skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with "prevents fair competition" with regards to iMessage is that there were plenty of chances for fair competition and others (particularly Google) kept messing it up. How many chat platforms did they blow through?

I can absolutely install other messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc.) on my iPhone and contact other people on an Android device using that app. The thing that keeps me from doing so isn't the fact that said applications are locked out of a decent percentage of the phone market, but that the network effect helps Apple. Most of my friends don't know, or care to know, what Signal is, even though it's a better application re: privacy than iMessage.
Big Tech Has Slashed Its Office Presence in San Francisco by Half
I think of as tragically a BBC ase of oversupply. We have more people than we can employ in meaningful tasks that can generate enough to pay for a comfortable life. This is the Malthusian correction in action, and a pretty gentle one at that.

Still sucks to see it consume the lives and souls of my friends.
Where did you get >30mins from? OpenAI themselves said Sora is limited to 60 seconds, and most of their examples were less than 20 seconds long.
Announcing GoogleSquared, it's an entity which is entitled to precisely half of Googles profit (or loss) in any year before stock buy backs and dividends. It will buy back exactly as many shares of stock as Google does every year, issue exactly as many stocks as Google does every year to exactly the same entities, and issue exactly the same dividends, and do nothing else.

Every google stock owner gets 1 share per share of google stock.

(perhaps thumbing the nose a bit too much, but the general idea...)
If you're going to use Makefiles as a top-level build wrapper you might be interested in self-documenting targets.

https://marmelab.com/blog/2016/02/29/auto-documented-makefil...
The algorithm is made available; may be of interest to HN comp sci community. Fused multi-modal electron tomography reconstructs three-dimensional chemical models by solving an optimization problem seeking a solution that strongly agrees with (1) the HAADF modality containing high SNR, (2) the chemically sensitive spectroscopic modality (EELS and/or EDX), and (3) encourages sparsity in the gradient domain producing solutions with reduced spatial variation.
> American workers by and large believe they'll retire at 65, the nation's traditional retirement age

I'd have expected workers in the US to by and large believe they'll retire at 67, because that for anyone born in 1960 or later that is the age you get full Social Security benefits.

The last people to get full SS benefits at 65 were those born before 1943. Those born 1943-1954 got full benefits at 66. For those born between then and 1960 the full benefit age gradually increases from 66 to 67.

You can start collecting SS at 62, but your benefit is reduced for each month you start before your full benefit age. You can also delay starting benefits up until age 70, and for each month you delay your monthly benefit goes up.

Whether you should start collecting early, at full benefit age, or delay depends on how long you are going to live so you have to somewhat guess.

There's a certain age that is the breakeven point. If you die at that age you will have collected the same total amount regardless of when you started collecting benefits. For me that age is 79. They calculate that age based on life expectancy, so for young workers today when they get near retirement age the breakeven age will probably be higher that.

If you are going to die before your breakeven age you get the most by starting benefits early. If you are going to live past it you get more by delaying benefits. For example, let's call the amount I'd collect if I lived to exactly my breakeven age, 79, my "full amount".

Suppose I am going to die at 73. If I start collecting at 64 I'll have collected 0.6 of my full amount. If I start collecting at 67 I'll only have gotten 0.5 of my full amount. And if if waited until 70 I'd only get 0.33 of my full amount.

On the hand if I die at 85 starting at 64 gets me 1.4 times the full amount, starting at 67 gets me 1.5 times the full amount, and starting at 70 gets me 1.65 times the full amount.
That sounds horrible.

Maybe Apple should open up their ecosystem, that way multiple other app stores can compete and drive that percentage price down to zero.
I wouldn’t give so much credit to Christianity, or any religion. The modern west is built on enlightenment ideas, not least of which is the separation of church and state.
https://archive.ph/NuFFg
Just curious, with the web app, how has the experience been for your Apple users vis a vis the Androids? Are you seeing some reduction in expected footfall because of your web app decision?
As a citizen of a civilized country with properly funded and educated emergency services, it's baffling to me that the US faces these relatively simple problems. In my country, a police patrol would respond along with the ambulance. The three officers would restrain the person if necessary. Since there are three of them in a patrol car, since they have proper equipment (and don't carry firearms) and proper training, they don't have to hurt anyone to restrain the person and let the medics do their jobs.
I think the person you're replying to may have been referring to the problem of a MLP approximating a sine wave for out of distribution samples, i.e. the entire set of real numbers.
I mean there's no search. They compute probabilities but it's not a lookup table.
Yeah me and my wife rented an electric car once, and we'll never do it again. Recharging it before returning basically adds another hour to the return process (between the detour and the charge).
How many hours do you spend at the supermarket? I'm usually in and out in 10 minutes, that isn't much of a charge.

