skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Should Gumroad hire a lobbyist?” he asked in an email to TechCrunch.

Yes? I'm a little confused as to why platforms that feature adult material wouldn't be lobbying around payment processing requirements and regulations. I don't know much about the porn industry, but are there seriously not lobbyists in that industry?

OnlyFans got (effectively) banned from multiple states. They absolutely have a legal team and a PR team that's focused on the government. How would any platform that features adult content not be looking at OnlyFans and thinking, "maybe we should start prepping for legal/regulatory battles."?

I mean, heck, how are they not "lobbying" payment processors? TikTok basically unleashed its entire userbase on the government over a potential ban. When a payment processor starts messing with the content you can allow on a storefront, is there a reason why Gumroad isn't making contact information available for those payment processors and encouraging users to write to them? I'm sure it wouldn't help Stripe's relationship with Gumroad be any more chummy, but like... this is a business relationship, not a friendship. I don't know, these platforms act like they just got an edict from God rather than that they are being pressured by a business partner to make a business decision that their userbase dislikes. Am I out-of-line on this? I feel like when business agreements get restricted and that affects customers, it's relatively common for businesses to use that discontent as leverage in negotiations and not just say, "well, hands are tied, sorry everybody." When Sony restricted Spiderman, Disney was not shy about encouraging people to contact Sony.

I guess I assume there are complications with business relationships with payment processors that makes that harder? I don't know if there are any payment processors that do work with adult content, maybe Gumroad just knows that it doesn't have any bargaining chips to work with?

But I kind of get whiplash between looking at how companies respond to things like iOS restrictions vs how they respond to payment processing restrictions. I would have assumed that these types of businesses were already lobbying, everybody else seems to be. Maybe Gumroad is too small to have those kinds of legal resources? Is Patreon working with lobbyists? Is Kickstarter?
This might be a difference of context. In Japan you're expected to be sharing the road in a very litteral sense, like moving to the side to let a car turn at a corner, or getting off of the bike to have a pedestrian pass because it's just that narrow.

There's little to no traffic infra in residential blocks, and you're expected to be careful and watch your way.

Also bikes can easily be 30kg heavy and motor assisted, as you're using it for groceries or moving two kids to) from school everyday.

Combine thanig an aging population (small kids freely roaming the neighborhood can also be an issue, but let's assume we're at night, not drunk at lunchtime)

Hitting someone at a corner with a bike can be fatal (and actually is, at some non negligeable rate), and hitting a car won't be a small bump.

PS:
> so punishment should reflect that.

DUI in Japan is one of the highest infraction. There's a point system, and you're (temporarily) barred from using your car at 6 points. Straight DUI with no casualties, no accident, is 25 points.

The blue ticket you just have to pay that is discussed for bikes is peanuts.
A couple of years ago I went into one in Stockholm for only that reason. Only to find out that it required coins I did not have.
That patent is only for MSB XOR though and seems to be only for hardware. That's not the only way to do it if someone wanted to achieve the result of better visibility.
I didn't say bank consolidation is always good. I gave a specific example about banks from 1830ish to 1930ish, and the consolidation during the Great Depression. I didn't make that clear.
Non-paywalled version here...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/amazon-violated-wo...
I don't believe Zig wants to have "package manager" at all.

It has the ability to pull in a package/module. However, I believe that having a "package manager" is explicitly an anti-goal.

I'm in agreement. It's become pretty clear that having any form of "package repository" without also allocating the necessary manpower to curate that repository causes disasters.
wonder if there are some example contribution from Google to demonstrate the statement.
Yes and no. If you take shareholder money, you are required to operate in the interests of the shareholders. However, what exactly that means can vary. For example, Amazon is famously "customer obsessed" — not shareholder obsessed — with the idea that focusing on creating customer value creates a better business (which in turn benefits the shareholder).

Meanwhile Costco views employee culture as not only the most important thing, but "the only thing" [1] that creates a strong business, and has a strong track record of growing employees internally: the current CEO started out as a forklift operator at the company, and the previous CEO started as a warehouse manager. This culture of strong employee growth and retention, in Costco's theory, creates a better business and is thus justifiable (and desirable) for shareholders as well.

1: https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/in-a-world-dominated-by-am...
Agreed. I wasn’t trying to say Apple gets every bit of UX perfect (or even acceptable) in all products.

But they do have a history of disrupting markets by leveraging superior UX. Mainstreaming the GUI, the click wheel, the all-glass multitouch phone, etc, etc.
True. Let me be more precise: the legal system forces (or is meant to force) shortsighted people to deal with long-term consequences. The law is constantly revised to preempt future consequences, but it is not perfect. (Ex post facto laws are used to punish people who have committed actions that were legal at the time. Loopholes will always exist because language is always somewhat imprecise.)

