skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's interesting just how far tech is up its own ass about the majority use case equalling the only use case that people care about.

> It has been proven multiple times since Compuserve, AOL and MSN, that users don't want decentralised systems.

Majority of users, sure. But they're dumb, and lazy, so fuck them.
How easy are these integrations to setup? I use straight up Nextcloud sync and while it works most of the time sometimes it's a little finnicky (when I don't have cell service or something like that)
> How is this a threat to their business

How is it not? By having a good emulator, one can easily play Switch games without paying. I'm aware emulator devs don't provide game ROMs and usually have certain mechanisms to ensure you have a "legal copy", but these are all very trivial to bypass historically.

(I'm also aware there are claims that piracy does not hurt revenue of copyright holder. I can get behind some points in these claims, but not entirely.)
nginx/apache work well as secure reverse-proxies, load-balancers/etc. to the application servers.

Complicating them with hooks for a bunch of random APIs is asking for trouble. Let the application servers sit behind them so they don't have to worry about those issues, and nginx/apache don't have to worry about application server issues
Yes, sure, but it’s hard to imagine that they’ll suddenly turn into willing buyers when they can’t pirate.
except there is absolutely zero anything on permanent establishment rules. The Greek tax authorities could write one memo saying “hiring a director in Greece does not trigger permanent establishment” and that digital nomad visa program would really pop off.

alas…nothing
I bought one for $3 or so on AliExpress and to my ears it sounds fine, some audio enthusiasts might hear a difference to a $30 version though
Where are Compuserve, AOL, and MSN now?
Almost every experience with OKR’s has been an unmitigated dumpster fire.

Leadership sets some goal, usually something insane and physically unachievable. Some inane key result -usually no closer to reality- gets set. Management and PM’s spend inordinate amounts of time and effort faffing over the metrics and relentlessly asking “why hasn’t the number gone up by 2% today????????” No attempt is made at doing any actual work, or god forbid, actually contributing.

End of quarter comes and lots of numbers and reasons are thrown around. Leadership either celebrates nothing because “if you hit it, we weren’t trying hard enough” or berates you for not hitting the objective. Another, equally improbable goal is set for the next round. Beatings continue until morale improves.
This is not an issue about "old hardware" or "old games", it's about an emulator for a currently selling system. I don't agree with what Nintendo is doing, but I understand why they're so angry.
Well, the GP comment already pointed out they do use it for Photos search. Generally if someone is paying for the disk space to store your data, that’s with some use in mind, at the very least serving it back.

Now, if you worry about some use you wouldn’t like… These are declared in open, if possibly too large, text in all the privacy policies. As a Googler I can tell you the internal bureaucracy for upholding these is dead serious. My product is used only by Google employees in their work duties, yet it took a couple months for us to get access to stats of our own UI. Something like an ads subsystem wanting to read a photos data field is likely to involve quarters of disputes with multiple lawyers.
Linux - IBM, Intel, et al

Kubernetes - Gooogle, Microsoft, Amazon,...

Python - Facebook, Google, Microsoft,...

clang - Google, Apple, Intel, IBM,...
Thank you for taking the time to explain.

I get how these connections are meant to break down, though not to the detail you provided. It could be like you say, though I don't why the degradation wouldn't be concurrent - ie I don't get why half times are a good way to model plastic degradation, when all of the plastic is exposed to 'scissor hits' all of the times. Ie, once the scissor hits start to impact the bag, I would think the bag would soon fully disintegrate.

Assuming it is like you say, if a plastic bag is brittle, going to dust after just 10 years after being in the ground, (I'm using supermarket bag design as a means to figure out the age of the bag,) that is far from 50 years to break down half the connections. This is too say the metric to measure degradation seems wrong to me... Or perhaps the metric is the case in artificial, sterile conditions, which the ground is not.
UK is notoriously prohibitive of things that could be used in crimes; I mean, we're talking about a country where a screwdriver is potentially an "offensive weapon" if carried without a "legitimate purpose".

However, that is a fairly extreme case, and most countries don't have such laws on the books (or if they do, what's illegal is "possession with intent").
Try Sidebery extension.
Immich is awesome for this and many other things.
Automatic facial recognition feature in immich is also great.
You are using the evolutionist's definition of "explain", which is not applicable to the creationist's interpretation of reality. Under the evolutionists view, there is no actor with the ability to alter universal state besides those physical laws which we currently observe. Thus, any change in universal state that has ever occurred would naturally be able to be "explained" by providing a detailed step-by-step rundown of how those laws interacted with universal state S until it reached universal state S'. Under creationism, this definition is nonsense: any change in state can occur at any time based on the whims of the unknown actor, no further rationale is necessary or indeed possible.

