skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the best way to think about this is that there are a number of human rights groups who collaborate on critiquing proposed treaties and other international proposals (at the UN, at WIPO, etc). The process tries to incorporate these critiques, as it does with other input (such as that from companies). While it's all real politik in the end, different states have different viewpoints and incentives, and having dedicated experts work with you to understand, criticise, and suggest language or positions is often useful.

In particular, a lot of global proposals come out of the US, especially around IP, so having a US organization say "this is what the US political situation is, this is how this has worked out in the US, and these are the lobbying groups pressuring the US to support this internationally", can be very useful.

I was EFF's international activist and later international director for a number of years. A lot of EFF's rhetoric is aimed at US lawmakers, and its primary USP for change, public impact litigation in the US courts, means that a lot of what you see is oriented toward American audiences and actions.

But behind the scenes, much more of the work than you'd imagine has a global side to it. This has been true since the days of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, elements of which were rejected by the US Congress in the mid-Nineties, then policy-laundered through WIPO into the 1996 Copyright Treaty, which meant that it had to become law after the US Senate consented to it in 1999. (Treaties don't need the support of both houses in the US). EFF and other orgs at the time learned the lesson that regional and international agreements can often be an end-run around local democracy or norms -- and that local laws (from the DMCA to the GDPR) can have wider ramifications on a global network.
> He also provided a copy to The Associated Press.

Interesting way to reduce the value of the info and effort for the request. Send a copy to the paper's competition first/too
Right before the election, what a coincidence. I hope they remember that if Harris wins. But I doubt it.
It's the biggest thing in the world, in small niche groups.
Apple has its own issues. And if I'm not mistaken, you need an iPhone to use an Apple watch, but you can use a Pixel watch with either an Android phone or an iPhone. Of course, Samsung, Garmin, and others also make campatible smart watches, so if I were in the market, I would certainly be comparing alternatives.
One selling point is security updates. That's a good way to build in planned obsolescence even apart from the features themselves.
The biggest Obama spend was to create a research cohort (https://allofus.nih.gov/). So far, it hasn't paid dividends in an appreciable way, but the UK Biobank (on which the US program is partially modeled) started in 2006 and is now contributing immensely to the development of medicine.

The US program has the potential to be even more valuable if managed well, but I haven't seen overwhelming indications of reaching that potential yet; however, I think a few more years are needed for a clear evaluation.
Home Prices in Silicon Valley Area Top $2M for First Time
Your local fire department will want to very closely inspect your explosive materials handling and safety procedures. Think about what big banks of lead-acid batteries have to do, and google the pictures of battery rooms with their roof blown to bits.
You’re being disingenuous. Congress is deadlocked and ineffective, so to say “Nothing stops Congress” ignores reality. “Congress stops Congress” for years, if not decades, until enough of the older cohorts age out and functional reps get elected [1] [2]. 25% of Congress doesn't even believe in climate change [3]. Ergo, pack the court and override the dysfunction. This works itself out through demographics eventually [4] [5] (~1.8M voters 55+ age out every year, ~5k/day, ~4M young voters age into voting each year). We do what we do best as a species: we kick the can into the future.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2023/12/19/118-congress-bills-least-un...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polar...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/05/clim...

[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/wp-content/uploads/site...

[5] https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767... | https://archive.today/lQoLa
Would have been better to be plain and simple C99 coded.

rust, since its syntax has the same toxic complexity than c++, not really worth it.

But the real solution is to restore noscript/basic (x)html where reasonable.
paywall: http://archive.is/h3YQn
I don't have to do this on my laptop. I have 10 and 15 year old laptops that I can run the latest version of Linux straight from kernel.org on for free.
So uh, what's with AI products throwing out the gold standard in testing these claims.
The Interledger Universe
Perhaps user-facing apps/innovations, yes - but what about all of the other things they've contributed to the world? Kubernetes, Golang, V8, Chromium, and so much more. All of which are entirely free, as in beer kind of free. That's amazing.

These tools have been used to create amazing things that normal people have come to depend on every day.
I can't remember ever caring about phone hardware. Most things aren't resource intensive and camera quality doesn't matter that much.
They work fine depending on where you live, because they don't have the necessary band support for everywhere in the US.
paywall: http://archive.is/4Aflk
Adding to my earlier post....

I think RP2xxx is best for screens and GUIs. So a game console and similar.

PIO looks like it's good for a lot of digital interfaces as well. I know DVI and VGA have been proven on PIO for example and there's probably all kinds of 80s and 90s chips that need emulators or replacements that RP2xxx would be good for.

So there is definitely a niche for RP2xxx chips. But it's not in power control, motor control or the like. And since it's not quite strong enough for Linux, it's a hassle to run Web Communications (wget/curl) off of it either.

