skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox is funded by Google.

Apple gets billions from Google, funding quite a bit of their R&D.

Most of the open source software you use including the Linux kernel has a bunch of contributors from Google.

Going one step further, Google has a large hand in open standards for everything, from wifi to programming languages.

I'm not saying you should avoid these, it's just interesting that you can take so many non-typical steps to avoid google and still mandatorily have them involved in all of your technology.
I suspect that if it going to happen, it will happen a lot closer to the actual election. By having it close to the day, it gives less time for it to be proven false.
Ya sorry we're moving stuff around
I mean, bitcoin is a lot more anonymous if you host your own wallet and don't cash out through an exchange (or don't cash out at all) - you're just a number. That's definitely not the modal use case today (where its primary use is as a vehicle for ~~gambling~~financial speculation denominated in dollars), but was a lot more common 10 years ago when that project was created.
Life isn't an RPG where you read the gamefaqs and do an ULTIMATE BUILD. Your sense of self is a story, it's a narrative we tell ourselves, something we've evolved so that we can simulate our environment over and over and over and over in our heads without losing the thread. The idea that you're a meat machine being steered through the world by some disembodied entity - that you happen to identify with - is an illusion.

I'm going to feel like a real tool for quoting this, but I like the line they added to the new Dune movie: "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

Now, this could be due to the fact that I've hed singular, terrible moments of energetically bad luck. Lots of them. And this sci-fi pseudo-dao is just a part of my personal narrative that keeps me from racking a slide on just the one bullet. But everyone, everyone everyone is going to have one of these moments. Dao isn't the solution, but resilience is part of one.
4 months to get back on track organizationally after laying off 17% of the work force? That seems pretty realistic actually.
Reminds me of the shudder of fear that "stranger danger" induces in parents, even though evidence suggests massively more risk to children is from those known to them. Stranger danger also ties in with other recall aspects reinforcing it further.
LTSC IOT is pretty new still, I wouldn't be surprised that an 18 month old build isn't quite having problems yet.

But by the end of 2020, there were a number of games that just wouldn't work on 1809, which was the most recent LTSC build available at the time. Even things like Gamepass flat out did not work.

It's all moot to me though, the WSL2 improvements in Windows 11 are enough to not want to go back.
Omits the very interesting AlphaSmart Dana and Neo devices.
Crime is often studied using victimization surveys, e.g. polling how many people consider having been a victim of a crime last year. Exactly to control for differences in law enforcement and crime reporting over time and location.

Violent crime and property crime victimizations both dropped over 70% between 1993 and 2022.

Your view of the situation doesn't reflect the reality. This is the case for most Americans: people think crime has increased, even though it has plummeted.

Propaganda works.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...

Edit: fixed some wrong calculations.
Zero code changes? No matter how complex and MySQL specific the logic is?
Or there is large scale number fudging and fraud.

Just remember no one is auditing what views, likes and clicks count Google and Facebook tell you, you are getting. Advertisers just milk corporations. They dont care if the numbers are fake. They are now trained to tell everyone to spend more or you dont get attention someone else will.

As Goldharber once famously said , about the Attention Economy - people have limited attention to give anything but infinite capacity to receive attention.

No one likes to hear or believe they dont really have any influence when the system is signalling they do. So the ponzi scheme grows larger and larger.

There is a great book about it (from an ex-googler) called the Subprime Attention Crisis.

No one knows what to do about it so everyones head is buried deep in the sand.

We need new attention allocation systems that are not market driven.
But you cannot advocate to extend the current rules for the profit of your company.
I have the same objection when people talk about defining set theories in such a way as to avoid the paradoxes. We don't avoid or work around the paradoxes: they are mistakes. We simply do things correctly, we do what we can do.
"Small Language Models" for on-device use. Neat.

> The eight OpenELM models come in two flavors: four as "pretrained" (basically a raw, next-token version of the model) and four as instruction-tuned (fine-tuned for instruction following, which is more ideal for developing AI assistants and chatbots)
Did you get the disturbing realization that Russia gets data on the materiel too?
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I live in Australia!! Though I'm from Canada originally.

When I first started travelling to Australia in 2000, I was amazed by how small all the food was. Plates where tiny, drinks were 1/3 the size of North American (except beer).

Australia has caught up, and serving sizes have increased to near North American sizes. I wonder what affect this will have on Australian life expectancy in the next decade.
Here's what an organized Substack / HN plagiarism campaign looks like
I posted this comment to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40162930, but it deserves a standalone submission.

Someone is plagiarizing blog posts at scale, using many of different throwaway HN accounts and fake Substack blogs.