Now, you might say that AGI will be able to perfectly predict the future of all actions and make the legal system redundant. Ignoring the absurd amount of possibilities, I struggle to believe it's possible because an AGI has no sense of pain to give actions weight; it just has to follow human precedent. Seeming good enough, it could steer humanity into a dead end unknowingly. Also, it might decide that a few eggs have to be broken to make a utopian omelette.
This is called speculation, and it differs markedly from investing.
There is a huge difference between "document history is stored locally" and "works offline".

The local-first movement might sometimes talk about privacy and offline availability in the same breath, but those are very different concerns and if someones says "data is stored locally" then I assume they should check both the privacy and offline boxes but with a huge "I might loose all my data" caveat. If it still uploads my data to some cloud then I would not describe it as "document history is stored locally".
Sure, I've done something similar to that in a few hours.

The free TTS options aren't great still, and "just the abstract" is not the problem. I did full articles, and the hard...er (it was a few hours) part was extracting out the relevant sections of full papers without the 'junk' info (page numbers, superscript citations, 7 pages of authors in any cern paper, etc.

So you get something, but it's often not good.
I'm talking about the part of the connection outgoing from the VPN

your understanding is correct—that the 'segment' between VPN server and final destination/employer's public-facing infrastucture is no longer traversing a VPN tunnel and therefore could not be fingerprinted as VPN traffic.

if using a public VPN service provider, it would be identified, however (quite easily and at very low technical cost mind you), based on source address, as public VPN service provider netblocks are well-documented.

see, for example:
https://github.com/X4BNet/lists_vpn
(first search engine result for me querying "vpn ip list")
It's a payment system that allows adult content.
Tough question. I think of the night Prince Siddhartha got drunk with some of his friends after too much arrack and they tipped over some sleeping cows. Vishnu smiled at their antics but Kamadhenu punished them with nasty hangovers. The story appears in the Sutta Pitaka, I don’t have it handy at the moment.
> I was skeptical about last year's glowing articles about Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications. Like so many chronically overweight people, I'd seen it all and then some: stimulants, supplements, low-carb, low-fat, intermittent fasting, even laxatives. But these medications are nothing like what I expected. They're not really "weight-loss drugs" at all. They're something far more powerful and surreal: injectable willpower.

This is a really powerful analogy for what GLP1s may be able to effectively do for brains, though it might be reaching a bit.

One thing that this makes me wonder about is the effect of GLP1s on disorders like ADHD[0]

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7848227/
Sorry hairballs are on exclusive license to Oracle. Can you make do with hair shirts?
don't even get me started on the fact that the vast majority of this Internet activity is ultimately bots, bored trolls, and paid schills

This is the sole reason I dont bother arguing on the internet. If I feel I must say something, I say it and move on (except on HN ofc :) ).
Actually sounds more like LLM output to me. (The first sentence, in particular, and some stylistic choices in the following ones.)
I don’t imagine title insurance pays out even 1% of fees taken in. Such a racket
Meta makes social media apps. Where as writing operating systems is Apple's core competency. Both companies are playing to their strengths.
> Views and noise pollution are valued higher than cheaper electricity.

Nothing like walking on the beach to relax and seeing wind farms or oil rigs off the coast.
Without taking sides here, I'm not sure this reply meets hn argumentation reqs.
While most of this is valid (how dare a space opera expect me to suspend disbelief!), I think there is a basis for such a compactor to exist in the first place.

It stands to reason that a smaller vessel like a Star Destroyer, it is not logistically challenging to move the trash to an airlock for ejection.

On something so enormous as the Death Star, however, it might be so difficult to move the trash around that it's significantly more efficient to compact it before transport to the surface.
>"it can be only a single specific word" - that is incorrect as a human can change the process to generate the next word, up to and including, using a random process to create or select the next word (i.e., any word would be fine).

That's also exactly what an LLM does.

It's still only a single specific word if (as I wrote above) you take the seed into account too (i.e use the same input, including same random seed value).

If you mean to answer "yes, but LLMs use a random number generator, whereas humans can actually pick a word at random" I'd answer that this is highly contested. Where would the source for such randomness be in the universe (exept if you beg the question, and attribute it to an "soul" that is outside the universe)?
In Docker, the dark corners have dust. In Nix, the dark corners have a grue.
I've always thought the "well balanced and looks better" was the simplest and most likely of the theories out there on why the IIII is used. Dials that use IV just look funny to me, but perhaps that's simply because they're rare.
It is very easy to overload package versions locally for your needs, and it's quite easy to push that upstream to Guix so that others may benefit as well :)
As someone in the US who has lived in small/er towns for over half my life and now lives in a major metro area, the benefits of denser urban areas greatly outweigh smaller towns at this stage in my life. Outside of the western states, much of the US is private land, so outdoor recreational opportunities are limited even in rural areas. In my personal experience quality local entertainment and dining has not increased in small towns, if anything its gone down as more people source entertainment online and big corporate chain restaurants take over real estate. In my experience denser urban areas have more to offer in terms of diversity of art, culture, and thought. Economies of scale make it possible to sustain niche endeavors. Access to international airports is also a major boon.
I don't like Ubuntu or Debian as a base image for docker, but it's typically my go-to if I need glibc stuff or browser emulation.