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But traditionally, game consoles were an MPU market not a microcontroller market. And if I were making a modern hobby game console, Linux capabilities would be on the top of my list to make everything more convenient. And it's really not that expensive these days to reach into proper Linux / DDR2 / NAND Flash.
> Compute size is measured in CUs. 1CU is 1vCPU and 4GiB of RAM.

Sure, but that precisely doesn't answer the question.

What is 1vCPU in this 1CU? If I benchmark this CPU for example, what do the numbers look like?

I saw discussion comparing the cost of Neon vs Supabase based on CPU but felt it lacking without any indicator on what is a CPU. 1 CPU could be up to 2x the other CPU.
WOW. That’s awesome! Diablo is the new Doom.
Fair enough; thanks for giving me something to think about!
This API is laughably bad, almost completely useless. But it is in POSIX https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/h... so it is ubiquitous as well as useless.
Attention in deep learning,
Maintenance and development of the Linux kernel,
Development of advanced databases,
Self driving cars,
Image recognition
Maybe define a new type in a such way that only 1 value of that type can be instantiated, and then put that unique value in a mutex. Any function that needs to hold the global lock accepts a value of the new type. Calling the function involves providing the value, which is proof that you are holding the mutex.
2B Downloads and Other Milestones from 2024 So Far
This doesn't seem too awful to do with a function instead, and doesn't require any new language syntax or features.

async function concurrently(obj) {
const kvlist = Object.entries(obj);
const resolvedValues = await Promise.all(
kvlist.map(([_key, promise]) => promise)
);
return Object.fromEntries(
kvlist.map(([key, _v], index) => [key, resolvedValues[index]])
);
}

// Usage
// This could also be const {user, session} = ...
const info = await concurrently({
user: Promise.resolve(3), // or just 3
session: new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
setTimeout(resolve, 100, "foo");
}),
});
// info = {user: 3, session: 'foo'}

You're left with having to get at your results via dot syntax, or having to duplicate the object keys to destructure them, but you'd have to do that with Promise.all() anyway. This lets you make the definitions declaratively.
In terms of realpolitik though, Congress is so deadlocked that new proposed legislation is unlikely to ever come and if it does, lobbyists and special interests will have plenty of time to render it toothless.

The coverage is not hyperbolic, it hits on real concerns that the courts will now be involved in every controversial decision. Previously, if your company was involved in something that would fall under the governance of a governmental agency, like dumping some new chemical into a body of water, the EPA could be brought in to make a ruling on the matter.

Now, that ruling might not be in the best interest of that company depending on the level of regulatory capture.

In our current world, that organization will now file a lawsuit to block the ruling of the govt organization and cite the removal of Chevron deference. Then a long, tedious process of court rulings might follow. With the ultimate ruling mentioning "the Clean Water Act does not mentioned chemical XYZ specifically by name". Resulting in the company continuing to release said chemical.

When a new toxic chemical enters the water supply near your home, I hope that your congressman responds promptly. In my experience, they have been quite slow moving on most of my concerns...
You realize that would create a problem for some organization whose idiot employee combined proprietary code with the AGPLed program and the thing automatically redistributed the whole infringing mess to the world.

Even if there were safeguards against such a situation, someone would blow past them.
They have expertise in air support. The EPA has expertise cleaning up superfund sites
You would not use a laptop-style lithium battery for battery backup for your home. You would use LFP. It does not have the burst-into-flame problem you are thinking of.

At some point I expect we will look back at the era when we used really flammable electrolytes and laugh about how wild that was. I bet we are not that far from it being just a memory.
Haha I tried this once. Was very unsuccessful.
Of course it’s intentional. The executive is not monolithic. If directed by high enough up they might accept the now-disputed EPA rules but EPA is not their boss. Agencies work against each other all the time.
Do apple at the same time and I'll support it.

How long are we going to allow the 30% apple tax to continue? See the recent patreon debacle for how it hurts people (not to mention the 30% being eaten as apple as well...).

You could switch from using Google's web products today. Literally.
Ask HN: Has anyone used a service to receive and upload snail mail?
I have a business use-case/need to receiving snail mail and having the contents accessible via an API. Has anyone used such a service like this? This would be for business use cases so a low fault tolerance and high availability would be the expectation.
In mice...

I've been doing IF for probably 9 or 10 years now. I never feel hungry for breakfast, and would normally eat around 1 or 2pm. This felt/feels very natural to me.

However, I've been surprised while reading Peter Attia's book Outlive, that there are very few fasting studies that show benefits in humans.