They appear to be going through old Hacker News submissions, finding the source pages that were submitted, and then publishing those posts on new Substack blogs that they created.

The most recent one, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40162930 , was stolen from https://web.archive.org/web/20110416092916/https://jinfiesto...

Here's when the real post was submitted to HN, back in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440364

OP, would you care to share more about your scam? What do you get from it?

Here's other examples where they did the same thing using different Substack blogs and different HN accounts - this is just a subset:

11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5337525 (plagiarized and submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081175)

12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425331 (plagiarized and submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091392)

13 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3154446 (plagiarized and submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40150949)
Nothing would be more exciting for theoretical physicists than a small black hole in the solar system. It would allow “immediate” access to direct experimental evidence of quantum gravitational phenomena that would otherwise require a round trip journey measured in tens of millennia.

Think about the funding this would unlock: long-duration deep space missions, particle accelerators in space, etc…

It would be a new renaissance for science.
VR needs low latency and a lot of computing power. It is hard to make it flexible.

That's why, a few generations ago at least, game consoles are so much more efficient. Consoles have fixed and specialized hardware, and developers can tune their games to take advantage of every single bit. No need to accommodate for different specs, no costly abstraction layers, no random tasks running in the background,...
By way of example: when I worked on payment code in Java, we accepted numeric JSON values in request payloads but they were deserialized into "BigDecimal" fields in our payload classes, not "float" or "double".
Tell me how you're going to use voice input in a library, or for that matter any environment where noise is socially frowned upon.

Voice input can definitely function as a primary source of input, but you're always going to need a secondary source as a backup.
You can get what you want, but only along with others
It's more than just one thing. A lot of rich people value their career highly and wouldn't want to sacrifice the time for kids.

That said, the correlation within developed countries between income and how many kids you have varies IIRC, some places richer people have more kids, in other places they have fewer.
He should make a PR to change it back to the correct spelling of his name.
They couldn’t seat the fifth person (democrat) because the GOP was blocking it. As soon as the person was seated, they moved forward with restoring net neutrality. Hands were tied until then because they couldn’t get the 3-2 vote. They didn’t have 5 until September 2023 so it’s been just over half a year
Do not work for Atlassian. You have been warned.

https://shitlassian.com/shitlassian-how-atlassian-fired-me-b...
Which is why most consumers didn't notice.

CA making something a rule makes it a very strong incentive to follow it nationwide.
That's the real bar for any security, really - make it so it's not worth the while of people who could defeat it.

Because eventually, no matter what you do, if you're up against a nation state, they'll just make you dead.
htmx is hypermedia oriented in that, when it makes network exchanges, those are in terms of hypermedia, which differentiates it from most js libraries. Not all, there is unpoly, Hotwire, etc as well.

Sse and web sockets are extensions. Hx-on is to address the fact that standard on* attributes can only handle fixed events, but I agree it is wandering away from the core hypermedia functionality of htmx. I was on the fence on adding it, but relented when we found a good mechanism for supporting it (xpath) and some long time users expressed that they wanted to avoid needing something like alpine for the simple scripting use cases of their apps.

Htmx also fires a lot of events and I don’t make a secret of the fact that scripting is part of fieldings description of the web and perfectly acceptable in a hypermedia driven application:

https://hypermedia.systems/client-side-scripting/
meta.ai and groq, even bing copilot work for me. Google usage for me has reduced a lot. As such I’m not optimistic about google’s search business.
>Wearing nice clothes, hair kept tidy, etc

I can tell you've never met me.
It's smart because you have deep control of bugwards compatibility, and can swap parts of the stack later.
Induction is basically the first thing you learn in your freshman intro to proofs class. Probably US high school geometry classes teach it too, I don't remember, but it can be easily taught to sophomore high school students. So you saying it's not intuitive is a bias that came from your previous experience, not from reality.

Induction is literally the simplest type of proof you do in math, and of course there's a 1-1 relationship between induction and recursion. Induction is also the basic way that you discover/invent an algorithm in CS, which is usually taught in junior level CS algorithms classes in all the top colleges.

So I think it's just a problem with people just not learning a fairly simple concept or just skipping intro to algo classes altogether.
Funny, because that's exactly what Stripe does (https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/pr...)
Now make a hybrid version with a truck bed big enough for major appliances a la an El Camino to compete with the Maverick.
Turning 37 next week.

Saying everything above as someone who's switched advisors (and field of study) five years into their PhD program, and finished it.

I strongly feel that the "myth of second chance" rhetoric is just sunk cost fallacy by another name.

