skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RMS's "correctly argumented defense" was that the underage women under Epstein's employ "presented themselves as entirely willing", so Minsky is in the clear because the accusations are moot. I would like to see your definition of "correct", and I hope you do not work in public relations.
"Europeans could end up living in an online backwater with out-of-date phones, cut off from the rest of the world's search engines and social media sites, unable to even access high-performance computer chips."

Sounds like a paradise. More healthy lifestyle. For most people much of this stuff is unnecessary. If one wants to live life "online", glued a screen digesting garbage and propaganda 24/7, then one can relocate to some country where that's what people do. Chances are, tourists from such countries will want to visit Europe even more.

We are all living in an "online backwater" in case the author hasn't noticed. The web is a sewer of surveillance, marketing and ads. Despite the information access possibilities the internet presents, the distribution of factual information seems to be at an all-time low, at least in the lifetime I am living. I have never seen people who were so detached from commonly shared reality as a result of "search engines and social media sites". To access facual information, cf. marketing and propaganda, worthless opinions, and "AI" generated garbage, one did not and does not need the latest "phone" or "high-performance computer chips". This stuff is not making people smarter. Is it is not making society better.

I would be willing to bet the countries that have the populations that are most reliant on "search engines and social media sites" and "high performance computer chips" are going to have the highest rates of mental illness and other complications that arise from too much screen time, and the lowest test scores. These will be dumbed down, whacked out societies. They will have the worst quality of life.

I was listening to an interview with Jonathan Kanter recently and the interviewer tried to get him to comment on Europe's approach to regulation of "Big Tech". He was hesitant to accept any comparison. But I am confident there are plenty of folks, generally _not people who comment on HN_, who are envious of the direction Europe is taking.

The idea that regulating Apple and Meta, companies that exploit people commercially as they use computers, e.g., as data collection sources and ad targets, is going to contribute to cause "poverty" or deprive Europe of useful networking and computer technology, e.g., the type used for national defense, is absurd.
You have effectively made my argument for dismantling advertising as an industry for being a public nuisance. No notes.
CUDA is also viewed as anticompetitive by HN. Lots and lots of discussion about Nvidia's moat and how AMD could or can't break in. It's just here in the thread about regulation that some people suddenly forget.
Europe is very afraid, too much protectionism for the people. It will solve itself when it most definitely back fires in the form of the actual harm showing up because of it
It is related, tangentially related.
The uncertain possible futures of Unix graphical desktops
Can You Beat Baldur's Gate 3 Without Killing Anything?
According to another article, they just slipped through the cracks on the floor from time to time and accumulated over the years.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london/sutton-house-a...

I imagine the debris also included coins and the like.
I thought my comment was clear, I will attempt to be more explicit: I am of the opinion that Apple’s profits are excessive, regardless of the consumer value delivered. I respect that others may have opposing views that profits should have no limits as long as value is delivered.
You wouldn't expect Waymo to hockey stick though. It's not software.

Waymo's scale is constrained by many factors: (1) physical cars (requires capital), (2) hi-def mapping, (3) operations (depots to charge, clean and maintain cars, "fleet response" - https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/), and (4) regulatory environment (permits on a city/county/state basis).
I use rustic [1] which is interoperable with restic.

Perhaps I should give restic another try with that new release

[1] https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic
Are there no alternatives
This was the store where they found a lot of the parts to build Docs's DeLorean into a time machine.

Great documentary on it -

88MPH: Ths Story of the DeLorean Time Machine

https://youtu.be/fgOb22gz_TY?t=46m04s

Linked to the segment Apex is brought up.
current generation blockchain networks will absolutely have lower fees than traditional finance
At last, an airline that lets women avoid sitting next to men
given that text is used everywhere, don't you think you might be undervaluing how valuable it is to "generate text that fit a query"?
That seems all quite orthogonal. You asked who benefits and I’ve given you an example. Some benefit directly and some indirectly. But millions in the economy benefit and not just through institutions such as CalPERS.
pyright just requires the Microsoft Python extension. In my experience once you have that it works instantly.
You have a good point, I'll give you that.

We get so focused on big tech being social media/ad companies that we ignore the rest of it, which is actually huge.
You do not need a time machine to look at the law as it stands, judge that the legality of an action is unclear, and then prudently choose to not do it. As I said, this is the dynamic everyone who is not a government employee has to deal with, and it encourages a dynamic of staying well away from the edge of the law.
There's no license specified for what it's worth.
what is the threshold
Okay... That'll fund like what..
An hour of governance?

Why more Americans Are not mad at the complete waste of our tax money is beyond me

For a billion dollars, other countries are successfully building entire transit systems, high speed rails, other infrastructure, or running massive welfare programs.