Is there a better alternative like Alpine but with glibc that isn't Debian?
what you're describing is arithmetic coding, correct?
How is it better than Emacs?
I get your point but this sort of thing is why we have this guideline in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
>There is nothing I want more then to be able to talk to my deceased friend again

The AI is not going to achieve that, only a fake version of it.
The specific article is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_.... I can understand the "multiple issues" section here, this seems super-technical in a certain way in comparison to what I usually see on Wikipedia (although wk does get very technical on very specific isolated things in e.g. math, usually non-theory tech pages are a summary), but I still found it motivating to dig into Linux. I wouldn't be surprised if it was removed.

I love wikipedia and I read to procrastinate by reading the articles for everything I am interested in so I have found quite a lot of factually incorrect information or statements of fact which are really philosophical opinions. However usually these problems coexist with a certain change in writing style (loss of formatting, grammatical errors, random capitalizations, change of tone, etc.). I find I haven't found many problems with content written in the usual "wikipedia" style, so I assume the hardcore wk editors who enforce this style care a lot about factual accuracy. However I don't read enough outside of wikipedia so I wouldn't know if everything is correct...

(actually now that I think about, maybe I am more likely to agree with things in the wikipedia style. But I think the style errors and factual errors are at least a bit correlated.)
It has one now, but I haven't played around enough to call it "good" or "bad". It feels more like a hack than something like cargo/pip/nuget/npm/etc, but it's a lot better than the normal c/cpp experience.

build.zig.zon discussion: https://zig.news/edyu/zig-package-manager-wtf-is-zon-2-0110-...

Example howto: https://ziggit.dev/t/how-to-package-a-zig-source-module-and-...

Actual docs: https://ziglang.org/download/0.11.0/release-notes.html#Packa...
Dr Aubrey de Grey's thoughts on Cryonics and Longevity being Equally important [video]
If you have millions of customers and billions of dollars at stake, you better ensure that your CEO knows how to spell meticulous.

This person had so many red flags you could have called him Stalin. A bumpkin with missing teeth and a meth habit. I was applying as a mechanic in 2008. I didn't take the job because I didn't want to get f**ed around. So how about you give me a break? :wink:
This is why a disgruntled waste/exhaust port engineer leaked its blueprints to the rebels.
I love walking on the beach, and I can’t imagine seeing a tiny structure miles off in the distance somehow detracting from the experience.
This is like, a really stupid thing to nitpick lol
> I suppose I should have clarified that always defecting is optimal if you're optimizing purely selfishly for material goods.

First I disagree that "success" is to be considered only in terms of accumulating material goods. It's also not JUST about feeling fulfilled and loved.

Second, I'm not denying that people are sometimes involved in "games" where always defect is indeed optimal. My objection is to the claim that always defect is universally optimal, even if you narrow "success" down to just maximizing wealth.

And, as I stated above, even prisoner's dilemma games tend to have tit-for-tat as the dominant strategy, since most games are repeated an unknown number of times.

That being said, there is an important element of competitiveness in capitalism. When you negotiate your salary (or that of your employees), you and the counterparty have conflicting interests. If you're naîve when playing the capitalism "game", you're likely to be taken advantage of.

I don't consider this a "defect" situation though, and definitely not a prisoner's dilemma "game". Capitalism tends to be a positive-sum game. This positive sum comes from a side effect of a free market, namely that supply and demand (including for labor) acts as a kind of computation algorithm that generally leads to more efficient than any organization is able plan using a top-down approach.

Imposing always-cooperate into capitalism (such as through labor union negotiated wages) may actually REDUCE this positive sum.

And if there is a game where the sum increases if at least one side defects, then it's not a prisoner's dilemma game at all.

> If you look at an always-defect player, they might be cooperative in 9/10 or 99/100 situations because only 1/10 or 1/100 were prisoner's dilemmas where they could benefit by defecting.

If 1/100 "games" are single-play prisoner's dilemma games, then we shouldn't be surprised if many chose to defect in those specific games. That actually doesn't bother me. Those people who defect in those games, but are cooperative 99% of the time are still probably behaving better than what I generally expect from people.

