skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think I follow. Whatever the technical integration between Google search and Google ads, why could it not be done with multiple, competing ad networks?
Can you give us a couple of examples?
> All that will happen is new ad placements from smaller companies, directly in the browser.

I don't think this is going to be the case. This seems like an extreme conclusion with virtually no precedent.

Since an ad browser is such an important piece of software, I imagine it will receive many donations. The reason Chrome doesn't is because it doesn't need them. I think that will change.

Also, I think it's possible you will pay for a browser at some point. Ultimately software costs money to make and we've become desensitized to that because we've exchanged that cost for advertising. But advertising sucks. For example, I pay double for HBO Max just so I don't see ads, and I'm not alone in that.
I understand the goal, and the perceived abuse of the Core edition. But the problem with the Enterprise edition is that it's quite expensive, "contact us" salesy, and it feels like taking a bite of this edition is possibly getting into bed with a future Oracle/landlord type of relationship where you end up squeezed by your database vendor.

The Core offering made this palatable, one could fallback to Core features if the relationship with Cockroach Labs degraded, which made it possible to entertain the Enterprise license since there's was a way to walk back from it. But now there's no such mitigation available. By using non-PG native features, users of the Enterprise edition are accepting to get in bed with Cockroach Labs for effectively forever (databases), a single provider that has no competition.

I think this may backfire, as it now seems imprudent to go all in on Cockroach Labs. They may be nice folks today, but who knows who will run the place in 5y when the next round of squeeze comes?

I wish them the best, they're a great team and I always liked the project and toyed with it for years, and currently am involved with a paid Enterprise license. But this change in the dynamics is really giving me pause.

Getting in bed with a single vendor for an incredibly sticky tool comes with a _lot_ of risk. It took at least 17y for Amazon to get rid of its last Oracle database: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-...
We should also always keep in mind that he wrote this around 1945. When he wrote this he had Nazi Germany in mind where the Nazis used the SA to beat down their opposition.
Private, Secure and Uncensorable Messaging over a LoRa Mesh (2022)
Not at all, this isn't about hate speech, its about power dynamics.
It's about how the group with power, whether they are the heroes or villains will always attempt to stifle speech.

80 years ago racists had power and tried prevent those looking for racial equality from speaking.

Now the anti-racist have power and are using that power to prevent the speech of the weaker group.

Always look at the power dynamic, not whether you agree with the speech or not.
Launch of version 12 for CSS and JavaScript Toolbox free plugin for WordPress
Citus would be great if the HA story was better: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/7602
The contracts aren't necessarily fair. As with gig work, people will take a bad deal that keeps them solvent in the short term, even if it ruins them long-term, if there isn't really any other way to put their assets to use. VFX crews have to work long hours, often for less than minimum wage, to meet ridiculous contractual requirements; the unfairness of the compensation has lead to several high-profile shutdowns of studios whose work helped secure 9-figure returns and Oscars. And even if the studio survives, workers can end up without a credit in the final product, if they had to leave the project early or there were simply too many people involved.
I'm not an Orson Scott Card fan generally, but I LOVED his Shadow Series (the world of Ender's Game from the perspective of Bean).

In one of the books in the Shadow Series Bean explains his leadership style as:

"I will always explain why something is important, and why we're doing it this particular way... The reason for this is that if we ever find ourselves in a situation where I CAN'T give orders you know what I prioritize and how I might think of something... furthermore, if we're in a situation where I CAN give orders but DON'T explain you will understand that it's simply because I do not have time, but presumably have good reasons, and will proceed to immediately execute said orders"

It appears this emergency room operated in a similar capacity
Who is actually demanding same day results? With mail in ballots being more common these days, it’s not really possible anyways (in a close race that can’t be called early). I would be okay with having a one month waiting period if needed. And with multiple days of actual voting at booths to accommodate people’s personal lives.
These people are generally not technically knowledgeable at all. If you opened up the phone so it could run any software, all of them would instantly become infested with malware that would massively invade everyone's privacy and probably steal their credit cards and scam them.

I grew up with the open Internet starting in the 1990s. I feel like a lot of people haven't wrapped their heads around just how hostile and riddled with scams and hustler bullshit it's become. The mobile ecosystem is the worst, possibly even more user-hostile than the web. The potential for privacy invasion is a lot higher too since people carry their phones around.

The Internet today is a "dark forest." Any platform made for technically unsophisticated people must be locked down like military hardware for operation in a theater of war. The iPhone is actually not locked down enough to protect most users' privacy.
I’m working through this book now and really enjoying it!

Each chapter of the book includes a test suite to run against the code you’ve written.

In some ways, the tests in this book feel very similar to the labs in the book Computer Systems: A programmers perspective — which is high praise!
That doesn't work. It plugs the title into hn.algolia.com which only returns the same thread.