We should be getting so much more.
Fair point, some people lose when policy is patched.
Volume controls also shouldn't just be a flat wideband gain - they should respect how we actually perceive sound so the timbre doesn't change as the level changes (when you turn the volume down, you are typically left with just the stuff in the vocal frequency range, and lose all the bass etc).

Doing this stuff well is pretty hard (e.g. designing filters that can do that kind of volume adjustment is hard because you want to be constantly adjusting them, which means you need to be super careful with your filter state) but I have heard what it sounds like, and once you hear it you get angry at all other volume controls.
I think the issue is that suspension of certain Constitutional rights at the border is a reasonable limit on those rights.
I also digitized over 200+ photos of the in-laws from the typical physical albums using Google Photoscan (I think about 10 years ago). I did it just for fun and to see what the workflow would be for digitizing the photos.

The ideal flow would be having a good-quality flatbed scanner and hiring someone to scan them. (I'm in India and the cost is comfortably affordable to set up such a process.)

Recently, when colorizing and animating photos was new and fun, I animated pictures for a few of their great-grandparents. It made quite a few grown-ups cry with joy.
> You know what, nobody ever got fired for buying AWS.

> That’s an IBM analogy.

Wow, this dialogue comes in the first episode of halt and catch fire. I didn't know this was a real thing

Here's the clip at 1.51 minutes, if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOR8mk0tLpc
Not a stupid question at all. I agree with you. But that is part of the style of VLDB -- the front matter has the publication date.

In any case this is part of the 2022-2023 volume: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/16/

(in particular https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/FrontMatterVol16No11.pdf -- July 2023)
My process for this is usually:
- Poke at the EXE for a few hours to days. Sometimes it's just a self-extracting executable and you can just find the raw firmware binary. Sometimes you have to spend a few days relearning the basics of R2/Ghidra, and eventually can grab the firmware.
- Then, if you've found it, figure out how to load it. When you think you have an idea, make sure it's really late and you're deliriously tired, so you're SURE you can do it without bricking it. Plus, where's the fun in not bricking it? You can always take that random Pomona SOIC knockoff clip and start dumping random ROMs off whatever chips.
- Finally, if you were awake enough to not fall for the previous step - scrap all the work you've done, and commit to spending a while figuring out how to create a bootable windows USB. Or, if you can't get that to work for one of the many possible reasons, borrow a windows laptop. But you're probably too tired for that at this point anyway, so create a windows VM in QEMU, and repeatedly restart your machine as you mess with configs to get passthrough working for whatever you need to get the VM to connect to the device. Launch the utility, start the EXE - it starts working. Get so excited, you accidentally disconnect everything halfway through. Somehow the monitor seems to still work, but you swear there's just something not quite right about it. A few years later, take out the SOIC clip again.
(based on an agglomeration of my personal mishaps)

In all likelihood, yes - this project will likely allow you to do that perfectly fine! But I'd be prepared for the installer to be total bloatware that doesn't work or works for most of the process before something goes wrong.
The black cleopatra was a historically accurate recreation as well (according to the people that made the show that is).

Amazighs Algerians are an ethnic group that exists today, you can google them yourself to see how close they look to Denzel Washington.
For a plane interior, there's Air Hollywood.[1] They provide aviation props for many major productions that need an aircraft interior or cockpit. Their airline terminal props show up, far too often, in TV shows.

Amusingly, their video showing their aircraft interiors displays "This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated."[1] They probably have full authorization to show clips from some movie, but YouTube doesn't recognize that.

[1] https://airhollywood.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/embed/QzzNHoj1UAo
But performance isn’t the reason to reject his advice: common sense and good taste are more than enough of a reason.

When he wrote Clean Code, Uncle Bob created a monster. Tons of people hold that book up as the Gospel of how to write not just OOP Java code, but all code.

Now is Uncle Bob really to blame for what other people do with the ideas in his book? Absolutely yes. All throughout he writes in a super authoritative tone, snarks at people who disagree with him, and asserts that his 40 years of software engineering experience mean his opinions must be right and that he doesn’t have to explain why.

The reaction to his writing is a product of the way he wrote it, and the reaction sucks. In workplace after workplace I’ve had to push back against people trying to sully nice readable code by blindly and stubbornly applying his principles.

It’s an endless struggle, one that would be helped if, like Merlin Mann (creator of Inbox Zero) he looked at what was happening and disavowed his creation and spent years working to correct the public’s misconceptions. But Uncle Bob doesn’t want to do that, so here we are.
> Nokia was blown out of the market by superior Chinese manufacturing and US design [0].

