skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Adults over the age of 30 only catch flu about twice a decade, a new study suggests.

Oops, I was wrong there, thank you for the link.
Indigenous people still exist and are actively trying to regain control over lands they never ceded title to.

So ongoing logging and resource projects which preclude indigenous use of the land is active current day colonialism.

It's not some thing that happened 200 years ago it's active current day choices that persist the status quo.
A problem solved by old music machines. Here's his recent video on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i63t7ekNFoY

TLDR: speed governor
The site these former Wikipedia editors are joining has existed since 2000, is primarily US-focused, and is named after two people in the US with first names beginning with A: https://www.aaroads.com/about/ So this new migration shouldn't affect that site's legal risk from the UK and Ireland company, which seems pretty low anyway given that context.
I've been working on getting openipc compiling libusb and rtl-sdr packages so I can flash it to the $15 chinese sbc dvr w/sata port (ICsee Xmeye XM Nvr Board 4K 10Ch Hisilicon chip Hi3536E IP Recorder Embedded Linux) that's openipc compatible and just use those boards for running my rtl-sdr software defined radio dongles instead of $50-100 rpis or odroids. Their build system is a bit weird but it's not bad. Having to flash over serial to install is tedious but well worth it for the price and functionality.

That said, the actual FPV/camera stuff with openipc is cool too. I definitely would rather pay $50-80 for a 2k 90fps camera/transceiver/receiver system I can hack on in linux than than $300 for a (much better) dji o3 pro. I'm hoping I can get the HDMI out formatted properly to use with my HTC Vive head mounted display instead of having to fork out for something new I can't buy (-11 diopter) prescription lenses for. There's basically no support for glasses wearers in any FPV goggles except the dji ($$$$) stuff.
For maths, there is also ncatlab.
Most of the cost of a software project is from ongoing maintenance. When we make it easy to write the first version and make maintenance harder, the total cost of the project goes up.

Projects like FastUI allow maintenance of a project with fewer skills, directly reducing the cost of maintenance: owning teams spend less time learning and maintaining their skills and there are fewer bugs due to engineers making mistakes because of low skill-level in a technology.

Also, projects like FastUI make the project's tech stack much simpler. Simplicity helps reliability, incident resolution, security, testing, adding features, removing dead code, refactoring, etc. Highly-productive teams apply these ideas and keep their systems as simple as possible. As tools like FastUI mature, they will become standard in healthy engineering orgs.
This is a big part of the reason I carry a flip phone. Instead of explaining that your "otherwise smartphone looking thing" can't run Apple or Android apps, I just have to whip out the flip phone, flip it open, flip it closed, and say "Sorry, my phone doesn't have apps."

... even though it's running Android 11 Go and I can sideload stuff, it doesn't matter because the number of apps that work on a 320x240 screen with keyboard input only are "roughly zero." Even if there's no good reason it shouldn't work, nobody tests or designs for that case, so there I am.
I’m waiting for the day I can have an Apple Watch without ever needing an iPhone to manage it, and an iPad to do real dev work (ie, Xcode for iPad) without ever having to fall back on a Mac/Book. I’ve been waiting for years already so now I’m not sure those days will ever actually arrive.
It turned into a flame war. Also settle down, donating to people in need is a nice thing, it’s not that complicated.
The former (you can’t collude with a competitor to use the same algorithm to set prices)
After pricing auto insurance recently it's pretty obvious this is happening in that industry as well. While shopping around multiple quotes across 7-8 providers and calling at least 5 separate insurance agents to try to gather quotes, all of these companies are providing similar quotes within a few cents/dollars of each other.

I vent my frustration to a few agents about the yearly rate increase insanity and they all shrug, give their non-empathetic "I understand" telephone script and blame it on the "system" calculating the prices and make some useless excuse about inflation.

I've got a clean driving record, a fully paid-off cheap vehicle, in a reasonably responsible age bracket, and the cost of decent auto insurance these days is essentially another car payment. Within 5 years I'll have paid back the insurance company 60-70% the value of the vehicle. The Gov/FTC needs to take a look at these companies, especially if they're forcing us to hold the insurance to reasonably participate in society.
> Here is another, but related question: why don't long time employees look for a better paying opportunity?

The devil you know is often better than the devil you don't know.

Why risk ending up with a bad employer for more pay if you can already coast at an OK employer for good enough pay?