Also, how many charging stations are there compared to the number of parking spaces? The markets I've seen have 2 charging stations with about a hundred parking spaces. The stations are always in use, so they're fairly useless unless you want to hang around for most of the day.
> In fact, I'd argue that iMessage has been one of the most successful implementations of EEE ever. Maybe only behind ActiveX and Microsoft's slow adoption of web standards in the late 90s - mid 00s (but MS never actually replaced HTML or JavaScript with its proprietary stuff).

Is it? Globally, iMessage is far from the most popular messaging application. If it's an attempt at EEE it's not a great one. IE was far more successful in degree and longevity of impact.

And no, they didn't. They just implemented CSS and other things exactly counter to the spec in a number of spots, along with other incompatibilities in order to make developers have to choose: 80% to 90% of the market, or conform to standards?

> That perfectly describes iMessage if we're to believe all the commentary on social media about how iPhone users get the "ick" from seeing a green bubble.

The only people who care about that their own messages on their own phones show up as green bubbles are children. The rest of the world doesn't give a shit. They see green bubbles because they use WhatsApp.
Martin Lomasney lived from 1859-1933, so I suppose it was around the time (1876) that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, but he certainly predates email!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lomasney

https://thewestendmuseum.org/news/the-life-legend-and-lesson...
Reversing the Real-Estate Doom Loop Is Possible. Just Look at Detroit
I'm not saying they got free insulin and robot hearts; I'm saying they got standard-of-care medicine in many cases without exposing themselves to medical bankruptcy.

>But this is really all besides the point. The point is that prices are high because the system is fucked up. Prices aren't twice as high as Europe because the companies more greedy here. It is the same companies! The difference is the system. Different laws and institutions

And who, pray tell, lobbies against changing laws and institutions in the United States re: drug pricing? The industry itself: both drug manufacturers and the insurance companies that pay for them. Ultimately a switch to a system like that found in, say, Europe, reduces the pool of money that gets spent on medicines every year in the United States. That's bad for their bottom lines.
I agree that the solution is unrealistical. But not for this reason: the "no limit" is also arbitrary and people do not agree if this is right. Moreover, lots of people do not agree with regulations and norms in society, but society creates these things and people learn to comply to live in society.
The book goes beyond Gradle configuration; it delves into the development of Gradle plugins that integrate with the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) and other essential build tools, such as AAPT2, Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), and Bytecode manipulators.

With the help of multiple hands-on demos and case studies, you will learn how to craft Gradle plugins and tasks, how to integrate with the AGP APIs, and best practices for architecting, testing, and debugging Android builds. EAB explains not only "what" and "how", but also "why"—the art behind Gradle and AGP designs.

The first half of the book (over 300 pages) is open to everyone to read. Check it out via the link.
AIUI, the companies are required to collect that data but are not allowed to use it as part of the hiring process.

My work and education history points to me being most likely a white Irish guy! http://brianhenry.ie/cv

> The EEOC collects workforce data from employers with more than 100 employees ... Employers meeting the reporting thresholds have a legal obligation to provide the data; it is not voluntary.

https://www.eeoc.gov/data/eeo-data-collections
> no, scraping data is bad because this is against owners wishes

The broadcasters weren't happy about home cassette recording either, and the case went all the way up to the supreme court. If I can legally record cable, then it's nit a stretch to say I can also "record" what's on the public Internet for my own use.

Morally speaking, we have to consider the other side of the equation - operator may not be happy about being scraped, but as a user, is it okay for me to build or use a scraper-based price-comparison or price-tracking platform? I'd say yes, even though most sellers wouldn't want to have this data scraped.
here's a fun book called Land of Lisp. It'll give you a reason to work in Emacs, and you can start learning Lisp too.

https://www.amazon.com/Land-Lisp-Learn-Program-Game/dp/15932...

I keep a journal in Org Mode, and that's how I've learned to use emacs.
Reid Hoffman interviewed his AI deepfake and it was pretty convincing
Steve Jobs would have agreed with you at one point.

I'm not sure what changed his mind (or if he ever even really did), but he also thought that aside from the native apps that came with the iPhone, everything else should just be a web app.
The vast majority of people complaining about Apple aren't Apple customers because they don't agree with Apple's business practices or treatment of customers, I don't think that's surprising or invalidates those opinions.

I tend to agree that the focus on "3rd party app stores" is stupid, I'd much rather we force computer vendors to have unlockable bootloader's and focus on consumer rights legislation, ensuring people can own the things they buy.
Hertz's fees for recharging (if you return with less than 80%) are pretty reasonable in my experience. It's a bit more expensive than using a fast charger, but often worth it for the convenience.
> Restraining orders are a thing for a reason.

Sure, but for the purposes of this conversation, saying "for a reason" regarding a function which is presently delegated to the state is fraught with all sorts of future-proofing concerns.

