skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, this "indirect contract" thing does not exist as a concept in American law, and runs completely counter to the idea of a contract. Contracts must have mutual assent. How could you ever agree to a contract if you don't even know it exists? Do you have an example of case law for this?

On misappropriation, do you think it's okay if e.g. a blogger puts a crypto miner on their page? If you choose to request a web page, is it okay for them to run background workers on your computer, and in fact it is theft of service if you do not allow it? Do you also need to give them e.g. location, accelerometer, microphone, and local filesystem access if they'd like to have it? Why are ads special among malware payloads in that you must run them? Why are computer ads special unlike physical ads (e.g. in the mail or inserts in a free newspaper) where people toss them in the bin without opening/looking at them? Or an ad-blocking DVR?

Many of e.g. Google's tracking domains are simply blocked on my network. I don't have any idea of what web pages are going to try to get me to load them, but it doesn't matter because none of them are allowed to. It's ridiculous to say that I must allow my computers to reach out to malicious servers and run scripts they deliver. Must I allow random North Korean servers to run scripts too?

The FBI is part of the government, and the context was that certain search engines (e.g. Google) were presenting ads for scams, and so to protect yourself from fraud, you should install an ad blocker so that you do not see ads.

On morals, I'll put forward that if you have children, it is in fact a moral imperative to remove as many sources of advertising from their lives as you can. Ads attempt to shape them into worse people (pushing them to embrace materialism and hedonism), and their influence should not be tolerated.
Yep exactly, either in the browser, or using something like Electron to package it as a desktop app.

:-)
The (non-privacy related) issue is the same - if you resort to screen shots, you've thrown away tons of valuable metadata.

And, as long as there's an API, I am fairly certain that maintaining a compat layer is a lot less work than retuning the LLM when the images change. (And you'll want to adjust your tuning, at least with current SOTA, or your error rate will reach Unpleasantville fairly quickly)

Yes, it seems easier on the face of it - but the reality of building an LLM pipeline will quickly point out a lot of edge cases.
Most computers sold are prebuilts, and most computers sold are for commercial use, ie office bees, so video game oriented PC's are a relatively small corner of the market.
> A solution would eliminate the problem as a political and social lever.

And this is a huge part of why so many social problems are never solved despite spending billions of dollars purportedly trying to solve them.
Yes, that’s pretty easy. I did it for Half Moon Bay, California here: https://simonw.github.io/hmb-map/

Code here: https://github.com/simonw/hmb-map

TIL here: https://til.simonwillison.net/gis/pmtiles
"It takes two to tango" has become a haunting refrain in my family relationships lately. I tell myself I'll be ready when they are, but I'm not sure if they ever will be.
Wez left the issue open and said "I personally have no plans to implement this any time soon.", so I have to imagine he's open to PRs. He just has other things to spend his own time on.
Here are a couple of quotes from Clauser himself:

"I believe climate change is a total myth." [1]

"I call myself a climate denier." [2]

According to [2], "He has concluded that clouds have a net cooling effect on the planet, so there is no climate crisis." The Hossenfelder video [1] has more specifics on this, with excerpts from one of Clauser's own talks.

This is classic climate change denialism.

> I don't know much about it, but from a quick google

Why do you feel the need to do this? Apparently your google was too quick. Also, cut/pasting chatgpt has already jumped the shark, don't do that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kGiCUiOMyQ

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/11/1... (also at: https://web.archive.org/web/20240620232204/https://www.washi... )
interesting. 'startup idea'.

Well once ads kick in, Idk if there is a way to keep a pro sub - google certainly doesn't have one.
I believe part of this is how good our technology has gotten with detection of cancer. Cancer is a part of everyone as we have roughly 37 trillion cells in our body. Which puts it at a failure rate lower than the computers we maintain on a daily basis. Most of the time our bodies take care of cancer cells when they are in small amounts, sometimes they grow wild and our bodies can't keep up and that is when it gets serious.
"Generative" AI/ML is moving so fast in so many directions that keeping up is a challenge even if you're trying really hard to stay current!

