skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kinda funny, because I am arguing both sides a bit here in my reply to different comments, mostly because I am not actually sure what my final belief on this topic is.

But maybe we shouldn’t fund open source development via companies whose entire revenue is selling support for that product? I feel like my favorite OSS projects are ones that are created and maintained by developers working for companies whose business model is based on something entirely separate from the OSS project, but who need the OSS project to support that business. They, and many other companies who have the same need, pay developers to work on the project so they can get what they need from it, but they keep it open source because it isn’t core to their business and being OSS makes it easier and cheaper to maintain.

In this way, there is no conflict of interest between the open source needs and the companies business model.
>simply by virtue of caring about it more.

There is a lot of power in caring about your work. My philosophy is: Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Contractors can't affordably overdo their work, generally. They need to bang it out and get on to the next one. Their experience lets them work faster, but their budget limits the level of work they can do.

Plus, I love the level of knowledge it gives me about the house. For example, when our drier started blowing the breaker every load, I was comfortable enough to open the panel and take a peek and notice that one of the legs on the breaker was heat damaged, and the breaker was cracked, and that leg wasn't torqued down very well. Cut off the damaged wire, replaced the breaker, and I'm back in business. And that work was done by a pro 7 years ago.
Section 230 isn't on it's way out, this happened because the court found that TikTok knowingly headlined dangerous content that lead to someone's death.
NanoPi R3S – A low-cost Rockchip RK3566 SBC and dual gigabit Ethernet router
some context: https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/brazils-most-power...
I don’t think the technicalities of incorporation and branding matter that much, it’s a “Elon Musk company”, unfortunately.
Linear Algebra: What matrices are (2011)
The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles.
Newspaper biases are more diverse despite being subject to the liability social media companies are trying to escape.
They all learn English. But they will usually avoid speaking it if possible.
I'm curious why you'd call Brasil a country of middling importance. What countries in the Western Hemisphere other than US and Canada have larger economies, military and local impact? Having the Amazon rainforest within its borders alone probably makes it an extremely significant nation internationally.
It's exciting to see how this all shakes out. Hopefully we end up with more options for building custom game engines and apps.

I've been going down the Vulkan rabbit hole. It's been fun/enlightening to learn, but the nature of Vulkan makes progress feel slow. I think if SDL3 were available when I started, I would have happily went that route and have more to show for the amount of time I've invested.
I recommend Firefox and ublock origin.
The AI Safety Tug of War
So what could have been done differently if one wanted to avoid this rather scary near miss?

When the markers went missing, did he attempt to get back to the trail based on his own memory, or did he follow a GPS line?

At what point did he notice there was a problem? It doesn't seem like he had extreme panic like I would have the moment the markers weren't there.

Was there a normal tech failure somewhere, or was a lack of offline saved maps a factor? Was there someone better to contact besides his coworkers for advice?
How does ibis manage ordering of the data frame for SQL based engine?

One big gap that I noticed is that pandas retain ordering between operations, bust most SQL based engine doesn’t give you that guarantee. Looking at duckdb, it looks they only do that for csv.
In India 31% of the population uses the Internet. Only 3-5% of India’s population is considered to be formally skilled. The statistics are so grim with indoor sanitation I feel like it’s inappropriate to even mention. India is an incredibly hard place to be a skilled worker and not at all comparable to Japan
> We've altered the license terms. Pray we don't alter them any further.

It's hard to not be sceptical about their motivation.
That’s thuggish, lawless behavior that undermines trust in Brazil’s business environment.
Or just more seats/capacity.
isnt it funny how its completely obvious, yet the mere mention of this attracts a downvote brigade on this site.
And somehow everyone noticed these issues a few weeks after Russia banned Signal, and not until then.
Wow. I thought Reuters was an upper tier publisher. That is totally unreadable on my iPhone. The page is jumping all over the place as I try to scroll.
Brazil the country is, but Brazil the country is also made up of people, and none of them individually hold $250 billion of assets that they could use against someone - that's about 10% of Brazil's GDP (not that GDP/net worth is a particularly good comparison for a ton of reasons, but it gives a general indicator).

100 or 200 years ago someone with that kind of wealth could definitely have had a country strong-armed into doing what they want - someone like the owners of the United Fruit Company or the East India Company.
Oh how fun life is going to be when LLMs take over 99% of jobs and literally everyone is a slave to the whims and fancies of powerdrunk idiots :)
This is fantastic! Somehow I hadn't heard about vertically mounted solar panels until now but it sounds great. There are so many advantages to vertical mounts I would expect them to become the norm.
> putting things on the internet in public vs. just sending them to people directly

A large proportion of the resources I host on-prem are just that. Stuff that's too large for email, or isn't static, or may get updated. Unless people host their own email server (like I do), it's going to e.g. Gmrgle anyway if you email it to them. Maybe it gets blocked, maybe it gets fubared.

