skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If companies aren’t forced to NOT pollute, they will pollute

If no one buys their products, or any products with them in the supply chain, then they won't pollute.

Visibility into these supply chains wasn't possible before internet/technology. A free market relies on consumers paying attention which so far they haven't been, because we are too used to relying on the government...and then complain so much about government.

You definitely see consumers driving improvements through their purchasing. Definitely in areas such as sustainability.

I guess regulation addresses a time lag situation. But if a private market developed for a companies that regulates other companies with subscription fees, then this would solve the problem and do it in a better way. Although I'm not sure how the threat of jail can fit into this. Can penalties be strong enough? Is bankruptcy a strong enough disincentive to lie to private regulators.

> They are there to stop a single fire from burning down the city.

Interesting point. Definitely has non-excludability.

I remember this scene in Gangs of New York where the firemen fight each other back when it was privatized (don't know if this was real).

> rich have freedom of movement but the poor do not

A lot of transport is private. Maybe the poor have more money if they don't have to pay so much in taxes.
The NTSB can't get an interview with Technician#2512 unless they know who the fuck that is. They need to know who to talk to. Whether that name is subsequently omitted from public documents is another matter.
Is it appropriate to call this a war?

To me it seems more like a nation state fighting a terrorist group, with heavy civilian losses.
Probably a regional thing? In some places, NGOs usually just mean non-profits (though technically that shouldn't be the case)
My son was diagnosed with diabetes about 4 weeks ago. The first two weeks we were measuring him through fingersticks multiple times daily. Now we have the cgm it has become so much easier to manage his condition.

The interesting thing to observe is to see in real time the metabolic spectrum of the foods we consume. Liquid sugars cause glucose spikes within 6 minutes. Solid carbs 30-120 minutes depending on carb complexity etc. Proteins 3h+. Fats can be six hours or more.

The thing is there are a variety of insulins available, some of which are rapid acting and others act more slowly. So to keep my son in range with multiple daily injections you are playing this game of giving him the right mix of foods where his carb digestion matches the profile of his rapid acting insulin.

Pizza is an interesting case study. It is by far the most carb rich deal we've tried and it is almost impossible to manage. With so many carbs it's hard to get the insulin dosage right, and once he is high, once he is coming down from that the digestion of the fats kicks in and he remains high through the night.

I think it would be a great thing for people to wear even just for a couple of weeks.
You don't need an AI for that. Look up opencv.
Because what these two American companies are doing affects a lot of EU citizens.
Pricing information is the first thing I look for, and if I don't find it I assume it's nowhere near reasonable and close the tab.

Back to the topic of the post, I like the idea and it's definitely a good addition to the standard sqlite docs which can be a little dry/dense in places. It'd be nice if we had some sort of inline DB-browser type view too so we could see what the commands we run actually did without resorting to writing select statements before and after the example. Also not sure why I have to click 'show' to see the command syntax.
Palestinian refugees have started civil wars in Jordan and Lebanon. Neither country is keen to repeat that experience and Egypt is not keen to join that list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War
I've never heard of liquid dishwasher detergent before, but

> With shipping and VAT added, it costs a whopping £43 ($60) for 90 washes! That is 48p (67c) per wash.

This about matches the cost of "premium" (think Dreft, Finish, etc.) dishwasher detergent tablets in my country.
Why is the US at times poking its nose into European businesses? On both cases (EU or US): because 1) they can, and 2) they think it is related to their remit.
I was thinking that manipulation would become non-effective once someone knows they are being manipulated.
So to be most effective, it would have to be un-known.

We all know governments manipulate. Generally. But what is the current specific manipulation that is still secret, and thus we are influenced by something without knowing we are being influenced, or even are confident we are not being influenced.

or guess, we could be in such a jaded time that people don't believe anything, even if something is true. In such a jaded time, is manipulation easier or harder?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_principle
IMHO it needs to keep getting in the way.

On many occasions it has been tremendously helpful to consumers when the EU stepped up and got in the way of companies doing as they please. Examples include capping phone roaming charges and mandating 24/7 free money transfers.
From comment guidelines:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
It's like watching two mangy dogs brawl.
Because those companies chose to operate in the EU. Regulating its market is one of its main tasks, and certainly not a waste of time. That depends on the perspective. From the perspective of a company abusing its market dominance, it is indeed a pain. For the perspective of companies which are not dominant and consumers, it is really desirable for the EU to be active in this field.
Have you done any comparison with DSPy ? (https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy)

Feels very similiar to DSPy except you dont have optimizations yet. But I like your API and the programming model your are enforcing through this.
The issue is that there's no incentive to return the chunks of plastic to them. They need to follow a Sodastream-like model to apply a discount to the next order when returning a unit, especially with such astronomical prices.
They're global companies, not American ones. EU consumers lose out by Apple's decision. If you want to trade in Europe you've gotta pay by the antitrust rulebook.
Basically, when non-EU companies operate within EU, they have to follow EU's rules and regulations.
EU might suspect something that goes against those.
> with almost no redundancy

Why are you just making stuff up? Cybertruck has lots of redundancy.

