skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Meet is bundled with Android by Google, it's not there if you use LineageOS. It's probably an individual choice by phone makers (although maybe not a completely free choice).

I do agree it shouldn't be bundled of course. But even Chrome isn't bundled for example, so I don't think Google is actually pushing many apps.
"syncing doesn’t work without a server"

I don't think this is true, granted there are some big challenges to transfering data between devices without a central server, but there are several projects like https://dxos.org/ which use p2p, and also there's https://ditto.live/ which uses bluetooth/wifi direct for cases where all users will be in the same room or on the same local network (imagine wanting to play chess with a friend sitting in a different row on a plane without wifi - I was in this situation recently and was pretty surprised that I couldn't find anything on the app store that could do this!)

Of course most of the time its better to have a server because p2p still has a lot of difficulties and often having a central 'source of truth' is worth the costs that come with a server based architecture. So imo things like https://electric-sql.com/ or https://www.triplit.dev/ or the upcoming https://zerosync.dev/ will be far better choices for anyone wanting to build a local first app used by many users.
So your idea is that the ICC should not waste its time issuing arrest warrants in cases which have been extensively documented over the course of years because yesterday a beach was bombed?

That seems a bit backwards, but in any case I'm sure if russia wants they can request the ICC to investigate the attack
Soviet Catalonia
Hey, here are some issues that would stop me from buying your inner wallet:
1. Pricing is too expensive, I mean with those prices I could pay someone to help me manage my finnances once a month and I'd talk to a person instead of a bot.
2. Tracking my expenses isn't a particularly interesting feature since most bank accounts, that have their own application, will be able to display this to you.
3. Your most important feature (atleast it seems like the most reasonable one for someone to pay for it) would be to get insights regarding your financial situation. However, on the website feature descriptions there is not a good example of just how 'good' these insights could be. Thus, as a customer and knowing that you're using AI to produce these insights, I find it questionable whether or not those insights will provide any positive value to my financial situation other than billing me $10 a month. Even if they help me to get a better hold of my finances, you would be better of explaining me how are you going to make customers save more money than the money you charge them.
What lesson though? A slap on the wrist?
> the same value as porn or romance novels, just without knowing it

It’s the “just without knowing it” part that makes it the scam.
Many of these sites aren't scams. They proclaim loudly and proudly "chat with an AI sex bot" and people sign up for that.
> The only things that don't work in general are games with invasive anti cheat.

That sounds like a feature, I’ve got plenty enough games to play that I don’t need to have my machine rootkitted. I swore off of all EA-published games on those grounds 15 years ago so having the information upfront would be a strict improvement.
There was no framework for fining them, each case would have to be handled separately, now there is such a framework in the DMA and DSA, which greatly simplifies the regulators jobs.

I suspect that many other players are about to see such charges against them.
I find it very interesting how you:

a) think

b) (mis)use the English language

For clarity: do you believe that your cognition on this matter is logically, ontologically, and epistemically flawless?

I hope your seeming high level of confidence is resilient enough to answer this simple question directly, without engaging in rhetoric, meme magic, evasion, misdirection, silence, etc which in my experience is the standard behavior of the normative conditioned Western human mind when it is put into such a situation.
It is possible for feeds to support pagination and archives in a standardized manner: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005#section-3

Not very common though in my experience.
> The easiest way to do it on a PC you just took out of the box is to press Shift+F10 during the setup process to bring up a command prompt window, typing OOBE\BYPASSNRO, rebooting, and then clicking the "I don't have Internet" button when asked to connect to a Wi-Fi network.

The easiest way!

Windows is lost…
First, you have to understand how Google determines these things. PageRank is a simple algorithm designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin from 1998. Google still uses its principles but it has moved on drastically since then.

The model they now use to rank a site in search is HUGE. Backlinks are a tiny part of it and very complex in their own right.

There are no hacks or cheatcodes to boost your site.

Some large companies will go as far as employing expensive SEO agencies to farm out content and build satellite link networks that will boost their rankings slightly. And even then those networks tend to be actual functional websites that provide some form of value to a user - like a news aggregator in a specific niche, or a product comparison site. Small companies can't 'hack' that kind of thing together over a weekend. Plus, such tactics can fail spectacularly if Google detects it and decides it should be ignored, or even punished. Google's entire modern model of ranking is based on gathering data on 'SEO hacks'. Nothing you can dream up will be effective for long.

So, instead, drop the hacker mentality on this one and instead just focus on providing value and useful content. Use news aggregators like this one, use discussion platforms like this one, and if your product or service is good enough people will feature links to you naturally on sites that do pass authority.

tl;dr Do not think of links as valuable because of the site they are from, instead think of links as valuable by way of the method they are procured. If you hacked your way into getting a link it's worthless, if someone earnestly wanted to link to you, then it's a valuable link.
I have been on android for 10+ years and never has Meet gotten in my way or even launched itself.

