skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m just saying that this guy distrusts authority so it’s not surprising that he was caught with a lot of cash or that he has a web of accounts. My larger point is about the fact that these insinuations should be dismissed because it’s reasonable to assume that if there was major wrong doing in his finances (eg drug lord) they would have included the evidence in the extradition request.

Feels like we are being a bit pedantic.
They are public access. Globo Rural for example is broadcasted every sunday morning. It's well produced, and its calm pace, its opening theme and the farming landscapes makes us feel good vibes. It fits perfectly the moment of waking up in the weekend, without having thinking about work and just chilling while we drink a coffee
The one thing parser generators do is that they ensure that the language you implement actually matches the grammar you wrote. That’s still an important assurance to have.
This is one of the reasons people should hold the line for open source licensing for any infrastructure software: Any licensing scheme that forces a relationship with a single entity / doesn't allow for forking is open to abuse of users and customers at some point.
These things were so awesome back in the 90s. I got to use quite a few of them and even owned a couple in the early 2000s as they were being thrown away.

It always blew my mind that systems like SGI and SUN existed and yet somehow windows was allegedly cutting edge.
Yes, I flagged this story because the title appears to be completely wrong.
PG is nowhere close of What Cockroach does and probably never will.
PDF from CMS with details on the actual drugs included in the negotiation:

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/fact-sheet-negotiated-pri...
> vulnerability in voting systems has become too partisan in the US for anyone to ever address it

It's pretty uniformly bipartisan, just on an alternating 4-year schedule somehow
Like other folks have said, anytime you see a CLA, you see the true intentions of the project. A project that will always be FOSS won't have a need for a CLA.
Pretty sure this metric will be constant (provided the hands aren't perfectly synced). The frequency of confluence is proportional to the difference in rates, but the duration is inversely proportional.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/45k0rrjwo0
Why should they have to allow it? My smart TVs and video game consoles never allowed it, except that short lived Linux PlayStation. Nintendo is pretty hostile about reverse engineering the switch.
Interesting suggestion! here is the book on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/cdatabasedevelop00stev/mode/2up
i don't care that much because i don't use it, and evidently not much of anybody else does either, or there would have been a popular fork. i'm just saying that this is probably not a good time to expect one to pop up
Go Coding Mission #01 – Hacker News Time Machine
You've just invented a time machine (congratulations!) but there's a catch - it runs on tech news. To fuel your journey back to 2050, you need to scrape the hottest headlines from Hacker News circa 2024. But be careful, you don't want to disrupt the space-time continuum!
> I am not proposing that our interactions with agents will be via voice.

It sure sounds like the author is proposing exactly this:

> Desktops, mice, keyboards, and monitors will go away.

That's not going to happen anytime soon because voice is an absolutely terrible input method for a whole ton of common things people want to do.

> Personalized, context-aware personal assistants operating at a high level of abstraction

This is what I don't want, because in order for this to happen, the agent has to have access to extremely sensitive data about me. Given the history of our industry on this topic, there's no way I'd trust any software with that.
Show HN: A free app can fix the grammar using a custom shortcut
Struggling with grammar used to slow me down, so I built a simple app to fix it instantly with a shortcut. It worked wonders for me, and now I’m excited to share it with everyone for free on the App Store!
Learn about assignment expressions and the walrus operator.
Don't forget the Aussie influence on the US. Murdoch is Australian.
they also tell you where the grammar is ambiguous, which can be useful
Valkey: A Versatile Distributed Key-Value Datastore for Caching and Beyond
> It doesn’t sound like it’s treated any differently than arthritis or random joint pain?

I'm not an expert but I think there are specific treatments depending on the cause.

> Is it worth getting diagnosed?

I guess that's a balance against the time and money it will cost you to get a diagnosis vs the benefit. Where I live, cost would be about 3-5 hours and $300-1000 in consultations, blood tests and scans if you're not insured.

Benefits are: being able to halt ongoing joint degradation, preventing or quickly reacting to more impactful flare-ups, making better long-term choices in exercise, diet etc.

But it may be unrelated!
> Show me how AdGuard or ublock origin abused the current system in v2

They didn't, but other malicious extensions did.
> When people describe services where “the user is the product”, they’re generally referring to the fact that the primary business model of the company selling those services is to impinge on individual privacy by collecting extremely detailed information about those users and then selling that information to interested parties. It is that intimate detail that makes each user so valuable

This is your personal definition that suits your argument. I'm not going to get into a debate about semantics.
You may find it interesting to look into the moral philosophy of “positive” vs. “negative” rights.

In this framework, which is thoroughly baked into most of traditional Western ethics, your right to swing your fist “stops at the end of another’s nose”.

