skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Disney is "arguing that he agreed to settle any disputes with the entertainment giant and any of its affiliates out of court when he signed up for a free trial of its streaming service Disney+" for a case about "the death of his wife at a restaurant at Walt Disney World".

If this argument is entertained by the courts at all - the likelihood of which the article seems to show varied opinions on - it would be just one more to add to the list of why Megacorporations should not be a thing at all, even if they do not have a monopoly on one particular industry.
So you're conceding that NPR and BBC are biased? Or you just want to argue?

As for journalistic business / financing models: public financing will never be anything but a tool of the power structure (whether or not they happen to be in formal power at the moment).

Private financing sometimes works, but doesn't at the moment.
How do you manage the TTS on the books?
"Add Polycentric to your home screen to continue"

No thanks
My suspicion from early in my career is it was people that came from IT who just assumed that 'MAC' was an acronym for something, like pretty much everything else they dealt with, as opposed to the shortening of the proper noun 'Macintosh.'
Because they couldn't shoehorn "AI" into the product, I guess.
I hope that the OP is so very grateful for you coming to their aid in making sure that their post doesnt get misunderstood. You are very valliantly continuing to push to make sure I see clearly the error of my misunderstandings.
The movements of "fuck it, burn it all down" are fed by this river of injustice and its raindrops Can virtue signal all day, but when the chips are down, the message that goes out is "This country needs a hard reset by violent revolution."
I'm sure GP is being facetious, though perhaps with an allusion to stories like "How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers"[0]. It's neither from NPR nor about Latinos as in GP's (unlikely to be real) example, but nevertheless emblematic of what one may come across frequently in left-leaning media sources: combine as many subject matters as possible that are currently in vogue in the progressive thought landscape, without much relevance to the broader public.

[0]: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/indonesian...
Why is it that grafting a whole other query engine in is working, while attempts at bringing column storage (cstore) in, in a more integrated way, did not?
I knew he was a Perl lover and I've been reading plover.com for at least fifteen years but I had not made that connection.
On a technical level, this seems a bit silly (everything coming out of a Bayer filter is post-processed in some way, in the end), but I can definitely see people getting tired of "opinionated" photo processing, AI or otherwise.

Tangentially related: I learned today that an old point-and-shoot 1-inch camera I'd bought over 7 years ago is now selling for twice the MRSP used online, apparently because it looks cool/retro and/or because photos and videos coming out of it don't look "pre-processed" in any way.
That would defeat the purpose of our health care system and military-industrial complex.
We do it in a more sophisticated way.
I’m a bit of both. I have long-lasting, deep-running, intense passions for many things in life (I’m obsessed with aquatic stuff for example, and I’ll hop in the water with a mask and snorkel anywhere and any time of year if I might see something interesting… And my definition of interesting pushes the boundaries of the meaning of that word for most people), yet I’ve got those fleeting interests as well. Far too many of them for sure.

I’ve done the video game one before. Not coincidentally, it had an aquatic theme. I lasted like 2 weeks. I wasn’t discouraged by a lack of interest necessarily, but the sense that it was truly impossible to pursue.

I know some other people with ADHD who have very central and long-lasting interests, but you’re not wrong that the passing (and often even more intense) ones are real too. Perhaps more common as well.

That’s why I said “some presentations”; some people find a groove that allows them to go deep on something they’re interested in, I guess. But certainly not always.
Chemical Recycling of Silicones: Current State of Play
> These laptops are superior - you cannot buy anything better from another vendor at any price, period

And so the Apple marketing magic has worked on you too.