No, Nokia was blown out of the market via the exclusive deal with Microsoft, which in turn made the dumbest management decisions ever. Nokia bled under the horrible management of Steve Ballmer and their own ignorance with regards to Android. They also proved later on that you don't need any expertise to produce decent Android phones, as HMD global used their name as a brand and has been thriving.

To add to this: It's not that hard to develop a mobile operating system that's on par or better than Android, despite what Google might want you to think.
Show HN: Browser addon displays oddschecker US presidential odds as percentage
This is what it sounds like, a tiny browser extension to display odds as percentages.

Background:

Oddschecker normally displays odds in 'odds' format, for example Trump is 11/17 (pronounced "eleven for seventeen" or "eleven to seventeen" - depending on where in the world you are). To a non-gambler, that doesn't mean much. But 60.7% is much more meaningful.

Helps to use betting markets to infer real-world probabilities. Not perfect, but somewhat informative.

Also available as a Tamper Monkey script: https://github.com/stevecondylios/odds-to-percentage-convert...

Add the script and visit any oddschecker politics page, for example: https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics
They can recover a lot more by looking into people who report low incomes.
> Criteria relating to the size of the companies: (a) a turnover of the company of at least 7.5 billion euro in the European Economic Area for three years at least or (b) a market capitalization or equivalent of at least 75 billion euro;

> Criteria relating to the place of the company in controlling access of other businesses to final customers: the company needs to have (a) more than 45 million monthly active end users in the EU and (b) more than 10,000 yearly active business in the EU;

> "An entrenched durable position" which is a qualitative criterion which the regulator considers met if the numbers of active users in the second criterion are met for three years in a row.

It is indeed very hard to find evidence that DMA does not affect startups, if you don't want to find that evidence.

You're seriously arguing that a startup founder would think "well, when I get to a 75 billion euro valuation, there will be some cumbersome rules, so I might as well not start anything"???
Is there a public script for macroexpanding? Or is parent commenter a moderator? (if the latter, thanks for your work!)
There was another incident recently I recall where the pilots accidentally descended too fast and were seconds from crashing. I can’t recall specifics, but I’m surprised that wasn’t also mentioned in the article.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primar...
Didn't congress add 30bln to the IRS budget solely for this purpose, and the return is 1bln? I wonder if they even know what the outlays are for collection...will they ever collect more than the 30bln they allocated? How much does everyone need to be squeezed just to retrieve that 30bln allocation...All the smartest wealthiest people have the best accountants and moved/invested/capexd their money legally to begin with, within the letter of the law and rules anyway.
Nah, the first iPhone was too expensive, slow, and limited in capabilities (no App Store). They quickly iterated to improve on all of that. The first watch also kind of sucked. The initial iPod wasn’t a blockbuster, either - didn’t work well on Windows, required FireWire. I’m sure there are other initial misses. I think there’s something there with Vision Pro, they just need to iterate and get the cost down.
> For example, it’s being used to job screen applicants even though we have proven that AI models still suffer from thing like racial bias.

Can't we just say racism is illegal, and if a company uses an AI to be racist, they get fined the same way they would if they were racist the old fashioned way?
"In the future, everyone will see how right I am". Sure thing bud.
> Was that the case in the recent CrowdStrike debacle?

Nah, it still worked fine on my work laptop and allowed to boot in to safe mode, which also worked (didn't crash).
> Didn't congress add 30bln to the IRS budget solely for this purpose

$80bn through 2031, or about $8bn per year [1]. That is projected to buy us well over a trillion dollars of new revenue [2].

FTA: “In June, the Treasury proposed a rule and guidance that includes plans to essentially stop “partnership basis shifting” — a process by which a business or person can move assets among a series of related parties to avoid paying taxes. That could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade, Treasury said.”

> the smartest wealthiest people have the best accountants and moved/invested/capexd their money legally to begin with

Now do the dumbest wealthy.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59972

[2] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60037
> Didn't congress add 30bln to the IRS budget solely for this purpose

Given that the entirety of the IRS budget is 16B, that sounds unlikely.
We should receive much more value and yes the people who owe on taxes should pay much more than when it’s not enforced.

All this fake patriotism in America. Pay your fucking taxes and you won’t be threaten by IRS efficiency.
That looks like Hamachi of 20 years ago.
Did the Democrats ever "have" tech, whatever that means? The prototypical tech geek tends to be a libertarian - "techno-libertarianism" was really used to describe the early Silicon Valley "hack-it-yourself" Jobs-Woz philosophy. And while some social values held by libertarians tend to align with what Democrats believe in as well, they very much differ in their fiscal views, and always have.
> Isn't the major problem of the current internet is inherent centralization of services because the initial promise of 100% decentralized network is simply too complex to realistically manage?

