skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I suspect a much narrower request where google identified the target user and past just that user's info on would be constitutional.

Isn't that worse? Essentially making Google do the job of the police and the police having to trust the work of Google for it.
> For their part, the researchers have already experimented with producing both hard and soft particles, made of ceramics and of hydrogels. The first could see applications in microelectronics manufacturing and the latter in drug delivery in the body.
“There’s a wide array of applications, and we’re just beginning to explore them,” said Maria Dulay, senior research scientist in the DeSimone lab and co-author of the paper.

Traduction of the last sentence: either mean "we don't know the applications it can have" or it's honest and there is many applications coming soon that can't be discussed publicly for some industrial reason.
if you give the heart of your business (data) to an alien company you make TWO collosal mistakes:

1) you transfer the core of your business to somebody else
2) you can be blackmailed service and costs wise

outsourcing in general is a deadly management fashion.
Single Pixel Applications.

Conveniently abbreviates to SPA.
Scientists create AI models that can talk to each other and pass on skills
Have you tried Google cloud ocr?
I had pretty good experience with it.
Really misleading numbers in a lot of ways. Notably, they dismiss the risk of inflation, ignore longer term maintenance, choose really poor cloud analogs for their architecture, and ignore cost-saving options like spot instances and pre-pay discounts.

All that said, yes, cloud is often more expensive for simple applications with stable 24/7 workloads that don’t evolve over time. Do the research and choose the right infrastructure platform for your business.
I didn't realize this until I saw it in a comment there, but if you download an app from the Windows Store, it will often run its own updater instead of updating from the Store. So even if you download an out of date version of VLC to begin with, it will at least prompt you to upgrade when you start it.
Many teams have short daily gatherings — especially now that so many teams are fully distributed, it’s good for everyone to come together like that.

But while every team member talks about the difficult bugs they’re facing, sometimes the actual code tells a different story and can reveal that a team member is struggling to get working code together in any reasonable amount of time.
Spanish High Court banned Telegram
What can I currently buy with Bitcoin?
Well, I guess we're just naturally evolving and adapting into enslaving ourselves, just following nature's course... There doesn't need to be a "master plan", but clearly there are some working themes
And also, here's a way to just make so much pornography of me.

I'm betting the list of folks who would sign the AI license are pretty small, and mostly irrelevant.
Not to forget the classic "Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water" narrated by Donald Pleasance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPMYRlvySY
That's good to know. Fwiw, I don't know anything about Drew nor was I trying to comment about him.
1 million per day of what looked like 1mm3 structures (with um features) mean a volume of 1dm3, which is 1L.

Do what you want with this information, I think it's not at industrial scale yet.
The new mantra with the cloud champions in my company is that cloud was never meant to save money. It’s a premium experience that’s about saving time.

This did not sound right so I dug into the emails our leadership sent us between 6-3 years ago upping our “cloud transformation”. And yup, saving money was a part of it.

It’s only over the last year or so where it’s become obvious we didn’t save any money and in fact spent a lot more that it’s become about functionality and quality and not about cost.

The cloud may beat on Prem on functionality. For example, global colocation is much easier with the cloud. But don’t f’ing gaslight me and tell me the cloud providers hadn’t been selling cost as a benefit and even the primary benefit for the first 10 years or so at least.
What is DPROM? I've never heard of sending SMS without a number.
And don't forget all the money the founder refused to keep big corps out of it.

It's a unique piece of software.
Nowhere near what is currently being wasted on LLMs generating the content those scrapers will soon be copying to their datacenters, or the cryptomining propping up Bitcoin.
'Aversion' also rhymes with 'recursion, as does 'version', 'Persian, 'subversion', 'introversion' and 'King James Version' amongst others
This…this is certainly a take. Of all the takes about axis scaling and border lines, this is certainly one of them.

The author is confusing axis scaling with axis aesthetics. Whether there’s an axis line is entirely separate from what the starting value is. I’d even go as far to argue that the authors chosen axis styling from the first 4 examples is the among least consistent and least readable of the options.

Put axis lines on your graphs, up to you, live your best, aesthetically pleasant and consistent life. Do, however: under threat of never being allowed near a computer to make a graph ever again- correctly _scale_ your axis values correctly.
What crawling framework you using?
Most people mix up all the different kinds of intellectual property basically all the time[0], so while people say it's about copyright, I (currently) think it's more likely to be a mixture of "moral rights" (the right to be named as the creator of a work) and trademarks (registered or otherwise), and in the case of celebrities, "personality rights": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

> It's just not there yet. GenAI outputs aren't something audiences wants to hang on a wall.