I'm part of a team building developer tools for real-time AI use cases (voice and video). I feel like I have three overlapping perspectives and goals re this new stuff:

1. To figure out what we should build I need to have a good understanding of what's possible and useful right now.

2. I talk to our customers a lot. Helping them understand what's possible and useful today (and what that might look like six months or a year from now) is part of my job.

3. I think this is a step-function change in what computers are good at, and that's really exciting and intellectually interesting.

My AI information diet right now is a few podcasts, twitter, and email newsletters. A few links:

- Latent space podcast and newsletter: https://www.latent.space/podcast
- Ben's Bites newsletter: https://news.bensbites.com/
- Ethan Mollick newsletter: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
- Zvi Mowshowitz newsletter: https://thezvi.substack.com/
- Rohan Paul twitter: https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai
> It sounds like, even in the best case scenario, the drug doesn't really cure arthritis but just blunts the pain.

> I was thinking it would be something that helps the worn ligament grow back. That I would consider a real cure.

As far as I can tell, that is what it does:

> The drug is based on a molecule he discovered while working at Pfizer, and can be delivered via a once-a-month EpiPen-style injection, where it restores protective processes to diseased joints and enables the regeneration of affected tissues. It works by blocking a compound that supports the nerve cells involved in transmitting pain signals to the brain.

This doesn't say it just blocks the pain, it says it directly affects the nerve cells involved in transmitting pain. Those nerve cells could also be responsible for other unpleasant things, like generally complaining and always being inflamed and inhibiting proper healing.
They cannot do it at the moment, as Boeing has removed the software support for flying Starliner uncrewed from this specific craft, even though it has already completed a mission without humans onboard already. And we’ve only learned about it after Starliner was stuck docked to ISS
what kind of data load are we talking here? I know it gets stored locally. So, is it limited by my local disk size?

How will it perform if I have 1TB of data?
It's an informative exercise to go look at the analysis of carbon emissions by sector for different countries.

For instance, in the US, residential made up 311 million of 4.807 billion total metric tons of CO2 output (https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/), which is about 6.5%.

Last year, emissions were 37.55 billion metric tons, which is the highest ever recorded (https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...).

If the entire US residential sector were magically made emission free with everything else remaining the same, global output would be 37.24 billion metric tons instead - negligibly different and still the highest ever recorded.

I don't have figures for the EU available, but you figure it'd be a similar order of magnitude for residential. So if we just estimated it to be about the same, and made the entire EU zero-emission as well, we'd be at 36.93 billion metric tons, which is about where they were in 2018-2019, as well as 2021 due to the pandemic.

Now, you may say: ok, what about transportation and etc? In the US, it's about 28% of emissions from transportation, and of those, 57% are light duty vehicles (including most personal vehicles) - see https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-.... That was from 2022, but if we assume the percentages were about the same in 2023, they'd be about 767 million metric tons (=4.807 * .57 * .28).

So if we magically made all US residential AND personal vehicle emissions go to 0, global emissions would be 36.47 metric tons or about 2017-2018 levels.

If you again assume the EU is around the same as the US, and magically made all US/EU emissions go to 0, we'd have 35.394 metric tons of CO2, or about where levels were hovering in 2013-2016.