'Good' is subjective, however I assure you there are faster and more powerful laptops on the market.
This was a fascinating and ... detailed ... story. I appreciate that it went a little further into the history of Apple's involvement ARM than the recent spate of blog posts that didn't go back past Newton.
I watched his YouTube video on this a few days ago. It goes WAAAAAY more in-depth than you'd expect and is a great hour of second-monitor viewing.
Exactly how does Google makes money through search if not...advertising?
I think you’re actually not harsh /enough/ on survivors games. Most of them don’t even have any dodging in them. They’re idle games masquerading as action games. And they’ve polluted the ‘bullet hell’ tag on Steam to the point where it’s impossible to find real danmaku games.
While of course this being a possibly valid legal argument is completely inane, I must assume Disney is doing this for precedent, not for this one case. They want to be able to use this absurd line of reasoning in any future lawsuit and are afraid they will lose the ability to do so.

I could be wrong, not a legal scholar.
I haven't updated this in years but this was my attempt at building a real time personal dashboard, connecting various API's and components.

Was pretty helpful for me, basically acted as a heads up display that I could look at to track my stats over the day (steps, meditation, focus time, etc.)

https://github.com/Andreilys/personal_dashboard
That's not really true, lots of places of replace it with newer stuff.
If we froze the population level and all the people try to move to the same place, it'll bid up the prices. But growing the total supply of humans only causes additional pressure.
> And for context, America is going to give Kim Dotcom a functional life sentence in what Americans like to call "pound-you-in-the-ass prison".

Unlikely. He'll probably be sentenced to a minimum/low/medium-security prison facility/farm. Over 80% of American federal inmates are in a facility meeting one of those classifications [1].

The federal sentence (using that for comparison since the federal government carries out IP law in the US) for first-degree murder in the US is either life in prison or death by lethal injection. Dotcom is exceedingly unlikely to spend the rest of his life in prison and is obviously not eligible for the death penalty. He'd probably be looking at a decade or two at most. Obviously, that sucks for him, but your assertion that he'll be treated worse than murderers and be SA'd regularly in a prison housing violent inmates is simply not true.

[1]https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_sec_l...
From February 2023:
"Sci-fi magazine has to halt submissions after receiving too much AI-generated fiction"

https://qz.com/clarkesword-neil-clarke-chatgpt-ai-q-and-a-18...
A web scraping CLI made for AI that is idempotent
Show HN: I made an open-source Chrome extension to visualize NBA player stats
Hi HN,

I love both basketball and the NBA, but one thing that's always frustrated me as a basketball fan in the Internet age is how most websites with player career statistics default to text tables for displaying stats.

It just seems so obvious that this data should be presented in line chart form: it's much quicker and easier to grasp a player’s career trajectory when you can literally see the shape of their performance over time.

The advantages of line charts:

Quicker to grasp:
- A quick glance at a line chart allows you to understand the arc of a player's career by simply seeing the shape of the line, whereas in a text-chart you have to read each cell.

Show relative performance over time:
- Line charts also make it easy to see how a player's performance changes season to season. Text tables make you mentally calculate these changes, while a plotted chart visualizes the change for you.

Easier to compare:
- when looking at two players career PPGs on the same graph it's a lot easier to understand their performances relative to one another versus seeing two tables of their respective stats.

I've been confused why no source of online player statistics has already done this, and I kept procrastinating on doing something about it myself because I didn't want to deal with the complexity of sourcing NBA data to make my own simple stats website. But then I came across the relatively new Chrome extension side panel API and realized I could solve my frustration without having to maintain my own NBA player career statistics dataset!

So with some spare time earlier this year I developed a Chrome extension called Visual-Stats. It lets you view NBA player career statistics on line charts directly within your browser.

I think you'll find Visual-Stats useful and fun for exploring and comparing different NBA players' careers. I'm excited to share it with the community and hear your thoughts!

Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/visual-stats/fnopme...

Website: www.visual-stats.com

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rPXN8nq6_k

Code: https://github.com/jdamon96/visual-stats
Unfortunately among higher order mammals one being above the rest usually is one of the few ways to have peace.
Apple's revenue from advertising is tiny compared to its revenue from other sources, while Google's revenue from other sources is tiny compared to its revenue for advertising.
WebGL2 is a thing now so some of what that blog discusses isn't as bad anymore, in terms of shader support.