People have a wide range of standards. Last summer I attended the We Are Developers event in Berlin, and there were huge posters that I could easily tell were from AI due to the eyes not matching; more recently, I've used (a better version) to convert a photo of a friend's dog into a renaissance oil painting, and it was beyond my skill to find the flaws with it… yet my friend noticed instantly.

Also, even with "real art", Der Kuss (by Klimt) is widely regarded as being good art, beautiful, romantic, etc. — yet to me, the man looks like he has a broken neck, while the woman looks like she's been decapitated at the shoulder then had her head rotated 90° and reattached via her ear.

[0] This is also why people look at a Google street view image with a ©2017 Google[1] tiled over on a blue sky and say "LOL, Google's trying to own the sky", or why people even on this very forum ask how some new company can trademark a descriptive term like "GPT"[2], seemingly surprised by this being possible even though there's already a very convenient example of e.g. Hasbro already having "Transformers".

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7319434,10.8655264,3a,77.2y,...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692476
What's the issue with 40-60 mins on a train to the city center? That seems very reasonable (and common) to me.
Why can't the police track down someone who calls in a threat from the phone records? How can people be more anonymous with "caller ID" than YouTube?
It's not about speaking up on a shitty idea, it's about not playing the game on a tool used to measure employee performance. That's a big difference.

Especially because here we're talking about someone whose performance and contributions were very clear to everyone. Otherwise, he might have been seen like an underperformer by managers.
China is ruled by an autocrat who only listens to his yes men.
This is a very suboptimal solution, to say the least. Every year this will become worse and worse as the autocrat gets more and more addicted to his own copium.

This is how it always happened in the past everywhere in the world, this is what is already happening there.
This week in KDE: Plasma bug fixes and UI improvements
> I'm a prodigious note-taker with pen and paper, and have made peace with the idea that I’ll never reference 99% of the notes I write.

I abandoned pen-and-paper in favour of text files and maintaining a dir tree structure because just grepping through your notes is all it takes to get a hold of even the most obscure notes you've taken.

This system works very well for me. One time I had a team member reaching out to me because I was the last one touching a module years ago and there was a critical issue involving that module that needed fixing. It took a single grep run to pinpoint the engineering log entry I added for that day, and from thereon I could reference a couple of notes where I added the necessary and sufficient context regarding how and why something was done. This turned a multi-day spike into a couple of hours of tests. Running grep once was enough to save the day.

I'm sure graphs and colors and markup languages and pictures work well for some, but the hard part of taking notes is querying them, particularly in the medium to long term. If you start with a strategy to easily query data, you already solved the hard part of taking notes.
> Don't forget Zed!

Mac only, for now.
As someone else pointed out at 3% , it's at least 50% above the target I don't see how someone can consider that small. Cherry picking historical data as a way to hand wave that fact is disengenious at best.

Even if for some reason you think 3% is not high, inflation is clearly starting to reverse which the fed has admitted its not gonna get better in the short term.

Contrast this to Volker who made the hard decision to raise rates well above inflation not once but twice.
Are you sure that with https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p05... this is still undefined behavior?
Assuming that I can neither subpoena records from Apple nor TC, nor hack their systems to obtain data on secretive ghost-writing agreements between them, what sort of "support" are you thinking that I should provide?
Your message is ambigous. One can read it as “don’t give up on normalisation” but one can also read it as “don’t normalise”. Which of the meanings did you intend?
Hmm, yes, this does break a rule of legibility. It's harder to read than it could be.

However, in doing so, it also creates a distinctive style.

I think I like it.
That's why the butthurt big tech companies hate it; it blows their bloated crapware out of the water, for free!
There is another alternative to base64: https://github.com/luciopaiva/binary-sse
> Payments are illegal (not wallets)

What exactly do you believe is the point of a crypto wallet?

> only if the sender/receivers are not identified

What do you think “anonymous” means?