I see it much like that Treehouse Of Horror episode of The Simpsons where Homer time travels to the past and finally comes back to the present to discover that everything is the same except everyone now has a long tongue they eat with; after all the things he went through earlier, his response is "Eh... close enough."
OTOH our garbage and wreckage will provide a lot of resources. For example there may not be any easily accessible copper deposits, but there are a lot of wires to scavenge. No easily accessible fossil fuels, but the amount of plastic in garbage dumps makes them a fossil fuel source.
Just discussed, with a more detailed technical writeup:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39566064
Politics and price. C and Unix were free, other options were not. Oberon is also unsuitable for most use-cases if taken to Wirth's extreme, though the other variations are better they were still very niche (also it was never exactly well-known or well-distributed). With Pascal, which Pascal? The early Pascal's needed extensions (leading to the Modula line and Delphi ultimately). They also tended to cost, people like free. Politics are why Ada lost, along with costs. Ada, as a mandatory language for a time in DOD, had a compelled audience with "deep" (not always that deep) pockets who could afford $10k/seat licenses (or more), that didn't make it a suitable language for the *nix hackers of the 90s and Linux (in particular) has eaten the world.

So C and C++ won out as the systems languages. Not because of quality, but price and politics.

EDIT: I mean Unix broadly, there were obviously non-free commercial Unixes.
You don't have to store that in-line, you can store it in metadata.

Kind of like how ASAN works, but with typing info instead of just validity info.

Now yes, for performance you don't want to do this ... but it can be just one step of the migration.
"There's dozens of us!"

I kid. I've been using Debian as my main OS since about 2012. Once Steve Jobs signed Flash's death warrant, Linux as a desktop became feasible.

Its bitter sweet though. Linux is feasible because everything is on the web, which is worse than what we had before.
RCS existed long before Google monopolized it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
There were antitrust suits filed against RealPage after a ProPublica piece

> In one news release, Realpage offered its property management clients the ability to outsource daily rent-setting and revenue oversight. “We believe in overseeing properties as though we own them ourselves,” the company said in a presentation that plaintiffs’ lawyers referenced in the lawsuit.

> The lawsuit quoted one unnamed witness, a RealPage pricing advisor, saying that some pricing advisors told property management employees that they had to follow the software’s recommendations. A leasing manager at a RealPage client said, “I knew [RealPage’s prices] were way too high, but [RealPage] barely budged” when the manager asked to deviate from the suggested rent.

> An update to the software tracked not only clients’ acceptance rate, but also the identity of the landlords’ staff members who had requested a deviation from RealPage’s price, the lawsuit said. Compensation for some property management personnel was even tied to compliance with the company’s recommendations, it said.

So if this is true, this also means that managers are being compelled to adopt the recommendations more than as mere suggestions.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-backs-tenants-price-f...
Poll: How much do you care about platform interoperability?
With the recent news about apple being forced to open up their eco system, and more sites being login walled, alternative frontends/clients getting "killed", I wondered how much HN really cares/wants Interoperability.

Some examples, to get a grasp what I'm talking about:

- being able to use the OS and messenger of your choice, without being "left out"

- being able to install any software/app you want to

- using alternative clients to access for example social media like reddit or twitter

- not being forced to use another browser
Don't care at all
Your still assuming their behaviour in actuality can be ascertained via what they type out in the comments box...

This seems like a stretch to be honest, especially since most HN users use pseudonyms.

Have you ever considered they might just want to rile you up online, for whatever reasons, but in real life know perfectly well what's what?

e.g. even someone very inclined to go against your comments and arguments would in fact still understand that a subset of 'corporations' are suspicious to some degree, but put on some pretence and so on.
I can't imagine running another OS other than Linux on my personal machine. You get a sense of control and privacy you won't get from the main other OSes.
Yes, but with free Wednesday instead of Friday. That said, the economics of 25% cut are inevitably temporary, assuming easy-to-switch job market. People will just start to ask for up to 33% more on average, depending on the actual performance change.
> Rent is up nearly 20% since 2020, with the largest increases concentrated on lower- and middle-tier apartments rented by lower-income consumers. About half of renters now pay more than 30% of their income in rent and utilities, and rising shelter costs were responsible for over two-thirds of January inflation.

We need better rent stabilization laws. Not the ones we have in many big cities that result in perpetually skewed markets and $200/mo rents. But a more comprehensive approach including requiring multi-year lease options, 12-month or greater rent increase notice requirements, and rent increase caps that prevent catastrophic rent hikes but still allow units to align with market rates over longer timeframes.

Unfortunately, people prefer to strawman the entire concept by pretending that the only "rent control" laws that can exist are like those in NY or SF.
I think car salesmen are particularly pushy about it because car manufacturers are starting to sell monthly subscriptions for things in the app. They can't sell it to you if you won't install the app. For instance, my Toyota came with some kind of trial subscription for a remote unlock/lock and GPS location service. Served, of course, through the Toyota app. They have an incentive to get you to install the app that goes beyond just not thinking it's a big deal.

