skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries
at the end of the day, if you run it on an iPhone, it's iOS that renders the text, and apple is routinely subpoenaed
Now Batting for the Red Sox: The Other Team's Catcher
This article discusses a well known point about telegram. But only to techies. Vast majority of users are misled by journalists many of whom have degrees in social "science", political "science" etc. It doesn't say you need encryption that's for each person to decide perhaps for each conversation. It's need to be an educated choice.

Though it's old hat better to recycle this often so many know.
At my previous company we used Stripe, and never saw any value in their data products. I was always curious as to why they had data products and would be interested to hear the other side – satisfied users with solved use-cases.

The reason it always seemed weird to me is that billing data is just one small portion of a company's data. We had all sorts of data about our users – preferences, demographics, data from marketing campaigns, how they browsed our site, etc, all of which was much more insightful than data about how they paid. Now we didn't have recurring subscriptions which perhaps adds a little value, but Stripe still delivers data via webhook back to your application, and companies still need to keep their application records up to date, so surely most details to compute MRR, churn, etc are already being delivered. Why would you analyse this in Stripe which doesn't have any of your other data?

If a company uses the very high-level Stripe products, and is (or almost) a no-code implementation, perhaps just a Stripe plugin in a Wordpress site, then I can sort of understand it, but what's the value for a company with any sort of custom integration or using any of the lower level products like billing?
It's like skiing.

I was enthusiastically biking 5 miles to work in ski pants and parka and gloves down to about 5 degrees.

I hated driving to work. It was actually colder, because the car is cold, doesn't heat up much, and it's cold walking from car to work.

20 miles would be a bit rough in the extremes... On a regular bike. But an e-bike? E-Bikes basically triple or more your functional range.

But on a bike I was bundled up to a greater degree, and is bike right to the door of my work. I'd be a bit toasty even with the minor amount of exercise.
Race condition issue?
You seem to have supplied your own conclusion here. I didn't say UCB should do anything in particular: cut it, increase it, or keep it the same.
The vast majority of the costs aren't in the early stages that happen at academic institutions.
What's especially galling about SF is how brazen the criminality is. I spent a number of years across the bay in Berkeley, and I still don't understand why they can't put a stop to obvious menaces to society, like people who steal laptops out in front of people using them [1] [2], or repeat violent offenders who randomly attack citizens and police alike [3], or carjackings in broad daylight [4] [5].

[1] https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2024/04/18/uc-berkeley-crime...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/surveillance-video...

[3] https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/11/16/courts/berkeley-a...

[4] https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/08/22/crime/berkeley-hi...

[5] https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/12/08/crime/berkeley-hi...
Most of the costs of drug development involve clinical trials. Basically none of that is supported by academic research because it is so expensive.
My first thought: Bye bye, Unsplash. We don't need such toxic sites anyway!
Do you think he doesn't cooperate with Russian authorities?
email me a@175g.com and I’ll send you some mockups.

Also, AI suggested this as the soundtrack:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MrWJhxWbIwP5kYHS4XdwG?si=...
I get the motivation. But good luck keeping an organization out of anything you care about when they can:

. Legally kill you

. Legally compel corporations to embed backdoors

. Legally seize all your equipment

. Throw away millions of dollars pursing “petty” crimes.

Technical means of defending against something like the NSA is, in my opinion, a lost cause.

I believe the way to deal with this is by being politically active. Getting people engaged and limiting the powers of these organizations.
I bet an LLM could do that for you..
> It seems like you'd need to trust a C compiler anyway, but I guess the idea is that there are a lot of small C compiler designs that are fairly easy to port?

Sorry but TFA explains it very well how to go from nothing to TinyCC. The author's effort now is to go from TinyCC to Rust.
Offhand, this sounds like a terribly insecure workflow but...

Client creates a Public Private key pair used for E2EE.

Client uses the 'account password (raw)' as part of the creation of a symmetric encryption key, and uses that to encrypt and store the SECRET key on the service's cloud.

