their chats to other users. Another level would be to allow them to chat, but only show their chat to other shadowbanned users. For the author's use case, perhaps something like - if the ip address that created the link shortener accesses the link, they get the real redirect, and if a different ip address accesses it, they get the scam warning page. If the malicious actor doesn't know they've been marked as malicious, they do not know they need to change their behavior.

The second most effective thing is making the malicious actor use some sort of resource. Such as a payment (the author uses), or a time commitment (eg new accounts can only create 1 link a day), or some other source of friction. The idea is that for legitimate users the friction is acceptably low, but for consistent spammers the cost becomes too high.

The 3rd thing I've found effective is that lots of spam comes from robots - or perhaps robots farming tasks to humans. If you can determine how the traffic is coming in and then filter that traffic effectively without indicating failure, robots can happily spam away and you can happily filter away.
WordPress 'firehose' allows AI companies to buy access to a million posts a day
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"Plastic bag for example, are not only potentially dangerous, they make a significant contribution to the current mass extinction of biodiversity."

That is news to me, how exactly do they significantly contribute?
We just don't know that at this point.

For all we know, the EU might be considering PWAs a thing completely orthogonal to DMA compliance, since they neither provide feature parity with native apps, nor are they widely used (at least according to Apple's measurements).

> open up anything that Safari can do (like run PWAs).

I think it would be just as valid a viewpoint to consider them an OS feature (as opposed to a browser feature). The question then is whether that OS feature would be considered protected under the DMA.

For example, it's also impossible to provide your own kernel extensions (e.g. to facilitate hardware device drivers) for iOS – but that's completely fine (as far as I understand) under the DMA, since it's not one of the covered areas like app stores, NFC payments etc.

I'm not very certain of the last point, FWIW – maybe the DMA does actually require Apple to provide, on demand, access to hardware interfaces available to their own product offerings! For example, wireless (Qi) outbound charging is supported by recent iPhones, but only works with Apple's own Magsafe power bank, and other power banks can only do inbound wireless charging and need to be charged via USB – maybe that's actually noncompliant too? That would likely kill, or at least strongly impact, Apple's MFI program in the EU – or maybe just expand it to cover all first-party hardware interfaces too?
> do you think reddit is truly usable?

Compared to federated equivalents? Oh yeah, definitely.

That's not to say it doesn't have other problems, but casually following subreddits and commenting on them is super easy, and you don't have to worry about which subs federate with other ones, or where your Mastodon account actually is or anything.
> (yes, a wire!)

What's wrong with pulling a wire? Works well, easy to maintain.
Man that is thick.

- Elon Musk founded OpenAI in 2015 with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) that would benefit humanity, not for-profit interests?
- OpenAI was established as a non-profit with the goal of open-sourcing its technology when possible?
- In 2020, OpenAI licensed its GPT-3 language model exclusively to Microsoft, going against its mission?
- By 2023, Microsoft researchers said GPT-4 demonstrated early signs of AGI capabilities. However, OpenAI did not make it openly available?
- In 2023, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei took actions that led to a change in OpenAI's board and direction towards profiting Microsoft over public benefit?
- The plaintiff alleges this violated the original agreement between Musk, Altman and Amodei to develop AGI for humanity's benefit as a non-profit?
- The plaintiff is seeking damages and to compel OpenAI to return to its original non-profit mission of developing safe and openly available AGI?
- Key concerns are that for-profit interests now influence whether OpenAI technology is deemed an AGI and how it is used?
- The change in direction away from the non-profit public interest mission damaged public trust in OpenAI?
- The suit alleges OpenAI's actions constitute unfair business practices under California law?

I guess we will see if these are answered. Personally, I do not trust Musk nor Altman. Approach them from a corner is what I am saying. OpenAI while their idiot savant in chatGPT is interesting. It is hardly worth paying for with such vast gulfs between good and useable answers and the usual terrible or lazy ones you get normally. While it is important to have a basic ruleset for AI, not when it comes to making it pre-k playground rules. No innovation can be truly had with such onerous and too polite rules today. Narrow AI indeed.
AI is the new .com and blockchain.

AI is useful but (most of) it feels overblown
I'm with a large organization (government, military) that also implemented a hybrid model under covid and decided to keep it going. But not a day goes by that someone doesn't scream for it to end. We have too many people "working from home" all the time and never getting done the stuff that cannot be done from home. Is the server not responding after the recent power outage? Too bad. The guy to turn it back on only comes in Monday-Tuesday. They put the real property maintenance people on a hybrid model. No joke: The plumbers and electricians still "work from home" half the week.