Email I got today:

> Your access to Safety Connect and Remote Connect services will expire unless you access your Toyota app or call 1-833-914-0992 to extend your subscription. For as low as $8.00 per month, you can enjoy the convenience of Safety Connect or Remote Connect. For further savings, you can choose an annual plan.

I won't be doing that, but it makes the reason for the push to install their app starkly clear.
It's a high level language compared to Assembler. Like a lot of those early experimental languages it's worth learning a bit. It's also a pretty much complete failure other than a few standout uses (the main one I can think of is that the boot loader on Sun SPARC machines was written in Forth).

To me it fits in an odd place. It was much hyped/replicated on Micros in the 1980s as it made the Basic implementations on those machines seem very old fashioned. For most users who were already working on minicomputers in languages like C or Lisp, Forth was just a weird riff on stack based languages that had already been considered and discarded. So the general impression on whether Forth was any good or not depended entirely on what else you had programmed in.

Having said that, stack based languages like Forth, PostScript or even xslt are challenging and thought provoking.

Personally, if I wanted to play with a stack based language I'd play with PostScript or xslt as at least you'd have half a chance to use it professionally.

edit: yeah xslt isn't a stack based language but I always thought it helped when learning it to consider it that way
> Its bitter sweet though. Linux is feasible because everything is on the web, which is worse than what we had before.

What do you mean?
I wonder if we really need a CVE for all these security vulnerabilities?

Every novel method has value and well be cited by others as a contribution towards other discovered
Thanks for the kind words! Sorry for the delayed response, this post drew a lot more interest than anticipated and we've been swamped working with new folks coming in.

Regarding:

- PrivateGPT: they're for individual use where you ingest your own data. We're for teams to use with access controls, connectors to typical business SaaS tools, works at scale (incremental updates and scalable container architecture), different user roles, etc. So basically I see very little overlap between the two projects at least in terms of "competition", we're just different.

- LlamaHub: Our connectors pull all of the documents in the first run, then every following run, it only pulls in documents that have changed since the last run. For large teams, the first run may take many hours but following that, it will only take seconds each time. Without this, it becomes untenable to keep all information up to date. Also we pull in additional metadata and permissions, which not all LlamaHub connectors support.

- Push flow for indexing: Yes, we also have APIs that you can push to for indexing documents. For event based "push", we didn't go that route because most tools we connect to don't support this.

- Knowledge Graph: We will certainly be building this, it is only a matter of prioritization and timelines.

- Replacing the custom search: We think our search is much better than a basic RAG pipeline out of the box that someone can get from Langchain/LlamaIndex. What's the motivation for wanting to remove/replace it?
Cool! I'm working on something on the other side of the same pipeline. Real time data ingestion and identity resolution, delivering into a data lake.

Have you considered adding source connectors for S3 based data lakes? For example Parquet files or Delta Lake? Maybe via AWS Athena to make it similar to the Red Shift connector?
Admirable but ultimately inconsequential.
robots.txt being an honor system has always been a bit weird and search engine treatment is odder still.

Google will still index your disallowed pages but refuse to show a description since they are couldn't read the page. The premise being that Google could have discovered your URLs from other pages and they don't consider a robots.txt disallow to indicate that you don't want them in search, just that you don't want Google to directly read the page.

To actually disallow indexing of a page a page you need to allow it in robots and then add a noindex to the page itself.

No one has really explained how these AI agents will treat robots.txt. Does it just mean that Bard/Gemini won't directly read the page but might somehow incorporate it into a dataset?

For a test I asked Gemini "What is the URL of the String api documentation for Java 6?" which is disallowed by robots.txt.

The response was: Unfortunately, Oracle does not maintain separate API documentation for older versions of Java like Java 6. The official documentation website (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/) only provides documentation for the latest versions.

Oracle has archieved some of the older Java API documentation but 6 is still available at https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/index.html. Funny enough the Java 7 API docs which Gemini linked too is also disallowed but maybe that happened after the model was trained.
I think the text is geared towards people with some mathematical background who want to understand learning theory. Besides it is clearly stated that this chapter is a review (so its assumed that you learned or will learn these things elsewhere).
So we should make it illegal not to honor it then, if the incentives are to engage in anti-social behavior.
Reading linked doc, sounds like first

But yeah, your latter case sounds easy to fall into gray territory, since it seems illegal to agree on prices even if intermediary makes it unclear with whom exactly you're agreeing with
Looks a lot like my Kindle Keyboard. The KK also has a cell phone chip in it!
Be careful. I made a similar comment and it was flagged.
> an agreement to use shared pricing recommendations, lists, calculations, or algorithms can still be unlawful even where co-conspirators retain some pricing discretion or cheat on the agreement.