Accordingly, if we take a definition of "explain" which does not assume a particular interpretation of the fundamental axiom (as we should, when that axiom is the very thing under debate), my statement is perfectly valid: That actor which we cannot fathom made it so. Thus, it is.
How is it not a threat to their business? People don't use these emulators to play 20 year old abandonware, but to play Switch games even before they've been officially released through leaks.

I've sailed the sea a lot myself, but I don't believe the meme "pirates wouldn't have bought it anyways". It's not a 1:1 loss, but it's not zero either.

And for me, piracy used to be an accessibility issue. Living in the mountains I could wait for a week to get something by mail, or click download illegally and play immediately. With today's online stores that's no longer an excuse.
They don't even observe DMCA, and they still did this?
India still needs to reign in its human rights abuses a LOT before being taken seriously. I certainly can't invest there in good concience.
> my 75m2 flat

Wouldn't we all love to have such a big flat.

I was talking to a friend living in London, and it would indeed seem that flats tend to be bigger over there. We do have many 100+ m2 flats, don't get me wrong, it's just that most locals can't afford those and live in shoeboxes instead.

There's also the fact that the layout doesn't always lend itself to storing a bike, most flats being rather old. Even though I would technically have the surface area to store a bike, it'd have to be in an awkward place to avoid blocking the passages.

Some newer apartment buildings do have areas for storing bikes more or less securely. But I doubt that's the case for most people.

Instead, what I'm hopeful for, is that the local bike-sharing scheme will improve. And indeed, I've read a few weeks ago that they were rolling out some improved model, which they expect to be more robust.
> From my point of view, the problem is more that Apple set a precedent of these restrictions due to them being the first mover, and few mainstream phone companies have tried to break out of this idea

It's even worse than that: though I stand by what I said, you're correct, people are gradually realising that the difference between their smartphone and laptop/desktop (if any), is one of degree, not kind. But we don't see the push back we would have seen if they had realised right away. Instead, as you rightly point out, companies are building on Apple's precedent to try and expand their model to our good old laptops and desktops.

And it looks like they're succeeding. It would seem one has to pay Apple to even get the right to distribute a regular MacOS program regular users can actually execute (no Apple developer plan, no code signing). And newer versions of Windows are displaying increasingly scary warnings for programs telling you they "protected" your computer, which are bad enough that we get tutorials about how to get past them.
The same way we're agreeing that Spotify never took in-app payments and decided to withdraw it's payment processing from IOS for reasons unrelated to Apple, yes.
My Chromecast shows me recommendations for streaming services I have no subscription to and that are not installed on the Chromecast. Including Youtube and Disney+.

There is an option to disable those recommendations, but whichever way the switch is set it does not work. AND there is no (non-working) off switch for Youtube.
I've been playing with this for 30 minutes, and I'm still smiling my head off. It's just so much fun. I have used Pico-8 a bunch in the past (so it was easy to jump into making stuff). Pico-8 is one of four bits of software that I put it in my basket of "software that sparks joy" along with Aesprite, Blender, and Propellorhead's Rebirth.

Pico-8 had so much care put into its goals and intentional limitations: and so far Picotron seems to have that same level of love and thought. It's delightful, and I don't want to stop making things with it.

I've used many of the clones of pico-8 and they all feel like they miss the point. They "improve" on the limitations, but are just... not satisfying. Funnily enough, I've tried three times to make my own JavaScript version of what Picotron is ("what if I made a more feature-rich version of Pico-8 to use for prototyping in game jams?") and each time abandoned it because it felt like the Pico-8 clones: adequate, functional, but not inspirational.

I don't know who makes Pico-8 and Picotron, but hats off to you amazing person/people for making such likable software!
The autoregressive transformer architecture has a constant cost per token, no matter how hard the task is. You can ask the most complicated reasoning question, and it takes the same amount of computation to generate the next token compared to the simplest yes / no question. This is due to architectural constraints. Letting the LLM generate "scratch" data to compute (attend to relevant information) is a way of circumventing the constant cost limitation. The harder the task, the more "scratch" you need so more relevant context is available for future tokens.
AWS has no problem with running and contributing to AGPL projects. This entire wave of taking OSS closed started with Mongo switching away from AGPL for the same reasons that Redis is doing it today.

All of these companies trying to sell OSS are unhappy that AWS is competing with them on maintenance. AWS is more or less fully living up to the ideals of OSS - they share the code, they contribute to the core, they share processes and so on (to a greater or lesser extent). That's why the FSF or SFC have no problems with AWS.