It's totally uncomparable. Also google is not actively pushing it's customers to use it to kill their competitors
Are you saying that when couples note how they met without being prompted, it is approaching 50% total over the last 10 years? That would imply that there is a significant increase currently over 10 years ago when you first started noting this matter in order to get close to 50% now.

I also have to assume that a factor that would need to be investigated is whether it isn’t simply that people who met on tinder like telling people that for some reason, possibly because they are the transgressive, rotating door, “hookup culture” types that would have a proclivity for using something like Tinder.
The working draft standard for C++ (2022-12-18, document N4928) is 2,110 pages long at a reasonable-sized font.

I'd actually go the other way: I think most practicing programmers have not read the entire standard specifying most languages they use day-to-day and have no real idea what the abstraction-break looks like that turns their code into a format consumable by the next layer down.

How many Java programmers do we assume know anything about the bytecode of the JVM, for example?
Why don't they apply the laws universally and effectively make this kind of bundling illegal for mega corporations?
For endusers, it feels like they are playing with different rules for Microsoft Apple Adobe and Google. Since EU waits until the damage is done and milks them, it barely helps the situation for consumers. For corps they just assume the penalty as cost of doing business.
> Soon the EU will charge parents for giving their children undue advantages as well.

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

> In the year 2081, the Constitution dictates that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, earpiece radios for the intelligent that broadcast loud noises meant to disrupt thoughts, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.

https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
After that massive lawsuit, I think they got a lot more publicity (both good and bad.)
This is also an issue with new posts. While I was dabbling with some of the decentralized networks, I saw a post on one site, but wanted to comment on it using my account on another instance. However, I was unable to find the post. I thought maybe it was a propagation issue. I waited 2 full days and still nothing. I eventually gave up.

It doesn’t make many experiences like this for a user to give up on a platform.
Lots of photo, art, music and other hobby software is for purchase rather than subscription.

Off the top of my head Topaz Labs is a company that offers a suite of photo tools for purchase. They are aimed at both professionals and high end hobbyists.
OK that explanation make the church seem even more moronic that in the usual narrative.

Gallileo was certainly correct in calling the pope an idiot, even if it was unwise.
found hundreds of those in an apk from a bank app ;-)
Why presume? It's in the article. It's 13 watts.
$3,000 biweekly is near starting salary for a software developer everywhere in the US.

"FAANG bubble" would almost be $3,000/day (if you're accounting for all perks and time off)
It's amazingly interesting to me that these exist and yet, do not seem to be commonly available in ascii fonts
For reference, this is a real prototype for Bitnet 1.58b which uses (-1,0,1) as the weights which simplifies the matrix multiplication [0].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764
Not to mention shilling Fundrise and other real estate crowdfunding sites every chance he gets.

I guess there's no money in just telling people to buy VNQ in their ROTH.
Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling
Control, privacy and reliability
Remember: it's local-first, not offline.

When users subscribe they should be purchasing a license that renews periodically. Local-first apps should validate the license (based on its expiry) by connecting to the internet to ensure users are subscribed. If they're not subscribed or they don't have internet access, they cannot use pay-walled features. You should offer a free, fair, and robust export tool for those not subscribed, though unfortunately not many companies do this.

What am I missing here? The drawback is of course when customers don't have internet access but are still valid subscribers, so they lose access to pay-walled features. One option would be to only offer annual licenses (infrequent license checking), another would be to offer a complementary 7 day license extension for the short-term until the user reconnects to the internet (grace period).

Stop giving away your value proposition for free. Get paid fairly.
Bullnosing drywall isn't much more expensive then square corners?
You may well be correct but I don’t think it’s that relevant here. Dating sites were much less prevalent when AM was at its peak and presumably the average user married (and left the dating pool) years before that peak, even.

I just don’t buy that there were that many AM users thinking “this checks out with my prior experience in dating sites so it’s plausible”. They just weren’t thinking critically at all.
The entire article is about the semantics of the word "open", so an organization literally named "OpenAI" is obviously relevant on the article's own terms.

Besides which, this is a summary of a research paper that DID include OpenAI on the list. Omitting it is one of several choices that change the takeaways of the paper (linked above), which did a much better job at acknowledging and sorting the benefits of different varieties of "open"-ness.

Overall, TFA takes a cherrypicked scope on the naming controversy that hides the fact that some participants are contributing much more to public research and access than others.
We're passing some sort of threshold where their antics are starting to piss off the normies. I am very curious what comes of that.