TL;DR: if you magically made the entire US residential and personal transport sectors 100% emissions free, global CO2 emissions would only go back to where they were in 2017-2018. If you throw the EU in as well we'd be in the 2013-2016 range.
The point of certification isn't and shouldn't be "happened to be successful once"
Yes, it's a reasonable workaround. I believe Patreon also allows creators to "pause" their account, suspending payments for an indefinite amount of time. So, I could just keep the account paused, then unpause for a month when I make a video. Although, I believe that Patreon doesn't want the per-creation model themselves, since charging the same amount each month is simpler, and easier to project revenue, etc, so they are probably just bundling this unpopular change with the Apple announcement.
Right -- no one read my comment and thought I meant Swift was unnecessary or businesses don't use it. Contextually, we're discussing Swift for cross-platform dev.
As a workaround, maybe something like this could work:

db.js:

const { PGlite } = require('@electric-sql/pglite');
const db = new PGlite();

async function execSQL(sql) {
await db.exec(sql);
return { success: true };
}

async function querySQL(sql, params) {
const ret = await db.query(sql, params);
return ret.rows;
}

// Command-line interface logic
const action = process.argv[2];
const sql = process.argv[3];
const params = process.argv.slice(4);

if (action === 'exec') {
execSQL(sql).then(result => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
process.exit();
});
} else if (action === 'query') {
querySQL(sql, params).then(result => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
process.exit();
});
}

main.py:

import subprocess
import json

def execute_sql(sql: str) -> dict:
result = subprocess.run(
['node', 'db.js', 'exec', sql],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
text=True
)
return json.loads(result.stdout)

def query_sql(sql: str, params: list) -> list:
result = subprocess.run(
['node', 'db.js', 'query', sql] + params,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
text=True
)
return json.loads(result.stdout)

# Example Usage
create_table_sql = """
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS todo (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
task TEXT,
done BOOLEAN DEFAULT false
);
"""
execute_sql(create_table_sql)

query_result = query_sql("SELECT * FROM todo WHERE id = $1", ["1"])
print(query_result)
what kind of data load are we talking here? I know it gets stored locally. So, is it limited by my local disk size.

How will it perform if I have 1TB of data?
FCC seek comments on NextNav petition for rulemaking on lower 900MHz ISM band
I'm skeptical. Partially because if you go to https://www.swebench.com/, you can see this company underreported results from their competitors like Amazon Q Developer. I've also seen plenty of other projects claim they've reached 30%+ on SWE-bench without verifying or posting their results on this site.
That is an extremely high-level statement that isn't worth making.

Sure, Li-Ion batteries are generally pretty simple, and electric motors as an idea are simple. Making them work, at scale, and compete (or beat) ICE motors, while also managing to bring price down? Yeah, that takes decades of research.

We've know about rubber for a really long time. It still took us many decades to make a good tire.
Interesting that is exactly what investment specialists do…
From a quick play this is pretty cool! The design choices it made all seemed pretty sensible to me. For example I asked it to create a schema to support a chat application and it came up with something that works pretty well. I then asked it to modify the schema to support various different bits of functionality (e.g. adding support for images in messages, and soft deleting participants from chats) and it was able to handle all those. In addition it was suggesting sensible constraints (foreign keys, nullable, unique) where you'd expect them.

Good work
1) Items which are too transient/unimportant to have memorable assigned place.

A single spot seems easily preferable to half-a-dozen 'holding pens' spread throughout the house. Have a junk drawer for long-term miscellaneous storage, an inbox for action items (mail to read, that broken toy you need to fix, etc).

2) Instances where we don’t have time to take the item to it’s assigned place

It takes, what, 20 seconds to walk into another room and back? How often is this truly a matter of "can't" as opposed to "don't want to"? Note that you're not actually saving the 20 seconds, because you're going to have to walk all over your house later, cleaning out your storage pens and returning them all over the house.

IMO, having a place for everything and ensuring that everything is where it belongs (mise en place) is the ultimate efficiency boost. If you still struggle with this, the ideal solution (beyond "just put it back when you're done, bro") is Ben Franklin's method, which was assigning 5-10 minutes at the end of each day, just before bed, to "putting things in their places". Visiting your work space, your bathroom, your car, etc, returning things to their rightful places, and generally putting things in order in preparation for the next day. Nothing will make future-you love current-you more!
Nice! I've been using Wezterm for a couple years.