Shouldn't it search for the URL instead?

Am I missing something?

Also, I noticed the tracking parameters are in the URL of the old thread. Shouldn't the mods remove them using https://linkcleaner.app/ or something? I know the parameters are sometimes relevant but still...
Yes, I made my account because someone invoked Popper incorrectly for the millionth time. My above comment is a variation of my first ever.
YugabyteDB is a commonly used alternative.
Radiative cooling and thermoregulation in the Earth's glow
It seems like Apple needs to be split up into separate Services, Devices, and Marketplace companies.
This is usual tactics of Putins' shills. They all very much against war, but it's certainly must be stopped as is on the current frontline. So Ukraine not controlling part of it's territories and can't get into NATO, so Putin can prepare better for next invasion.

Unfortunately EU and US governments are not much better since they all put dumb limits on weapons usage and never supplied Ukraine enough weapons to actually get any superiority.
I didn't downvote it, but it comes off a a poison pill, not assuming good faith.
> You paid $0 and contributed nothing

I think investing into integrating a tool into your infrastructure is not exactly "paying $0".
Yes, the popular fork is called Postgres. You can find many vendors who will let you run it on one node cheaply. It’s also free to self-host.
45mi drive to work so 90 round trip. There is no way to charge there. Most weeks will be 4 days 90 miles (WFH Friday). So, less than 60% but similar ballpark.

Circuit breaker is in the garage so not too hard to modify but sounds like I do need 240V if I want to get an EV. Thanks.
I've seen this, fwiw, in that there's less of a disability community around adhd than say autism or deafness. That said, there are probably thousands of adhd communities, some which fall into self pity and some that are very "gimme solutions please". Just a matter of finding one that works for you if you want to find one.
Making $10M ARR companies pay for the software that they use is not enshittification.
Google Play Music let you upload your own music library to your own account. They didn't check or assert where you got your mp3s. Nobody else had access to your collection.

From the beginning, Kim's company put itself front and center in the piracy world. It was advertised as an alternative to BitTorrent and you were meant to share links with others.

When licensors and eventually authorities asked him to stop, he laughed at them and doubled down.

He's played the pirate the whole time, and he's hated authority and venture capital and IP every step of the way.

There's a reason he would up where he is versus the other IP grey area companies and products that became wildly successful. He deliberately chose this path.
I think funding Hamas and supplying them with weapons, given their actions on October 7th, counts as antisemitic. Hamas has one purpose.
Personally, I think Search should be a public, not private, effort. Indexing the internet should be a global endeavor beneficial to world governments in unison. The issue is that the potential for censorship is rife, but I think including many govs on a board might solve this.
Checkout GNU Binutils and their usage of libbfd and libopcodes.
It was a data domiciling project so just went with sharding in good old postgres. Cockroach would have been perfect but it was going to cost something like $5k/m just to turn it on..
>As for the elderly, the maximum outflows of social security in the US will be in ~2030. So expect a lot of chatter leading up to that year and then for it to die down (literally).

The ratio of inflow to outflow is important, not the outflow. Also, Medicare/Medicaid get lumped in with Social Security for the purposes of discussion wealth transfer from workers to non workers, and I don’t see the ratio of inflow to outflow increasing anytime soon.
I'm not an expert, but that sounds unrealistic today considering how much difficulty we have making basic measurements of neutrinos.
Nope. Quite a bit of entitlement to believe that.
P2P is still where you go if you don't want potato quality video.
Boost (C++ libraries) 1.86 released
I’m not a subscriber to the “if I choose to buy a product, I get to dictate product design decisions for the company” school of thought. Buy it or don’t. If you want X there is no right do demand Y turn into X.
It really annoys me that services can't decide if * is bold or italics. It makes the most sense to me as italics, so when I use whatsapp or youtube I always get annoyed that it did the wrong one
Show HN: Lasi AI – AI-powered print design for small apparel brands
Hey HN,

I made Lasi AI, an AI-powered tool that helps small apparel brands and print-on-demand (POD) users create unique, brand-specific print designs.

The problem:

POD services, especially if we extrapolate the concept and apply it to any physical product have the potential to democratise production, but design quality and brand differentiation remain challenges. Many small brands struggle to create competent, unique designs that resonate with an audience.

My journey:

While building a marketplace for small apparel brands, I faced the cold start problem. To solve it, I started creating brands using POD services. The design process was tedious for a non-designer like me, so I set out to automate it. After collaborating with a print designer, quitting my day job and spending 6 months building, I've now launched the v1 of Lasi AI.

How it works:

An LLM analyses a brand's website to extract relevant information.
It suggests modifiable inspiration sources and collection fields.
The AI generates a unique print design tailored to the brand.

Technical details:

We're using a combination of LLMs and image generation models.
Achieving deterministic outputs from AI models has been challenging, requiring constant prompt engineering and refinement.
We implemented a 3D preview using Three.js, which had a steep learning curve but enhances the user experience.