Mind blowingly, webgl + Mac + integer textures still don't work afaik.
Shipping 1000s of successful products with no managers and a team of 12
Warning, rambling old man story ahead.

I've been a Mac fan since it was released. I was 8. My dad wouldn't let me get one because he disliked them pretty intensely, said you couldn't tell what they were doing and couldn't fix them, and they were overpriced. And I mean, he wasn't wrong. I remember once, probably 1985 or 1986, we were at a computer show where they were raffling off, I think, a Mac 128k or Plus. My dad told me if either of us won we would sell it and get an Amiga. In retrospect that would have been cool, TBH.

The only thing that ever got my attention instead was when NeXT came out. It was just so badass, this ominous black cube with the cool 3d grayscale UI. But even more out of reach financially, so I just hung out at the local university computer base that had a bunch. I think the guys in the store viewed me as a kind of mascot. But TBH NeXT struggled just as hard as Apple and didn't even have their legacy brand equity.

Those of us who suffered through the bad years are still the most loyal, I find, even though they are stagnating, and even though the modern OS and hardware, though unquestionably vastly better in functional terms, are just not quite as interesting and unique.* In the late 90s, when Apple was at its nadir, I had to reluctantly mostly abandon the Mac. I still had one but most of my time was in the unix/Linux/FreeBSD world. So when NeXT reverse-acquired Apple, and the classic look and some of the classic feel of the Mac married the unix foundations of NeXTStep, it was game over, and the first chance I got I convinced my boss to let switch and I've never looked back.

* John Siracusa's excellent explanation of what I mean: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/
Apple II's were designed for the most computer-hostile environments in existence: primary schools.
I should add a re-direct but it's on my personal website here
https://akashgoswami.com/now

I've linked the now page in the first line of the post

The .dev site is where I'll be writing more technical posts while my .com site is for everything not tech/coding
Heya! I work for FusionAuth and will relay this feedback. Really appreciate it. I agree our pricing page is complicated and confusing.

The $37/month plan is designed for folks to do a POC or check the software out; it isn't designed for production workloads (hence the lack of backups).

We do have a free community edition here if you want to self-host:

https://fusionauth.io/download

The features listed on the below page are limited to paid plans but everything else is unlimited (or, more precisely, limited by the system resources):

https://fusionauth.io/docs/get-started/core-concepts/edition...
(Daily) news isn't nearly the only option of learning about what's happening in the world. And I'd argue it's not even the best either, by a long shot.
To use ID.me one must:

* Consent to the collection, use, and sharing of their personal information to third parties (i.e. data brokers).

* Agree to binding arbitration and a waiver of class action rights.

* Agree to limits on liability for any indirect, punitive, special, exemplary, incidental, or consequential damages.

* Consent to arbitrary termination of the account at any time for any reason.

Login.gov does not.
Moths are aliens in their looks and vast diversity. My backyard favorite is hummingbird hawk-moth.
Seriously doesn't make any sense at all. For python at least. Js I know less.

Also a little bit ridiculous to take go as a reference for error management as it is probably the worse on this subject.

The err = func(), in the c way is probably ok, but the errors values created on the spot anywhere in the coffee without being predefined is awful and makes code error safeness random and chaotic in my opinion.

For python, you don't have to know that a function can specifically return an error. You just have to expect that everything might encounter an error and add the try/except as gatekeeper where it matters.
This. In Europe, Macs were for people around arts, printed press, audio/video and such. CMYK people.
For genZers, think about THE platform to run Adobe software fast and reliabily + audio tools.

These people must be either young or delusional. No one used Macs at home. Even under Mac OSX for Power PC, if you weren't a media producer, your interest in Macs was zero.
> without any ability to "imagine" things.

What's imagining, then? The way LLMs explore different predictive branches in order to find an optimal solution doesn't seem all that different than what I consider imagining: Thinking about what could be and considering different variations on that idea.