I use the Embark color theme, which I don't see represented on the wezterm themes page: https://github.com/dmshvetsov/wezterm-embark-theme

I also like a slowly-blinking block cursor, a specific font, ligatures etc. Feel free to raid my config: https://github.com/pmarreck/dotconfig/blob/yolo/wezterm/wezt...

I love that I can use the same config on macOS and Linux as I use both machines often.
>there is a very huge and crucial difference between putting something in the newspaper for the sake of public dissemination vs. for the sake of making sure one specific known private entity gets the information

yes, and that huge and crucial difference in this case is that the entities in question have attorneys on staff, and those attorneys understand their responsibilities on behalf of the corporation
Am I misunderstanding, that PayPal can workaround Apple's payment rules which Patreon is complying with?
also the way you can use shell - hmmm I'd like all the build timestamps of my 6.4 bootroms...

alright I'll put all the filenames in the buffer

ls /tftp/bootroms/foobar/foobar_6.4_*.bin | gvim -

I'll run an awk one-liner to print the filename and date seperated by a tab

:%!awk '{ printf("\%s\t", $0); system("strings " $0 " | grep '\''20[0-2][0-9],'\''") }'

I don't want that long path

:1,$s:.*/::

I know, I'll sort them by build date

:%!sort -r -k4 -k2M -k3n -k5

Oh yuck 4 space tabs don't do it

:set ts=16
:set expandtab
:retab
This.

In my case I enjoy reading The Economist and do not mind paying for it, but some years back I had to cancel my subscription (I was cutting back on expenses) and honestly I found that experience so much against the business values they preach that it has made me not subscribe again, even if it means not reading their publication.

(Every few years I go to check if they have made it easier to unsubscribe, but last time I checked they still had the same practices)

Edit: I can also imagine that I’m a minority and so it really pays off to keep doing this.
Is there a mechanism for updating the Starliner software while it's docked at the ISS?
What made you suspect it? What symptoms did you have?
True, perhaps "messy" was the wrong word. I think what I was trying to get at was that I feel "There Is No Antimemetics Division" is more accessible for the average reader -- More narrowly focused, with a more immediate hook.

Regarding recommendations similar to Ra, it's not exactly the same thing, but https://unsongbook.com/ is fantastic and has a similar flavor I think.
There are two options here:

- Build a Postgres at-rest encryption extensions as WASM, that should "just work" as long as you can build the extension.

- Create an encrypted VFS for PGlite. This is doable now, but we haven't yet documents the VFS API as we want to make it a little cleaner.

But yes, it's 100% possible to build an at-rest encryption scheme for PGlite.
Agreed - the market will respond to these higher costs in a predictable manner. A smaller market.
click outside of the button, hold down, and move cursor onto button
> Going into a court of law and saying that a company with 27% market share in phones and 13% market share in PCs is a "monopoly"

Usually courts don't care about their global market share but their local market share, which IIRC in the US for mobile was somewhere in the 60%. Whether that is enought to make a monopoly claim is debatable, but I assume it is enough to argue abuse of dominant market position.

Regarding your laws paragraph, I do agree that "free market" doesn't really work at the level that the US currently is. There are a lot of problems I have with how the market in the US is regulated (or rather lack thereof), but I don't live there but in the EU, which I honestly am glad of.
Do we know whether or not iOS's subscription model supports pausing?

I guess I assume Patreon would mention if it didn't.
A big chunk of gamers just play games like Valorant, CS, Fifa and CoD which usually run much better.
Perl strikes me as the only major language which failed a transition though. I mean where the actual developers of a language developed a new version, released as an official new version of the language, and then the entire community stayed behind on the old version to the degree that the new version was renamed and made into its own separate project. Can you think of any other example?
Incorrect angle also leads to higher temperatures that may exceed design capabilities during re-entry
I generally rule out all Intel CPUs between the 4770 and 11th Gen.

