skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unequivocally, why can’t other video chat companies provide their own browser? They could presumably fork chromium and change a single string (if it’s really just “*.google.com”).

Obviously that’d go nowhere and no one would use it, but I can’t imagine this really matters to any competitor anywhere.
You may want to check it again with the Voyager update released in May with 88% positive reviews on steam :)
Quoting for context:

“ In 1920, Charles Ponzi made use of the idea that profit could be made by taking advantage of the differing postal rates in different countries to buy IRCs cheaply in one country and exchange them for stamps of a higher value in another country. His attempts to raise money for this venture became instead the fraudulent Ponzi scheme.[24]
In practice, the overhead on buying and selling large numbers of the very low-value IRCs precluded any profitability. The selling price and exchange value in stamps in each country have been adjusted to some extent to remove some of the potential for profit, but ongoing fluctuations in currency value and exchange rates make it impossible to achieve this completely, as long as stamps represent a specific currency value, instead of acting as vouchers granting specific postal services, devoid of currency nomination.[25]”
Poland,the baltucs and chechia are by now the powerhouse in europe when it comes to games and software.
I think you're misinterpreting the sentence.

I think it merely implies MS has more resources to throw at the legal case.
Some context.

Refrigerator was 4 years old and out of stated warranty period

Refrigerator not sold to them by samsung or installed by samsung but by another party ("JB Hi-Fi").

Despite being out of warranty, family offered a refund - they declined it. An expert has called Samsungs behavior "concerning and unfair".

Notes:

Plenty of folks ignore almost all maintenance steps (cleaning coils, filter changes etc). Pulling the covers and looking around and cleaning even 1x per year would help longevity and catch problems earlier in many cases.

Having purchased appliances both personally and for a business - first call is usually to the store that sold us the item. These things are the one thing we get an extended warranty on.

The installers are absolutely not licensed plumbers or electricians! I wouldn't be surprised if a fair bit of damage is caused just in getting these items to their locations and installed. They are heavy and awkward.

Ask the repair tech who comes for first repair what most common issue is they are repairing - they often know right away (because they stock the parts etc etc). Some are avoidable / manageable.
It seems the “threading” mechanism depends on the browser’s own process model? As in, you’ll get another “thread” iff the browser creates a separate process for the cross-origin iframe?

That’s a clever hack where it works. For what it’s worth, it doesn’t seem to work on mobile Safari, at least judging by both examples slowing down at roughly the same rate. In which case, the “parallel” example is very slightly slower, presumably due to marginal overhead of the cross-frame mechanism.
The money comes from water bills. These bills are extremely high in California for non-ag customers and are more than enough to purchase water rights.
Fake things are never "legitimate criticism", so maybe we can agree that there is no "What about USA/Israel" argument that can make spamming fake shit OK, right comrade ?
Yep. This messaging style works better when the backing company already has a brand and trusted vision.
Under what morals do you consider it "abhorrent?" I bet got a straight answer from those I've asked about this as the counter arguments seem too easy to make.
This is the core source of disillusionment. It is wrong for both, but it is more impactful to society when corporations do this. Therefore it should be society's priority to raise the stakes of running a corporation, not hand out lazy penalties that continue to incentivize strategic negligence.

More regulation, regular enforcement of law, and more responsibility in general for the people and firms that wield the most influence will prevent many otherwise great citizens from deciding not to play the game of civilized life. IRS getting massive returns from cracking down on wealthy tax cheats is one of many good steps in this direction under the current US administration.
This sounds pretty concerning: "Samsung's own compliance tool, used by retailers to check that stock complies with Australian standards, lists the model as being one that should be prioritised for sale because it could be non-compliant."

I think Australia has somewhat working consumer protection agencies, and if this is true (Samsung knowingly selling non-compliant products, and trying to sell them faster to make sure they're all sold before the non-compliance is discovered), I hope the sanctions are something truly discouraging (e.g. a fine corresponding to all revenue from sales of that model).
Yuzu is not the only emulator taken down by Nintendo and Nintendo is not the only company that has gone after emulators.
I feel like this comes up here and there, and generally what I think is these probably aren't good functions. Enums won't save you from all the twisting and turning you're doing in a function that takes 3 booleans.

Rules like this aren't that useful IMO. What if you have like a SetActive(bool active) method? Does this also get an enum? Should this be two methods? Blah blah blah. You can only cultivate taste with experience and consideration, not with rules. Everyone's seen codebases that followed all the rules but were still total messes. Or as Tool said: think for yourself; question authority.
> Perplexity AI.