I have had non-technical friends get so fed up with Windows that they're willing to try Linux. One of my friends is just loving Ubuntu except that he can't seem to get his printer to work. I should poke around with it.
That’s a fair point. Their goal is to turn it into a platform like how Google has the web. Where they have basically full information on the targets for advertisers (and for strategic business decisions).
"I asked GPT" is the new "I saw it on TV."
The failure of the United States to provide a positive counterweight to propaganda due to launching two wars of aggression filled with warcrimes is not Russia's fault, nor Assange's.

The United States is responsible for sowing the good, not Russia for not hiding the bad.
I used remoteStorage.js for a while for an app, but the JS SDK was too limited. I'm surprised to see the last commit was just last week. Is it still maintained?

I never understood why it barely took off, the benefits of local-first are great and a competitive advantage to capture those privacy-sensitive users seeking to own their data. Hoping for a revival...
Both `find -exec` and xargs expect an executable command whereas `while read; ...; done` executes inline shell code.

Of course you can pass `sh -c '...'` (or Bash or $SHELL) to `find -exec` or xargs but then you easily get into quoting hell for anything non-trivial, especially if you need to share state from the parent process to the (grand) child process.

You can actually get `find -exec` and xargs to execute a function defined in the parent shell script (the one that's running the `find -exec` or xargs child process) using `export -f` but to me this feels like a somewhat obscure use case versus just using an inline while loop.
we're certainly not in Kansas, at least not any more!
I agree that the comments are too high in quality to have been generated by a bot.

Also, no mentions of Tinder in any of the other of this last 30 comments.
I want some Sun Ra records but they are usually pretty rare and expensive last time I checked
I was a kid at the time so my glasses may be quite rosy. But, it was cool how much space had no computers in it. I was a nerdy kid, and always looking forward to getting back to my computer. But, now there’s no escaping the things. Or going back to them.
Thanks for the response, and congrats on getting your first customer!

> Yeah the *agent code* is fully open source

Only the agent part is open-source? I can't host my own dashboard?
> migrating my gaming machine to something like Pop_OS

I’ve done this around 4 year ago and I’ve literally never felt compelled to move back.
I think the idea was to be able to communicate them on devices that did not have the symbols (which turned out to be pretty much all of them)
Outside the context or marriages I have no idea, but it appears in marriage, which is the context for Ashley Madison, cheating occurs when the marriage is well established, at about seven to years.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-myths-of-sex/202...

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-long-married-people-wait...
They specifically call out adding alt text to images in PDFs.
Data from times outside those 2 ranges were ignored, is my guess.
I'm not surprised the school didn't invite you back. Was the school outreach programme organised by your employer?
I'm sorry it comes off that way. I genuinely think these are interesting distinctions. If I had to make an analogy, I would react differently if I found a bag of weed in a kid's backpack vs a bag of oregano that the kid was fooled into thinking was weed.
OTOH, if I need a network connection to verify my subscription status for the software to work in the first place it eliminates one of the main benefits.
Note this string replacement is not anchored (right?) which can end up biting you badly (depending on circumstances of course).
Thank you for your very interesting comment and the reading recommendation.

I agree with your general sentiment that chasing "wide applicability" or trying to force a narrative that xyz theory will explain xyz might be hugely detrimental.

I agree my post and many discussions about complex systems, specifically one in an evangelic-type light might be over-optimistic.

We definitely must approach all work on such a theory with careful attempts not to overhype it. My post was an attempt to lay out some interesting possibilities.

We must remain optimistic anyway but I will be more careful in this regard going forward. Thanks again.
Found out about wheat based plastic when I bought some reusable food storage containers. This was not clearly labelled but instead a smalltext on the back of the package.

As a person with an extreme gluten allergy, I freaked out and had to return it before even trying.

If any plastics manufacturers see this, and you use barley, wheat, or any other gluten containing material (like rye), please also include a "Certified Gluten Free" seal when your processing plant has been verified to be safe. Otherwise I can't use your product.
I think Discord found the sweet spot with Discussions. It's the right mix of chat + forum for me:

https://i.imgur.com/XxV5b2Q.png

Programming discord servers usually have chat rooms like #general and then forum channels (like threads but organized).
I don't think Meet is bundled with Android. My pixel didn't come with it. It is bundled with some chromebooks.
Perhaps, but Adobe and Spotify aren't offering a operating system where this crap is bundled. Neither do those examples have a 72% market share of PCs.

Microsoft basically gave Teams away to corporate customers. Now, couple this fact with how many manufactures include a pre-installed copy Office 365 on consumer devices, add in this automatically included Teams since 2019, and you have a nasty combination. Bonus: Microsoft gets to inflate its numbers on adoption.