However, these companies don't want to collaborate with AWS on building Redis or Mongo or whatever. They want AWS to be their customer, or at least to stop being their competitor. And FOSS has never been about preventing others from becoming your competitors.
To play the devil's advocate:

On the other one can argue that people pirating does not improve their economics either so why risk it ?
I think they are different. They’re simply targets for your business, the way it’s been done way before OKRs we’re a thing (e.g. target revenue for the year is $20M, churn should be brought to 5%). OKRs have a methodology and format attached to them and tend to trickle down multiple level in the organization.
It's explained in FAQ section.

Reselling redis-as-a-service or not is clear cut to me.

I'm not so much interested in philosophical explorations of theoretical "what if I resell redis but without this and that command?" cases either.
Show HN: Using LLMs to Research Reddit to Help Decide What to Buy
Shopping online can be pretty tedious if you care about the quality of what you are buying. The time it takes can scale pretty proportionally to some combination of the value, relative importance, and complexity of the purchase.

I think LLMs can help expedite and personalize the online shopping experience to a degree marketplaces just don't currently provide.

I don't think anybody really wants to read the product descriptions of a bunch of products, read reviews, do pairwise product comparisons, and find the best deals across different websites? Or am I wrong?

That's why I think this shopping assistant idea is pretty cool. Would appreciate any feedback on it. ty
SemanticDiff is probably the closest for now, although I don't think it uses tree-sitter.

https://semanticdiff.com/

Found via https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/issues/194.
From my experience, a lot people actually do.

And in case of game consoles, that also means they have to buy the hardware even if they only want to play one game. This is very significant potential income for Nintendo.

All my friends that are into games have a PS4/5 just to play exclusives, even if they play games on PC 99% of the time. And non-trivial number of them play XB3 in emulators so they don't need to buy a Switch just for that. If there is no emulators, they probably would.
for once i almost agree with this.

the central point is, roughly, the psuedo-paradox that we simultaneously say that your house is "your first and best investment" (implying it should appreciate faster than inflation) and "houses should be affordable, nor more than ~30% of your income" (which implies prices should stay ~flat - not a great investment)

and it is true. but i can think of two reasons that it's not as paradoxical (magical) as reported:

1. home ownership is subsidized unlike other investments. at least 15% capital gains is waived. over 10-20 years, it's worth the same as about 1% better rate of return (of some other hypothetical investment) which doesn't sound like much but is a bit difference when compounded. plus you can "live in it" in the meantime, which is a unique investment vehicle. this is worth a percent or so as well. when taking the tax and lack-of-needing-to-rent-something advantages into account, even if homes stay entirely flat to inflation, it's still a couple percent more beneficial to own a home vs. other investment options.

2. one expects that their earnings rise over their career, even relative to inflation. 30% of your income will then rise over time. "affordable" by this measure gets relatively easier over time, even wrt. inflation.

i think my conclusion is that a healthy housing market could be beneficial for building wealth and be a good investment while simultaneously staying "affordable" relative to wages. a healthy housing market should then stay close to or nor more than very slightly above real wage inflation to do this. but it's not impossible, nor unprecedented. this is just, currently, an overpriced, crappy market bubble.
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OKRs are by definition focused on outcomes, not inputs.
The cities are clean and free of pollution too.
I can't speak for Gnutella, but BitTorrent remains as popular as ever. Every non-technical acquaintance of mine is at least familiar with it, except for those over 70 years old. Most keep on using it. Flash-in-the-pan streaming platforms of the day come and go, this thing has endured and will outlive anything centralized.
Use magic on snakes. They can dodge.
Look at it from an algorithmic perspective. In computer science many algorithms take a non-constant number of steps to execute. However, in transformers models, there are a limited number of decoder blocks, and a limited number of FFN layers in each block. This presents a theoretical upper bound on the complexity of the algorithms a decoder network can solve in a single token generation pass.

This explains why GPT4 cannot accurately perform large number multiplication and decimal exponentiation. [0]

This example can extend to general natural language generation. While some answers can be immediately retrieved or generated by a "cache" / algorithm which exists in latent space, some tokens have better quality when their latent-space algorithm is executed in multiple steps.

[0] https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/817e52b815560f95171d8...
You might want to display the timezone below the x axis.
Simple Programming Languages
This is the same company which puts ads all over the OS, can't stop trying to upsell people into using onedrive, forcefully signs you into onedrive, syncs your local files into their cloud without consent, tries really hard to not let you sign in with a local account and most likely does other shady things.

Their hardware is more or less garbage. My Surface had a swollen battery which killed the device. It had other issues before the battery killed it.

Why would people give money to Microsoft for such bad hardware? They treat their customers like garbage.
I've been keeping an eye on Greece as they started to introduce benefits for foreign capital / workers similar to what Portugal did. I've a feeling this is why Greece is seen to be doing so well. If it ends up being like Portugal, it will be foreign investors and a select few locals that benefit the most.
I am not sure if you meant to be unkind, but people interact and socialise in different ways, and each has to find a way which they find appropriate. I think "other problems" suggests there is a norm (perhaps yours) which everyone should aspire to.
I like to start up Dosbox-X or one of the virtual Amiga environments that comes bundled with Amiga forever. Definitely cozy.

More often I use some old application, like the nowadays BSD-licensed ex-Autodesk Animator. It is fun to figure it out and more fun than modern applications in many ways. I even bought an old used book about it and read cover to cover. Limited compared to modern graphics software, but "cozy" is a great way to describe the experience.

https://github.com/AnimatorPro/Animator-Pro
No, strangely enough US law is extraterritorial .

https://www.ibanet.org/article/CF85E59E-6564-4AA3-9408-3F47C...
PC game publishers don't seem to mind that their games are playable on PC.

Yes, PC games usually have DRM, but Denuvo offers their services for the Switch platform too. In fact, they specifically claim that they can resist emulation of protected titles: https://irdeto.com/denuvo/nintendo-switch-emulator-protectio...

And yet, no commercial games have been released with this protection yet, probably because it isn't worth it for their bottom line.
There was an interesting couple of episodes from the podcast Search Engine, asking the question “Why do dealers put fentanyl in everything?” [1] & [2]

The grim conclusion was that dead clients are a calling card for dealers. People addicted to drugs don’t think “oh crap, this guy might kill me”, they think “oh wow, that must’ve been a hell of a high”.

[1]: https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/why-are-drug-dealers-putting-f...

[2]: https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/why-are-drug-dealers-putting-f...
There isn't, but the way anti-trust works it more or less says "You need to do X by Y date". That X usually nudges a path or least resistance towards iplementing and servicing a new feature (or undoing chokeholds on old features), but as we see with the DMA Apple can play with loopholes for months before getting with the program.

To your example (and excuse my lack of sound legalese), they wouldn't say "Apple must implement RCS", they would say "Apple must allow for an cross-compatible solution" or "Apple must document XYZ features keeping competitors from implementing a proper iMessage alternative".
My understanding is that it has a hardware component (needed to do that kind of continuous sensor analysis without killing battery life), which might explain it.
We changed the URL from https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/self-test-check-... ("Do this first – Self-test check-list") to the more informative related page, but both are worth taking a look at!
Random Walk Simulation
Found this interesting random walk simulation. I thought random walks tended to stay close to the initial state, regardless of the number of steps/step size, but this simulation ends up making some pretty cool random walk art.
just because something is a "common business practice" doesn't mean it isn't wrong.
Why not create one of your own? There are so many ideas a person can come up with these days, and so much information available free online, on how to do things - even before LLMs, which I personally would avoid, for a learning project like this.

Plus, if you create your own project, you can make it into a product, and try to market and sell it.

It's fun!
You can add any folder to immich as external library. No need to use cli.

So if you want custom structure, synchronize files from mobile to server in any way you prefer (Syncthing, PhotoSync, etc.) and add that folder as an external library.
Have been using it for a couple of months now! Wife and I love the album feature which helps us to maintain photo albums async.

It is a huge step up from the default photo's app in Nextcloud. Absolutely wonderful stuff.
It was a better product. But it would be quite a take to say their tolling & gate keeping was a significant contributor.

It was a better product because of its capacitive multi-touch screen and its overall speed (which I must insist depends more on what apps are installed by default than on the restrictions on third party apps).
Apple's Embrace of Gemini AI Could Transform the iPhone and Google
"Sue you". I can't help but appreciate a clever name
Building a secure 10G Home Network
Slow night?
Some IDEs have gotten slightly less frustrating with better processors: e.g. Xcode, which in my opinion deserves the star rating it has in the mac App Store
> I'm also aware there are claims that piracy does not hurt revenue of copyright holder. I can get behind some points in these claims, but not entirely

IIRC, a significant fraction of the studies of the subject tend to show that it even positively affects revenues of IP rights holders.
Hardware developers should not care and that's what the emulator is attempting to actually emulate. They're using their position to benefit their licensing operation, which has strict controls about distribution, which ironically are probably most responsible for the type of piracy that actually eats into their bottom line.
If your goal is just to make the software exist, then being put out of business isn't a problem. Which is how I read the hypothetical.
Not my website :) But I'm aware that you need to post when it is 10am in NY. I'm down under, and my timing sucks lol