How does this describe Perplexity AI more than any other LLM?
Maybe you'd also like a cloud service that ties your shoes? God forbid you should move a muscle.
Fun fact: the Rolex "deep sea" sea-dweller contains Helium and an Helium valve. I'm not too sure how they keep the Helium from escaping. James Cameron (who made the movie The Titanic) actually strapped a Rolex sea-dweller "deep sea" to a little robot submarine and sent it to 10 000 meters deep to see if Rolex was full of shit or not.

Turns out the "veblen good" did quite well and didn't break.

And James Cameron got a limited edition Rolex Sea-Dweller deep sea model named after him.
Originally a 100 and they did give a sense for pricing
Johns Hopkins medical school will be free for most after $1B donation
Is there a switch to turn this crap off? Especially on my parents’ iPhones. I don’t want to have to explain them “which App Store did you get this app from”. They have enough trouble grokking the app/web app distinction as is. I just don’t want them to be able to install other app stores, by mistake or otherwise.
Please no, this is a solved problem for decades, it will not actually multithread the DOM and more likely just add overhead.
Error concerning projectile motion in respected textbook?
Yeah, I travel to Japan frequently (in fact, my next trip is next week!) and I'm also tall. I love Japan, and I love Tokyo's public transportation. However, one of the things I don't like are the jammed-packed rush hour trains in Tokyo. It could be very uncomfortable. I try my best to plan my itineraries in such a way where I could avoid that commute as much as possible.

Complaints aside, I love Tokyo's train and subway network! I can get around easily, with most places being no more than a 20-minute walk away from the nearest train/subway station, and many of the lines that connect central Tokyo to its neighbors have express routes that skip many stations along the way. Some lines even have special cars with reserved seats that cost extra. I sometimes take them whenever they are available; they make for a very comfortable ride.
Yep you're right. The place I heard it was the Just Have a Think YouTube channel. He was quoting Hannah Ritchie:

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation#is-our-a...

The figure is 75% of global soy goes to animals, and China is more than Europe (although EU is second largest importer of Brazilian soy after China).

So the figures are 75% and China+Europe, not 95% and Europe.

Either he got it wrong or I remembered it wrong! Thanks for pointing that out.
I understand perhaps with the validation of the identity of each user or something similar to a KYC. This would imply the handling of personal data in addition to all the legal barriers that such a measure would entail.
The issue here isn't the cost of the fridge, it's the health impact. Declining a mere refund (that almost certainly comes with a waiver on other claims in addition to the gag clause) is the only reasonable thing to do, and I doubt that being out of warranty absolves Samsung from liability if they sold a dangerous product.
That’s right. You have lost the thread of what we are talking about: causes of action based on privity vs those created by statute.
I feel like what really matters is who has more money to throw in tribunals.

Somehow I feel if it was "Adobe vs dev that claims his code was spit by copilot" it would not end the same.
*for the European market.

(the HN title is faithful to the original article)
Bell's Theorem does not prove that. It is a theorem itself, so this theorem has been proven using quantum theory and other assumptions in Bell's paper.

In the quote, notice "Bell tests...have consistently found" and the word local. So not the Theorem, but the "Bell test" experiments' results, when interpreted using theorems like the Bell theorem and similar, show nature manifests non-local behaviour. They do not prove your belief that hidden variables do not exist.

More details on this:

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Bell%27s_theorem#Missing...

Also, I recommend using more reliables sources than Wikipedia to argue a point about physics. It is not a reliable source, even though it is useful for discovery and occasionaly is correct.
Can’t really see anything objectionable there… it’s a video game, they want to log game events and user config to reproduce errors, nothing new or concerning really.
Man, that landing page is abysmal. I was a bit excited because I cannot see a screen in anything approaching bright light. but I just cannot make sense of the information on that page.
This is mentioned later in the document:

> An experimental engine Servo originally launched by Mozilla as a successor to Gecko, is implemented in Rust. It was eventually abandoned by Mozilla when Mozilla Corporation announced laying off a quarter of its staff in 2020 and transferred to The Linux Foundation, then in 2023 to TLF Europe. While still experimental, it has been under active development again since 2023. Servo currently uses Rust bindings to Harfbuzz.

I'd say Servo is going pretty well. The git is fairly active and monthly updates on their blog paint a positive picture of the rate of progress. I try the engine out roughly monthly after the blog posts drop and when I last did a few days ago I was impressed to see a lot of my most used websites being displayed correctly. At this rate, I think it could become viable much sooner than we think. However, the project is still critically underfunded, currently only getting a monthly $2229USD according to their website.
I'm sure I read about this in New Scientist maybe 12 years ago? They found this "switch" and turned it off in mice. We basically age and die so that we don't have denisovans running around mating with people who have hundreds of thousands of years of adaptations that have been tried and tested, but you can just turn that feature off. Right?
You don't listen/understand: man pages are for learning. Just imagine a user refusing to learn and not because of said user's ignorance. You probably didn't invent a new class of programs that do something absolutely new, you just wrote a program with poor design/defaults that require the user to learn how to use said program rather things be intuitive in general.
Apparently Sharp introduced the technology in 2009, so perhaps there's a patent expiring soon?
I am not strongly opinionated on this, but the very fact Microsoft used all the code it could find, bar their own has always looked suspicious to me.
That's interesting. Following up, is there any reason why it wouldn't be possible for other browsers/applications? It seems like the operating system should be able to generally access the audio from any application
I tell every person that I interview both that I want to hear their true opinions on technologies and tools that have worked favorably for them as well as technologies and tools that they were disappointed by.