Especially given the conspicuous lack of concrete examples in that rant.

----

PS: You sounds skeptical of what I say. May I ask your age? Defeatism seems to be a feature of the younger generation these days.
; At this time, for DOS 4.00, we only have maximum 11 bytes left
; for translation.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/BOOT/...
What about DOS 3.3 ? to me that was better than 4.0, but maybe people who know DOS 4 src and fix the issues :)
Perhaps those conservatives you're referring to would like to vote for a more moderate candidate, but they are chained to the Republicans via First Past The Post voting.
Was it a ban? Also yes
I think this point is fair given that "AI" is a highly provisional term.

This point implicitly re-frames the capability as search engine, and steers away from any idea of thought as an innate capability the AI device.

As long as as the oracle's answer is expected to require human verification, what's going on is a human thought amplification (bulldozer for for the mind, to quote a famous computational linguist).

Even taking the point as an upside, I see tremendous hazards for human-mediated oracles (as already observed by many others): that the "well" of the commons can be polluted by AI output feeding back into the training sets, and that human hallucinations are amplified.

From a POV of ethics, hallucination is absolutely intolerable in human decision-making in industrial settings.

Yet industrial users seem not just tolerant of AI acting crazy but completely accepting and forgiving of AI craziness. It's routinely considered to be interesting and exciting to see it go wrong and tremendous effort attends trying to steer the craziness in new directions, whereas in a human setting the hallucinating agent would be disqualified from participation.

The IT industry is taking very dangerous tacks without a second thought. I recently saw a job posting for a firm called UpCodes that invites junior web stack programmers to add LLM tech to building code compliance systems as follows:

https://up.codes/careers?ashby_jid=1ed9b2d6-86fb-4ff0-9dff-4...

//
EXAMPLE PROJECTS
• Use an LLM to identify references to other sections in the text of the law
• Create Rap Genius-style annotations on sections of building code, to create a more interactive user experience
• Write algorithms to detect and display how versions of a code have changed through time, so users understand how regulations have evolved
• Migrate our NLP algorithms over to use LLMs
//

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

And what qualifications, standards and practices are demanded of this developer position?

//
• 3+ years of experience building web products, ideally across the stack
• Clean simple code, even when solving complex problems
• Strong sense of UX
• Good systems design
• Ability to learn new tech quickly
//

DONE AND DONE
What’s the argument for either? They are, of course, equivalent… might as well pick the one where bigger=better.
There are lots of comments here assuming they demanding breakable encryption. That's not what Burgess wants. He already has what he wants in the "Assistance and Access Bill (2019)". That bill allows his agencies to force software companies (eg, Google, Apple, Microsoft) to install spyware on devices like phones and laptops, so they can look at the data while it isn't encrypted.

It won't be a popular opinion here, but I think it's a fairly well targeted bill. It insists on Judicial oversight. It literally bans introducing "systemic weaknesses" that China could exploit, such as backdoor keys for encryption algorithms. My only problem with it is I think Australian citizens should be informed about how often the Australian government uses these power to spy on its own citizens, but the level of reporting it has is pitiful. That is easily fixed, and maybe some enlightened government will address it one day. Until it is fixed Burgess's “accountable encryption” is a fiction.

Reading between the lines, Burgess is complaining the software companies are stonewalling the requests they are making using the said bill. Quelle surprise. Still, he has the stick. I think this speech is him warning the software companies he's going to use it if they don't pick up their game.
Right. But if you have a finite space of possible i2c devices it's not quite that bad. You can scan for known addresses and there are frequently mitigations for clogging FIFOs - like clocking out the bus or forcing a reset - that you might have to do anyway, depending on what your failure modes for power sequencing are. i2c is just fine when it works, but there are reasons why it can be worth spending the extra pins for SPI.
Maybe we need to start doing like my university's math and engineering departments did to combat plagiarism: keep a very long history of automatic Bayesian and structural similarity analysis of every electronic homework and lab submission from a multitude of participating campuses.

Sounds like a viable startup business idea IYAM but would need institutional and/or platform champions for initial beta users.
Perhaps we have differing definitions of “significant” and/or “effort”.
I kind of hate the fact that the term "API" has lost its generality in the minds of a huge number of practitioners, and people now assume it refers to a set of network (usually HTTP) request and response formats.

It's great that we have a succinct word to describe programmatic interfaces built on top of HTTP. It's not great that there's no longer a universally-understood word for the original more general meaning even though, as this thread demonstrates, the original meaning is still as relevant as ever.
I am confident, from remembering the troubles other students had when recursion was introduced, that recursion is indeed very difficult for some students.