Uploading it to an on-prem server and sending the link in an email is no more trouble and any issues are easier to debug.
The New Drones the SFPD Will Be Using (and Is Already Using)
"Free... until this matter is resolved."
For the case in question the major problem seems to be, specifically, what content do we allow children to access.

There’s an enormous difference in the debate between what should be prohibited and what should be prohibited for children.
Pituri is a native Australian tobacco relative (the only widely used old world tobacco) and was a hallucination in high doses.
Ask HN: Website to create Manim animations from natural language?
I'm looking for an online website which generates manim-like animation based on natural language.

For example, I type "draw 3 small blue dots, then make the middle one grow bigger and become red", then I click 'Create' and it produces the animation.

Seems like a simple project. Has anyone created such a website?
Reminds of something I thought of as a kid. You know the two way switches for a light bulb: where both switches can turn the same single light on and off. You probably have one.

What if it were a 100 way switch and you had the challenge of keeping the light on (maybe everyone else is trying to keep it off). This is like just one checkbox in this game. It is cool to see this exists and someone figured out how to keep the lights on.
Would you be willing to open source the backend code for this? Would love to take a look!
Google pay and your cards are equivalent and offer equivalent privacy to you. The digital IDs entire reason for existing is removed by reverting to the physical backup, plus you have to keep it with you, and risk losing it which also damages your privacy differently.

If you'll allow me to suggest the next goalpost, it would be some locations changing their policy to no longer accept physical IDs. That's probably a long way away, but it is a likely outcome, given our recent history.

If the States actually cared about these outcomes, they'd ally together, and create an ID "smartcard" standard, with special terminals, that can be used to present your ID and only release certain information with a PIN. The card would otherwise just have your name and ID number on it. Everything else would need to be digitally "released."
WebGPU would be alot more useful if it hadn't gone with such a needlessly different shader language syntax, makes it much harder to have any single src between the C++ and it.
If there is one place where technicalities should matter, that is in a court of law.

SpaceX is only 40% owned by Musk.
Why is them being separate companies relevant when they have the same ownership? If a judge goes after you they go after all your assets.
The really important countries are known as superpowers for a reason, and "BRICS" pretentions aside, Brazil is not in that club, it can't project power outside its immediate neighborhood and doesn't really even try. Economically, it's in the same league as Mexico.
This would be considered "accidental injury" which is the #1 cause of teenager mortality. The #3 cause is suicide which is influenced by social media as well - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6278213/
Why is them being separate companies relevant when they have the same ownership?

If a judge goes after you they go after all your assets.
It's possibly immoral? It's not really lawless if the local Supreme Court makes the decision.
If you use the Elastic license, legally speaking, you're in hot waters. The biggest problem with software licenses for freemium is that you have no contract with the company, money doesn't change hands, and the license itself can be open to interpretation. What's a competitor anyway? This sounds like that JSON license saying you shouldn't use the software for evil.

The Open Source licenses have been vetted and are time tested. That's one big reason for why Open Source is valuable. When you adopt an OSS project, you know exactly what you're getting, and the legal departments of corporations are prepared for it. Some are banning copyleft licenses, of course, for good reasons, but the knowledge is there.

Personally, I wouldn't touch the Elastic license.
Some countries hold executives and figureheads responsible cross companies. This is actually a good thing.

The SpaceX board can now decide if they want to keep someone like Elon up. If this cost is worth keeping Elon around then the free market has spoken :)
Was this repealed or watered-down? "Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_Privacy_Protection_...
Setting aside if Brazil is richer than Musk, his wealth is his stock. He doesn’t have tens of billions in liquid assets and he most likely never will.

So let’s remember that when assuming that billionaires whose wealth is mostly tied up in their company are actually a lot less wealthy and are less able to extract their wealth then the news makes it out to be.
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Heh, bet you can just short the contacts the button usually closes. Really hard to DRM a button.
Americans and Europeans are used to a very specific definition of liability when it comes to large businesses.
The BAT stuff is entirely opt-in, not opt-out.
Hundreds of Ancient Viruses Discovered Deep Inside Tibetan Glacier
Brazil is fairly large in nominal terms but projects essentially no presence internationally, either diplomatically, economically, culturally, or militarily. It barely can even project influence within South America, despite being half the
continent.

I'm not trying to diss the country, not every country could or should aspire to hegemony... but Brazil could sink into the Atlantic and I'd read about it in the NYTimes two weeks later.
> California legislators on Wednesday passed a bill which requires internet browsers and mobile operating systems to allow consumers to easily opt out from the sharing and selling of their private data with websites which use it for targeted advertising.