NewClient signs in, downloads the encrypted SECRETKeyBlob and decodes using the reconstructed symmetric key based on the sign in password. Old messages can then be decoded.

-- The part that's insecure. -- If the password ever changes the SAME SECRET then needs to be stored to the cloud again, encrypted by the new key. Some padding with random data might help with this but this still sounds like a huge security loophole.

-- Worse Insecurity -- A customer's device could be shipped a compromised client which uploads the SECRET keys to requesting third parties upon sign-in. Those third parties could be large corporations or governments.

I do not see how anyone expects to use a mobile device for any serious security domain. At best average consumers can have a reasonable hope that it's safe from crooks who care about the average citizen.
The point is to shorten the minimal bootstrap path to Rust.

With your suggestion you can't use rust until after you already have rust-to-wasm transpiler available (which almost certainly itself already requires rust, so you are back where you started).
There are instances on the Fediverse ranging from actual far-left tankies to actual far-right Nazis. Many of them are banned from interacting with the really big general-purpose instances, but they still exist. If you insist on only touching instances that aren't banned from general-purpose instances, that's on you, and that's not demanding the right to speak, that's demanding the right for others to listen to you.
It may be a mistake to think of this as robotics.

Consider it more in terms of form-factor leading to UI interaction styles:

- mac for the desk

- ipad for the couch

- iphone for the pocket and hand

- Vision headset when you are inside the computer

So what's the computer you talk to from afar, or point to, to have it do things? Where's the screen that will follow you?

To me the sea change would be moving to voice as the primary mode of interaction. Keyboards are just awkward and hard. And voice now is used only with screen-centric UI's, as a keyboard replacement. The new thing could be life beyond the thumb.

For tasking a robot, the UI is more like a dialog, of setting objectives and constraints and getting feedback on progress. The key is the level of familiarity and trust: what might start as awkward and verbose with lots of confirmations, becomes laconic with experience of repeated success.

That's the stickiness. Transaction cost economics describes how repeated auctions accrue advantages to incumbents. Everyone's task dialogs will build differently, and once you've taught your assistant to be functional, you won't want to re-teach another; and also they'll likely better learn how you want the next task done.

That's the value of idiosyncratic on-device intelligence, intelligence that's not just fodder for consumer targeting or model building. People will pay extra not only for quality, but also for privacy, especially in the intimacy of tasks.
> The health insurance industry would make Franz Kafka proud.

The incentives are Kafka-esque. If you're a provider, your incentive is to maximize billable treatment, and you often have prospective patients who have an extremely limited capacity to evaluate your relative expertise/value bs other options, and they often don't have the time luxury of being able to shop around even if they did (and might be justifiably wary of selecting medical treatment based on discounts anyway).

If you're an insurer, you're selling a product with inherently cross-aligned incentives -- the people with the greatest need for it will not be able to pay enough in premiums to meet your risk pool, the people with the least need for it will have limited incentives to buy in. Good actuarial work can partially balance this out but at some level your incentives have to do with attracting/keeping those with the least need for your product and trying to avoid or ditch people with the greatest. On the other hand, other than patient bankruptcy, insurers are probably the single greatest (if limited) force for cost control in the US system, a fact which doesn't frequently win them any love, and thanks to a certain mix of legally compelled and inherent responsibility found in the industry they do at times come through for people, as your experience may indicate.

Given the incentives, the wonder isn't that there are problems for people and providers who don't want to work with insurance. The wonder is that it works at all, and that there is anyone who continues to focus on market solutions. Hayek was about as big a laissez-faire advocate as you can find in the history of economic thought and even he thought that public insurance had things to recommend it over solely private institutions.
I used to work on Sigma/ReportingDataPlatform, and all I’ll say here is that this article is wildly off base with regards to utility and cost — the DoorDash examples are laughable.

The article is correct that calculating MRR is difficult and requires access to your billing data.