I'm not even sure that iteration was easy for them.

Just because it is easy for one person does not make it easy for another. There are some people who love high school geometry and hate high School trigonometry, and vice versa, because the former deals with proofs for the most part and the latter deals with application (at least when I was taught it).
Immersive AI Reading App for Apple Vision Pro
Don't forget.. As of February 2024, there are approximately 3.6 billion Android users worldwide, spread across 190 countries.
When there is only "telecom" and not "telecoms", Ottawa will have to rephrase that.
> Family name is unique in the US.

No, it is certainly not. The assumption a name is unique is a fallacy.

Besides, what did you do - search the millions of public comments for your mother's name on the off chance it was used? And her comment was "in support of Comcast", whatever that means?

Using a dead person's name for a public comment is also not a smart way to poison the outcome either. 95% of citizens weren't going to leave a comment anyway - so just use living people's names if for some reason you feel the need to use a real name at all - it would make it at least plausible a real comment was submitted. After all, wow many Frank Smith's do you think exist in Ohio, for instance?

There's enough real stuff regarding this issue, we don't need to add fake anecdotes.
I obliged

DOSHIT:
INC [HIT_DOS]
> The bare minimum includes the following data: a customer’s name, address, the means and source of payment for each customer’s account, email addresses and telephone numbers, and IP addresses used for access or administration of the account.

...for basically anything online. Including for example DNS serving (edit: oh, maybe that's DNS buying?)!

That's a lot of services that I'm about to quit, if this is required. Hell no. No way am I going to be tracked by everyone

This awful & I kind of hope they try anyways then fail. That it's a disaster.

Definitely resuggests the need for Local First software, software that lets us pick where we want to send our data off to.

Such miserable nonsense. One of those days where I wish my country weren't so insufferable & inept & greedy. As usual all it takes is Fear Uncertainty and Doubt terrormongering to blow up privacy & rights, to intrude deeper.

Edit: on the upside, other countries can find a huge edge & innovate by not being legally-mandatedly shitty!
Containers are mostly better no?
Sen. Lummis: It'll Pay to 'Choose Circle over Tether' Under Stablecoin Proposal
I don’t hate it, but I don’t see that much use in the extra layer of abstraction. The docs aren’t that great either
This can't be stated enough.

They could not get away with it. Otherwise, they would. There is little to no competition in the segment. And that must change.
“Graceful sunsetting”
He could also just go with a "soft dollarisation" in which USD is declared to be legal tender, alongside the peso–and then see what happens next.

From what I heard (from Argentines I know), a lot of Argentine professionals desire to be paid by their employers in USD not peso, but that is technically illegal (not to say it doesn't sometimes happen anyway). Making that completely legal could be a step towards increasing use of USD and reducing use of peso in the Argentine economy.
There are so many ways in which the Django upgrade process could be worse, and IMO very few ways in which it could be better. Not really sure how this is a “problem”.
> The Republican party is the party of unification and engagement.

The anti-LGBT party with a well-known track record of racism is the party of unification?

No...no it's not. They're the party, that when asked to NOT be anti-LGBT and not be racist, cries about their freedom being repressed.

The Republican party is the party of authority, tradition (Which is not necessarily a virtue), and conformity. They're the party of freedom, but only if you're a white Christian male, bonus points if you're rich.

The Republican seeks to oppress minorities, and then when asked to not be hateful, act like they're a victim of thought policing. They spew hateful messages on social media, get rightfully banned for it, and then pretend they got banned for their conservative views, which of course is pretty telling.

No, they're anything BUT the party of unification. They USED to be, but they let some loudmouth idiots become the face of the party.
As Scott mentioned in the blog post, we were able to get this running on one of my original IBM XTs with an original IBM monochrome display adapter and display. It was very cool to be able to switch between a running version of a small game, Turbo Pascal, and a DOS prompt with a single key press.

It is always great to have period software on period hardware!

(added: Short video of it running - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPPNbaQaumk)
I’m just reasoning from my limited experience and the article. Stripe unifies those reasons codes. Increase doesn’t. It might be that the Chargeback has the processor and chargeback code as attributes.

So rather than have a universal “goods and services not received”, it’s a 13.1 for Visa, a 4855 for MasterCard and a F30 for Amex. This matters when the boundaries are different. For example, they all split up the categories of fraud differently.
I wasn't familiar with circle, but apparently they create USDC
https://www.circle.com/en/
> I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a less than noble ulterior motive behind this push

"Oh your power is out? Guess you should have purchased a ElektriciT+ subscription! YOUR FAULT!"