I'm reconsidering my approach, though in reality, I'll probably still skip breakfast and just focus on ensuring I get adequate protein, which I probably wasn't.
I have this use case too. I use my watch's WAN capability to go out on dates with spouse sans phone. If the world ends (server goes down...) I'll know about it and meanwhile I'm fully attentive and present.

Plus you can wear clothing that doesn't accommodate a phone without needing to put it on the table.
I mean... they had it. For ten or fifteen years. In CS, at least.

That mostly ended when they became a VC financing & monetization endpoint rather than a novel research platform, and renamed themselves 'Alphabet', cut R&D spending to about 1/12th of revenue, hired a bunch of middle managers and marketing execs, and killed 20% time, because the idea of a thousand engineers making white-paper reports about how they chose to spend their time to one CTO was no longer a favored organizational strategy for executing further growth by shareholders.

They still do a great deal of research, but it's less blue-sky and more focused. Google's got 182,000 employees now, with official R&D spending at about four times the National Science Foundation, but still in the 10-15% of revenue band.
This is more a condemnation of the NSF and Congress than praise of Google.
By having to spend money for all this environmental and safety regulation, my companies cannot maximize shareholder value and I cannot make all the money I could be making.
If you don't use uBlock Origin, you can also pihole or otherwise block the domain accounts.google.com. This is surprisingly non-destructive to active Google sessions, though you can't create new ones with it blocked.
I don't think it's legal to receive, open and transmit mail on other people's behalf (at least in the United States).
How would they be able to link that? Document owners can't see non-domain users who viewed a particular document (and even for domain users, that can be disabled).
Ask HN: What's it like working at Adobe these days?
> Unlike the hyperbolic coverage in the press - the decision did not say that judges are now responsible for making regulation, rather than experts in regulatory agencies.

They said EXACTLY that. There is absolutely NOTHING redeeming in the SCOTUS decision.

Prior to that, courts were required to defer to the agencies for the matter of facts. E.g. if PFAS is a pollutant. Now everyone can just say: "I don't belive PFAS is a pollutant, so there's no need to clean it up". And this will have to be argued all the way up to the SCOTUS.
I agree with this view; the breakup of the AT&T monopoly was a boon for consumers. However, I also agree that Bell Labs was a casualty of the breakup. Once AT&T was split, Bell Labs was pressured to demonstrate its value by focusing its research on areas with more immediate ROI. Unfortunately, when a research lab focuses more on the short-term instead of fostering long-term, riskier explorations, the magic of the lab fades away, and often the work becomes evolutionary rather than revolutionary, since it’s hard to do revolutionary research when management, executives, and shareholders demand quarterly progress and a promise for ROI in the near future. Bell Labs wasn’t the same since 1984, and the same situation occurred with Xerox PARC after the 1980s when Xerox no longer enjoyed monopoly-level profits on its photocopiers due to increased competition.

I believe that fostering long-term, unfettered research is an important element for revolutionary work, though I don’t believe it’s the only way for revolutionary work to happen. However, it’s difficult for most companies to consistently fund this work for an extended period of time. Bell Labs and Xerox PARC in their heydays were special, and I struggle to think of any modern-day equivalents in industry.
Waymo cars in parking lot honk all night
It seems that waymo cars get confused when they roost for the night.
> Are you buying a product with a tracking code? If not, it's not supporting anyone

Not all ads are equal. Most ad segments are performed with a direct transaction: advertiser hands YouTuber money, YouTuber puts ad in their content. There may be additional parts of the deal such as tracking codes, but that's not how it works.

The YouTuber gets the ad money, even if the video is not watched. Though that does not mean you should skip the ad, because the videos have heatmaps and no one would advertise if the segment was always "cold". Though what the OP is saying is you can send strong signals (to both the advertiser AND the YouTuber) as to what ads you're willing to watch and not. In fact, in this way, it is a great tool for making a more efficient market as it increases information quality. But only under the assumption it is both pervasive and not used bluntly.
Eh. There is a hole in me where "creativity" would normally be, because I would always just tell it to people instead of actually depicting it anywhere. As a result, it only really exists to be told to other people now.

Not sure if I'd call that "well-socialized" or "codependent". (although I guess codependence is usually on a specific other person rather than just people in general...)
LLM-based sentiment analysis of Hacker News posts between Jan 2020 and June 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clicker_training
> Chevron has been zombie precedent for years.

