skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to be near the sun to have heat or be warmed by the Sun. It is still currently in the goldilocks zone, same with Venus. The difference is how well each planet traps heat. No atmosphere no heat for mars, highest peak surface temperature is 70 fehrenheit or 20 celsius. Not much but enough green house gas and you could raise it by 20 degrees or more. Other thing to consider is that you don't need to move Mars, you could create artificial magnetospheres.
It might be too much to hope for, but I'd really love it if this was the spark that ignited a mass movement against binding arbitration, which is an affront to consumer rights and must be destroyed. Movements often get a lot of momentum when they get a catchy slogan that sticks, and "If you watch an episode of The Mandalorian, Disney can murder your wife" is a great one.
> He'll do things like call Kamala Harris the "border czar", which she never had as an official title

Trump's strategy (whether one exists or not) around this aside, heaps of people have been called the "X czar" by the media for decades. As you point out, it's a shorthand for someone in the presiding administration who is tasked with some singular objective. Rarely did their official title ever contain the word "czar".

The current media "fact check" circus around Harris never having been the border czar is yet another clearly identifiable example of a class of people who were so dismayed by Trump's presidency that they would go to any length, however distasteful, to prevent a second term.
Opinions are subjective by definition. Do not confuse opinions and facts.

And the idea that “all platforms meet your needs if you put in enough effort and time ” is flawed because that time and effort is part of the needs.

Again, to take their grocery store analogy: the layout doesn’t change the capability of the store. But it does provide them with the ability to get things done sooner, faster and with less cognitive load.

User experience matters more than I think you acknowledge.
So you are very careful not to depend on any of their toxic complex features. In the end, better not use them at all.

Even plain and simple C99 compilers can be reasonably written by a solo dev, so a motivated small team...
Or you can beat him just by being really good at playing a fiddle.
Some feedback:

- It's a very cool idea, and massive congrats on the launch!

- This has been done before, but a slick looking open source version is very cool! Have you looked at the concept of now pages, as this might lean into that? https://nownownow.com/about

- Personal dashboard builder is a poor term for this, as it implies a dashboard for personal data/usage.

- Link in bio is also a poor term, I suspect it's not a popular / well-known term. Personal Homepage is probably the best I can think of. Or now page perhaps?

- This GitHub readme says very little of substance, which gives me... "unfinished side project" vibes.

Best of luck with it!
Ah, the hubris!
Hey, if 5% of Appstore revenue is actually up for grabs, that's still more than enough for a competitor to be successful.
But they aren't capitalizing their data, because they're paying more in the end. That's my point.

Let's say widgets are $x. Now the widget manufacturer, as their competitors are advertising, decides to advertise too. They just hit magazines. Success!

But then comes targeted advertising. Now they must pay for profiled advertising, which means that someone colllected the data, archived it, continues to track, and provides uptime and an api you can poll.

Google had 300 billion in gross revenue, what of facebook and others? And there are more nuanced, more targeted providers too.

The entire tracking industry has got to be hundreds of trillions in revenue, and guess where that comes from?

The cost of everything you buy.

So you get a browser and gmail for supposedly free, but now steak costs 3% more. What a savings.

And yes, when people are tricked into thinking a browser is free, it will be hard for visibly paid competitors.

People complain about global warming, and "how did we get here?". Well, the same way we have no paid for browsers. No one cares past their own nose.
Population growth has slowed substantially in high demand cities. Honestly when looking at historical charts, prices were better when cities grew hand over fist. There was enough development to meet growth and also prevent much price growth beyond what wages could afford. Today there is little growth, and prices have surged as a result of that limited supply being bid up.
One of my core criticisms to Plato and later Aristotle is not a criticism of Aristotle qua Aristotle, but in the way people give this almost religious reverence to the particular words they use. As if by saying that

>Telos, or finality, also gives morality its proper and objective ground: what is morally right or wrong follows, ultimately, from one's nature.

I have some intuitive understanding of what telos is and why it matters. If I'm understanding you correctly, morality is defined by outcome, but the "tragedy of the crudeness of materialism" is that we can't know the final outcome of anything. Then what good is knowing about telos anyway?

I'd argue that Scholasticism, that is, the marriage of Middle-Ages Christianity to the truthy-sounding gobbledygook of Aristotle, set the case for the moral authority of the church back a thousand years.
Steam is a popular cross-platform system, could it ever be used for non-gaming applications? Even Enterprise applications?
Not a lawyer but the "reasonable person" test seems relevant here?

A reasonable person would think the EULA clickthrough on their set-top box to watch Disney+ might have some impact on consuming media and paying for it. But nobody would imagine that EULA would extend to other Disney products, especially in meatspace.

ALSO if that were true, it means that some park goers did not have Disney+ contracts and they would be under different liability routes than subscribers.