Finally, Adobe Creative Cloud has roughly 30 million subscribers. Spotify has about 213 million subscribers. Windows, in general, has about 1.3 billion users.
Popular VPN disappears off the face of the Earth
Yes, the lawsuit closed in 2001

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....
They mention the CDC 6600 from 1964 and yet for some unknown reason apparently don't consider it (or the Cray 1) to be RISC. I certainly do!

> Taking an idea from the Control Data 6600 (the first ‘Supercomputer’ designed by Seymour Cray) the new machine would have a ‘load-store’ architecture where simple ‘load’ or ‘store’ instructions would be the only way of accessing or changing memory

Actually, it didn't have load and store instructions at all! Moving a new value into one of the A address registers automatically started a load (A1-A5) or store (A6-A7) to/from the corresponding 60 bit X data register. Only A0 didn't have such a side-effect.

This is kind of weird, but I don't think disqualifies it from being RISC. Everything else is basically the same as modern RISC. It had around 70 instructions, covering both integer and floating point.
It’s fair in some cases, but indeed - not in others - e.g., code completion with LLMs is a time saver and worth paying for, compared to any other tech out there. At least this is how I see it, I know some people say it introduces mistakes but this is up for debate.

I do think if we look at translation tasks, grammar correction, information look up, etc. it adds a competitive convenience factor but I can’t say that running state of the art GPUs at very high wattages for up to a minute to do what specialized software can enable you to do by running for some milliseconds on much lower wattages isn’t less efficient. I’m referring to running multiple Google searches yourself to answer a question, or using a more traditional translation service, spell checker, and so on.
"we don't have a fundamental right to own and use computers." - 15 years ago, I would probably have agreed with this statement. But in the modern technological world, without access to computers you are unable to engage with a large number of services, both private and public services.

So as a citizen, it is your right to access publicly funded services, right? So then by extension, the tools to access those services should be a fundamental right in a modern technological society. And moreso, you should have the right to own those tools outright without molestation by large corporate entities... Fuck, Microsoft isn't even a large corporation... It is a behemoth, 3.3 Trillion market cap! I think they, and their competitors, could stand to be saddled with some more regulation to insure a baseline OS for the citizenry of this county, and other countries. It's not like it's going to hurt their profit margins that much to comply!
Note that in the example I gave there’s not even a conflict to notice. You just have meta instructions telling you what to do within a document. You apply those instructions offline but in the mean time your meta instructions are updated online. You come back and synchronize your changes but there’s nothing that suggests your offline sync against the meta instructions was stale so your edits are applied based on stale meta instructions resulting in a logically undesirable result.

This is basically a TOCTOU race in a distributed context and CRDTs do not magically solve this problem because it’s not solvable. That’s why we have PAXOS and RAFT to do such things and why many many papers have been written trying to solve the Byzantine generals problem in constrained scenarios with well defined criteria.
Patently untrue. Both iOS and Android allow you to skip setting up an Apple ID or Google account. The only way you are not allowed to fully use your device is the app stores which require accounts. It's still a phone, you can still sideload apps on Android, or install them on iOS through some sort of device management schemery.

However, on Windows, Microsoft is removing every workaround they can find to create a local-only account. It used to be a skip button. Then it used to be unplugging the network cord. For a while it was a magic email address. I believe that trick no longer works, although it did for me the last time I set up a new Windows install. But now, as far as I know, there is no way to create a local account during setup, you have to create an account, then convert it to a local account later.

And that still leaves dark pattern upgrades, OS-level third party ads, privacy nightmares, and unmatched first party ads. MSFT is not the good guy in the ecosystem. Never has been. They're not illegally curbstomping their competition anymore, sure, they've redirected their energy at enshittifying their OS.
> on reddit

Agree with it, I want to read news about different countries, but it looks like the people\bots are obsessed with Russia on reddit.

Also it's interesting to see how people react to the same news about civilian deaths. People are happy when Russian civilians die. I with these forums had a feature to hide/swap country names in a news/posts so people can realize how evil they are.
In bird culture this is called a dick move
Some plywood uses glue made from wheat, but you probably already knew that.
That's way reductive. Is that really what you think they're trying to say?
What I look for in an expressjs alternative is 1.) First class typescript support 2.) Better tree shaking.
> Starting 26th August 2024, we’ll begin deleting messages and files more than one year old from free workspaces on a rolling basis.

Also note that you already can’t see messages older than 90 days on a free workspace, but they’re there if you upgrade. This change means if you do upgrade, data older than 1 year will be gone.