I ask because I’m genuinely confused as to how anything you just said contradicts the title
It's obvious today to everyone, unfortunately we replaced that by KPI that are no better.
Color Our Collections
Your experience could vary from mine, but the average boomer in India loves having political discussion on dinner tables, stemming from what they probably read in the papers or from channel switching over the day. TikTok hardly scratches their surface. While I understand Mr. Modi has been pretty influential on media houses, there are plenty of publishers like Indian Express or Dainik Jagran (in Hindi), or TV broadcasters like NDTV, The Wire etc., who don't mind calling Modi's spade a spade. TikTok isn't the main medium of influence in India. Facebook is, and the news & views is primarily still shared there

Let me show the political influencing landscape in brief: I have lived in both the aforementioned countries and I could unequivocally feel that the average Indian is more aware of political current affairs. Even if final choices could be biased on the Hinduist/nationalist leanings (which is unfortunately a relatively new dynamics), they are not blind to what is happening. Many would call Modi a crook but do not want the alternative posed by Congress and still vote for him. Religious minority appeasing and Reservation biases have been abused so badly in last 3 decades by the opposition (which was in power) that people are now blind to the agenda people like Mr. Modi exort. Their responses are mostly reactionary to lost opportunities of work/social mobility. BJP in India has been projecting itself as savior of masses by bringing in measures, which would have been undemocratic 2 decades ago (e.g Article 370 abrogation or CAA recently). This is in stark contrast to people in US growing up leaning Blue or Red all through their lives, because their family or county has always voted that. If you ask why they chose to, the answer is almost always political party loyalty (and not the agenda). Coming November we will see this again when despite of so many legal predicaments, Donald Trump might still competing hard for presidency based on traditional loyalties. TikTok is aimed at the fence-sitters in US with dramatic immigration, crime or socioeconomic shock videos. When you have a crowd that is not in know-how of current political affairs, TikTok is enough to create disruption. If you had to do that in India, probably Facebook is the weapon of choice.
Given that the China is an adversary, accepting their car in the market en masse doesn't sound good from the EU security perspective. If the cars have remote kills switch or something similar, in the event of Chinese-Russian invasion, they could easily disable all transport and prevent people from leaving to safety or cause other troubles.

I view Chinese expansion in that sector as a Trojan horse.

Mind you that maybe the "company" (Chinese "companies" are not the same thing as we know in the West - these are more like government departments) has good intentions, but when the time comes, the party can order them to do whatever they need to be done.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9C%CB%90...
BYD's quality control is really bad. They sold AWD that did not work as AWD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eENx7rscQ80
The number of applications to participate are not publicised - but it's an infamous race amongst ultrarunners, so I suspect they get quite a lot of applications. However - the way to apply is also not publicised, so there are probably a fair number of people who'd like to enter but don't figure out how.

35 applications are accepted each year.
GP probably meant to type "they too work hard", I guess?
There is better approach to base64: binary-sse (https://github.com/luciopaiva/binary-sse)
Reddit killed off the former mobile (i.reddit.com) interface, however. Amongst other uses, that was great in terminal browser clients.
IOS link handling might not be that great on older versions. Probably if you decode that QR code they might be using some custom link scheme that they register for their app. That's still a valid approach but should not be needed with modern phones as you can just register your website urls to be handled by the app.
OSS: Relicense to Apache 2 Globally
No, i didn’t but it asks me for credit card information which is kinda meh
Thanks for this interesting post.

Intuitively, relational algebra compresses enumeration over data in time that a CPU executing billions of cycles a second can feasibly and efficiently traverse and execute against many collections of millions or billions of records in human perceivable time thanks to indexes.

I've been trying to think of systems communicating with eachother as parts of a relational model in the sense we can model system behaviour as a series of events and a join is a communication between components.

I would love to talk about this with people.
It’s amusing how much FUD there is about China and Taiwan. Maybe there will be a war, maybe not. Why say “when”, when it’s “if?”
Right, now factor in the cost of architecting software not because that’s the best architecture for your use case but to save money on the specific infrastructure choice you’ve made.
I'd love to see them pull this off in the USA. The cheapest new EV is what, still the Bolt EV at ~$30K? Ridiculous. We need something to provide downward pressure on prices. If they could actually sell it for $10K in the USA, it would be cheaper than even the cheapest gas cars. DO IT!
Indian court halts operations of government-run social media fact checker
More likely they wanted to seize the bitcoin under civil asset forfeiture and buy some high-end cars for their D.A.R.E. program.

Charitably speaking that is.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a2055556/venom-law-police-put-...
Maybe that is a relative thing?
As in the norm is bad managers delegating everything to a fault, so a good manager by comparison works too hard?

Or maybe it is an availability thing?
My personal experience is
I'm much more motivated to work
If my manager is highly available from early morning to late evening.
Pregnancy advances your 'biological' age – but giving birth turns it back
Ask HN: Redis Takeover
There have been several discussions here about redis going proprietary. "Redis," as I've used it, is an acronym for "REmode DIctionary Server." I have used redis generically on-and-off more-or-less from its release.