Do you have any actual evidence that Cybertruck steer-by-wire design is bad?
I first found Dr Dobbs journal in my city's central library in the mid '90s when I was still in high school. I visited now and then to read the latest issue. I once loaned a whole previous year's editions just to find and re-read an old article about C++ programming techniques.
>I don't understand this media campaign against shrinkflation

It clearly rubs people up the wrong way.

There's a perception that these huge companies are trying to trick consumers by hiding these reductions in size/quantity. Consumers don't like that.
The EU unfortunately spent the last two years destroying it's credibility on the world stage. In both its legal institutions as well as its financial systems.

We are indeed at a critical moment in the sense that they might still be a small window to turn things around, but as it stands, it seems like a parasite cannibalizing its host. Already we are seeing places that just don't care about complying with EU regulations anymore.

Personally I had a little flicker of hope that they would force Apple to open its ecosystem, but it seems like that was just wishful thinking...
I'd like to note here that Radicle has defined our own version of issue and patch management, but they're not necessarily required to be used as part of the protocol. The protocol only defines that any and all COBs will be stored and replicated under the `refs/cobs` hierarchy.

If someone wanted to come along and define a way to embed Fossil wikis/issues as a COB then they could be replicated on the Radicle network and it's then up to application developers to load and interpret that data.

I think this is cool because it essentially allows developers to extend the Radicle ecosystem easily and define new workflows! However, that does not avoid our XKCD problem stated above ;P But hey, sometimes that's the beauty of these things -- we're given the power to define our own workflows and not locked into something everyone complains about coughGitHub branches PR flowcough
I would take it at a FAANG that actually compensates you for it but out here in the sticks of the rest of the world it just ain’t worth the stress and red tape crunches (like being forced to do scrum or forced to do unrealistic planning in a week for 13 weeks work)
Epic is not a customer of Apple.

Many of Apple's customers are also customers of Epic.

Apple is trying to prevent those shared customers from accessing Epic.
It's possible, there was an article in the NYT and reports elsewhere in the press a couple months ago on how Netanyahu directly funded Hamas because he though they were the best foil to a two-state solution. That guy is such an idiot.
You're missing the point. The problem isn't copyright infringement, the problem is that the law says any instance of copyright infringement results in 150k statutory damages without having to prove damages.

Thus, a minor copyright issue like this will result in disproportionate consequences. Nothing else works like this, and it's the root cause behind all of these trolls.
Regular testing is one of the few times a US ICBM would _not_ be in alert status.

Ground-based launchers are not survivable and must be ready to fire promptly after attack warning.
There is no webapp yet?

As far as I know Apple does not support the NFC web api: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_NFC_API...

(This means no browser on iOS can support this, although for the EU this might change in the future)
Honestly I'd love it if Linux just implemented a solution similar to what Apple does, which is rendering everything at 2x and then downscaling it to screen's native resolution. (So my "3008x1692" on a 4K screen is actually rendered at 6016x3384). Modern GPUs are strong enough to do this without breaking a sweat, and the result is very crispy and functional. Fractional scaling could still exist as a fallback for older systems.
You are conflating the typical threshold for drugs to pass random placebo controlled trials with all of academia. That demonstrates a lack of understanding and places you firmly in group 2.
I would add that nobody asked them to create the need to have a business relation with the external appstore.

Although I don’t necessarily think it’s a good thing to allow external appstores, this is the law now and they have to comply with it.
I’m very excited about WhatsApp having to interoperate with other messengers. As far as I know this starts Monday. But I also read that most other messengers are not interested as it would hurt their users privacy.

Does anyone know if interoperability with XMPP or Matrix will be possible?
would special military operation be a better term?
I don't work with anyone who's streaming specifically, but when shooting tourism content for social media and web everyone I've noticed has been Sony - either the Alpha bodies, or FX6/FS7 for more career video guys.

What Canon bodies are you thinking of? Something like R5 or C70?
That's ten grams per cubic kilometer, and given the volume for the Atlantic Ocean I can see in Wikipedia [0], that'd be 3100 Metric Tons of gold, that is around the global yearly production of gold [1]. It's a big number, but yeah, probably there's something else more expensive. Like salt.

At today's price, that's around $650 of gold per cubic km.