ALSO what if someone bought a DVD or t-shirt with its own license, then does that apply to physical harm at the park?

It seems to a lay person, what happens on the set-top stays on the set top.
> For all the stories of people working five hours a day and making $400k/yr - I hear many more working 60 hour weeks.

This is absolutely right. For every senior person in a glamorous role at a FAANG making $400k/yr, there are probably five less senior, less glamorous people making $150k/yr, grinding away trying to justify a promotion to the next level. The people posting to HN that their brother's girlfriend's nephew's roommate makes $400k think that's every FAANG developer.
I hear you, and maybe I shouldn't have used such a big name as an example, since if one wants a Rolex it's usually not to tell time. That's why I opened with degree as a service - some place with the financial incentive not to be a degree mill (and thus turn into University of Phoenix-esque) but who doesn't care how long the line is to get into their exclusive club, rather they care about allowing more folks to put "yes, I have BSCS or MSCS" on their resume without having to go through the traditional channels to get one

I applaud my alma mater for their MSCS effort, which in my mind elevates their prestige not dilutes it: https://www.gatech.edu/academics/degrees/masters/computer-sc...
Yup, Google MBA'd itself into the ground.
It's probably not a great resume builder to say "Decided not to move forward." on some things. Maybe it should be.
The next level will be to market these waivers. Companies the size of Disney are always expanding. The waivers are expanded into the larger footprint. So it may be possible to market a signed waiver. Bring a company into an existing legal umbrella and the existing waiver can be extended. Someone with a substantial percentage of the population under an ironclad waiver, someone likely Disney, might actually be able to sell this as a service. It would be difficult to extend the waiver retroactively, but that too may be possible through a no-click update.

"To continue using disney+ you must agree this clause covering Disney and Disney partners. And fyi, those partners now include your local car dealer, the hospital that treated your broken leg, police officers, and every plumber in your state. All have paid a fee to be listed as a Disney partner. Don't like it? Well, I hope you kids don't like Star Wars."
This site compares a few text-based diagramming tools, including Mermaid:
https://text-to-diagram.com
The steady creep of corporate lawfare is probably a given, globally.

But this "signing away" your rights to settle disputes in a courtroom by accepting a mere eula - it seems so bonkers. Is that solely a US thing?! Does it happen in Europe?
One metric for investigative journalism, in my opinion, is to look at how many journalists are in jail:

https://www.statista.com/chart/16414/jailed-journalists-time...

This is only one data point and doesn't include journalists who were railroad out of their jobs, disappeared, murdered, etc.
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Without those arrogant individuals the food surplus that made your existence possible would not have occurred and you would not exist.

And if for some reason you made it into existence, you would be working in a farm without motorized equipment spending all your time trying to generate the calories you would then be eating right away because refrigeration would not exist either.

And everyone else would be spending all their time in the exact same way so all the innovations that make you happy would not exist.

Also, paper was as important as the translations, and you tend to trivialize the fact that if you have nothing to write on you cannot really have a school, library or university. And if you did there would be no material to study from.

You would have to write on animal skin (parchment) and that doesn't scale at all.

Paper is a really big deal but you seem to take it for granted.
You don’t have to be the sole investor. Say you can afford to invest $10k. You could try and find a 2k plot to put a 8k garden shed on. Or you can put that 10k in a REIT and get a gain.
Ask HN: Why do ActivityPub and Nostr not encrypt an "event" content and metadata
Hi, I am getting interested in decentralized protocols like ActivityPub and NOSTR and wondering if there is a good reason to not encrypt both the event data and metadata (event kind, time, etc) with the poster private key. Essentially each event only making public that an event is created/signed by Person X but no other data can be retrieved about said event.
Portability of Fortran's `do concurrent' on GPUs
I think GP is complaining about a change of topic of /now, not that it becomes corporate SEO gamified.
Imbalanced power dynamics are bad if they are abused, and they are easy to abuse.

However, not every CEO that dates a subordinate is a sexual predator. Again, that is an absurd statement; life is never that black and white. Sometimes, people meet and fall in love regardless of their lot in life. Stating that anytime that happens and one person happens to be a CEO instantly makes that person a sexual predator is not based in any kind of reality.

A CEO that abuses their power or engages in any kind of non-consensual relationship is a different story.

I agree it’s generally a bad idea, because of perception, favoritism, the power imbalance, and a dozen other reasons. But it being a bad idea doesn’t necessarily imply that the CEO is a sexual predator, either.

Sometimes even people in power care about consent.

And sometimes people in power are predators. That happens too. Maybe even more often; I don’t have stats.

I’m not defending Schmidt. I have no idea about him or his sexual proclivities, nor do I know the details about any of his personal relationships. Neither do you. He may be a monster! But dating someone at work isn’t the thing that makes him one.
Sure, it could be worse. But it could be better. Compare it to installing fdroid on a stock a droid device.