Redis Labs appears to be trying to take what was a generic term, and a piece of software in the open commons, and steal it for profit and a very slow motion takeover. History:

2009: Redis was developed. It was free, open-source, and good.

2012: I began using it for my open projects. Most of what I do and my colleagues to is in spaces where there are clear reasons to keep everything open (think civics, education, voting, etc.), and whatever you may think of them elsewhere, compatibility with strong sharealike licenses like AGPL is critical.

2018: Redis Labs started a take-over of what was a popular, decade-old open project. After nine years of generic use, a trademark application was filed:

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87805452&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

I didn't even know this happened. I continued to use the term 'redis' generically. I learned about this actually just now.

I'm not sure how one can trademark a generic term, but I've seen this happen before. After five years, trademarks become incontestable, which makes them a lot harder to challenge.

2018: Redis Labs moved some optional modules to no longer be free and open-source software, but made them proprietary. These were non-critical to what I do, so I didn't pay much attention.

2021: Redis Labs renamed itself Redis, claiming more ownership of what had been previously a community project.

2024: The core of redis became proprietary, making it useless for the projects I'm working on and maintaining. The renamed Redis Labs also just filed for another trademark:

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98422051&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

This is more muddy than the Linux kernel trademark situation years back (which had been registered by a troll), but it feels wrong. It feels like if this is allowed to continue, it presents a danger to the broader open ecosystem. Which project will be next?

I understand this happened over a decade, which means there was never a clear line cross, but at this point, some line has clearly been crossed to where it feels like what happened ought to be considered some kind of fraud. redis is popular due to support from people like me.

I just wanted to kick off a discussion about what happened here, and see if there could be a brainstorm about what should be done in a scenario like this, and how to prevent it from happening again. This seems like a real threat to the community.

FWIW: The original developer / maintainer of Redis worked for Redis Labs from 2015 for what feels like about five years. I'm not sure what, if any, relevant contracts were signed between the two at the time.
Prime Video failed so in Africa
Indeed. Cost optimization is one of the “6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework” as promoted by AWS themselves:

“The Cost Optimization pillar includes the ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point.”

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework...
> the EU shits all over private US business

What's your example? Only GDPR comes to mind: fuck businesses who destroy anonymity.

Now it's fuck governments who destroy anonymity.
Show HN: Personal AI graduation photoshoot (need HARD feedback)
I recently launched a new startup called "Graduation Photoshoot Now". Basically through doing keyword research I stumbled upon "Graduation photoshoot" being a high-volume low keyword-difficulty keyword.

So to be brutally honest, I decided to do what Photo AI is doing, but then niched down to graduation photoshoots. I'm also an absolute noob on AI image generation, so for the first couple customers, I will just process them using Photo AI (hence the 2 day turn-around for now). When it starts taking off I do plan to create my own process using Replicate or something like that.

I started a Google Ad campaign around 2 days ago, had around 50 unique visitors, but no customers yet. So I'm wondering if I'm missing like something obvious on my site or it's not convincing enough or anything like that.

Also I noticed like 90% of the ad traffic is female, and I'm male so if you are female then please please I'd love to hear your feedback, thanks a lot.
There's still a market for questionable but cheap vehicles.

In the USA, there just... isn't an option for that. Even used cars are hard to find cheap now.
1L of penicillin at 1million units per mL can treat 1000 patients. And that’s per production process.

Size doesn’t matter.
Honda hedged its bet on the hydrogen fuel cell-powered CR-V e:FCEV
Thanks for the reply. I’ll give you latency, but that’s almost never a problem in the first place. You need to (re)authenticate anyhow. I don’t think your second point holds though. Even if we assume memories/repeaters to exist (iiuc this should contradict the no-cloning-theorem) you’d need to trust them not to listen in so you’d be back to square one with electronic key distribution schemes?

There might be an argument that one is unable to secure the two sets of key material (at least on one end and at least long term) and the destination is hard to reach (e.g. James Web or so). But at that point I’d also not trust that organization to implement their end of QKD correctly..
What I would love to buy is something between a street legal golf cart and a Nissan Leaf. I only need about 50 miles range and to protect me from the elements. I have a bicycle for some tasks, an ICE vehicle for longer hauls, but would love something to fill in the need for in town errands.
I have a device (an O.G. iPad) that is stuck on iOS 5.1.1. The hardware still works beautifully, as well as the day I bought it, but thanks to Apple, it's pretty much a brick now. 3P apps refuse to support it because they've all moved their minimum OS version beyond that. Perfectly working junk purely because of software choices.