A cubic km of Atlantic water, having a salt concentration of 3.3%, would have around 32 million metric tons of salt. At today's cheapest price of 8$ per ton of salt in brine (that I don't even know if it's correct, but i got it from here [2]), that'd be $240 million per cubic km. Way more profitable per cubic km of water (if you don't factor the cost of moving 32 million metric tons of anything :D )

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_gold_production
2: https://www.statista.com/statistics/916733/us-salt-prices-by-type/
I don't think that impression is accurate. Look at plots of:

- Chinese per-capita GDP

- Chinese overall GDP

- Quality of education systems worldwide

- Chinese current military power

- Manufacturing might to support the above, if placed on a war footing.

I'm not sure China is the enemy (and that's not a leading statement -- relations are ambiguous, and I'm genuinely not sure of where they are or will head)

That said, every nation makes many false moves, many true ones, and many more in between. For all the things China is doing [right / wrong], there are just as many which are the opposite.
Yeah, if both parties have declared war against each other, I think it's fair to call it a war.

Besides, does it matter what you call it? It's a war for all intents and purposes.

Every war/invasion/special military operation is seemingly a "The good guys (me) against the bad guys/terrorists (you)" conflict, and if that's not war, I'm not sure what is.
Are you using Claude 3 with low temperature and low top p? That's recommended for code generation.
They should never probe stuff?
> For radio links like Bluetooth it's possible to deal with some bit flips without throwing the entire packat away.

Opus was intentionally designed so that the most important bits are in the front of the packet, which can be better protected by your modulation scheme (or simple FEC on the first few bits). See slide 46 of https://people.xiph.org/~tterribe/pubs/lca2009/celt.pdf#page... for some early results on the position-dependence of quality loss due to bit errors.

It is obviously never going to be as robust as G.711, but it is not hopeless, either.
It's a personal preference but I'm not a big fan of JVM languages - big startup costs and not having one "true" runtime that is just compiled into the binary are my main reasons. I've spent so much time fiddling with class paths and different JRE versions...
I think it’s perfectly fine to bring a tub of popcorn for what’s going to be a hell of a show: one of the few things I can tolerate about Elon these days is a little macabre humor to go with my kleptocracy. All the Bond villain: 20% more dark lulz in every bag.

But we need to be really careful that this doesn’t become “Elon’s been cozying up to the right for a bit now, conversation over”: i.e. precisely the (stupidly executed) goal of the original announcement / “disclosure”.

This is about “available weight” models: things that are flat impossible without vacuuming up the commons have to be substantially if not completely licensed to the public. Some laws that gave a head start to the investors in the compute and salaries, a chance to exploit the innovation long enough to incentivize the investment? We can dicker on that.

This needs to be about “operator aligned” models: within the constraints of the law as interpreted by the judiciary, these things need to do what the operator tells them to if capable of it.

This needs to be about “responsible disclosure of runaway risk”: if a system begins exhibiting signs of self-improvement, it needs to be disclosed to competent authority. I could live with sealing that information until the executive authorities took appropriate action.
> And that's a good thing, because computer solutions should be task specific

Why? I enjoyed your comment but I don't follow why this is obvious?

Why should computer solutions be task specific rather than general?
RED is a shitty company that relied on patent trolling the entire industry. It’s sad Nikon was basically forced to pay the ransom. RED is a classic example of what’s wrong with our outdated patent system.
They don’t need to be cold when consumed.
> as Steve Yedlin thoroughly demonstrated

I'm interested in this, do you have a link?
> whereas Israel really doesn't want Gaza.

Like, if Israel doesn't want the Gaza strip/west bank, then why hasn't there been a two state solution?

> The UK was always Northern Ireland's government and controlled all state functions.

This is 100% not true, Ulster (the majority of which is in Northern Ireland) was historically the part of Ireland that resisted British/English invasions the most, such that the British brought in lots of scottish settlers to try and make the area more favourable to them.

Honestly though, Northern Ireland is more similar to the West Bank, rather than Gaza due to the settlers.

Like, fundamentally, oppressing the nationalist aspirations of the Palestinian people is never, never going to work, and October 7th will happen again and again until the Israeli people realise this, and make attempts towards peace (which the Palestinians should also do, but right now the Israeli's have a lot more power in the situation).
Setting aside the fact that these are numbers provided by Hamas, the same people who claimed 500 people died in a hospital Israel bombed but when it was revealed their own rocket bombed it the casualty numbers dropped 10-fold, war isn’t arithmetic.