I take it then that this legislation will not help, for example, keep my location data and driving behavioral data private? Why does it need to be only for browsers or mobile OS and why only for use in targeted advertising?
What reasonable company have you worked for before that had such an approach. The only place I could imagine it happening is at a boutique trading firm
Agreed, the correct approach is definitely: "fix the core issues properly!".

It's just not as easy as slapping together a warning sign about incoming storms.
I recently purchased two third party solar panels for around $150 to feed a small Ecoflow battery. I specifically did not purchase Ecoflow panels because like their batteries everything is boutique priced. Based on energy costs, the panels will take years to break even but that's not the point: being able to run a few small appliances - most notably my CPAP machine and a fan - the next time power fails is the point. Plus charging my phone and having somewhere to plug in a light is worth the $300 for a small Ecoflow battery (prime day price.)

A modern fridge is ~300 watts/hr, and a small inverter air conditioner can be 300-500 watts. So 800 watts of solar panels won't outstrip your usage and charge the battery while you power those appliances but it's close.

Perhaps with judicious use of the battery during the day you can stretch out use overnight? The article cited a 3.6KWh Delta Pro, which is capable of running a small window unit overnight for several hours. Sure, it's nice to run your fridge 24/7, but cooling it down for a couple hours every day and minimizing round trips should be enough to prevent spoilage.

To answer your question I think it's the only practical way for an apartment owner to have any backup at all since most likely an actual generator is right out. I can't imagine many apartments being ok with a generator on your balcony merrily generating noise and carbon monoxide along with electricity. Most generator manufacturers recommend 20+ feet from the nearest window! No one has that kind of space on a balcony and I'd argue the balcony door counts as a window.
The Post Office just delivers your mail, it doesn't do any curation.

YouTube, TikTok, etc. differ by applying an algorithm to "decide" what to show you. Those algorithms have all sorts of weights and measures, but they're ultimately personalized to you. And if they're making personalized recommendations that include "how to kill yourself"... I think we have a problem?

It's simply not just a FIFO of content in content out, and in many cases (Facebook & Instagram especially) the user barely gets to a choice in what is shown in the feed...

Contrast with e.g. Mastodon where there is no algorithm and it only shows you what you explicitly followed, and in the exact linear order it was posted.

(Which is actually how Facebook used to be)
The legal dispute isn't with Elon Musk (the person) but X (Twitter)

However, the judge is punishing Elon (the person) via collateral damage to his other businesses

If you can't see any difference here I really can't help you
Crane, OR is I think the only public high school that boards its students in dorms during the week. Its geographic area is 7700sq miles. (The size of Massachusetts) It has 50-60 students.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_Union_High_School
survivorship bias. the hunter gather lifestyle also kills a lot of people, often through little more than tripping over a stone or eating the wrong seeds[1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(book)
I dunno, Postgres seems pretty solid.
>In a democracy, when the government fails, you can vote it out and get a new one.

When's balloting for HHS principal deputy administrator? I keep missing those elections. :-)
How do we run Kafka 100% on the object storage?
Your link specifically says Amazon didn’t steal the code, some German company did.

I get it, Amazon is bad, I agree they are too, but not because they’re malicious, Amazon is bad because they’re too large to compete on level ground with anyone other than Google or Microsoft in the cloud.

My peeve is with the companies like elastic that claim they are for open source but they try to prevent the open source from being used as such. It’s a scam to attract developers who care about open source. If I made code I wanted to be open source, I’d understand that means everyone can use it, like a public road or a public park. That includes big corps.

At least Amazon actually supports the Apache licensed OpenSearch product! They don’t even go around acting all superior like those “open source” corps do about it.
Many times, it really doesn't matter if you're 30 miles from anything, or 300.

If your vehicle breaks down, how screwed are you?

Do you have cell coverage to call for help?

Will anyone be passing by to flag down, any time soon?

How far away is the nearest LEO agency, fire department, ambulance?

How far away is the nearest place for water, food, etc?
Yes!

Time and time again these cancerous institutions have shown that their only interest is in surviving and they attempt that by concealing the flaws and brutally harassing the people that report them.

At this point only useful idiots give them the benefit of the doubt.
I have what might be considered an unpopular opinion here. What you’ve read already is more than enough. And most of the books that are recommended here are going to be a massive waste of time over what you’ve already read. What you’ll be better off doing is read code available in your domain of interest.
> which is a total joke since it's often trivial to re-identify anonymized data

HIPAA doesn't say ROT13 or anything else in particular counts as "anonymized". It's an after-the-fact assessment. If your "encrypted" data is accidentally released, and there's any reasonable suspicion inside or outside the company that it's crack-able, then it's a YOU problem and you need to notify a bajillion people by mail and per-state press release plus large fines.