Anyone who has ONLY favorably opinions of the tools and technologies they have been exposed to probably has not been working in technology for very long at all -- or they are afraid the interviewer will think poorly of them, which is regrettable in my opinion).
I was wondering about this. How well would the protocol cope if the name field suddenly changed back to the previous value, because the database is not that consistent? In addition to counters, you'd probably need signaling to indicate a missing packet, at least.
What is separating this concept from dataflow programming, perhaps with slightly different semantics and interaction patterns? (I reckon my understanding might be limited so I'm genuinely seeking enlightenment)
eink display strapped to a cheap android tablet and a pile of marketing hype.

Once people realize how the display randomly leaves old junk on the screen and requires a manual refresh to fix and the software is a barely modified from stock AOSP let alone has sufficient modifications to make use with this screen possible, this will be right behind the Rabbit R1 and that stupid AI pin as worst product of the year.
June 2024 Extended Earth's Stretch of Record-Hot Months to over a Year
the commuter line only uses two of those but this is a bit misleading because there are other parallel rail lines over much of its length running right alongside.

there used to be not as many, but the Yamanote was so overcrowded that they constructed additional pairs of tracks to reduce the amount of people who needed to change trains onto the Yamanote.
Yeah, from the trailer at least the canyons exactly mirrored my image of the book. It's actually eerie how close the whole world and tech looks to how I pictured them.
Oh good, so I'm not the only one that thought the article failed to actually state what the superpower was. Some lame ass patent was granted?
I keep seeing HN clients again and again to the point that... its tiresome. Why do you think there's a need to create a client for a website?

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40568585
> Sometimes the little guy is actually wrong.

He is, sometimes. Also sometimes, the moon passes exactly between the sun and Earth, a new star appears in the sky, the magnetic field of our planet reverses, a proton decays (jury is still out on that one, actually). Etc.

Tools like Copilot are plagiarism machines. We know the data they're being trained on, and a conclusion of "that's plagiarism" is not - or anyway should not be - controversial. I'm not terribly against the notion of a plagiarism machine but I am against the owners of such machines reaping profits from them to the exclusion of the people who provide the source material. This is theft.

More importantly, getting back to big guys and little guys: big guys gang up on little guys all the time. It's usually how they get to be big. They tend to be the ones who realize that working together against the rest of us is to their benefit. So, in the interest of pushing back on that a little, and recognizing that I am after all a fellow "little guy" (figuratively speaking anyway), I tend to support the "little guy" unless I have overwhelming evidence confirming that they are, in fact, both wrong and that supporting them anyway would be against my best interest. Neither is the case, here.

At any rate, the subtitle here references a pretty ubiquitous and, I'm happy to report, increasingly well-known and understood facet of our economic and social institutions, which is that they absolutely positively do not work for us or further our interests in any sense.
Maybe that's what a hundred cubic feet costs to the water company, but at residential retail on my bill it's between $3.50 and $25 per hundred cubic feet, so it's as much as 10,000x as expensive for a residential consumer as an ag one. It's completely beyond the bounds of anything reasonable.
> I was happy enough to use youtube and give google my data on my own terms.

I don't think they're really that bothered about your data. They want to show you ads or sell you yt premium.
My point is that you and the other guy are just making stuff up and spreading misinformation. At the API level, an app that doesn't have the user's explicit permission to get location, camera, run in the background, etc is not that different from a web app. My question was obviously rhetorical.
How profitable was this behavior and its paid removal?

I have always felt that the default display of ads on Lock Screen cheapened the devices—-even the flagship oasis model required an additional purchase to remove the ads.

That seemed completely at odds with the premium pricing and marketing.

Also, it seemed like there was always some way to call Amazon support and make claims about location or some other detail that would make support disable the ads for free. Are you aware of those requests and manual handling?
Is it possible for consumers to still buy these from overseas? My country seems to have stopped selling them, but I'd love to mail one to a faraway friend.
Hmm...

"I explained to the poisons hotline it wasn't just refrigerant, it was something more sinister," she said.