Where do you get this bullshit? "Chevron" was not a zombie precedent, it was very much the defining factor of the US administrative state.
> ~100KWh lithium batteries are around the $20-30k. (Used Tesla pack for reference)

Nitpick: that seems high, and probably very specific to high capacity Model S packs. A brand new 75kWh Tesla pack for a Model 3 is around $10K installed these days.
Well, time to stop using indeed.
The Android running on your phone is not FOSS. If someone wants to write free software that runs on your phone they totally can (and do, check out Graphene).
apple example is dot on
you're not wrong -- basically as soon as I read 'Congress can' I immediately LOL'd. Unfortunately I don't have any solution to this, as our system was clearly designed for, at bare minimum, a Congress which is at least slightly capable of functioning. Everything I've seen in the past decade though suggests that is no longer a reasonable thing to expect to be true at any point.
I believe the US has about 350 million people out of about 7 billion people on Earth. That makes the US population equal to about 5% of the total, not 10%.
People say this a lot about Google, but I'm pretty sure this is true for every big company.
What you describe sounds more like time restricted feeding than IF to me. Besides, cited publication is from 2010.
There's a difference between being closed-minded and saying "yes, we've obviously thought about this thing that you, someone with no apparent background in our field, thought of in ten seconds". And if you're an expert in any field that gets a lot of people who are interested, but not a lot of people who are experts, you hear these kinds of half-baked theories all the time, often with this exact "oh you orthodox experts just can't handle my field-disrupting free-thinking!" kind of framing.

I'm a mathematician by education, and I cannot tell you how many people insist on things like 0.999... < 1 without an understanding of (a) what the left side of that expression even means, (b) what a real number is, or (c) what basic properties the real numbers have. Going "no, you're wrong, and it would take me a couple of full lectures to explain why but trust me we're pretty sure about this" is a reasonable answer to that, provided that you have indeed established that to your own satisfaction, at least.
Ah, it is whatever AWS calls vCPU. Virtual core in an EC2 instance
Very cool - I've been working on an open source python package that lets you do some similar things (https://github.com/expectedparrot/edsl).

Here's an example of the Enron email demo using the edsl syntax/package & a few different LLMs:
https://www.expectedparrot.com/content/6607caa1-efc5-439f-85...
As someone who’s been rescued via helicopter, I can state at least in my case there wasn’t a large bill. The only thing I was charged for was the out of network ER visit.
Collateral and the Death of Neon
Which device did you choose for them?
Android wear watches only work with android these days
Hello, Molesworth major.
I found an HP Elite 8200 behind a dumpster in the rain once. Brought it home, examined the innards, confirmed there was no rust. Let it dry for a few days while I waited for the hard disk to arrive from Amazon (it was once a corporate box, so its permanent storage had been removed and securely disposed of).

Sparked it up, it worked fine. I use it as a repo/build server to this day.
Do these providers really bring enough value to use them over a colocated managed db? (Not just the same region, but subnet etc)

I was under the impression for quite some time that it wasn't that bad to have 2-3ms latencies compared to a co-located DB which is typically <1ms. However, we recently switched from Neon to a colocated, managed db and there was a huge improvement. Some of our queries were executing sequentially (due to our ORM, Prisma), and so what was a 3 second transaction was reduced to only 1 second. Yes this could be rearchitected better, but it illustrates a major floor in my mind for these companies providing only a DB.

Managed vs. unmanaged is a massive difference and would be worth it. But these days I was under the impression most hosting companies also offer managed DBs.
Syntax ain't going to fix people who do not understand their tools.
If somehow this happens, the big question is, how many splits? How many lines do they draw, and where do they draw them?

Clearly they want to separate search and advertising, as that was the crux of the case. But advertising is the only place that makes any money. If they split that off by itself, the rest, which is the good parts, may completely crumble.

What of the small, but important, products that Google hasn't killed yet? I guess Google Flights is arguably part of search. But what of say, Google Fonts?

The goal is to increase competition in the marketplace. A noble endeavor. But all those other Google products, if left to hang out to dry, stand a good chance of dying or being absorbed by competitors.

Well and good, there may be increased competition in the realm of search and online advertising. But if Google Cloud Platform can't stand on its own, and merges into AWS or Azure, that's less competition. If Chrome and Chromebooks can't stand on their own and Microsoft acquires it, that's less competition.

No matter how the split goes, whichever parts of Google's business are not in the same company as the advertising business will need to find a way to profitability.
Pixel 8 Pro has been fairly solid. Some occasional battery life issues at first and some flakiness in recognizing the charging cable but otherwise it's the best Pixel since.. Idk.. the 5 or before.
The other replies are correct but to explain the credit “game”, using credit cards is the easiest way to get started showing banks how responsible you are about paying back credit. For large purchases which most people will need credit for, e.g. new car or house, banks want you to have a good record as a borrower.

As to the overspending issue, that is indeed a problem that many have. I think credit issuers mostly want to walk a very fine line, accepting that some really won’t be able to repay their debts while others can and simply spend more of what they can but might not if they weren’t using credit.