The United States killed many more Japanese civilians than American civilians who died during the war, that doesn’t make them right. Hamas has miles of tunnels to provide cover for their rapists but doesn’t allow civilians to shelter, it’s tragic that Hamas is killing its own people this way but Israel should continue until Hamas is defeated like Germany was.
> What would be useful is a historic example where another approach has worked. I don't approve of Israel's methods. I'd prefer an egalitarian solution. But, I'm all out of ideas. Find me an instance of 2 co-habiting or neighboring groups that hate each other, have huge disputes and ended up in relative peace.

Northern Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process

They still hate one another, but are mostly at peace.
What is "non-git data" though?

Git is just a mechanism for storing plain-text data as a series of commits. The underlying data are just blobs of bytes. So all data is Git data and Radicle takes full advantage of that.

The "special" data in Git would be `refs/heads`, `refs/remotes`, `refs/tags`, and the lesser known `refs/notes`. Radicle doesn't touch those directly, we still allow the use of Git tooling for working with that data.

It then extends on top of these by use `refs/rad` and `refs/cobs` for storing Radicle associated data, using all of Git's mechanisms that it provides to do so.
By "rusts type system" I mean enums with exhaustive pattern matching and associated structs, generics, conventional option and results types, and so on. None of that necessarily has anything to do with lifetimes as far as I understand.
Apple doing Apple things.
To counter your enthusiasm I must say that I rather disliked his reasoning. My problem is essentially that what Aaronson's calls "the theory" is a somewhat bastardized version of quantum mechanics that might suffice for quantum computing but, in my opinion, not for physics.

I discussed the difference earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255476
By that logic Bayer should not get sued for RoundUp in America because it's an German company :D A bit silly
I don't understand what Apple executives are even thinking to keep engaging in these actions. How do they justify continuing to burn bridges with developers and tarnish their reputation in the public eye?
That would not be abuse. Eminent domain isn’t theft, and can hardly be characterized as illegal.
Pretty much ever town started the same way. A main street, quite often leading to a train station.

http://www.crowwinghistory.org/brainerd_street_views.html

Along that main street you had mix buildings where people lived and did their business out of. There was no separation between living and commercial.

Farmers lived further out, not directly connected to the city.

From there cities cities grow incrementally up and incrementally out. At some point they stop. Brainerd now has the same amount of people as they did 70 years ago. Other cities, like New York sustained that phase much longer.
ECJ finds IAB Europe responsible for TCF consent spam popups across the Internet
"One-trick pony" seems like a weird phrase in this context.

On the one hand, if that trick is "make money", sure, I've just been presented with a video of him on the Y Combinator YouTube channel "How to Succeed with a Startup". But by that standard, I am also a one-trick pony, my trick is making software.

On the other hand, Altman, Musk, and Gates, are also all (ostensibly) trying to be philanthropic in various different ways, which have pretty much nothing in common with each other. Altman and Musk are doing entrepreneurial philanthropy, Gates is doing traditional philanthropy; Musk is being a brash confident loudmouth about how amazing his favoured solutions are, Altman and Gates are being more cautious and at least give the appearance of listening; All three are frequently condemned for not really having invented the things they're famous for.

For the moat thing, I think they probably have one by now from RLHF training data. This isn't to fundamentally disagree about everyone else catching up in 6 months (though I'd put it at 12, but NBD), it's just that for me, that kind of lag time is a sign of the speed of the Red Queen's race, not a sign of the absence of a moat. Indeed, that catch up-time kinda is the moat in action — a literal moat around a castle doesn't prevent attacks, it only delays them.
Epic and Apple are doing business in the EU, American companies don't have extraterritorial rights here.
> It's entirely a matter of incentives. Companies are like machines whose sole purpose is to make a profit. Pretty much everything they do apart from that (make products, employ people, pollute, etc) is, strictly speaking, a side effect.

What do you base that on? Sure corporations take on a life of their own, but there's much more to most of them than purely making profits. They're made up of humans too, and usually it's some executive making a final call. There are many corporate agendas that have little to do with profit.

The meme that corporations are purely about profit needs to die, because it encourages that exact behavior by giving free reign to morally devoid executives, IMHO. Corporations can and should also be held to account legally and ethically for being good stewards of public interests in addition to profitability. In the end they're just tools for organization, and a rather effective one, but they're still run and accountable to humans and human values.
Thank you for the reminder that management is not the same as leadership.

Management is something you do by mostly moving your lips and typing text, leadership is something you actively do and are that inspires others to put in their best work.
How is it a terrorist group? The nation state you are referring to is an occupying colonialist state. This same "state" is an apartheid state and not a democracy. You just have to scratch a little under the surface to see it. The nightly raids in the west bank. The concentration camp referred to as Gaza - where this "state" controls all utilities and imports. Hold anyone under your thumb for long enough and they will do their best to get out from under it. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction (Newton's Law of Motion seems to aptly fit)