So, you do have the “negative” right to not have your expression suppressed. You do not have the “positive” right for others to pay attention.
The problem with "seconds since epoch" expression is that almost always it doesn't mean literally seconds since epoch, but instead some unix-style monstrosity. And it's annoying that you need to read some footnote to figure out what exactly it means; it's annoying that it is basically a code-phrase that you just need to know that it's not supposed to be taken literally.
Example:

[
{
"url": "https://bit.ly/abc",
"host": "bit.ly",
"status": 301,
"statusText": "Moved Permanently",
"duration": "0.156 s",
"location": "http://www.yahoo.com/"
},
{
"url": "http://www.yahoo.com/",
"host": "www.yahoo.com",
"status": 301,
"statusText": "Moved Permanently",
"duration": "0.081 s",
"location": "https://www.yahoo.com/"
},
{
"url": "https://www.yahoo.com/",
"host": "www.yahoo.com",
"status": 200,
"statusText": "OK",
"duration": "0.488 s",
"location": null
}
]

Redirected from bit.ly to HTTP yahoo.com and then redirected to HTTPS yahoo.com
Lenovo Smart Display can be bootloader unlocked, run Android apps (2022)
> Someone can just hash every number from 000-00-0000 to 999-99-9999 and figure out mine from that.

That's what salts are for, right? It wouldn't be too hard to issue a very large, known, public salt alongside each SSN.

> And of course none of the data brokers have much reason to make opt-outs work well, in the absence of legislation and strict enforcement - it's in their commercial interests to say they "can't stop your data reappearing"

This is the actual reason, IMHO.
I heard an interesting perspective from Alan Dershowitz (one of the prominent lawyers on the OJ Simpson case) that the trial system is fundamentally adversarial, and that accepting this quality is critical to its proper functioning.

Basically within the scope of the legal rules the system is a prisoners dilemma with respect to honesty. If the defense is completely honest but the prosecution isn’t, then an innocent man may go to jail, and vice versa.

The system has no way to enforce honesty, so it is set up in a way that honesty isn’t required. In a system where honesty isn’t required, being honest is basically illogical.

If we want that to change we need a way to detect and enforce honesty in a trial system. I think that is an impossible goal.
I so wish that SQLite3 had an extensible type system.
I was guessing that would come up. If it's not the most recommended book to me as a "will change your life" book, it's near the top.
> - "Ask app not to track" that works, because of the app store monopoly

For now. If Apple suddenly take a 20bn hit to services revenue, then I'd expect them to dial their advertising way, way up.

So yeah, FB won't track you but Apple definitely will.
Whats your appetite for a SaaS vendor unpredictably and without enough warning changing the price they are charging you, or pushing updates to the SaaS that break your business? Better get it put into the contract.
Why is the parent comment being downvoted? Is it stating something incorrect or is the conclusion incorrect?
Most likely he just hate US for a good reason and gonna support anything anti-US. In his particular case he probably just needs a country that not gonna extradite him to US no matter how bad the country is.

I just seriously doubt that likes of Dotcom, Musk or Trump need to be on Putin payroll. They just all have their own agenda to sell "strong russia, good putin" narrative.
Rutube added import YouTube video functionality [Russian lang]
Russian state video hosting platform, Rutube, is now offering users to pirate videos from Youtube and host it on its own platform. While access to Youtube from russian IP addresses is limited or blocked by state censorship organs.
Cockroach hasn’t marketed itself as open source for years
What? FoundationDB disappeared down the memory hole whenever Apple acquired them.
That should also be illegal.
Flux is better than Midjourney by a lot of qualitative metrics.

While Flux isn't entirely open source due to the license (on some of their weights), it's a lot better ecosystem to build upon than fully closed Midjourney.

You're going to see AnimateDiff and Comfy and other things adapt to Flux, but you'll never see that for Midjourney.

I'd pick Flux just to enable more tooling and community use cases.
I think the third party cookie thing is due to their other antitrust lawsuite in advertising.
A few people becoming obscenely rich is not a good in itself. That is to say, it's not a reason that justifies the music industry existing as it does today. That would be like arguing that it's good (just in general) that smoking is banned because I specifically don't like smoking. A good reason could be that it causes more music to be made, or better music, or it lets more people make music. I honestly have no idea if that's true. Certainly the last one isn't; what lets more people make music is access to technology, not the possibility of getting rich.
> EU-style antitrust regulation foists shitty products on customers for the sake of ~~extracting their pound of flesh from US big tech~~ allowing businesses to compete

Sorry, are you an EU citizen?

Because I am, and despite the fact that I work in tech, am absurdly happy that they are actually doing antitrust (even if I dislike some of the specific actions).

Big, monopolistic companies are problematic (from my perspective) and I welcome all and any actions that make markets more competitive, both as a citizen and as a capitalist.
Yes, and Alpine would often be paired with HTMX to handle client/server interactions.

And Rails has their own flavor of this with Hotwire/Turbo.
> Slack also uses Markdown.