The exception is when I need dirt-cheap + lower-ish power consumption (which isn't gaming)
How is that insulting to the judge? If you have 27% you could be the single biggest player in a given market and exercise monopoly-like control. Especially considering all the colluding occurring.
Am I overlooking something, or is this just "have a junk drawer in every room".
His "research" is nonsense. As he confessed himself, all he did was "a quick google" and asked chatgpt (?!!)

I've provide some references for what I wrote in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41226789

Clauser is a climate change denier, by his own admission and based on the pseudoscientific claims he's made.
In God we trust. All others must bring data.
Relative to not having predictable monthly recurring revenue.
Excessive diaeresis is usually caused by a vowel problem.
Image quiz game – enrich your lexicon or improve your spelling guessing images
It's taken, but there are some restrictions for the high ratios (better to make it blurry than laggy) and there are also a settings button allows to force high resolution
> I have noticed that the license doesn't allow you to use the TTFs in open-source software, ...

This was supposed to be "in open-source software projects".
If you enjoyed this story, I cannot recommend enough the video game SOMA, which explores the concept very effectively from a first person perspective (which makes it all the more impactful).
The Brown Shoe Company merger in the 1960s was shot down, even though it would only control around 7% of the nation’s shoe supply.

It’s important to not just consider the quantitative impact of the monopolist (percent of market share) but also the qualitative components (is it vertically integrated? is it hurting consumers?).

I’m not sure whether or not Apple is a monopolist, but I certainly think there are some arguments.
That attitude made sense when Google was trustworthy, I guess.
As long as Apple provides a standards-compliant web browser, of course you are.
greybeard nix admin here: I agree
People have forgotten way too many of the lessons we learned in Ops
Companies like to slap "agile" and "devops" labels on things, but I see the same old fights...
(biased because I hate gui-ninjas)
Please define what you mean by "info about company culture."

What is "company culture" for you?

edit: why the down-vote? I am asking so we can provide better help. Plenty of evidence that it is very different what it means based on context, geography, and industry.

* "Company culture is undeniably a buzzword"
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/company-culture/

* "Company culture is a buzz word often bandied about by companies wanting to look like they care or wanting to appear current."
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/company-culture-buzz-words-ju...

* "Why Company Culture Is More Than Just a Buzz Word"
https://www.recruiter.com/recruiting/why-company-culture-is-...
Can't you somehow run adb on real Linux?
I don't know if I would call a guy who created a low-fat vegetarian fad diet that doesn't seem to have a basis in any understanding of nutritional science a "well respected doctor," but sure.

I would argue that whatever good Steve Jobs did by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, he could have done more by also taking good medical advice and treating his cancer.
So they added three brand new Airflow operators to interact with Vertex AI's generative models to their Cloud Composer
A tax is a disincentive, not a restriction of freedom. As in, if you want that sugar, you will pay extra for it due to the increased strain on the healthcare system you likely will add to down the line. You can still consume as much as you want at the end of the day.
> I assume many consumers don't understand the situation, and how much of an overbearing abuser of its market position Apple can be.

Here is an awesome graph (scroll down 1 page) charting out the 3 options -- 1 web, and 2 overtly expensive for iOS.

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/27991664769677...
SQL might be the most popular programming language. Perhaps you can think of something it cannot do, practically speaking[1]?

[1] Theoretically it might be able to do anything, but the context is clearly talking about what is, not what could be.
The docs does a great job of comparing the two: https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html

Personally I didn't care about shims or performance. I find the asdf commands to be difficult to remember because they are unintuitive. See the "UX" section of the link above.
Maybe they're talking about https://www.sqlite.org/appfunc.html where you can define a window fn in the (perhaps JS) app via `sqlite3_create_window_function()`.
I discovered it literally late last night and was going to start reading it today. I’m not really sure what it’s all about yet, but the fact that it’s number one on HN today is making me feel like everything is some kind of simulation for me and me alone and that the answers might be in the book itself.