It seems to me that, as a baseline, we have to agree to observe the apparent trend of the internet to supplant the state - to resist its censorship and influence almost entirely - as an indicator that our long-term thinking needs to put those relatively few state functions which are essential to a peaceful society (such as restraining orders) in the purview of the internet... somehow. Maybe that will prove to be unnecessary, but in the case that the state fades, we'll be happy we had the foresight.

Internet traffic is barely (and arguably, already not) under human control as it is. And in another century, it will almost certainly be impossible to tell the machines 'enhance your calm or else'. Or else what?

I agree wholeheartedly about your qualities of good neighbor roles. But I don't think they extrapolate the way you think they do.

Consider this: at every moment, your house - your literal dwelling - is bombarded with high-level, semantic radio traffic, from way down where the messages bounce off the ionosphere all the way up to 10GHz and beyond. But this doesn't bother you. You ignore what you don't need! You draw boundaries and personally work on strengthening them - with the help of your friends and neighbors.

The internet needs help taking this shape at the application layer (and really, at all layers). And that part is up to us. We can't just throw our hands up and say "<legacy state function> exists for some reason, doesn't it?"
Bodies found in Neolithic pit were likely victims of ritualistic murder
It's broken on iOS. It asks to turn to landscape but the screen doesn't expand.
It doesn't have to be "you can't replace SMS" because that would be stifling to innovation. It could simply be "messaging protocols should be open and/or interoperable".

The web is what it is today because its open. The telephone network is what it is today because its interoperable. Imagine if the web was bifurcated based on the operating system you wanted to use (that was Microsoft's vision in the late 90s and early 00s: to create a large section of the web that required Windows). Imagine if a Verizon customer had a limited feature set when calling an AT&T customer (like the inability to leave a voicemail for instance). No one would tolerate these things. But yet people will argue in favor of this with messaging (as long as its Apple doing it)
>It's either: I hold him down and the medic gives him 5mg of midazolam or he's the cop's problem.

That's unacceptably dangerous without knowing what drugs the bleeding person is on. Even alcohol makes the risks of giving midazolam increase significantly.
Of course Google didn't make the web site bad, you did. In a purely practical sense you changed the site, not them.

Which leads us to the "why" of it. Which is you wanted to monetize the site (if only to cover its costs.) Since advertising seems to be the business model of the internet that's your first port of call.

But here's a site that performs a task. Quite who uses this site is unclear. Sure lots of people might use it (for some definition of lots) but the site doesn't really give signals to adsense.

Conversely Adsense sells ads based on "targeted users". Which means your original site is pretty useless to Adsense.

Ok,I'm simplifying here, but what ads do you think -should- be shown to your visitors? Ads derived from their browsing history of sites that do intuit user context?

Are users browsing an arbitrary rubbish website more or less likely to be distracted by some special offer? Are people visiting your site to do some very specific task, presumably for a concrete reason, more or less likely to be distracted by an ad?

The problem isn't Google. The problem is that our ability to monetize the web starts and ends with adverts. Which means that sites that "do stuff" are a bad match, and therefore lack funding.

To be honest, I don't have a cunning plan of alternate funding. Probably the only other viable one is "take some of your day-job money and effectively sponsor the site yourself." Which of course is the model you -were- on that you wanted to leave.
Let's all absorb the HN moment when Canadian taxes are preferred to American taxes.
You might be interested in Renovation Angel [0] and the Habitat ReStore’s [1] efforts in this space. It certainly takes a nonprofit equipped to handle this kind of donation, but they’re around in some places.

[0] https://renovationangel.com/
[1] https://www.habitat.org/restores/find-donate-building-materi...
I wish this preference applied to governments as well. No government should have dominion over more than either a a certain percentage of people nor a certain percentage of production capacity.
I keep safari "unblocked" just for this kind of scenario, as sometimes the blocking breaks stuff I want to see that doesn't work otherwise. It's becoming rarer for sure over time. Didn't mean to impinge on safari, it's a great browser that I use for work.
May I ask who you switched to? Looking for alternatives as well.
Remember to do your part by using uBlock Origin. It's essentially a moral imperative at this point.
Now days in the UK & Europe you can use most of the Tesla superchargers with any car. That will soon be the case in the USA too, especially now that NACS is becoming the charging plug standard.
> In Russia they believe that being LGBT is a choice and that it is a choice that is socially harmful. Just like you believe the same wrt drugs.

Except sexual orientation isn’t a choice and drug use is a choice. Except maybe if you’re one of those children born addicted to drugs because of pre-natal exposure.