No it doesn't. It uses something they call mrkdwn, which is only vaguely superficially similar to Markdown. In most important places, mrkdwn has made different decisions from Markdown. It's a completely different, and far more rudimentary, Lightweight Markup Language.
This reminds me of a time a friend was doing a K&R C homework assignment using the campus computer lab and the computer kept giving an integer result for float values. It turns out the 486 had a defective FPU. Windows 95 ran fine and everything. It sat among a dozen identical stations unnoticed.

Imagine loosing your mind trying to figure out what you're doing wrong, only to discover your computer is bad at math.

Since then I have found countless "unbelievable" situations where technology behaved out of character.
They sure know how to send emails and slack messages though.
> they did the same original thing he was blamed for.

No, they did not. User abused the platform, and the companies removed it when notified. Kim didn't do that, instead he even made a business of it. Youtube especially had a historical case about this, when they were sued by Viacom(?) for not removing content well enough, which then resulted in the creation of the contentId-system. This was BTW around 5 years before MegaUpload and Kim were raided.

And as you mentioned ChatGPT, AI and content-usage is a completely different story, and a recent problem around loopholes in the existing laws. Maybe the companies will also be sued for this, maybe not, we will see..
The source of this article is just two sentences from a Saudi-based outlet:

https://www.iranintl.com/202408144740
Do you think UK will sign an extradition order for JK Rowling to go to France over a olympic harrassment lawsuit? Or USA will sign an extradition order for Elon Musk if France asks in that same lawsuit, or if UK demands he be extradited for participating in incitement from abroad?

Something tells me the extradition orders only work one way — if the US Government wants it.

Who knows. To be fair it took years and seems to have been given due process. But how much of it is “leaning on” the countries? Recently on his X interview with Musk, Trump bragged about “how quickly” he was able to use US leverage to extradite people they wanted, from LATAM countries! And everyone was like “right on!”
Nice try. I have nothing to contribute to this world.
Well Jimminy Crispix! Think about the consequences of what you're suggesting.

A) Reporting on serious topics takes a lot more effort than recycling news wire coverage and rehashing political argument trends on Twitter. That means having to collect more analytics data to sell, and charging more than a few dollars per month for subscriptions. Sheesh.

B) People find serious topics depressing: reporting on important things that might be uncomfortable or gross can only lead to lost clicks, subscriptions, and viewers.

C) Upper-management couldn't even try to replace such reporters with web-scraping LLMs. Think about the dozens of starving would-be prompt engineers who won't get hired to replace thousands of journalists. They have families to feed too, you know.

D) There's a good chance that someone in the C suite or someone they know will be put in a very uncomfortable situation because of this! Unacceptable.

What sort of dystopian business hellscape are you trying to lead us into?
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How about we don't bail them out this time?
At this point ONNX is the most mature inference engine for mobile.

Had the joy of playing around with TFLite, Pytorch Mobile, GGML for work and nothing came close to ONNX in terms of stability across a wide array of devices.

Also, model conversions are a breeze.
Ask HN: Recent case studies in startup brand growth
While providing actual value and network effects are key ingredients of a company success, succesfull branding does not hurt. How can an engineer learn branding? Are there any recent case studies one can sink teeth into?
They only went after Madoff because he stole from the rich.
I don't understand how this is, at all, hyperbolic.

It's very clear and obvious, regardless of your political affiliation, that this court:

1. is extremely conservative

2. plays fast and loose with precedent

3. has an originalist stance to the constitution, at least when convenient to conservative political stances

There're multiple landmark cases demonstrating this. To me, this isn't even a political opinion - it's just the clear and evident truth of how this court operates.
start open/source available has become a trend among yc-backed startups lately. one wonders how long before a “well, actually, we need a business-y license.”
So I could copyright my SSN in the EU and sue Equifax et al.?
GM makes alot of dogshit products but their sports cars are still pretty stellar. Camaro LT1, Corvette C8, Cadillac CTS-V Blackwing
We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
through cash strapped startups can now use the "free" enterprise version until they reach 10M$ annual revenue

weather it's a good idea to commit to it if you might not want to afford it once your revenue went up is another matter

and 10M$ annually is not little but also no absurdly huge, I mean a ~80 person company probably will struggle to be profitable with that revenue (if it's 80 good paying jobs like software developer).
> because it is fast and keyboard-driven

How is it faster to press `*` than `Ctrl-I` in any other rich text editor?

> The idea that it is meant to be seen is no more than a personal preference.

Actually, the entire philosophy of Markdown is that, even if you didn't process it into HTML or some form of rich text, it uses common conventions that have been used across Usenet, IRC, and plaintext files for years, and is thus readable without ever being processed. In fact, you can likely take various plaintext files and process them and they'll gain many incidental markups and highlights.