I think you're being overly pessimistic on the strengths of US regulations on this with regard to preventing deliberate malfeasance, and that most of the stupid we see in stories is really just by accident or individual actors.
Malta's top white-hat hackers charged along with their lecturer
US should respond symmetrically and freeze accounts of some random(with Durov arrest), EU (threatening letter to Musk) and UK (prison sentences for mildly offensive tweets) are fighting to limit free speech under very similar pretenses that freedom of the press was limited in Nazi Germany or USSR (fighting foreign influence, “misinformation”, protecting kids)
Some societies are robust and can afford free press/free speech while keeping peace major Brazilian company. /s
On a serious note it’s interesting to see how countries around the world from France and internal cohesion. Modern multicultural and multi-ethnic states in EU may have to become way more authoritarian to keep going.
Reminds me of this case https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/1/grandma-tra...
I'd assume they'd be happier if you forget it to increase the chance of a sweet sweet flyover state civil asset forfeiture™
Disclosures: I read the ruling before reading Matt Stoller’s article. I am a subscriber of his. I have written content recommendation algorithms for large audiences. I recommend doing one of these three things.

Section 230 is not canceled. This is a significant but fairly narrow refinement of what constitutes original content and Stoller’s take (“The business model of big tech is over”) is vastly overstating it.

Some kinds of recommendation algorithms produce original content (speech) by selecting and arranging feeds of other user generated content and the creators of the algorithms can be sued for harms caused by those recommendations. This correctly attaches liability to risky business.

The businesses using this model need to exercise a duty of care toward the public. It’s about time they start.
Seasonal psilocybin mushroom usage in the south west corner of Australia predates european settlement.

To this day, it persists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5YiszoAvOk
“Sorry officer, I can’t show you my ID because my battery died”
Writing code for the joy of it, those were the days
Is it as simple as this?
Intel CEO, under growing pressure, addresses company's 'difficult few weeks
I am guessing this is about spotify and joe rogan - they would have a pretty tough time pleading section 230 for content they fully sponsor and exclusively publish, with or without the decision in question.
I don’t understand your hostility. Internet strangers are responding to your comments in good faith.
That part is mature, but Google/Apple being the only supported way to unlock it? Priceless.
I'm not endorsing it as a sane idea, but for people who think the idea of living on Mars is cool, living in areas like this could push forward development of compatible technologies- like retaining and recycling all water.

Like right now my mind is trying to imagine a solar powered desiccator and water recollection device that could dehydrate all compost and bodily excretions.
Passport cards are legal IDs and don't show your address. Also they avoid you needing a realID higjly recommend. At this rate you'll never need a realID to fly.
L.A. startups that raised the most money this spring (2014)
Who’s going to provide that number and how do they calculate it?
I understand these things.

If a Raspberry Pi draws 200 mA for one hour, I think it's reasonable to say it has drawn 200 mAh.
https://archive.ph/1H5WN
DNS File System
Unfortunately no. The entire point of DoH is to bypass the ability of the users to prevent browsers from providing browsing habits to their owners.
It makes a lot of sense in fields where there are benefits to using code (instead of GUIs) to generate statistics and figures, as long as learning the basic syntax of the language to write this code can be done in a week or two.

Learning just enough R (or Julia or Python) for the purposes of making replicable, easily updated, easily styled, easily adjusted tables and figures for research is something that a freshman in social sciences and humanities can handle. And for many academics that level of knowledge is enough for grad school and eventually even tenure.

That level of knowledge will not necessarily include even the most rudimentary software engineering skills: the code will (most likely) live in a single long file. That file will contain both working chunks of code, old/broken/redundant chunks of code as well as comments and notes both related and unrelated to the task at hand. It will never be executable in a linear fashion (only chunks at a time in a REPL). And some data importing or package/library management will still have to be done through a GUI.
Oh, interesting -- that's a new one for me.
It's a decent alternative to what Mozilla was doing to earn money.
LemonSqueezy "lost" a $600 transaction (+ some more)
Dropbox Dash: AI-powered universal search for work
Places outside the U.S. exist, you know? PV would be cost effective here in Germany for residential buildings even without incentives, though most owners would probably build smaller installations. And there are plenty of countries without government incentives where people still build PV.

As for the renters: many of them currently have decided to buy small plug in PV sets, since their installation has been allowed under German law recently. No incentives for those, either.

And I’ll repeat myself: incentives can have valuable political goals that have nothing to do with cost effective buildout of solar. In Germany, these incentives have contributed massively to improving popular sentiment towards PV and acceptance of government subsidies for renewables generally.