An LLM isn't a brain, so there is no implication of it being said in the truest human sense, but it seems like a decent analogy to me.
People forgot the Ashton-Tate merger, which destroyed Borland's internal culture and saddled it with products that were almost impossible to move to a WYSIWYG model.

They were targeting both Windows and OS/2 for the GUI implementations they did deliver with much reduced budgets.

Microsoft buying FoxPro and introducing preditory pricing also didn't help.

Neither did MS sniping the Quattero team.

Add in Philippe Kahn and the Borland board fighting on direction didn't help.

The company simply was troubled and didn't have the resources to port anything besides Pascal, which as one of the teaching languages of the day, was easier to justify.
Readers who enjoyed this essay might also enjoy this one, which goes into further depth on the mathematics of musical intervals, the connection between the "blue note" in Equal Tempered jazz music, and more:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0034-4885/72/7/07...

As an added bonus, the author draws an extended analogy between musical intervals and energy levels in quantum mechanics toward the end of the article, and indeed the study of the patterns in intervals between and among energy levels in the simple harmonic osciallator remains an active area of reasearch!
Love the story and MGS2 reference.
Oh man that would be so cool. Kinda like the Ruffle Flash player!
Super simple and super effective tool to learn about [somewhat random?] new topics quickly.
Aw that's too bad. I'd take a longer under / on the rails section compared to that factory stuff any day.
Would binding arbitration clauses apply to the POTUS or are they exempt since the supreme court put them above the law? Probably doesn't come up much, just wondering about these sorts of edge cases. Could Trump sue disney if he got a trial membership to disney+ while in the white house?
"Defense" spending (the US is currently involved in "defense" by its involvement in bombing Yemen, Gaza, Russia and other countries) is considered very narrowly - you don't count veteran's benefits as military spending. You don't count interest on the debt for past military spending as military spending. You don't consider international affairs spending, very wrapped up in military spending, as military spending. You don't count NASA's military work as military spending.
You're blending some very different numbers there, social security and Medicare are huge, while federal spending on transportation is lower and education is a pittance.
For regular tips in the States, don't stress about it: It's fine to tip whatever you think the service is worth. You're just visiting anyway; it's not like you have a reputation to uphold at the place around the corner from your house where you eat twice a week or something.

Just estimate whatever a "reasonable" tip is. It doesn't have to be a precise process.

Rounding is OK.

If the tab is $38.43, and a reasonable tip for the service in the area is 20%, then: Just round the total, slide the decimal over, and double it.

$38.43 rounds to $40. The decimal slides over, and makes $40 into $4 (ie, 10%). But 20% is the target, so $4 * 2 = $8.

The tip is thus $8. Write $8 on the tip line.

Then add $8 to $36 to get $44. Write $44 on the total line.

And then carry over the change: 43 cents. Just append ".43" to the tip line, and scribble something on the signature line, and: You're done.

You tipped 21.81%, and that's fine. Nobody cares. And these are easy steps.

If you round down (from $34 to $30, say) instead of up, and wind up paying around 17% instead instead of a target of 20%, then: That's also fine. Nobody cares. The wait staff isn't going to lose any sleep over this wondering what they did wrong or have to deal with buying only one new shoe for their kid to wear instead of a whole pair of them.

Don't sweat it.
Alrighty then. "a current of up to 1 volt". Any science or engineering journalist, even at MIT News level, could get that wrong, but not all of them. They should have better fact-checking.

Neat application though. Obviously, don't expect to buy one next week. But what's interesting here is that you'd think that electrochemical cells, which are going to scale by volume (cube law) as they get smaller, would not be as effective in these micro-scale applications as the energy harvesting/wireless energy schemes people seem to like work on, which mostly scale by aperture/area (square law). They treat that in passing, basically, the problem with solar is sometime's it's dark, but it's not very edifying.
The App store isn't an intellectual treadmill the way Youtube, for example, is. How much time have you actually spent browsing your platform's App store? Compare that to the time people spend hooked on Youtube, Tiktok, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Apple isn't an ad company in the same way these other companies are, you're kidding yourself if you think they're the same.

