skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to regulate Facebook and Google (2021)
Because not everyone can or should IPO. Once you get to a certain point in size, your investors will start pushing for an exit (where you have two main options, IPO or sell).
Again, it isn’t about goodwill. The US totally dominates these countries and its times like this where its citizens really see that.
Card Networks Settle with Merchants- capping fees for next 5 years
I fail to see how crypto and privacy are terribly relevant here.

People may have a right to privacy in *legal* activity.

But once the activity turns criminal, privacy may no longer apply --- with or without crypto.

In other words, the same would likely apply if he was helping criminals privately move their cash.

Anything can be used for criminal activity so this case probably rests on the extent of his knowledge and intent (or indifference) to aiding in this.
C/C++ developers could just use the tooling available to them to mitigate memory management issues, but they don't. Why should we trust anything programmers produce if this is the level of competence they have with their chosen tools?
Microsoft cautions developers to avoid curvy female characters
Effects of Sunlight on a Camera PCB
Disappointing, because this likely spells the end of one-time-purchase Affinity products, and as mentioned in the article up until now that has been a big selling point for them.

I hope I’m wrong, but if I’m not it doesn’t fare well for Affinity’s future growth and popularity. People are likely to go back to Adobe because there’s no point giving up the compatibility, instructional material, etc that comes with Adobe stuff if they’re stuck with subscriptions either way.
The law is going to be shot down quickly if it is an undue burden on adults getting access to social media websites and apps.
I support this in theory, but good luck trying to outmaneuver teens on the internet. I foresee a proliferation of age faking tools, VPNs, etc.
Of course, men in video games have totally realistic proportions.
Or, for that matter, the original 70's K&R compiler, right?

It's probably at the right size for exploring some language ideas.
UK's High Court Opens the Door for More AI Inventions
AI experiment: Selfie coaching from influencer Kylie J. with her voice [video]
I was intrigued enough to try it, and got as far as clicking "Get Started." Let me try it without creating an account.

If the service is computationally intensive, then at least choose a handful of real photos of rooms and let me manipulate those as a way to try it.

If it's not computationally intensive, then the smoothest conversion funnel is probably:

1. I click on one of your stock images, provide a short instruction ("Add blue floor-to-ceiling drapes"), and it works, so…
2. I upload my own image and try a few changes, so…
3. I want to save/persist the images it generated. That's the natural time to let me (and require me to) create an account.
If you think of it, though: all the pollutants, heavy metals, and other chemicals that are in the X liter of diesel a farmer burns per yet, ends up on, and in the crops.

We eat that. (and thus need to wash it, to mitigate that)
I don't buy it. There are many open source tools, there's even WSL these days, so there's very little reason for frowning upon Linux.

The real story for me is that people are lazy and rather deal with the annoyances they already know and that are one click away than learn new tools.
The robot arm would still have to be mounted on a truck, wouldn't it? It's not like it will be half a mile long and just reach over the whole field.

Also, robot arms can be a quite expensive way of doing things; I saw a prototype that used tethered drones (like the common quadcopters, but power and data comes over a cable) to manipulate things as apparently it was like 10 times cheaper than a robot arm capable of reaching the same distances and transporting the same weight payload.
This is a cogent and very true point.
Musk's improbable path to making X an "everything app"
Examples of some great react apps for inspiration?
As the app size grows, we constantly get stuck in the loop of refractoring the directory structure for our app again and again.

Need some examples of how huge apps with multiple features and screen maintain their react app codebases.
Chrome has been available for a long time on iOS, albeit with the Safari rendering engine.

This is like complaining that the food in a hotel minibar is expensive.

You want to approach the smartphone as a general purpose computer, but that's not what it is.
Show HN: BAML - A new programming language to get structured data from LLMs
All we wanted was our prompts in our codebase, not on some website. Then just to see the prompts before we ran the code. Then comments inside of prompts. Then just less strings everywhere, and more type-safety...