"Hello, this is General Smith."
"Sir, ... um .. you are answering your own phone?"
"Yup. My EA is working from home thursday-friday and we cannot get the secure phone to forward calls to her cellphone." "Did you talk to IT?" "It is friday. IT works remote on fridays." "How about I come to your office?" "Please do, I'm all alone here."
I made a link shortener in 2010 and it was such a terrible experience. Constant notices from my hosting company about child porn links, repeated ominous emails from the FBI and their counterparts in other countries, having my server temporarily shut down repeatedly. I abandoned it after 6 months because the amount of time it took to continually adapt countermeasures to all the scummy abusers was too overwhelming. In so doing, I'm sure I contributed to all the link rot out there.
Economy is nuts.
I know it is not illegal or anything, but certainly not healthy for general market who actually depends on money to run.
I don't understand how this is politicians making money. It happens all the time, sure, but what about the DMA is making politicians rich?
Non-profit organisations are exempt from the core technology fee.
That still binds individuals to cars, though. I imagine the actual solution will involve removing the need for cars or enabling bulk transportation.
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It is unlikely that there will be any bitstream changes in JPEG XL. There is still a lot of potential for encoder improvements within the current bitstream, both for lossy and for lossless.
His stories about some of the things he encountered on these walks are pretty funny. Can't wait for the next installment of his memoirs.
They also tend to require proper pattern matching to be particularly useful, something which I can't see being added given Go's design philosophy.
Reducing the number of days worked per week per individual increases (relative) overhead costs, including administrative costs, benefits (most notably including healthcare), and capital costs (because everything is being used less, but still devaluing). These are all real changes with real impacts.

Also of note, the increase in these costs from going down to 4 days will be substantially larger than the prior one (due to the smaller dividend).
I agree that companies should reply to applicants, but this type of post goes against the rules at the top of the thread.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563487.
Dear lord.. despite browsing and using github on a daily basis I still miss releases section sometimes! Before I saw your reply I checked the Scoop repos and sure enough, on Windows this will get you latest cjpegli version installed and added to path in one go:

scoop install main/libjxl

Note.. now that I tried it: that is really next level for an old format..!
Affordable is not a price. I don't want to login before getting pricing.
> If Musk donated money to a nonprofit and now the nonprofit is using the money to make profit, that sounds like he was defrauded to me.

I am not sure if a donation to a nonprofit entitles him to a say in its management. Might have to do with how he donated the money too? https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/restricted-fund.asp

But even if a nonprofit suddenly started making a profit, seems like that would mostly be an IRS tax exemption violation rather than a breach of contract with the donors...? But again, I'm not a lawyer.

And OpenAI also has a complex structure in which the nonprofit controls a for-profit subsidiary, or something like that, similar to how Mozilla the nonprofit owns the for-profit Mozilla corp. I think Patagonia is similarly set up.

> I don't understand the framing of your question, is it "since he donated, he didn't expect anything in return, so he is not harmed no matter what they do"? Kinda seems like people asking for donations should not lie about the reason for the donation, even if it is a donation.

I guess donors can make restricted gifts, but if they don't, do they have a LEGAL (as opposed to merely ethical) right to expect the nonprofit to "do its mission" broadly? There are a gazillion nonprofits out there, and if every donor can micromanage them by alleging they are not following their mission, there would be millions of lawsuits... but then again, the average donor probably has somewhat less money and lawyers than Musk.
> reaching a blistering 387 mph (623 km/h)

> The previous record holder [...] can hit a top speed of 375 mph (630 km/h).

387->623
375->630

Hard to say which way the reported coverted units when made the mistake, but if they converted from mph to km/h then 375mph=603km/h.
> It is also exceedingly rare.

And EV fires are even rarer.

The people who study fires disagree with your other points:

https://www.ri.se/sites/default/files/2020-12/FRIC%20D1.2-20...

> Observations during the fire indicate that electric vehicles did not contribute to the fire development beyond what is expected from conventional vehicles.
Go types do not support value constraints, no. That has nothing to do with enums, though. That's a different feature altogether.
The problem is that effort to do formal verification goes exponential beyond a certain point.

seL4 is around 10-12 KLoC, and it took a decade of effort from multiple people to make it happen.

At the size of SQLite, especially where they have to operate on platforms with different behavior (as an OS, seL4 is the platform), formal verification is just too much effort.

All that said, your reaction is totally understandable.
> It sounds to me like anyone could use the trademark "Wi-Fi", since it's listed in the freely available ones.

Yes, to describe Wi-Fi as defined by the Wi-Fi Alliance, not to describe anything the Alliance does NOT consider compliant.
> The bigger lesson to take from the above: don't build to last too long.

Disagree.

Build to last long, but accomodate modification.