Someone explain how this is different from pricing vehicles based on KBB or other data? Genuinely curious because I don’t know what these agreements look like.

If multiple seller/landlord parties all agree to have a single algorithm set prices I understand the FTC’s point. If however they all reference an algorithmic data point and freely choose to set prices I don’t see how that’s collusion.
This sounds pretty great, how do you achieve it?
> you can be assured that there are many people above you in the chain getting much bigger pieces

This bothers a lot of people but it doesn't bother me. I see it so often that it feels like a flamebait tactic to elicit envy.
OpenAI documents how their crawler honors robots.txt.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
Which is a deceptive tactic IMO.
> This has led to a disorganized repository of valuable information that external users struggle to use ...

Not my experience: forecast.weather.gov works just great for me as it is now.

Anyone else getting flashbacks of the Reddit/Gnome/KDE/... UI renovations?
Thanks for the kind words! There's nothing more motivating in the world than hearing that our users are loving what we've built!
I have to admit, I find this a bit ironic.

Many of the digital sequencing and notation products I've worked with went out of their way (arguably) to play "less-tight music" through various "humanizing" features.

Yes, we want music that is sufficiently accurate and "tight"... but within the confines of human capability. The slight errors of both time and intonation in some cases give music a much more human feel. Now to be fair, I don't want to suggest that this sort of human inaccuracy is mere randomness either: it's typically not just random error... there's usually a bias and it definitely within limits (unless you're a bad musician of course :-) ).
To my understanding, to use RCS on Android, you need to:

- to be able to access Internet

- to be able to read incoming SMS messages for identification

- to implement a full RCS client stack of your own.

There is an open source RCS client library in existence: https://github.com/Hirohumi/rust-rcs-core

I am not aware of anyone having been managed to connect it to Jibe servers, though. It is completely possible that Google is somehow actively blocking third party implementations, but I don't know for sure.
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Most of the technologies I can think of that offer a cheaper alternative to ham radio are also within the purview of the FCC. Most of the internet is encumbered by multiple organizations (often giant, profit-seeking corporations) that are ultimately beholden to the FCC.

Radio will continue to be a technology used for providing infrastructure where none exists (disaster areas, offgrid communications). And sometimes it takes the place of "last mile" ISPs to get people in rural access to the wider internet.

Plus, playing radio is fun.

On the First Amendment vs. licensing requirements: Most licensing requirements are aimed at curbing harmful interference. The only thing in Part 97 (I can remember offhand anyway) that limits what you can say is 97.113(a)(4)[0]—most of what it mentions is covered by other laws (obscenity and copyright). I think there's something about selling stuff, too. But hams are pretty much self-policing this, afaict.

Encrypted communication also prohibited (boo). But now we have meshtastic[1] on ISM bands for that!

[0]: <https:/ / www.ecfr.gov/ current/ title-47/ part-97#p-97.113(a)(4)>
[1]: <https://meshtastic.org/>
Aren't most insurance rates / rate ranges set by the states? And any further variance is down to the actuarial tables? It seems pretty reasonable that most of your quotes would be within a few dollars of each other because they're all insuring the same risk, in the same location, under the same legal framework.
I didn't think about the mike. Nice.
How much is hacker news discussion topic focus second order steered by recommendations algorithms? I just had this one recommended and now it’s here, seems to happen a lot lately!
Well, I’m just using a flip phone and keep the iPhone in a cupboard at home without a sim, so I can use that one app once in a blue moon instead of dancing around the problem for half a day.

Works like a charm.
The startup I was with did some mockups.
The "over" prefix does actually imply a level of acceptable abuse, regardless of whether or not you consider this a moral judgement. Otherwise what would the prefix imply? It's inherently a comparison to some implicit degree of abuse.
>> We have common carrier laws to cover cases like Comcast.

> Not if you set a new precedent that corporate moderation is protected speech under the First Amendment and invalidate those laws.

Why would treating a social media site's moderation as protected speech automatically make the social media site a common carrier?
Not quite right. Auto insurance is a commodity. They don’t have price fixing per the same way housing does. Also they are heavily regulated and their prices probably have to be approved by your state.
You may enjoy this:

https://bwlewis.github.io/cassini/