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fixing_problems.png

At some point, it became BAML: a type-safe, self-contained way to call LLMs from Python and/or TypeScript.

BAML encapsulates all the boilerplate for:

- flexible parsing of LLM responses into your exact data model
- streaming LLM responses as partial JSON
- wrapping LLM calls with retries and fallback strategies

Our VSCode extension provides:

- real-time prompt previews,
- an LLM testing playground, and
- syntax highlighting (of course)

We also have a bunch of cool features in the works: conditionals and loops in our prompt templates, image support, and more powerful types.

We're still pretty early and would love to hear your feedback. To get started:

https://docs.boundaryml.com/v3/home/installation
Agreed I was just addressing the parent poster question of whether anyone can name a major bridge built in the last fifty years…
Can't you just round up that statistic to 100%?
Apple doesn't incentivize developers to build smaller apps. Instead they push users to throw away their phone and buy one with more storage (at a cost of $100 per 128 GB) and/or buy iCloud subscriptions.
I don’t drive boats or around water much but I’ve seen “bumpers” on bridge pylons before that make a collision more of a glancing blow and guide the boat to the side. I guess there wasn’t any installed on this bridge? Also, someone on Imgur pointed out that when this bridge was built boats that large weren’t a risk. That may or may not be true but sounds plausible.
Canada's maple syrup reserve almost empty
I grew up as social media came into being(mid 2000s). When I was 13, I got Myspace. When I was 16, I got Facebook. It wasn't until well into college that I realized the impact social media had on my mental health. I would go further and say nobody until 18 should have social media, but that may be unrealistic in 2024.
> How can I say this more bluntly? Don't abuse your smartest people to keep lesser people employed and happy?

There is absolutely nothing in situation described by me, that fits this sentence. I'd like to explain that but you (?) already gave downvote to my comment, so it will likely just make me feel worse that I wrote a wall of text that no one will read.

I actually still agree with points you made, as a general advise.
THAT'S IT!!!

Thank you so much! I've been looking for this for at least fifteen years!

And there are even links to previous HTML versions (this one is PDF)... amazing!
Applying a blanket all number to tax is a mistake. Yes, it's already like this and it's a mistake. Let's not make it even worse.
What is Bob finds out belatedly that kid as actually Jim's and Mom neglected to ever mention that 'uncertainty' or worse knew but decided Bob has deeper pockets? Many states have decided that once your on the birth certificate your stuck, as otherwise the State suffers having a financial burden.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternity_fraud#:~:text=If%2....
Indeed. These bulbs don't grow in these large fields for being pretty, but because it takes several years and at least one bloom before the bulbs can be sold, planted and start blooming.

I've grown some bulbs from seed, but it takes years. Much easier to buy bulbs that have bloomed before. And, indeed, the plant itself will drop the leaves soon after being pollinated to store all that in the bulb for next year.
The AppStore did $90 billion trade globally. I'd argue 10% isn't big enough if you can break the law and still make a profit.
thanx to whoever you are, i suddenly got amber letters on my black screen
A product presented by the CEO and using recorded samples does not inspire confidence. The video looks to be aimed at investors, not at users.
Seems like there is gonna be opportunity for another insurance company to compete by understanding new technology and offer new policies that acknowledge that.
Successive Australian governments have been remiss in their, sometimes total, lack of involvement in Assange's plight.

It shows how much Australian politicians and politics kowtow to the US.

It's shameful.
This should have been no struggle for Sega. They basically invented the modern 3D game and dominated in the arcade with very advanced 3D games at the time. Did they not leverage Yu Suzuki and the AM division when creating the Saturn?
Then again rumor has it they were still stuck on 2D for the home market and then saw the PlayStation specs and freaked and ordered 2 of everything in the Saturn.
> they had the option to switch

Let's not mince words; the "option" you are referring to is to throw away your iPhone and buy a different device. The fact that this is the only path of recourse is the obvious reason why Apple is being investigated multinationally.