Old houses are built to last a very long time, because they weren't commodities being bought and sold on a 10 year timeframe. But old houses are also very difficult to modify. As you noted, no structural engineering, also lathe & plaster walls are a nightmare to take down, etc. etc.
Please follow the rules at the top of the thread.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563630.
Ah! Looks like it does indeed:

> Unlike with native JSR imports, you are not directly importing TypeScript code. Instead JSR transpiles the TypeScript code to JavaScript before it is installed into your node_modules directory. This generally means that your editor experience will suffer, because “Go to definition” and other features will link to transpiled JavaScript code, or to generated .d.ts files.

https://jsr.io/docs/npm-compatibility#limitations

That said, I'm assuming that if you use Deno, you can write plain JS as well (i.e. the TS library will still work with JS). So yes, you'll need to use the npm compatibility layer if you don't use Deno, but those are the only supported use case.

So I think they still don't want to imply that you have to use TypeScript if you use JSR in the runtimes it's targeting.
That's what I thought was neat about this site. There are plenty of MX testers out there, but I felt this was pretty unique. I thought it was a great idea that it interrogates a send email rather than just look up DNS entries.
An open source Ipod Nano is a great idea. It could be useful for many years, much longer than a phone. I’m interested in the idea of making one that is modular too - made from little interconnected open source PCBs that you can get from say Lilygo, Seeed, DFRobot, Adafruit, Sparkfun.

I think open source and modular hardware could be a way to make electronics repairable and user-upgradeable, and also prevent future e-waste. Modularity = repair & reuse. [1] And this means you don’t have to be good at PCB design to get started.

For example I think you can make an MVP Ipod entirely out of existing adafruit modules. And sell the MVP for 2-3x BOM / distribute the design as a production model, not just a prototype.

If you get any traction, you can make a better product by designing better modules, and make them high quality, open source, and documented, so that manufacturers will pick them up and start supplying them to the community. If the modules aren't picked up by a manufacturer (with no money exchanging hands) that means the module isn't general purpose enough and would lead to future e-waste.

1. https://www.hackster.io/buildingpulse/modular-lorawan-end-no...
I totally agree. For some reason, my work computer has Teams for work and Teams for personal use. Um, my friends aren't exactly hanging out on Teams.
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Flicked through and found this bit:

"But there is a more thorough humbug than any of these enterprises or systems. The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes — or pretends to believe — that everything and everybody are humbugs.... Religion he thinks one of the smartest business dodges extant, a first-rate investment, and by all odds the most respectable disguise that a lying or swindling business man can wear. Honour he thinks is a sham. Honesty he considers a plausible word to flourish in the eyes of the greener portion of our race, as you would hold out a cabbage-leaf to coax a donkey. What people want, he thinks, or says he thinks, is something good to eat, something good to drink, fine clothes, luxury, laziness, wealth. If you can imagine a hog's mind in a man's body — sensual, greedy, selfish, cruel, cunning, sly, coarse, yet stupid, short-sighted, unreasoning, unable to comprehend anything except what concerns the flesh, you have your man."

Blushes in economist...
Salman, you want to post in the other thread.
How would disaggregating the non-AWS segment into smaller sub-segments show that AWS is inflating intracompany billing?
> Though I am surprised they'd pay for it due to the payment -> identity...

Between gift cards, money mules, shell corporations, and "that country doesn't cooperate with investigations"...I'd guess that this is no more than a minor problem for serious criminals.
'Office culture' as we know it is dead. Workers have other ideas
But wouldn't the pharmaceutical companies do it themselves in-house then?
Sure, so if there is a via feratta on public land I imagine there will be similar access, although controlling access to a via feratta would be much easier than a ski run.
I know when I was coding an avx2 matmul last month, having multiple dot product dependency chains operating in parallel was the single biggest thing that brought it in the same league of performance as MKL. It was like a night and day difference the first time I ran the program after doing that. Using lookaside L1 cache didn't help me very much, since it worked better to share register loads across operations.
Nuclear weapons can definitely be replicated. The U.S. and allies aggressively control the hard to get materials and actively sabotage programs that work on it.

And the countries that want nukes have some anyway, even if they are not as good.
Yep, these are friend-spiders, if you don’t like spiders. Same as jumping spiders. They eat other spiders! What more could somebody want?

These spiders have decided to live life with PvP mode on, very cool.
Tangent; if there was a nuclear war and subsequent global famine, would the obesity epidemic turn out to be a blessing, allowing more people to survive the initial winter?
Tactics Advance is a good time as well, if you enjoyed Tactics. Different in some ways, but similar mechanically
Generally speaking, yes. Its not like most code isn't changed as a consequence of writing those tests, so the practice has immediate benefit, but future changes can be made swiftly and securely due to the confidence those tests should be giving you.

But also your time estimate does sound wonky, 2-3x sounds extreme. Maybe you need to improve your test writing process?
They already exist, D, C#, Odin, Nim... no need to insist when the community is so down into minimalism.