skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think that’s the case. People do care if they find out, which is the reason these things are usually some combination of buried in legalese, opt out (rather than opt in) unclear that you can opt out of or not easy to opt out of.

Edit: For example, in order to opt out without a membership you need to provide your street address.

> If Costco passes this revenue down to consumers

If they explicitly offered to pay people cash to track them, uptake would be nowhere near 100%. And this isn’t even as good as that, since as you say the payment would only be in the form of coupons which may or may not materialize.
Look up technitium dns
are they not all-in on remix/js now? or is the backend side all still rails?
Same with the UAE
fwiw, the most beneficial way of doing this for Costco is also relatively private. That is, companies tell Costco who they want to target and then costco shows the ads on their behalf. This maximizes value for Costco because advertisers have no alternative to paying Costco each and every time they want to show an ad. It also mostly prevents data exfiltration.
Why build the transcontinental railroad when there's hardly a market for it?

- dude on the internet in the early 1800s
There's also the good old trick of measuring duration between two instants and using that as a (crude) randomness source.

Also on Linux there's the AT_RANDOM entry in the aux vector, which provides any program with 16 random bytes.
really? I care.

actually most people DO care, but businesses purposefully have added enough friction so that the common person gives up.
Note to 6 out of the 7 commenters so far: this article is about distributed systems, not lying per se. I'm hoping this is not a bellwether of how many HN readers actually read the article.
Correct. But you also can't expect an unaffiliated group of people to each individually decide to inconvenience or disadvantage themselves in order to punish bad behavior. The customers are the victims of an enormous power and organization imbalance here. If only there were some means by which the people could could all get together and decide on rules that benefitted them.
Goes to show how difficult and important execution is. There was also Hangouts vs Zoom.
Although I sometimes wonder how much survivor bias there is in these stories.

How many misfit teams failed?

Which is not to defend corporate hyper-control at all. But I suspect that knowing how often skunkworks projects work, and how success can be affected by different personalities and corporate contexts, might be useful information.
> I’m not from the US.

Even if you are not, your philosophy seems to be from there. Works out to the same.

> I spent 2 years living in Spain

Yeah that should have given you the past, present and future knowledge of all things about Spain.

> Are you claiming that the average Spanish citizen believes that a typical person should be responsible for freeloaders rather than the government?

Excellent example of how you have been talking about a country without knowing about it. Spaniards dont call them freeloaders. Even using that word means that you are American in mentality even if not geographically. The attitude is that if those people need it and some well-off person ends up with okupas in his second house, no one bats an eye and many even would say 'the bastards deserve it'. And anyone who has an extra house is 'well-off'.
Google is known for their work on containers
https://www.costco.com/DNSMIView

lol: This site is protected by reCAPTCHA.
It won’t.
How is this even economical?

Supertall buildings are usually in already super-dense downtown areas where the economics can support the more expensive supertall building because space is at a premium.

Space is not at that kind of a premium in Oklahoma City. The current tallest building is the 50-story Devon Tower at 844 feet. This new skyscraper would be more than twice that.

And if you look at the renderings, it's surrounded by buildings that are mostly five stories tall.

I mean... huh? It doesn't make any sense.
Well said.

It is indeed very weird to claim that UK and France have won in WWII, when they had initially declared war in order to fulfil they alliance obligations toward Poland and Czechoslovakia, but the result of WWII was that both Poland and Czechoslovakia have lost large parts of their territories (like also others of the former allies of UK and France that happened to be neighbors of the Soviet Union).

UK did not won anything in WWII. They have just preserved their integrity like someone whose home was under attack by a gang of robbers and murderers, but they got rid of the attackers by paying another gang of robbers and murderers to do most of the work, and the payment was done not with their own money, but with money stolen from other assault victims (i.e. by giving to Stalin the Eastern Europe, which was not the property of Churchill, for him to have any right to give).

Poland was much luckier than all the other neighbors of the Soviet Union, because much of its territorial loss has been compensated with territories taken from Germany. Therefore, when one compares pre-WWII with post-WWII Europe maps, at the first glance Poland does not seem to have changed much in size. However, after a more thorough look, it becomes obvious that Poland has moved on the map from east to west.
Robot soldiers don't look like humans for the same reasons that bulldozers don't look like Shaq holding a shovel.

Robots that would win the Ukraine war would look like a barrage of drones or missiles (either stealthy or in overwhelming numbers) flying into the air defence radars. There are 100m-wide radio dishes in orbit, the exact location and type of every radar on earth is known. Followed by standoff hammering with precision artillery (both the guns and the shells are fundamentally robotic) and lots more drones and missiles.