Not quite. The internet _is_ decentralized. What made the web so centralized from the start could partially be the result of lacking tools that made publishing as easy as consuming content. I.e. had we had a publishing equivalent to the web browser, perhaps the web landscape would've been different today. You can see that this was planned as phase 2 of the original WWW proposal[2] ("universal authorship"), but it never came to pass AFAIK.

So you could say that the problem is partly technical. But it's uncertain how much this would've changed how people use the web, and if companies would've still stepped in to fill the authorship void, as many did and still do today. Once the web started gaining global traction in the early 90s, that ship had sailed. People learned that they had to use GeoCities to publish content, and later MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. These services gained popularity because they were popular.

There have been many attempts over the years to decentralize the web, but now the problem is largely social. As you say, we've had the fediverse for over a decade now. How is that going? Are technical issues still a hurdle to achieve mass adoption, or are people not joining because of other reasons? I'd say it's the latter.

Most people simply don't care about decentralization. They don't care about privacy, or that some corporation is getting rich off their data. They do care about using a service with interesting content where most of their contacts are. So it's a social and traction issue, much more than a technical one. The only people who use decentralized services today are those who care more about the technology than following the herd. Until you can either get the average web user interested in the technology, or achieve sufficient traction so that people don't care about the technology, decentralized services will remain a niche.

There is another technical aspect to this, though. Even if we could get everyone to use decentralized services today, the internet infrastructure is not ready for it. Most ISPs still offer asymmetrical connections, and residential networks simply aren't built for serving data. Many things will need to change on the operational side before your decentralized dream can become reality. I think this landscape would've also been different had the web started with decentralized principles, but alas, here we are.

[1]: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Proposal.html
Certainly not per year.

Operating costs 2014-2023: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/irs-budget-and-workforce
The Apple are trying to hijack the ecosystem of free competition and open market.
My perspective is that framing them as “unrecognized risks” is wrongs. We are mostly engineers - what happened to “tradeoffs”?
Just use Linux, you can set all sorts of gains and limits on Pulse Audio, for each app and speaker individually.
It was not meant to be a serious comment even though it seems it may have touched a nerve.
A reminder that taxes don't fund the government they curb inflation. The government funds itself by printing money and taking out loans.
Legally, does using someone’s art in your AI model violate their copyright?
Smoking is causative - did you mean to imply the same for the Burna situation?
Latest shingles vaccine may also delay dementia
Please correct me if I misunderstand, but doesn’t that mean there will be multiple levels of middle management?
This felt very shallow which may be because of the breadth of topics the authors tried to address. Data management has been building for years on the pillars of data quality, with a passion that is at times counterproductive (looking at you single ideal schema of truth) and I feel this failed to put enough emphasis on the gradual transition to new mechanics of trust as a counterweight to probabilistic answers. We are falling into the trap of imagining robotic brooms instead of vacuum cleaners. I don't see LLMs perfecting approaches with singular focus on precision but I do see them introducing new with focus on convenience (is that not what we are witnessing with evolution of search?)
Why don't they then? I've been trying to tell US merchants they can literally get free EU customers by registering for IOSS and the most I've gotten is a shrug.

Many of us are willing to pay for shipping and taxes up front just so their products don't get caught in the "free money for us" exploitation racket that is EU customs.
Oh so this is a year old? That makes sense, some of the examples (like the SQL generation from human language) felt a little unexciting by today's standards but would have been more interesting last July.
I agree they should shave that information.

The nice part is that this information is standardized through the digital object identifier (doi).

Ex: 10.14778/3611479.3611527

This doi takes you to:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.14778/3611479.3611527

In general if you have a DOI and you want a URL you can go to https://dx.doi.org/ to resolve it.
So that's still $8bn to collect $1bn.

Or am I missing something?
Phew, what company asked this and for what role? The people want to know.
> reminder that taxes don't fund the government they curb inflation. The government funds itself by printing money and taking out loans

Sort of. Modern monetary theory ignores any stocks of money or money-like instruments at the government, focussing instead on flows. Spending and paying debt is inflationary, taxing and issuing debt deflationary.

As an economic model it’s nice. As a policy framework in a democracy it’s nonsense. Practically nobody during the inflation scare proposed raising taxes to destroy cash.
> that's still $8bn to collect $1bn

No.

> Or am I missing something?

Read the article and the CBO report [1].

$8bn produced this $1bn. It also produced other additional revenue. CBO projects $6.40 of new revenue for each dollar spent by the IRS.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60037