If you expect people to NEVER defect, then you may want to adjust your expectations. Basically such an expectation is the very essence of being naîve, and will act as a magnet on people who regularly take advantage of other people.
> That's terrible. I want the Z.C.A. to be by-default, not "configure the heck out of the language to make it so".

Don't you just set target? Is there even a default for target?
Nicely symmetrical around the 5 and the 10. Which makes me want to produce this cursed set of roman numerals.

IIIIV IIIV IIV IV V VI VII VIII VIIII
Nope. The shareholder obsession can be traced back directly to the 70s/80s. It’s a memetic hiccup. A failed experiment. Immediately preceding that was managerial capitalism which explicitly included employees and local communities in their considerations.

Prior to that, most businesses were owned and operated by the same people. Talk to any founder — especially familial legacy businesses - and you know they don’t run it purely to maximize “shareholder” value. Partly because it’s exceptionally hard to do without destroying the real company — the thing behind the spreadsheets.
I don't think they are taught widely, but that's because their use is fairly niche and they are easy to learn in any case. There are lots of fields where you not get by easily without knowing them or at least figuring them out for yourself. Historians and lawyers come to mind, for example.
>• Never needing to put on or take off reading glasses to see far, or within inches.

Can you expand on this? Does it basically have built in vision correction? This actually sounds like a 'killer' feature if you don't need to mess with glasses.
If anyone wants to create an additional capability for modelling all the stuff with wires (power, comms, security etc) I can give you an exact spec how to do this, there is a little more to the detils than first apparent.

I don't really have the current ability, or time, to do it myself but for the right person a good spec could really head them off in the right direction.

How would I know? I just spent near two decades working with an in house tool developed for electrical/instrument modelling alone. I have seen some things that do work, some that don't and a bunch of details, over this time period as they developed and refined, and have a pretty good idea what would work.

Msg me if anyone is interested.
Blaise Taylor arrested on first-degree murder charges
> blockchain could be seen as a permissionless transparency log

This is not the case. The essence of the transparency logs are thin clients which can do monitoring of the append only nature of the ledger. This allows accountability to be distributed more widelly wheras in blockchain one would need to retrieve the full ledger to do such testing.

On the other hand the responsability of adding records to the ledger in transparency log lies to a single authorithy whereas in permissionless blockchain it lies to individuals who solve the puzzle. However in practice there is centralisation of the computation power making the record inclusion also centralised.

The censorship resistance is somewhat a wicked problem. With transparency logs solve the by counter logging. In cases authorithy does not accepts a record it can be delivered to a counter authorithy. The counter authorithy also keeps records of main authorithy and thus users can eventually switch to it. This is though a manual process, but perhaps one can figure out a protocol to do such thing automatically.
> It "detects" outages by counting hits for the service on its own page. If lots of people are checking, it just assumes that it's down.

That’s not how DownDetector works.
That's one reason for me not going there, it's boring food. But obviously enough people like boring.

Internationally there is quite some variation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_availability_o...
Now there's word from Boeing that seat switch can be inadvertantly tripped by touching the cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRF1YTVJ1Q4
That's not a problem, it's a feature, and the article states that.

Sometimes it may feel like you're blocked or stuck and can't progress as quickly, but the benefit of having every single decision in written form and most of the complexity thoroughly documented greatly outweighs that.

I've been working as the sole person in my timezone (GMT-3) for sometime while my whole team is on CET. That was only made possible because everytime I get stuck, I'll search the company knowledge base and/or Slack and have consistently been able to find the information I needed to progress. This benefits my use case, but also saves invaluable time during incidents, avoids redundancy, duplication, contributes to continuous improvement and shields the product against knowledge turnover.

That's a relatively low price to pay for waiting a day for a code review every now and then.
Seems ironic that the last generation of windmills is an iconic image of the country.
But a rates a rate?
Also previous attempts[0] have been bogged down in endless red tape by groups against the creation of such projects.

[0] see for example the Cape Wind project: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind
The class was led by Norfolk County's pension fund but seems to include a much wider range of investors:

> The claimants in this case were all investors who had bought shares between November 2018 and January 2019.

And the EU fines in the Spotify related case were just a bit under 1.8 billion euros / $2 billion, so still significantly larger but indeed an interesting comparison point.
> can you really not see Bankman-Fried leaving prison in his forties and doing anything but running out to raise new capital?

Maybe. How about we try though and monitor his activity from time to time. There are other cases where person's ability to work with something is restricted for a limited time.

Otherwise, you can apply "can you not see X leaving prison and doing what they were jailed for" to everyone forever. Over a decade in jail is a long time to change your views. There's that whole thing about rehabilitation as well as punishment in the idea of prisons.