Meaning, Markdown is Markdown without needing to be turned into HTML or rich text. It is, in itself, a great way to universally markup text as people have been doing online for years.
Show HN: Real-time charts around your Firebase data
Hey everyone,

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on called Ventivo. It's a tool that lets you visualize your Firebase data in real time, making tracking what’s happening in your app easier.

I built Ventivo because I’ve worked on a lot of projects using Firebase, and I always found it challenging to get quick insights into the data. Ventivo simplifies that process by allowing you to create real-time charts with just a few clicks. You can customize the visuals to fit your needs and manage everything from a straightforward dashboard.

I’m really curious to hear what you think about it. If you're interested, you can check it out at https://ventivo.co. I’d love any feedback or suggestions you might have.

Thanks for taking a look!
Related tangent: databases should track units. If I have a time column, I should be able to say a column represents, say, durations in float64 seconds. Then I should be able to write

SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE duration_s >= 2h

and have the database DWIM, converting "2h" to 7200.0 seconds and comparing like-for-like during the table scan.

Years ago, I wrote a special-purpose SQL database that had this kind of native unit handling, but I've seen nothing before or since, and it seems like a gap in the UI ecosystem.

And it shouldn't be for time. We should have the whole inventory of units --- mass, volume, information, temperature, and so on. Why not? We can also teach the database to reject mathematical nonsense, e.g.

SELECT 2h + 15kg -- type error!

Doing so would go a long way towards catching analysis errors early.
Meta struggles with moderation in Hebrew, according to internal documents
It should be optional, hide by default (maybe like Obsidian where is only visible on the cursor's line) but add an option to make it always visible
it's better than whatever Microsoft Teams makes you use.
Meanwhile Mega is actually a really good Dropbox alternative. Stable, fast transfers, desktop sync works very well, lots of sharing options, decent pricing. I've been a happy customer for years instead of Dropbox and iCloud.
Windows NT - the OS to run on comparable computers - was cutting edge, and still is in many ways. Don't be fooled by the similarly named products made for 100x less powerful computers.
The best example of that is Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, predicting the collapse of Ethernet... didn't happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/azevs3/til_t...
But the price of goods is going to be completely different because of availability, shipping costs, import duties, etc. etc. etc.

Franklin's Autobiography has that famous story about his first day in Philadelphia when he tried to buy three pennies' worth of bread and was taken by surprise hen he got three giant rolls instead of the tiny loaf he was expecting. And that was just the difference between Boston and Philadelphia.
>AdWords was primarily built by purchasing the biggest competitor, DoubleClick.

Your timeline is not right. Google was created in 1998. DoubleClick was acquired by Google +9 years later in 2008.

AdWords was a homegrown Google project starting around 2000. AdWords was an internally built auction-based system selling keywords using some ideas from Goto/Overture.

In contrast, Doubleclick was an ad-exchange-network marketplace for publishers and advertisers. This was a different market from AdWords that Google wanted to expand into.

Today, yes, both products are more integrated with each other.
Gru.ai Got 35.67% on SWEbench
It is for me...cheap and it works for basic things.
It can be construed as "abuse" if another commercial entity is deriving value from the core license while Cockroach Labs doesn't get to enjoy a "fair" share of this created value, while pouring its own resources into a product that enables this value creation.

I think CR Labs needs to make money from their activities. However they do it, should be in a way that incentivizes a win-win for them and their customers. Right now I think they attempted to "correct" for the uncaptured value, but the game theory switched toward discouraging adoption (in my perspective). I may be wrong, probably am.
This is about taking an analytic sample of the scene with an expression that includes and accounts for the choice of filter, instead of integrating some number of point samples of the scene within a pixel.

In this case, the filtering and the sampling of the scene are both wrapped into the operation of intersection of the square with polygons. The filtering and the sampling are happening during rasterization, not before or after.

Keep in mind a pixel is an image sample, which is different from taking one or many point-samples of the scene in order to compute the pixel color.
>A user who runs the program in such a way that visitors communicate with it from remote stations obviously is required to enter into the license also and comply with its requirements.

Only if the user modifies the program.

The remote network interaction provision of the AGPL is conditional.
CockroachDB raised >$500M in funding, and a big reason for this was it's high number of users. That high number would be a lot lower if it wasn't a free software.
I’m not sure I understand the comparison. Megaupload was a file sharing platform that we used to download mostly pirated material and although they had a music platform at some point, that wasn’t the primary method that most people interacted with Megaupload. The illegal equivalent to Spotify was Grooveshark, not Megaupload. The majority of Kim Dotcoms products outside of file sharing came long after Megaupload was attracting scrutiny. He was not a trailblazer, even Megaupload itself was a clone of Rapidshare. I’m sure we all remember the terrible album he used to launch his music platform which came after he was arrested.
What was stolen if the copyright owner still has their copy?