> Putting that aside, if you believe that democracy is more important than individual rights, then you are in no position to claim that democracy and totalitarianism are incompatible

“Totalitarianism” is defined as “government that is centralized and dictatorial.” Dictatorial is defined as referring to “a ruler with total power.” So defimitinally totalitarianism is a form of minoritarianism. A government that imposes rigid norms based on broad social consensus isn’t dictatorial. Toxic individualists might deem such a government oppressive, but that doesn't make it dictatorial.
Would they? The Go process is still running in userspace, and required already having kernel access to start it
I think that's mostly where I've had it, yeah, but I know I've had some desserts that used it, and it's all I can taste. I wonder if it's anything like cilantro, where it tastes inedible to some people and delicious to others... Or if it tastes the same to everyone and I'm just not a fan
> It's actually very simple. If I'm in a position to restrict access to the data, then I own it, unless there is some legal authority that has jurisdiction over me that says I must make it available to the public.

So, in which jurisdiction are you? Because in US courts have confirmed multiple times that scraping public websites is legal.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/
Isn't that true for many if not most laws? We don't not have taxes just because lots of people will argue they're too high or too low, we don't not have a criminal justice system because people will argue sentences are too harsh or too lenient.

Instead, for things deemed worth having as law, we try to set the rules at levels that as many people as possible find as reasonable as possible (albeit in an imperfect way because there's indeed no way to get universal agreement on anything, and because not everyone acts in good faith when choosing, and because money influences politics too much, and all the other reasons why democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others).
> Do you apply this ethics to webs scraping only, or to all other network communications too?

I mean... if you're keying in at 20MHz and blasting a gigawatt of noise, then yeah you've certainly run afoul of decency and just law. You're changing the physical shape of the network environment.

But if the concern is just that we don't like the bytes to which your signal decodes, or we don't like what you're doing with the response we give you, then it seems more like a speech/press issue.

The internet needs to grow resilience such that annoyances in the logical layers are easy to ignore if you have the will. But that almost certainly means that you don't get to police what people do with the content you willingly hand over, pursuant to the protocol in use.
You can also use objcopy to generate a object file from a resource file.
I'll believe you when every home in America has a fusion reactor.
I'm not really interested in selectively applying the definition, if you're using terrorism to further a goal or ideology, you're a terrorist, regardless of whose "side" you're promoting with your terrorism. I didn't realize this was something people split hairs over, but I do agree that most or all governments are either terrorists, or at least use terrorism as a tool.
What's wrong with telling Google or whoever what you think your demographic is, and letting them place ads against it and optimize based on metrics.

Why are words so important?
They penned two briefs, the one you linked to was never filed with the court (it “sides” with the police). The one they filed with the court is different. You can read about it here and both are linked: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/10/28/babylon-bee-files-amicu...
Have an LLM at 0 temperature with the correct answers in context grade it?
How big is your country? How diverse is its population? These things matter.
If I recall, Hertz requires 80% which is still terrible, considering the low range of some of their vehicles and that DC fast charging above 80% gets much slower against all that voltage pressure. So you can double your total charging time to get to 100% (accelerating battery wear in the process) or charge to 85% and hope that the 10 miles to the airport won't take more 5%.
But Vitamin D3 is rat poison! And they give drops of the stuff to toddlers, and put it into milk!
I was being pretty sarcastic with my comment, I agree with you, that mentality does not absolve anyone of guilt. I meant that thinking in those terms inoculates the person from feeling the guilt they absolutely should feel over contributing to evil.
That's what I was saying with my comment, yes
I believe it’s important to not throw out the baby with the bathwater here. My belief is that much of modernism can be made such that people can thrive in it, but this simply hasn’t yet been a goal for the powers that be.

Much of the problems with cities for instance boil down to them being built for cars, not people. Simply replacing roads with greenery-laden paths for biking and walking would make cities much more conducive to mentally healthy citizens.

I don’t really buy this idea that’s been floating around the internet for a while now that humanity must return to thatch hut villages in the woods in order to be able to thrive.
are you saying that their reasons were mental; aka totally bonkers logic, or that they are claiming the person has mental issues? I'll agree with the former, but if the latter, then that's even more infuriating that someone suffering gets physically assaulted because Officer Bumpkin is untrained in deescalation and only trained in ratcheting up to use of violence.
That is not the headline. The headline is "China Unveils Vidu: A Powerful Text-to-Video Generator" and the body literally says "the generated videos are not at Sora's level". Impressive tech but don't lie for clickbait.
This math works as long as you don’t care about your personal contribution to climate change.
I had actually been thinking of this specific scenario whenever I wrote the above comment. People refer to the medication you are referencing as “horse dewormer” like it’s a bad thing - in reality it’s also a “people dewormer” as well that has been used safely as a first line anti-parasitic in humans for over 50 years.
Here's a paper about the batteries they used, but I don't see any mention of temperature testing below 0°C:

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tjsass/66/6/66_T-22-48/...