Users don't have to be opposed to a monopoly for one to exist. Customers loved Bell telephone's monopoly, because Bell gave their users free long-distance calling. That love did nothing to stop what the government did next.
If you start fining the social media companies for breaking this law, this problem will be fixed quickly. Your demoralization propaganda is a line perpetuated by these companies to avoid responsibility
The dark smoke was most likely the diesel generator firing up to get some steering control back
I don't know how they achieve it, but its best practise to protect bearing elements from collisions like this. There's like a whole subfield of bridge collision research.
> I was just trying to challenge the mantra of saas=bad because one-time payments are just cheaper for the user.

You hit the nail on the head. Affinity isn’t a SaaS service. It’s a licensed software product sold by major version.

Although the corporate world seems to have left the product/service distinction behind, most _people_ haven’t (and accountants certainly haven’t).
Is there a canonical decision of SCOTUS that children don't have First Amendment rights, and therefore it's OK to restrict their ability to post?

(note that rules which require proof of age tend also to turn into rules that end anonymity, because it's more work to separate the proof systems)

Edit: I ask a question about caselaw and end up at -3? Yes, I know, don't complain about downvotes, but I don't understand these at all.
Actual business model: shame users for having 2 year old phones and push them towards throwing it away and buying one with more storage (for a premium, of course).
The diversity in consoles reminded me of the diversity in home computers in the waning glory days before PC domination.

Some of the same OEMs and publishers made it through until today.

I’d like to see an infographic and may be so motivated that I make one.
Doubt. The reigning in of social media companies is one of the few issues with overwhelming bipartisan support
Show HN: I made a books recommendation app based on your mood
Hello HN,

I noticed that I often looked for new books, depending on my mood (e.g., if I'm feeling tired, I want to find books that'll help me fix that and improve my sleep).

So, I created my 1st indie project, BooksByMood.

BooksByMood will help you find your next read based on your mood w/

- Books averaging 4.09/5 on Goodreads

- Each book comes with an explanation of why it's selected for your mood

- 18 moods to explore

I hope you'll enjoy using the website,

Cheers!
We don't want to pay for software? Look at the Appstore! Good products for reasonable prices are worth the money. Affinity offers a good product for a reasonable price. Adobe offers a better product but the subscription model is hated by many. For me Affinity products are good enough. Let's hope the current versions keep on working on Apple Silicon and Windows 11/12/etc. The current 2 version is good enough for me and for the next ten years. If I really need AI tools for image editing, I'll take a one month subscription to some tool.
It is because it was fed by Internet information. Lots of memes and jokes.
It’s a start! Hope this gets studied before it gets shut down.
Yes we already restrict children from doing a ton of things e.g. buying or making pornography
I guess we walk through different alleyways.
You may be surprised to learn that when asked, teens would actually prefer that everyone give up social media.

The key word is “everyone” and it’s a collective action problem.

Excellent article in The Atlantic titled “End the Phone Based Childhood Now” which covers this extensively.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-...

The study cited in this excellent - but paywalled - article is here:
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/2023-131/
Yup. The actual solution here is regulation requiring social media and device manufacturers (networking and user devices like phones) to have simple, accessible, and robust parental controls.

The law proposed here is a stupid hammer that won't do anything but piss everyone off. Definitely what I've come to expect from my worthless state government (I live here, I'm sorry, ive tried to replace these people several times)
I wonder if reports like this existed throughout history during other periods of colonial expansion. Was a report sent to the king of Spain about the brutality of conquistadors?
Who can hold ruling nations accountable? If you are a nation that sits at the highest table then who can hold you accountable…
The "berm" in this case happens to be the seabed of the earth. There's nothing bigger.
In this particular case, digitization was done in concert with rights holders.

With the help of many industry partners, the [Canada Media Fund] CMF team unearthed Canadian gems buried in analog catalogues. Once discovered, we worked to secure permissions and required rights and collaborate with third parties to digitize the works, including an invaluable partnership with Deluxe Canada that covered 40 per cent of the digitization costs. The new, high-quality digital masters were made available to the rights holders and released to the public on the Encore+ YouTube channel in English and French.
I always tell people if I couldn't work on computers in any capacity, my favorite thing I'd like to work on is directing movies. I've already played with animatediff and I can't wait to play with Sora. These new AI tools (especially FOSS ones) are an absolute boon for anyone without a major budget.
Because of this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39823849

I went searching for it, found it interesting and so did others.
> enormously massive objects moving very slowly messes with human perception and "common sense"

Yes, hence warnings to amateur boat users (e.g. on a canal boat) not to try to stop a collision with the bank using your arms or legs.

[Edit] Boats can also do things that are unintuitive if you are used to driving a car. E.g. turning round the centre of gravity when you steer rather than following the front wheels.
Yeah, I definitely prefer CSV over Excel. Excel messes with your data. CSV is what it is. Sure, you may not know exactly what that is, and plenty of times I've had to figure out manually how to handle a specific CSV export, but once I've figured that out, it will work. With Excel, there's always the risk that a new value for a string field could also be interpreted as a date.
Separate question, though - that's particular kinds of material (and for some reason US caselaw basically doesn't regard anything pornographic as "speech"), while this is a blanket restriction.
I remember one of my engineering lecturers giving a good rule of thumb as “your retirement date, plus 10 years”
For contribution to project source, how do I find a mentor who can answer my questions on Architecture, Design and code?
Remembering all the cases I needed to export to CSV – 99% are the relatively small datasets, so marginal gains in a few millisecond to import aren't worth sacrificing convenience. And sometimes you just get data from gazzilion of diverse sources, and CSV is the only option available.

I suspect that not everybody here work exclusively with huge datasets and well-defined data pipelines.

On a practical side, if I want to follow suggestions, how do I export to Avro from Numbers/Excel/Google Sheets?
^ My business says otherwise! It's still using Bootstrap 3.
There's no doubt in my mind that this would be healthier for everyone if it panned out. Whether it is legal or enforceable remains to be seen.
I agree. The whole "crypto" idea-environment is not far removed from an ideological trench warfare which makes fair debate without the incessant toxic sneering that I see often here on HN impossible. It is (should be?) possible to have a moderate stance on Cc as there are legitimate uses to Cc, but obviously also severe problems around the Cc phenomenon, ransomware being the prime example of such.
People might see it as harsh but looking at reality and the hard numbers collected about the gigantic negative impact it has on kids and teenagers this is the right move, would even push it till 18.
I always wonder if exchange was still here with SBF, how different things would've been. SBF is certainly to blame but the winners here are bankruptcy lawyers
Great. I think few people have any doubts about social media being a net negative for young people.
The eastern span of the Bay Bridge, which had previously been a cantilever bridge, which was damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, and shown to have quite obvious seismic deficiencies.

Its replacement is a self-anchored suspension bridge.

The original western span, actually a double suspension bridge, remains standing, as constructed in 1933, 91 years ago.
Driving, buying nicotine/lottery/porn, working, being in school, etc.
Looking at Canva’s pricing page makes me glad I have a perpetual license to Affinity’s products. Now the question is, will I ever get any updates to Photo/Design/Publisher? I don’t need new features, but I do care about bug fixes and such.
Solution for teens wanting to be in social media: move to a better state lol
> The law proposed here is a stupid hammer that won't do anything but piss everyone off.

Certainly not everyone.

There are many people that back this.
Wow, what a treasure trove you’ve got there! I’ve subscribed via RSS, in case anything else comes down the pipe :)
Just curious, how did it affect your mental health?
I have Affinity Designer and Publisher, which I've used to design and publish a music fanzine: https://www.glidermag.com

This is slightly worrying news as Canva is the opposite of the Affinity suite: cloud-only and subscription-based. I could purchase brush sets on Affinity for a fixed price, and many were made available on the user messageboard for free.
Agreed the historical record is terrible. However the tide is turning recently under the Albenese Govt.

https://www.reuters.com/world/australia-pm-backs-parliament-...
The trajectory of the ship seemed near perfect right up until just before the bridge where I suspect it experience it's mechanical issue.
I never have my hardware "maxed out". Usually barely 50%. But anyway, all of my Windows using friends have the same problem and find it equally ridiculous. Seems like whatever Windows does by default on our machines is just a not working so well default.
If you're 15, you're not allowed in a bar, and you're not allowed on a porn site, and you're not allowed to buy cigarettes.

The list goes on and on.

I fail to see how not being allowed on Facebook is different.
Notice it's a pedestrian and not a vehicle bridge as well.
not to mention every not-so-serious, inference heavy ML developers just want something to work to deliver to client. That itself is a semi-moat.
Young people? I’d say people in general.
Setting it to 18 is obviously pretty ridiculous. That's just going to continue the weird trend of infantilizing people by pushing back the age at which they learn to deal with things that require self control.

At 16 there are at least 2 years where parents have the ability to actually interfere and help bring any negative effects under control.
This is sadly a recurring phenomenon on all "Social" media, Facebook, Twitter, IG, HN... When a place becomes a "digital village", people tend to upvote/like/pat-on-the-back the known names automatically without applying scrutiny to their words or arguments, if any.
For tulips, growers cut the flowers indeed so that the plant spends no energy on it.
Hard agree. In my view, that's Rust #1 problem in terms of developer experience.
I switched to Capture One years ago, but recently switched back to Lightroom. It’s much much faster now and they also recently launched advanced color editing, AI masks, and true HDR support which pushed me over the edge.
Why 18 and not 25?
>Critics have said the bill violates the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections for free speech and that parents, not the government, should make decisions about the online presence of their children of all ages.

It's extremely difficult for parents to stop their children, especially early teens from using social media. This law should make it easier and it would put the work on Meta, Snap, Tiktok, Pinterest, Twitter to help parents.

I'm personally glad that I grew up without social media but I worry about the kids growing up now. The amount of random junk young kids are exposed to on social media is worrying.
Does this require everyone present a government ID to access anything online? Are international content provider going to be compelled to report transgressions to Florida state authorities?
we are not far from an AI mania
> Any language can be expressed in S-expressions.

I'm not sure this is true for the C preprocessor, though, where macros can represent partial structure.
The demo video was giving me motion sickness.
Usually language is about talking to communicate... This seems more of typing.
For sure they do not work the way the "Path Loss Equation" would have you believe they do. The path loss equation violates conservation of energy ie the frequency or wavelength term depending on how it's structured cannot be in the equation. And the receiving antenna does not have any 'gain' other than physically getting bigger or smaller, though the transmitting antenna can have gain depending on shape and size. That is, the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna work very differently. Yes, end to end the path loss equation gives the right answer but in between it's scientifically illiterate.
Oh jesus christ, can we stop with the acquisitions?
Only if the option was implemented as a user preference which isn’t stored in the file. The right way to do this would be to add the flag as a file header, and give people a UI control to set it by default. That way you’d always see spreadsheets as the person who gave it to you did, and you would create new ones with your preferred behavior.
isn't this misguided? good regulation would go after why sites are designed to be addictive / target children - targeted ads.
Panzer Dragoon (the rail shooter) might have but not Panzer Dragoon Saga (the RPG). That was never re-released and the source code was lost.
Does anyone know where to find the actual law text? Otherwise it's hard to assess, what this really means.
I hope you’re wrong as well! As a casual creative with the occasional need for photo editing and vector design tools, I could never justify the price for an Adobe subscription. But I’ve happily bought Affinity Photo and Design. They aren’t as polished as their Adobe counterparts, but the price was just right. I wouldn’t sign up for a monthly subscription.