The this hasn't happened seems more a question of not revealing capabilities the US feels it might one day need as a trump card. Combined with not wishing to aggravate things to much (they say) or, cynically, not wishing to let the war end until the Russians are bled dry. Don't want them to capitulate while still in possession of anything more advanced than a Mosin-Nagant.
I assumed this was coming once the app became a subscription (is it still a subscription?)
I'm not very familiar with this area, so this is a useful insight. Otherwise I was really confused what's so special about CUDA.
> Not to mention most liberals until five minutes ago.

Some fringe leftists are isolationists, to be sure. Liberals? No.
Demonstrating the workability is trivial. Like I wrote: The concept is very simple and once I explained it to you all questions about it being workable would disappear instantly even without a demo.
Inb4 first skyscraper to be demolished by tornado!
This seems…odd.

What’s the economic case for building a supertall building in a fourth-tier city in flat terrain like this?
You invented all those quotes and then argued against them. I said none of them. It's probably not your intent but it feels like you are coming after me angrily with these long text responses.
Feds charge YouTuber for shooting fireworks at Lamborghini from helicopter
What hype? All I see is cynicism - in the news, on reddit, on here, etc
I love this guy's blog, especially the facebook/instagram css analysis
Meta Bringing Chatbots to WhatsApp in Test of AI Strategy
Matt's blog is a great resource for getting up to speed on CRDTs etc.. especially when working outside the domain of text editing!
Although I agree that is possible, the extreme variations in dosage between individuals could be explained simply by variations in the liver enzymes that metabolize stimulants, and don't necessarily point to different underlying causes of ADHD itself. However- I think the fact that entirely different classes of drugs, including non-stimulant medications, seem to work better for different people with ADHD does point to what you are saying.

In my case I can't tolerate even 2.5mg of adderall, and I also have hypersensitivity to several other non-psychiatric medications that happen to be metabolized by the same enzymes as adderall/amphetamine, so I am nearly certain it is a liver enzyme issue. I do tolerate a reasonably high dose of methylphenidate (ritalin) without any euphoria or insomnia.
I was at NVIDIA at that time working on ML on GPUs. Jensen is indeed a visionary. It’s true as you point out that NVIDIA paid attention to what its customers were doing. It’s also true that Ian Buck published a paper using the GPU for neural networks in 2005 [1], and I published a paper using the GPU for ML in 2008 while I did my first internship at NVIDIA [2]. It’s just not true that NVIDIA’s success in AI is all random chance.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1575717
[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1390156.1390170
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-is-bringing-chatbots-to-wha...
Yes it does? Purely functional, lazily evaluated.. declarative emphasis. Yea all it’s missing is strong typing, which is why I said it’s similar, not the same.
It’s quite common to redirect water sources like this. If the waterfall naturally existed in the same spot before, I don’t see what the problem is.
It is not a bubble :)
But there's a huge amount missing when one just says you deserve the best things. I think his teachings are more about self discipline and making the best of things.
Tiny multidimensional array implementation in C similar to NumPy but only 1 file
I loathe Adobe, and yet we still pay for their products. I hated when they moved to subscription and stuck with CS5.5 for ages.

However as the team grew and we needed seats for our talent, Creative Cloud was a small added cost worth paying.

This might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

But, Libraries were a game changer - especially for those who needed quick, easy access to assets generated by other artists on the team.

And generative fill in photoshop is exceptional.

Still, we’re a much smaller team now and we can absolutely transition our skills to other suites/applications.

I’ve long been an affinity customer just to encourage the development of the alternative. Time to start playing more seriously.
Are you kidding me? You could launch a rocket with those specs.
On Android there is AdGuard which runs a VPN locally to block ads. It can also parse SSL traffic if one installs an SSL certificate but I don't like the idea very much. In the end I just use it as a light adblock for unencrypted traffic when I don't use Firefox.
If there was a prediction market with a bet referencing whether this is built or not in the next 10 years, I would bet heavily against it. This is a $2-3B building, in a metropolitan area of 1.5M people. Finding financing is going to be tricky.

Class A office towers are selling for fractions of their former valuations ($50/sqft) in the metro area I live in which has 2.5x as many people as the OKC area.

If it is built, I think it’ll end up like the Palice of the Parliament/People’s Palace in Bucharest: massively oversized and 70% empty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament
M 3.6 Earthquake, Newport Beach, CA
"We don't want to commit engineering resources to investigating or fixing bugs that only arise when running Windows 11 on older PCs" is a sane, if not particularly consumer or environmentally friendly reason to not support Windows 11 on older PCs (where "older" is arbitrary, and probably has more to do with contractual commitments and marketing requirements than technical considerations).
2^80 is about 10^24, which is a trillion trillion, not a billion trillion. So their estimate of a chance of a collision is off by a factor of 1000.
Who owns the buildings is irrelevant if demand exceeds supply and the occupancy rate is reasonable.

The focus on building ownership is just a distraction from the disastrous immigration policy.
Double click to skip, triple click to track back on a primary button has been the standard headphone input for at least 15 years…
Some people in the 80s thought innovation looked like squeezing a quartz digital clock into every conceivable object.

Some people today think that squeezing an AI image generator into Bing and Facebook is what innovation looks like.
Exact same for me. I played drums in rock bands for years, the first few of which I used no ear protection. It's a miracle my tinnitus isn't worse.

I don't notice it in normal day to day life, but at night when it's quiet at bedtime, it manifests as a high pitched ringing in both ears. For this reason I prefer to run a fan or something that generates white noise at night, which masks it somewhat.
non paywalled local news alternative for the cheap and lazy: https://www.kosu.org/local-news/2024-05-28/plans-for-nations...
> If you need a third party to deliver your mail on your behalf, are you really self hosting?

Obviously yes. Not sure why you're trying to pretend otherwise.

Good luck with that. ;)
Analyzing Chinese Naval Targeting Models in the Open Source
I don't know about uber-tall, but Bank One Tower was a 35 story office building in Ft. Worth Texas that was hit by an F3 tornado in 2000. Plenty of broken glass (https://dmn-dallas-news-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v...) but it survived. They were originally going to tear it down after the tornado but instead converted it to residential.

They were worried about demolishing a building with that much asbestos. According to Wikipedia if they had demolished it, it would have been "the 5th tallest building in the world to be demolished".
Just about everyone does, and has for the decade since store "rewards" cards became ubiquitous.

I am stupefied to find out Costco is this late to this party. I don't even like the party, but it makes me worry about their leadership's awareness of...the entire world? Without some principled reason not to have done this sooner, it's just an awfully big ball to have dropped.
i'm not a biologist (and so maybe it's table-stakes for modern biological research), but this idea of creating personalized in-vitro synthetic biological models to study disease process in individual living beings seems pretty cool to me!
This will never be completed
I don't understand why these major concerts don't have disposable earplug booths. These things probably cost <1 cent to make. You could 50x markup your supply, they'd still be cheap, and attendees would still have their hearing.
Ulpiana - still relevant in Kosovo
Dyrrachium - Durres - modern day Albania
Lissus - Lezha - MOdern day Albania
> With a weak Amlogic processor, 4GB of eMMC storage, and only 512MB of RAM, the device is too underpowered to run anything more demanding than its intended lightweight web-based media player.

I’m a little confused by this statement — those specs are not actually that bad by any means. Running a full linux OS plus a web-based music player is a pretty heavyweight task, all things considered. It sounds like an ideal hacking device to me.
I find this article overly negative. It sucks that Spotify is bricking it but I doubt they care that it’s a potato. You can still do cool things with a potato.
Gets some points for referencing Kermit in its documentation.
Very True.

I still remember when the first iPhone/Android device came out looking for a setting to share my phone storage via SMB/NFS which is almost the first thing you do on a laptop/desktop and not finding any but that you have to pay to buy some app which will allow you to do it. It was then that i realized something very fundamental has changed in the computing services paradigm and for the worse. Services which were taken for granted from the OS were no longer available and every OS feature has been made into an "app for sale", something which was unthinkable when i started off in this industry in the early nineties.
And then the "Cloud" happened and finally the users lost all control over data and software services.
Good question, if you have a library of components you keep around in their own repo.. then with the current feature set of Proto you won't gain much.

If you're like me, I don't keep a library of generic components, so if I wanted to re-use something I've built in the past, I'd first have to go digging through all my old repos to find the piece of code I wanted. The templates feature of Proto allows you to just sign in and pull the code straight from your saved templates (aka, this would be your library of components to use moving forward).

Then, after I found the component I was looking for in one of my old repo's I'd then have to tweak it to fit whatever new design I was building. And in my experience the new design is almost never exactly a match so I end up having to rewrite the markup for the component anyway. Enter ProtoUI's main feature which is just on demand text to UI. You can find one of your old templates and start with that as a base and tweak from there or just start from scratch.

Overall though, I think it's circumstantial and depends on what kind of components you are looking to re-use versus build from scratch.
> that they own 100%

You might be surprised to learn that many small rental properties are heavily mortgaged. Along with insurance and property taxes, the biggest cost is usually mortgage interest. Some owners even lose money for a few years until the rents rise to meet the costs so that they can break even. (These owners are playing the long game, believing that rent and property values will go up over time and eventually their investment will be a good one compared to their other investment options.)
British tech pioneer Mike Lynch acquitted at US fraud trial
Many members also get the credit card/member card. Which means they've also done a credit check. Memberships probably also have age and gender info which is useful for tracking against purchases. The membership model also means it would be really easy for them to add certain allowances for data collection (eg, in-store surveillance tracking to see where certain age groups go in the store and where they linger and what they look at.)
The problem imho is that a lot of people, not only "the very rich" but also some very "middle class" people/families, have access and can make use of houses as investment vehicles, but houses (aka shelter) is also a primary need for humans. If you hold share of a publicly traded company, you can hold it forever until you think somebody can accept to buy it from you at a price that you like, hoping to make a profit if such price is high enough, and nobody will suffer from this process. But with houses, there is always somebody in absolute need for it, which means that either they will accept to rent it to a price that covers extra taxes applied by the state to you (as a landlord), or they will try to squat if they can not. It's really hard to enforce the right set of disincentives that are wide enough to convince people not to "hold" but at the same time does not apply to too many people but mostly the ones that are using houses as investments.

The whole thing is complicated by being geographically unequal: for example I think even Spain is full of affordable houses, only they are not in Madrid or Barcelona or Valencia, which is where people really want to live. So if you have a second house in an unpopular town you actually have not much - thus you are not rich - and you have often an empty house (nobody wants to rent/buy it) which is an easy target for squatters, and therefore you will become "one of the poor people ruined by squatters", while othen you are somebody who accepted the narrative that using houses as investment was a good idea, both an investment house cheaply in a town that never attracted enough people, thus "lost the game" and is now also losing the house to squatters...
This made me laugh out loud, because the first thing that came to mind when I tried to remember the last time I had a Costco hotdog was a Costco hotdog burp! And you're so right!
Thing is, it's easy to mess up a Windows kiosk - and hard to mess up a Linux kiosk.

Desktop Windows isn't made for kiosk applications at all, unlike the long gone (and barely related) Windows CE. It's all various sorts of bolted-on crapware.
"Canada is better off outsourcing the growing of coffee"

That's not really outsourcing. That's simply trade.
Yeah, the knob and display make it a pretty cool device for so many things.
The closest we've seen is either when an F3 tornado hit the Bank One Tower in Fort Worth or typhoons hitting larger buildings elsewhere but with slower winds. A strong tornado causes the building to pretty much be a total loss without extensive renovation (as is typical with a strong direct hit by a tornado) but not in a "Wizard of Oz House Flying through the sky" way rather a "the floors all get blown out and ruined as the wind passes through" way.
> If only there were some means by which the people could all get together and decide on rules that benefitted them.

That's not been very effective in tech recently, has it?

People have control over whether they enable the surveillance capitalism grift when they are used as means to an end. They can make this business model proliferate much less, so that much fewer companies are built around it, and other business decisions are relatively more profitable. We can all not use apps that track us, clear our cookies automatically when the browser closes, use E2E encryption in communications, and so on. And yes, many people can also not shop at Costco. And many will make that choice, but not most.

You know, society has always managed to enforce the social order without the need for government — to decide together what is acceptable and what crosses boundaries. For at least tens of thousands of years as pre-chieftain egalitarian communities, and ever since. Culture exists as a concept, people can develop a privacy-conscious culture and in some regions of the world, it exists more than in others. Government as a concept is more recent. Big micromanaging government, even more recent.

You just need to not be lazy and do the work, not expect that someone else will come and solve all the problems for you. Of course, people have become quite complacent these days. They don't set boundaries if it's more convenient for them in the moment. But culture is more effective than government in dictating what is right and wrong, except for autocracies. Some have been very effective in imposing a social order. But I don't think we need to go there. People can self-manage. The question if whether people want to self-manage or if they prefer the consequences of not doing so.
Yes, if only the US government could create some type of general data protection regulation (they could call it GDPR for short) that would reduce the abuse of personal data...
Data has value, but it also has a cost. The value tends to decrease over time, and at some point it makes economic sense to destroy it. The cost is interesting, as it might be going up as privacy becomes a bigger issue. Particularly location data, which has been in courts around the world for various reasons.
No no the data is being used to "better serve their customers" ;)