What sets us apart:

Holistic approach to automating brand-specific design
Patent from Nokia for enhanced personalisation (to be incorporated soon)

How to try it out:

You can visit https://lasi.ai/ and sign up with your email or Gmail account. We have a freemium subscription model, with custom plans available for higher volume users.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, experiences, and feedback. How do you see AI impacting the future of design and production? Are there other applications for this technology/app/concept that come to mind?

(Note: You can try the product directly on our website. Here's a 1-minute tutorial for a quick overview: https://youtu.be/tM-WR-clS88)

Stav
Did they also supply guns to a terrorist organisation in the comedy?
They aren't using the DMCA against him. Where DMCA comes into the picture is that for hosting sites DMCA compliance can be used as a defense against a charge of copyright infringement in the US.

The underlying problem for Megaupload is that what they were doing is illegal in over 180 countries (basically any country that is a party to a major international copyright treaty or convention).

A good general rule of thumb is that if you want to host something that is illegal in country X hosting it in country Y without an extradition treaty is not sufficient. You should pick a Y where it is not illegal there. Otherwise even if Y does not care enough to go after you, if Y has good trade or other relations with X the may respond positively to encouragement from X to go after you.
Food banks prevented 1.8M metric tons of carbon emissions last year
The Absurdity Heuristic
It isn't 'a difference of opinion'. Dotcom has relayed Russian disinformation to an impressionable mass audience and heartily cheerled an invasion. It's not surprising that people who disagree with him politically find themselves amused or glad at the prospect of due process being served in this individual's case - where they might otherwise have been indifferent or grudgingly sympathetic.
Stonehenge's enigmatic centre stone was hauled 800 kilometres from Scotland
Looks cool! Thanks.
There are many brilliant people at SpaceX, not just the one. Your opinion of him (negative or positive) shouldn't affect the very clear assessment that what the SpaceX team has accomplished is amazing.
Tell you what, I'm going have a crack at Firefox as my primary. It used to be a long while ago, not really sure when / why I switched.

It is more true to my ideals.
It's about defending the principle of free speech rather than what someone said.

To your point, only reprehensible or unpopular speech must be defended by the principle. As you say, speech that is popular and uncontroversial would not need defending. Do you want to live in a society where you may only express approved and uncontroversial views? If you have controversial or unpopular views, then you protect your right to express them by defending the principle of free speech, even for those with whom you disagree, even abhor.
> "You know what's great? I get to play music for people, and then they pay me for it, when I'm done!"

This transaction does not need IP protection at all.
Hosting pirated content is a liability, and putting it on MEGA helps clear it. Many countries have issues with torrenting such data too, as it's an easy way to get a notice at home from your ISP if you're not on a VPN. I assume many kids in dorms and whatnot may have bittorrent traffic blocked as well.
oh, i agree that parsing is not the hard part of writing a compiler, and that compilers classes overemphasize it

but no language starts out as a 'real world lang'; every language is initially a toy language, and only becomes a 'real world lang' in the unlikely case that it turns out to be useful. and parser generators are very useful for creating toy languages. that's why virtually every real world lang you've ever used was implemented first using a parser generator, even if the parser you're using for it now is handwritten

having a formally defined grammar is also very helpful for dx features like syntax highlighting and automated refactoring
> Being able to choose is so valuable to me.

I agree, but sometimes I just don't want to choose because I don't have enough time or I'm to tired to do it
I wonder why there is not the same book for c++... mmmmh... I really wonder... (irony).
Not me, but two issues I could see: Revenue over $10 million, but not profitable, or the license cost would be to high. We had that issue with support contracts Elastic tried selling us, way back, compared to our revenue and profit, the license/support contract made zero sense.

Other issue: Telemetry is mandatory on the free tier and cost to avoid it is to high. Some industries cannot have telemetry enable, or at least not without a heavy amount of reviews, think finance or healthcare.
> As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region.

You got our attention by filling all our streaming channels with your shows.

As is common in the international film and television sector, a key driver of Australia’s ongoing production upswing came from an enhancement to its incentive schemes.

In July, the country’s national government increased the location offset program in its annual budget from 16.5 percent to 30 percent. Thanks to those changes, films spending at least A$20 million dollars (about $13 million U.S. dollars) in the country can claim back 30 percent of all expenditures on goods and services upon completion of the project.

Previously, it often was [already] possible for especially savvy producers to add to the guaranteed 16.5 percent offset and bring total support to 30 percent by cobbling together prior grant schemes — but the increases introduced last year provided global producers with a much-needed sense of ease and surety.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/planet-o...
If the marginal cost of delivering your product is close to zero, markets will tend to monopoly. A search/ads company that has 10% of the market share that Google does (and no one gets even to that), has roughly the same costs but only 10% of the income (and only that if they are as good as Google is in making on money off search). On top of that, having access to the query stream is really important keeping search quality up.
What are the remaining use cases for CockroachDB where there isn't a better/open-source alternative?
Yes, the vertical enter can be annoying. Never saw \ run a command though, mostly it is another character.