Apple's revenue in 2023 was 383 billion dollars. Ad revenue was, from what I can tell... 9 billion. Let's add the 20 from Google on top of that, so 29 billion is 7% of their revenue for 2023.

Compare that to Meta. 134 billion in 2023. Ad revenue? 131 billion.

The difference is comical.
I'm digging into that now. On one hand I can kind of understand the position, yet on the other the motive and reasoning doesn’t feel quite right. I guess that might be a broad theme with Scientology.
Indeed, App stores must sign the software on their platform to deploy, and offline binaries now require a valid registered Developer Account signed code in order to easily run. A bodged on ecosystem like Brew doesn't practically count here, as a signed-check block is functionally also preventing most users running unapproved code. It is marketed as a security feature, which is why it sounds odd to people inside the ecosystem.

"Is there even meaningful overlap between these two things?"

If one wants to target every platform, than people are ultimately forced to use a Mac with a Developer Account subscription. Accordingly, there is no practical guarantee your project will reach market (app store rejections are common)... or worse... some dimwit chooses a platform ecosystem specific language to really double-down on a bad investment.

Hence, my opinion on the answer to the threads question: "Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?"

Have a nice day =3
Consider that most industrialized countries would have nukes by now if the US hadn't guaranteed to come to their aid if they are attacked by a nuclear power in exchange for their not trying to acquire nukes.
I too was surprised at how detailed it was. Learned a lot in those 50 minutes or so.

Plus, the Apple Iix mock-up is a beauty. I'll need to order a 50cm x 50cm 3D printer and find the right filament color for the Snow White look.
I think the scenario laid out in the first paragraph would literally be World War III.
Check out Act One of this This American Life episode https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/transcript

TLDR: it seems like an LLM might be able to tell you your SVG is a "Mickey Mouse Head Silhouette"
IEEE and Keysight Team Up to Teach Kids About Electronics
All the nuclear power plants today are concentrated on the US east coast. Could it be a defensive posture against ICBMs flying from the Pacific Ocean?
Chat GPT:

> Given the arrangement of three overlapping circles, it resembles the classic depiction of a *Mickey Mouse* head silhouette:

> The two smaller circles represent Mickey's ears.

> The larger circle represents his head.

> This is a stylized version of the iconic Mickey Mouse logo.

Imo: In order to predict the next token for non-trivial tokens, (of which there are many on the training data), you do have to do some more complex thinking/reasoning than just a lookup of past training data.
> Also, there is no "program" here, in the same way that coding HTML is not programming, as vector graphics are not supposed to be Turing complete.

I think the reason why we don't view HTML as a programming language is because it is explicitly designed to be a markup language that declares content rather than a series of instructions that is interpreted as a program. A program needn't demonstrate turing completeness to be a "computer program", it just needs to be a sequence of instructions that a computer executes. To me, that suggests that there's a degree of abstractness and subjectivity involved. For example, any SVG document could also be rewritten 1:1 with no loss in fidelity as a series of commands that has the same effect, as can pretty much any declarative markup language; what is actually happening during parsing is hard to distinguish from an interpreter. Humans can "know it when they see it", but I doubt there's an exact criteria that can go along with the human "feel" of what makes a program, a program.
It is quite fitting that another HN darling, Jane Street, uses similar architecture in their exchange(s).

Event input queue, fully deterministic matching engine, and an output queue. Plus importantly, a sequencer to guarantee that the events going into the input queue have a known order.

Aspects of their architecture and design decisions have been made public through their podcast series, Signals and Threads.[0]

0: https://signalsandthreads.com/
the US government has to start paying for things again
I love a lot of what FUTO does; I just wish they weren't such big fans of fauxpen source licenses.
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships