skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid the answer is ugly.

The problem is American politics. Dealing with climate change is hard, but it's the Americans making it impossible. We are among the most prolific producers, both individually and in aggregate, and we're the only ones widely denying that the problem even exists. The rest of the world is reluctant to make (and stick to) a deal without American help.

The thing with climate change deniers is that they're not just wrong on climate change. Climate change denial is a conspiracy theory, and people who believe one conspiracy theory are often open to more. The US is intermittently run by conspiracy theorists, doing all kinds of harm.

That's the thing you can affect. You make it clear that you will not tolerate conspiracy theories. You tell people, "Voting is not just one day every few years. It has consequences that affect me, personally. We cannot be friends if you are going to make choices that hurt me. The time has past where we can just 'agree to disagree'."

You cannot do anything about this problem on your own. It must be a group effort. Solving it yourself would be like trying to contribute your part to solving traffic by building a few feet of your own road.

Like I said, this is ugly. Our friendship is the only real lever we have on how people act. People are going to tell me that we shouldn't let politics pick our personal lives, and that my approach here will just increase divisiveness. But I think divisiveness is already far past a tolerable level and extreme actions are required.

So... feel free to ignore me. But I think this needed to be said.
Sorry, there was a minor snafu with the deployment pipeline - new URL is at https://www.emergetools.com/blog/posts/make-your-ios-app-sma...
My understanding is that electric airplanes are much quieter but batteries do not have a high enough energy density to make an electric airliner with more than very short range.

I wonder if it would be feasible to make some kind of hybrid that uses electric engines for takeoff and landing and regular jet engines for the rest of the flight?
Put the baseball bat down bro. You are describing something I do a lot, I play with old computers and try to put them to use. Pervasive cryptography has changed everything even stuff that’s ten years old has issues with certificates and deprecated versions. In any modern setting this is a serious handicap.

tl;dr our hardware requirements would be vastly slashed if we didn’t have an expectation of TLS everywhere.
That does not sound reasonable, why would the shim ever need to be signed with the same key? why can't a system supporting App Archive make an exception for the shim? if it can't for hardware reason, why can't they ask key owner to sign the shim app?
That would degrade security but is not as bad as requiring to give away the private key.
I have been using https://www.photoprism.app for a couple of years, and it works better than expected, with the latest updates it's actually quite fast and the face tagging works reasonably well.
As a practitioner the most impactful library for time series has been brms, which basically gives you syntactic sugar for creating statistical models in Stan. Checks all the boxes including probabilistic forecasts, multiple link functions for the likelihood including weiner, gamma, Gaussian, student t, binomial, zero-inflated and hurdle models. Also has auto-regressive and ordinal predictors and you actually learn something from your data.

I find a lot of these ML and DL libraries to be harder to troubleshoot beyond blind hyperparameter tuning whereas with stats I can tweak model, modify likelihood, etc. There’s also a lot of high value problems that have few data points these libraries tend to want at least daily data.
I like the approach taken here. Nextcloud is becoming the defacto open-personal-cloud standard so it makes sense to integrate photos into that. If Nextcloud were getting up to shenanigans in the future I'm confident the project would be forked, and in the meantime I don't expect it would be hard to plug in an alternative backend.

I think for an open-source and/or self-hosted solution to come close to an approximation of google cloud/iCloud/whatever we need projects like this to be able to pick their niche and hyper-focus on it, which leaning on Nextcloud does in this case I feel.
And that is common?
capitain obvious: it is pulling down the whole industry.
Ask HN: Best European Country for Handling EU Vat "One Stop Shop"?
Our US-based startup, docAnalyzer, serves a mix of B2B and B2C customers in Europe. Europe now requires US companies to pay VAT for their European clients unless they can provide an EU tax ID for each, which is challenging for B2C and some small B2B clients.

The "One Stop Shop" scheme is a preferable option to avoid filing 27 separate declarations for each country, but it requires selecting a country to manage the process. The experience can vary significantly depending on the chosen country, with differences in bureaucracy, delays, etc.

Does anyone with non EU startup have any good or bad experiences to share regarding this? Which country is the best choice for handling VAT through the One Stop Shop scheme?
I recommend some LSD with that Cannabis to truly appreciate the Teletubbies!
DOJ calls Apple's privacy justifications an 'elastic shield' for financial gains
You can but a 1TB microsd card for $21 on amazon.com. Maybe app archiving feature should be eol'd.
You need to sign up first, and then you get this:

https://i.imgur.com/Dl0Avg6.png

But once you close the window it's never shown again and hard to find (Google can't find it).

I guess they show it again once you reach the "25 generations"... which probably arrives quick, since every time you click on an "instrument" in a "sound pack" it apparently counts as 4 generations...
Tennessee becomes the first state to protect musicians against AI
There's been discussions where the "next" airport should go in the Seattle region, and the consensus is that nobody wants it. The State Legislature created a commission to try and identify some potential sites, but the public backlash was so great that they ended up submitting it's final report with no actual recommendation.

One of the interesting ideas (that was proposed even back when SEA was adding it's third runway) is to run high-speed rail to Moses Lake Airport in Central Washington and just expand there. I'm doubtful it happens, since that means building a major airport _and_ a new train.
I'm not going to say 100db isn't loud but db is a logarithmic scale, so even 110 down to 100 isn't a 9% reduction but an order of magnitude drop. Literally the difference between a jackhammer and a nail gun.

Sound drops 4x for each 2x increase in distance from the source. So another way to put it is, if you cut sound by 10x, you are cutting the distance of severely noise polluted area around by more than 4x.
Imagine what hacks come out if $1m+ prize pools are ever announced.
Is Claude 3 Opus generating more profits and taking considerable amount of customers from OpenAI? I'm not seeing that yet. Granted, I'm in Europe (outside of EU) so I can't pay for Opus but I guess that kinda confirms my statement. GPT4 is still a good product and there are no market pressures to release GPT5.
The front page turnover is not that high. Moderator selectivism runs rampant here and it's easy to see patterns of favoritism/bias over the years.
C++ also can't be parsed like that because you need to process a declaration before you know what role a symbol plays in the grammar.
Oh, that's not the collision detection alert, that's actually the Aperture Collision Avoidance Congratulatory Chime.
So not only do they have the theoretical ability to publish their own code with your private key that has full access to your apps private data, they even do it in practice?

They don't need to do any of this to keep your local data without keeping the entire app. Android phones have had the ability to uninstall apps without removing their data for some time. Any time you can install the application again and if the keys match, it has access to its data.

But that wouldn't create a good excuse for Google to ask for private keys from developers.
> Actually making changes requires further authorization. When I make a payment the screen asks me to confirm the amount I'm about to pay. The same applies to other security sensitive changes.

That’s a good answer, too, especially of that custom message can be large enough to display the name & amount. Anything to jar people out of the “I thought I was sending $100 to the cable TV company, not $6,000 to someone in India” autopilot state.

I generally agree with your larger point and wish that banks would make it easier to do things like setup a Yubikey and require it be used on any transaction over a certain amount. I’ve never in my life needed to make a large transaction where I wouldn’t have been able to grab a token from my safe to approve it, and at some point delay becomes a security feature since it give the bank staff time to do things like call you and make sure you really intended to do something.
Crime stories drove readers to GoFundMe campaigns, only the victims didn't exist
There is no legal risk if you adhere to plain license terms.
We are also using DocRaptor. It takes around 20 seconds to generate the PDF, and we only need to generate it every night. So the costs are also not an issue at the moment.
How much suffering are you comfortable imposing upon others for your own aesthetic satisfaction?

If no one is willing to do something humanely, then no one deserves to have it. It's not a complicated analysis.
One of the big differences is that Picotron supports floating point math whereas Pico-8 is all fixed point.
Also, my (limited) experience with prompts tells that you want to invest more into the “You are” part. I’ll share my understanding, corrections are appreciated.

LLMs aren’t people even in a chat-roleplaying sense. They complete a “document” that can be a plot, a book, a protocol of conversation. The “AI” side in the chat isn’t an LLM itself, it’s a character (and so are you, it completes your “You: …” replies too - that’s where the driver app stops it and allows you to interfere). So everything you put in that header is very important. There are two places where you can do that: right in the chat, as in TFA, or in the “character card” (idk if GPTs have it, no GPT access for me). I found out that properly crafting a character card makes a huge difference and can resolve the whole classes of issues.

Idk what will work best in this case, but I’d start with describing which sort of a bot, how it deals with unclear or incomplete information, how amazing it is (yes, really), its soft/tech skills and problem solving abilities, what other people think of it, their experience and so on. Maybe would add few examples of interactions in a free form. Then in the task message I’d tell it more and specific details about that json.

One more note - at least for 8x7B, the “You are” in the chat is a much weaker instruction than a character card, even if the context is still empty. I low-key believe that’s because it’s a second-class prompt, i.e. the chat document starts with “This is a conversation with a helpful AI bot which yada yada” in… mind, and then in that chat that AI character gets asked to turn into something else, which poisons the setting.

Simply asking the default AI card represents 0.1% of what’s possible and doesn’t give the best results. Prompt Engineering is real.

I have high confidence that I could accomplish this task using a lower end model with a high degree of accuracy.

Same. I think that no matter how good a model is, this prompt just isn’t a professional task statement and leaves too much to decide. It’s a task that you, as a regular human, would hate to receive.
They are just predicting next word, but using a pretty deep understanding of prior context (past). They do not plan AHEAD.
California's largest home insurer won't renew 72,000 policies
That would add massive complexity and excess weight (lugging around the battery and all the fuel), which makes it a nonstarter
> It is possible to export iMessage threads by purchasing an Apple computer and enabling "iCloud for Messages"

And hoping Apple's broken client actually downloads full history or by forcing it to download by scrolling up through years of chat by hand.

And hoping Apple doesn't interpret a read lock on the db as malicious activity and temporary ousting you from iMessage and causing every message you send on unrelated hardware to drop to SMS until you login / logout from every device you "own".
Moat of us had about 16 or 32mb at the time IIRC
Try https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ I recently used it on a 2014 5k iMac to install Sonoma (14.3) and it's been flawless in my experience - everything is buttery smooth as you'd expect.

I also installed on a 2015 Macbook (12"...horrible Intel mobile processor.) It works, but the CPU is just too underpowered to do basic stuff like web browsing and messaging...if you're impatient like me anyway ;)
Let me summarize the key points of this law:

- Starting from April 1, German adults can legally possess a certain amount of weed (25 grams on the move, 50 grams at home), and they may consume it unless they are within 100 meters of a school or kindergarten.

- This is just the first stage of that law, where the only way to actually obtain weed (other than for medical purposes) is to grow it yourself, or to form a collective of growers. Either way, the maximum number of plants per person is three. Commercially trade of weed is planned for later, as a second stage of the law.

- While this law legalizes weed for adults, it further prevents access for minors. The law raises the penalty for selling weed to minors to a minimum of two years in prison, and people that grow their own plants must ensure that minors cannot access them. People aged between 18 and 21 are only allowed access to weed with a THC content of less than 10%. The reasoning behind all this is that weed severely impairs the brain development of young people.

- Driving while under the influence is still a crime.

- The stated goal of this law is to eliminate the black market and to stop the growing trend of minors smoking weed. A review is scheduled in 18 months, determine whether the law in the current form achieves that goal or whether it has to be tweaked further.

This law is obviously a compromise between all the parties of the German government, EU law, scientific consensus, and practicability. What I like about the law is how carefully it weighs health issues and individual liberty. All the limits (legal age, grams of possession) have a solid scientific basis.
with hardware "assistance" or pure software (including compiler generated "invisible holes")?
How to Fall Down a Rabbit Hole
Based on what? It got hammered in covid but is back in a big way now.
It's a strange piece. Most of the obstacles to airport construction that it describes are nullified by the other obstacles that it also describes.

Airports can't handle the liability they incur because imposing airport noise on housing is a regulatory taking. But also, if you build an airport at such a remove from the city that no housing suffers, housing gets built out toward the airport.

Except of course, it's not a taking if you were there first. If the housing comes to the airport, there's no liability.

Also, airports don't work without being close to their city. When they tried to build Mirabel airport 35 miles from Montreal, it withered and died from being too far away.

This is transparent nonsense; 35 miles is not even a long distance. The airport you use if you live in Santa Cruz is SFO, more than 60 miles away. (There is a closer airport in San Jose, which doesn't go to convenient locations.) It takes a long time to travel between any major airport and its city. HKG is separated from Hong Kong by the ocean. A 40 minute drive to the airport is considerably better than is typical now!

If Mirabel withered and died from being 35 miles outside Montreal, that can only be because Montreal's air transport needs were already met.
Lawsuit filed on Feb 26 2024 [0]. Switch launched on March 3 2017 [1]. Yuzu's first release on Jan 14 2018 [2]. Therefore, a Switch emulator existed for the vast majority of the Switch's lifetime and the lawsuit is a very recent development compared to the lifetime of the Switch and the emulator. Hence, if Yuzu was so gravely damaging to Nintendo, we would not see the Switch become one of the most successful consoles of all time by selling over 115M units in the Q1 2018 - Q3 2023 timeframe [3]

[0] https://www.scribd.com/document/709016504/Nintendo-of-Americ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu_(emulator)

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/687059/nintendo-switch-u...
Thanks, though I would say "different physical devices" not "different apps".

This also gets into e-waste issues. I really don't want multiple phones, and in any case, consumer phones are expected to be replaced every few years. A friend has an old iPhone which still works, but the local transit system's app no longer supports it. My bank's mobile app requires Android 7, etc.
Also, tobacco typically kills after 20-30+ years of use. The people it kills are mostly older people in their 60s. Heroin kills people in the prime of their life.

Imagine if nicotine was banned and people had to get it from dealers who make it in liquid form in huge vats in their basement. There would be a lot more dead from nicotine overdose for sure.
I never worked in a real start up so I can't compare. I don't know anyone above SVP level NOT using windows in my career. Every non-developer oriented conference I've been to, Windows are the majority.
There is no significance in counting only the people within an arbitrary geographic boundary that is a city’s legal jurisdiction.

An airport serves a metropolitan region, composed of many cities, and there are at least 50 with 1M+ people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
We always hear the Commodore / Sun 3000UX rumor. I'm skeptical. Sun already had their own 680x0 line of workstations (the Sun 3 series), which started about 5 years before the A3000 was released. Why would they need Commodore? They were basically done with 68K by that point, just like all the other Unix workstation vendors.
Foiling Deadly Prions
I mean nominally that sounds like his preferred experience?

I'm similar, I prefer maintaining state with things until I'm done with them, which makes the current models so frustrating, for all Apple talked about skeuomorphism, for me it's always felt so fake, it's only ever skin deep, I open a webpage and until I'm done with it, it should stay that way.

I've navigated down a third of the page? I've partially filled in a form field? Keep it! There's probably a reason I put that there!

It's not like when I put a piece of paper down on my desk it resets to it's original appearance and orientation every morning. It retains the scribbles and notes! Maybe you like someone else tidying your desk every morning, but I hate it!

Real things exist, our memories exploit these properties so well and what do we get, software that's all about returning to some pristine state that makes it harder for me to recall and use.

I'm curious if they're going to do this same thing with their spatial os, or whether they'll work out that persisting things until people are done with them is a feature.
Agon Light looks awesome! I like my ZxSpectrumNext a lot, so I appreciate these dedicated machines.
Funny I guessed what they were when I read the headline.
Neural Networks, Pre-Lenses, and Triple Tambara Modules
Sure, this is classic NIMBYism. I understand: we live in a very quiet area, and would certainly oppose something that would dramatically change that.

However, what I do not understand are the people who move next to an existing airport, and then complain about the noise. We used to live near a major, international airport. Planes flew overhead. That noise was implicitly factored into the price we paid, and we certainly had zero room to complain. But lots of people did anyway, soaking up lots of time and money that would have been better spent elsewhere.
https://github.com/jaredmauch/mailman2-python3

Haven't tried it yet.
I liked the design of the circular run way airport.
That sounds like hell. If you think that carrier interop is bad now, wait till everyone is using a different matrix provider with different optional features turned on or off. At least today there are some barriers to SMS spam, matrix would open the floodgates while making blocking it exponentially worse.
Changing a single pixel is usually not enough to confuse convolutional neuronal networks. Even so, human supervision will probably always be quite important.
we need a youtube alternative. cry as much as you want, you will continue to use youtube and after a while, you will start to pay it again.
> If your goal is profit, don't open source your core product.

Or more fundamentally, don't open source your value prop. Open source your complement. So many OSS shops build a valuable core only to realise their actual business ends up being selling managed servers.
I very much doubt that speaking is slower than typing, given that basically only stenographers can transcribe things in real time, and that's by using special technique.
here it comes! used it previously, glad to see new releases
Last I heard a worker could leave his employer at any time for a another job elsewhere, taking any skills and know-how with them. Who is bleeding who?

It has always been the case that to best protect the worker you need to create a thriving economy with alternative employment for workers to arb their employers, not regulations or unions.
found out recently that jq can url-encode values, is there anything it _can't_ do?
Yet, airlines fight deary for slots at Congonhas, because lots of people want really badly to land there.

The same can be said for Santos Dumont, that requires specially adapted planes, with reduced capacity to fly there. Or Pampulha that is more extreme, and airlines keep entire models of planes on their fleet just so they can fly there.
>Isn’t chromium still bloated with tracking?

I don't think Chromium based browsers such as Brave, Vivaldi or Edge have to send data to Google.

Chromium development is highly dependent on Google of course. Google could theoretically do to Chromium what they have done to AOSP, i.e make sure it's not longer a viable platform for competitors. But I think that's exactly what the DMA could prevent.

>As someone who’s heavily invested in web I don’t see it being a competition with apps at all

I think it's an empirical fact that they do compete. Almost all the installed apps I use could be web apps if it wasn't for arbitrary restrictions.

>but sure, supporting notifications are nice, allowing websites to scan networks and Bluetooth, not so much.

How about not randomly deleting or arbitrarily restricting local data?
One of the main things that attracted me to working at Bridgewater is the company culture geared explicitly at helping you discover your blind spots.

A lot of the discomfort that people associate with the company has to do with that: the recorded meetings, the “brutal” feedback etc are all designed to make you see what you have been resisting seeing.

There is a part of us that wants to grow and there’s a part of us that resists the pain of growth. Being someone who values growth and is willing to go through the discomfort doesn’t make the process itself easier for you - you still have to do the work. It’s challenging but in retrospect you look at the kind of person you are a year or five years down the line and you feel good about it.