If Apple hasn't made the experience of installing alternative stores on their phones as simple as installing fdroid on a stock android phone it's not because they can't, but because they don't want to.

And that's fine. That's just another thing the EU can force them to do.
Have you ever been to Europe?
This one from TechDirt, yea, a bit!

> It’s a major reason why the Biden FCC retracted a wasteful billion-dollar Trump handout to Starlink, something that made MAGA cry.
I’m not taking about all that, I’m disputing your assertion that Patreon was not making a value judgment. They absolutely are. They are contorting their offering heavily to be able to stay in the App Store. Clearly they get some value from it.

You say there is extortion pushing them to do this. I don’t dispute this. But Patreon has a clear choice. Exit the extortion game and just be on the web not in the App Store, or stay in the App Store and deface their own business. They chose the latter yet you claim they made no value judgment. They did, they chose the Apple extortion path. It takes two to keep a dysfunctional relationship going.

I’m not suggesting this is good or defending Apples behavior. I’m saying they absolutely made a value judgment and went heavily to the “stay in Apple’s good graces” side. This is not some neutral thing.
Not enough. I still can’t install my smartwatch‘s app due to notarization.

Apple should have NO say in what I can install on my phone.
Disenchantment was well underway in the 1600s, and arguably peaked in the 1700s, the Age of Reason, before it was partly undone by Romanticism. The disenchantment narrative goes back at least as far as Chaucer: https://aeon.co/essays/enlightenment-does-not-demand-disench...

If you want to go back the age of magic, try the 900s, or better yet, prehistory.
> I agree. That's completely not what I said.

I still misunderstand you, I think.

> Money is how we keep track of [...] output of others

How do I reconcile that you agree money doesn't represent the output of others, while understanding this comment that says it keeps track of the output of others?

> Spending doesn't make you rich.

I would argue that being rich doesn't matter at all. We can always print more money. The only part of being rich that matters is the influence your spending represents. Otherwise it's nothing more than numbers in a computer database and has no impact on the world. The fact that the government spends so aggressively is what makes their influence so powerful and scary. Unlike rich individuals, the governments wage war frequently. I would much rather see random people have obscene net worth rather than see major countries grow their military budget, building weapons that are even more efficient at killing poor people in other countries.

> Because there's a limit of how much control over others any single person deserves regardless of what they did.

agreed, that's why it matters so much as to where the money is going when you take it from rich individuals. Giving it the federal government grows their military budget, which the president of the US has complete control over. A single individual with the authority to launch a full-scale invasion tomorrow. Compare that to elon musk or bill gates. Their purchasing influence is infinitesimally small compared to the same money utilized by the federal government.

> sport takes a huge toll on the body and pretty much excludes those people from any useful form of activity for entire span of their career and possibly later only for our grotesque entertainment.

valid argument. I don't agree with it, but I don't find the argument to be inconsistent or without merit.
I fundamentally don't get the value proposition of this, either. Whatever demographic this appeals to is clearly one that is very alien to me!
Idea: Web page of every phrase in (Koine) greek that meant different thing to the ancient great philosophers than in English language today. This'd help to get a good picture of the Greeks at once for one usually stumbles upon the "different interpretations" slowly.
There are a lot of extremely explicit, abusive, and vile actions presented here, but one of the "safe for work" misbehaviors is absolutely insane:

> Jones called David as a witness during her case-in-chief. Almost immediately, David began insulting Jones, her counsel, and the litigation process. Despite the court’s repeated admonishments, David’s behavior escalated, according to court transcripts. Within minutes, he proffered his American Express Black credit card to Jones, telling her, “Take my card. Take my card. Here, take my card … Go and buy whatever you want.” David subsequently said, “Oh, f— it. Just enter a default judgment,” before leaving the stand and exiting the courtroom.

Maybe you think you can get away with things in private life, but how do you continue to do that in front of a judge?

Crazy the kind of failure modes we can see from the human species sometimes.
Yes. By the way, this is an unusually good deal for uninvested cash at a brokerage (it's not generally a reasonable thing to do outside of Vanguard). E.g. Schwab makes most of their revenue from interest on your uninvested cash.
The formula is to find people who most likely will go through their lives without doing that particular illegal, then engineer circumstances with feds and CIs that don't entrap them but rather give them a perfect opportunity they probably wouldn't otherwise have. Of course then they do it, as seen in a few of the convicted whitmer conspirists.

It's often the ideological equivalent of sending a bunch of skanks to blue ball a bunch of sailors fresh off a 90 day sail after leading them to a lust cliff. Yes it's rape if they act, and it's not entrapment, but we all know there's something at play we wouldn't want the government doing.
Good morning, I'm not sure if my story is unique, but here it is. I am an AI research scientist, and we conduct a lot of research and development on the OpenAI platform. For some of our R&D projects, we have strict requirements and cannot use any public AI services.
So, I created a personal AI box that can provide the same ChatGPT experience while addressing three key issues:

Hallucination
Forgetfulness
Long, essay-like responses

and many other lingering issues.
In any case, we are now using our personal AI box for R&D and daily queries."
The 1 Hour per Year Bug, but only in Pacific time
I don't understand. If you like their waiver, copy and paste from here and replace Disney with your name:

https://www.disneyplus.com/legal/subscriber-agreement

Or better, have your own lawyer write you an arbitration agreement.
I've actually written a tool to track all my "podcasts" (in quotes because it includes long form videos, courses and other things). It brings me incredible joy.

In the same app I can track books I want or that I've read and other things.

I've been doing this for 2 years.
They won't, but the playing field needs to be the same. If I have to jump unreasonable hurdles it's still anti competitive.
I don't think knowing what city he's in is particularly dangerous.
This is not true. Many companies want a CLA because their lawyers are worried about unclear patent law. They don't want someone to contribute some code, and then later claim the contributed code violates their patents.

Good examples are React from Facebook, and TypeScript from Microsoft. Both require a CLA. But these projects are never going to go closed-source. They are complements to the companies' core business strategies.
I’m not a lawyer but the way I always understood it was that this license agreements are not really valid as contracts because a contract is something all parties agree to and can amend. Consumers can’t amend these terms therefor while they may limit liability they not valid contracts. Is that not true?
Photon Entanglement Drives Brain Function
Testing a compiler is very hard because the unit tests which validate that some code transformation is happening do not prove that the code transformation will be correct in all conceivable situations in which it occurs.

If you pin down too much in test cases, on the other hand, it will be hard to make changes to the compiler without breaking tons of tests.

I think, the best way to test a compiler is to have a large standard library or other body of code, including that compiler written in itself. Recompile the whole thing and then recompile it again with the compiled compiler and again. By the third iteration, you should have it a fixed point. That doesn't prove thing are correct, but it gives a lot of confidence, especially if the code base is large and uses a lot of the language. The second piece of confidence is that all that compiled code passes its tests.
USB-C on iPhone would like to have a word.
I Wrote a Domain-Specific Language (DSL)
I’m skeptical that this will be a win for users. Most Gamers are upset when they have to use any launcher besides Steam and I don’t see how this will be any different. Android always had third party app stores, yet nobody uses them.
More screens to click through only guarantees that nobody will read them. For a warning to be effective you need to keep it short and simple.
This looks very amazing, as our team needed something like this. Would like to try this.
Yeah, someone like that would be perfect. I personally am self taught and didn't finish my CS degree and every few years I look around for an option like this. I'm an experienced senior dev and the opportunity cost of finishing my degree is always just way too high relative to any value it would actually provide for my career. I wish something like this existed.

The degree doesn't matter in most of tech but if I ever wanted to work for the government or military I'd be automatically disqualified for not having a degree despite having the ability. The tech interview process that many people deride actually provides the opportunity to get a great tech job if you just simply know the material. It's been a huge advantage for me
Yes, but has Europe created a Google, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, or Facebook sized tech business in the last 30 years?
Imagine a world where it was mandated that all digital ToS requires a two way user interface so that users must have a way to edit the text box presented to them and the modified license is uploaded to the company and they must accept/deny in a timely manner.

That would put a stop to the incessant 'we changed our terms of service emails that we all get and would force large companies to hire staff for actual customer service.
The future of VPNs in the Zero Trust era
OP actually says it's the best laptop, not the computer, or even laptop, with the most powerful compute.
First part: Not at all. Apps can‘t deeply integrate into the system and it’s always through very tightly defined APIs.

Second part: Technically yes, practically no. Apps are still tightly bound by the system.

Theoretically there can be exploits out of the app sandbox that could be caught before an app is released on the app store. But once the vulnerability it will quickly be closed - and while it‘s not known it also won’t be caught by the app store‘s automatic checks anyway, so it could also be inside of app store released apps.
But then you have to use Visual Studio.
If doing task B requires doing task A first, then doing task A is necessarily easier than doing task B.
Building a complier is one of those things that rolls up a number of other parts of computer science.

You need to have familiarity with both a high level and a low level language.

Creating a lexer to match tokens uses finite state automata / regular languages.

Creating a parser to match a syntax uses push down automata.

There are some complex topics built on top of simple data structures. For example, symbol table lookups with scope.

Each one of those is a semester long class by itself (well, the DFA and PDA were both in the theory of computation class for me).

My complier class tied together many of the previous classes that I had and gave me a practical understanding of it. With that, I was then able to properly understand the tools of lex and yacc, the effort they saved me and the type of errors that I would encounter.