Depending on the OS you use you can remap those, no big deal
Lunarsaber: Statue of Liberty-sized streetlights form Moon power grid
I usually hear the term "kerolox" in the context of methalox vs kerolox discussions (and hydrolox, but I often hear that just called "hydrogen"). Methalox is relatively new, at least as a front-running contender, so the numerical majority of these discussions (and by extension use of the terms and consensus around the terms) probably did happen in the last 10 years, even though the roots go much further back.
Their one sided coverage of the Gaza conflict for a start. Go look at the front page today. It’s so one sided actually wonder who is funding the paper now, Qatar ? Absolutely zero balanced reporting there.

They have a lot of sensationalist “climate crisis” articles too.

I see the guardian as being a “social justice warrior publication” where they are so keen to dish out justice, they exaggerate far to much. They use reporting as a way to try sway people’s views, that’s not good journalism, and often leads to bias reporting.

There is so much left leaning content in there I need to always go read other sources just to come back to reality / found out more, and often the guardian hyped something up.

The mpox story from today is another example of that, they write:

“Outbreak resembles early days of HIV, say experts, urging accelerated access to vaccines and testing”

Early days of HIV? What ?
I don't find an Israeli source very convincing, given Iran is a belligerent in the 40 year proxy war against Israel.
That seems excessive. We could start by raising the minimum wage to a living wage and eliminating the special rules for tipped employees ($2.13/hour wage, etc.).

If customers know the workers get paid decently, they probably wouldn't feel obliged to leave a tip. And business owners might switch to a no-tip policy since a better customer experience could attract more customers.
You’re a little confused.

You need to come with facts.

“I criticize [Covid|Climate change|election…]

That’s not criticism until you supply evidence.
Garbage Collection and Metastability
most places do. though often a poor quality faxed copy is sufficient
ONNX: The Open Standard for Seamless Machine Learning Interoperability
Ask HN: SSH Based Tunnel FOSS/Better Alternative to Pinggy?
Basically pinggy.io allows you to use ssh to host a tunnel.
I want to use something like this to host my minecraft server / something general
But I like open source software and I was wondering if there are some alternatives

these are non foss options
serveo.net
localhost.run

there used to be a public instance of

https://github.com/fasmide/remotemoe
but now its shutdown :( (Please come back)

there is https://ssh-j.com/ but it says "Users are encouraged to use it for SSH exposure only, to preserve end-to-end encryption. No public ports, only in-SSH connectivity"

So what are some other open source alternatives or any opinions?
Probably the largest source of piracy is the widespread normalization of VPNs. Once upon a time VPNs did not advertise so as to not attract IP enforcement attention. They constantly shifted host locations to stay ahead of blocklists.
Now VPNs openly advertise on youtube, touting the ability to "access contend not available in your country". That's piracy 101 stuff, at least it used to be. I just watched a youtube by LLT on how to bypass encryption to rip your own Blu-ray disks and upload the resulting files to your plex server. Even talking about such tech was considered criminal only a few years ago. The laws haven't changed. We just now have a generation of adult decision makers who have grown up with piracy as a norm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Flag
How exactly are they protecting me?
My experience has been that a book gets recommended, but I’ve already read it (and I read a fair bit, but I’m not a bookworm). It is rare that I’ve had a recommendation that wasn’t already on the “usual suspects” list. On those rare occasions, yeah, it wasn’t all that (usually some pop self-help book).
Nobody is saying anything about what they offer on their stores, people are complaining about when they wanna not use their stores and want to install something else that would be entirely possible but is artifically limited, to force the user to use their stores. That is overreach from the manufacturers.

And yes, IMO it should also apply to consoles. But those aren't marketed and used as general purpose computing devices.
Thanks for the suggestion! True, only fixed offsets are supported, not timezone names.
Nitpicking, but I think the saying goes "You can bring a horse to the watering hole, but you can't force it to drink". :-)
>just a simple case of bad code generation render little compiler into a toy one

If you find some time to go through gcc bugzilla you'll find shockingly simple snippets of code that miscompiled (often by optimization passes), with fixes never backported to older versions that production environments like RHEL are using.
Ok, as I said they're nearly gone. Unless you think we should tank our society to benefit 14% of the country, or backing pensions with something more reasonable than market forces, there's not much to gain from prioritizing pensions over every other symptom of economic health.
Does that mean that, propogators can be implemented with the primitives fescribed in syndicated actors, but not the converse?
We must adopt sustainability in planetary exploration