How would she know? Probably something electronic burnt out. Then the wife had a panic attack from over worry.

Article is interesting because of the non-disclosure clause stuff. Which, while not totally surprising I guess, is pretty scummy.
Scoping the data collection to Google domains is a reasonable security measure because you don't want to leak it to everybody. And in general, Google does operate under the security model that if you trust them to drop a binary on your machine that provides a security sandbox (i.e. the browser), you trust them with your data because from that vantage point, they could be exfiltrating your bank account if they wanted to be.

But yes, I don't doubt that the data collection was pretty vital for getting Hangouts to the point it got to. And I do strongly suspect that it got us to browser-based video conferencing sooner than we would have been otherwise; the data collected got fed into the eventual standards that enable video conferencing in browsers today.

"Could not have" is too strong, but I think "could not have this soon" might be quite true. There was an explosion of successful technologies in a brief amount of time that were enabled by Google and other online service providers doing big data collection to solve some problems that had dogged academic research for decades.
The site still has the same scroll lag that was reported several times in the original thread.
You're correct. 7-segment is a display layout, not technology - I think it's implied they mean pixel matrix vs 7 segment.
> Also the intent does not matter under law - not intending to break the law is not a defense if you break the law

Intent frequently matters a great deal when applying laws.

In the specific area of copyright law, it doesn't itself make the use non infringing, but it can absolutely impact the damages or a fair use argument.
OpenAI CTO predicts AI could eliminate jobs
Turn what off? Turn off the ability to install apps?
You can use a multidimensional Kalman filter to do many things
The question was more about the capability and knowledge in a sub-1B LLM: at that size what is it capable to do beyond excellent autocompletion.
I want to like this. I have a thing for epaper/eink. But I really don't know what I would use this for, for pretty much the same reasons I don't have any other tablet computer today. My sole "tablet" is a RM2 that I use exclusively for note-taking. It seems like most tablets it makes a lot of trade-offs that just make it inherently less useful than having a laptop. I'll just count this as me not being in their target market.
Reacting to this and the previous comment, I've pursued the idea of iterative human-computer interaction via GPT as perhaps not the ultimate solution, but an extant solution to the problem posed by Knuth in literate programming before we had the magic to do it in HCI where the spectrum extends from humans to machines and assumes that the humans are as tolerant of the machines as the machines are of the human (Postel's law), in a frame that Peter Pirolli described here:

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/180918-...

Which is to say that with an iterative, human-computer interaction (HCI), that is back-ended by a GPT (API) algorithm which can learn from the conversation and perhaps be enhanced by RAG (retrieval augmented generation) of code AND documentation (AKA prompt engineering), results beyond the average intern-engineer pair are not easily achievable, but increasingly probable given how both humans and computers are learning iteratively as we interact with emergent technology.

The key is that realizing that the computer can generate code, but that code is going to be frequently bad, if not hallucinatory in its compilability and perhaps computability and therefore, the human MUST play a DevOps or SRE or tech writer role pairing with the computer to produce better code, faster and cheaper.

Subtract either the computer or the human and you wind up with the same old, same old. I think what we want is GPT-backed metaprogramming produce white box tests precisely because it can see into the design and prove the code works before the code is shared with the human.

I don't know about you, but I'd trust AI a lot further if anything it generated was provable BEFORE it reached my cursor, not after.

The same is true here today.

Why doesn't every GPT interaction on the planet, when it generates code, simply generate white box tests proving that the code "works" and produces "expected results" to reach consensus with the human in its "pairing"?

I'm still guessing. I've posed this question to every team I've interacted with since this emerged, which includes many names you'd recognize.

Not trivial, but increasingly straightforward given the tools and the talent.
Where I live today, about 40% of the town budget goes to firefighters and police together. I was honestly surprised it was that low. However, it's one of the basic functions of a city and I live in a very low-tax place. I don't think you should generally be upset that police cost a lot of a town's budget, especially if the budget is small.

By contrast, I used to live in NYC, which had a budget of over $100 billion, of which about 5% was the police department.
no! don't do that!
Personally, if I would be interviewing you for a job and you say the above then I get the feeling it might be struggle to work with you due to your strong views about the usefulness of TypeScript.

Especially, when there is a company wide agreement to use TypeScript. No one, wants to keep having discussions with a new colleague about why not to use jsdocs for type annotations. Time better spend on other things.
I thought they "really going to get it right this time" N-1 python packaging tools ago.

(happy Nix user)
Or new accounts mean the person got banned because he broke the rules, like maybe he was aggressive with other members, some Zed patriots are very sensitive and they get triggered and act like a true Zed with threats of violence or personal attacks , I report them when I see them and have them banned, If you insult me or threaten me then do it in a few paragraphs, put some effort into it, not just 2 words.