I am very skeptical that working with data provided by Lago makes it any easier than working with the data you can get from Sigma or from data pipeline exports.

I don’t have a lot of love for Stripe by any means, but this is poorly argued.
I don't think you'd find nearly the unanimous agreement with that statement as mine. I personally love violent media, both the action-oriented John Wick type stuff and shooter games, and also I am an avid fan of gruesome horror too.
> So if you want clear skin, you probably have to pay big bucks.

The price is determined by what the market will bear. So, yes.
Buffering is there for a reason and this approach will lead to weird failure modes and fragility in scripts. The core issue is that any stream producer might go slower than any given consumer. Even a momentary hiccup will totally mess up the pipe unless there is adequate buffering, and the amount needed is system-dependent.
New developers? Many are uncomfortable on the command line
I won't bore you with the details of my home setup, and I do host from home with both static IPv4 and IPv6 and everything (ok ok, two details: it's all freebsd on enterprise hardware)
I will repeat: it is an option for some. and if you fall in the small group that has everything on green for a home hosted setup, it is the best option.

But thinking this is for more then a very very small group of people is not confirm reality.

And I really applaud you for having a setup that generates enough power so for you it turns out to be free. If only I could get a setup like this. For the biggest part of the population this is, unfortunately, not an option.

Also, there is a very big difference between running k*s, docker, whatever at home in a homelab, and hosting your stuff at home. A homelab is to learn, learning means breaking stuff all the time. hosting things dont really combine with that. Most people that actually host things at home have 2 setups, one that hosts the online tools and one homelab where they can break stuff at their will.

At the end of the day, for the majority of people throwing a couple of dollars per month to a company to handle all this crap is the better option :)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...

https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-study-in-the-midst-of...

I'm sure there's plenty more out there.
the chicken is just an example of an egg-laying and -borne animal. substitute it with the first
Then why are you looking at "leftist echo chamber" Lemmies? Go and find a rightist echo chamber Lemmy if that's what you're looking for. This is like going to /r/socialism and complaining Reddit is leftist.

There's also Kbin, which for all practical purposes is Lemmy, and interoperates with Lemmy, but is developed by different people.
and the moreutils equivalent, sponge
> The article is correct that calculating MRR is difficult and requires access to your billing data.

Then Stripe should provide the metric as an API and precalculate it. (They already have as it powers their dashboards, it's just inaccessible via API access.)

It's extremely frustrating that external metrics dashboards report MRR as significantly higher than it actually is.

It makes me distrust and dislike Stripe that such a core figure is absent in their API. There should be zero excuse for not providing it. It's a ridiculous omission.

I've spent too much time trying to solve this and it disappoints me.
I liked this enough to subscribe.

Haven't looked at the code itself but there was good effort spent and great use of Grafana to illustrate the data.

Will note ideally tests like this should be run 'separate' on same hardware vs in a cluster concurrently, unless that was just editing to show both together.
Two things:

1. I agree.
2. Once quit a job when they tried to install ai powered driver facing dash cams in company vehicle and I wasn't comfortable with both the micromanaging that would invite, nor becoming training data.

Police should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us working stiffs. If they actually did though (and/or didn't have the authority to use violence up to killing people) none of this would even matter. Everyone would be against body cams. Imagine your server in a restaurant wearing a body cam. (I keep giving bad people good ideas.)

In the world we live in I am for police body cams, I think. Best worst option.
SpaceX Raptor 3: Specs and Details explained
Both you and the person you are responding to have valid points. You can't rely on altruism or rules alone. They must work together. Some positions require a certain level of idealism and self-accountability that can't be captured by system of rules. Police and doctors are two examples.
Yeah Telegram search is not in a state where anyone should be proud of it.
Some businesses are large enough that polling the API and/or ingesting webhooks is a poor architectural choice or simply impossible — Sigma and the other bulk data products are extremely useful for these businesses.

The other kind of business that benefits from Sigma is much lower tech than yours, and most likely doesnt have a database or something that can accept webhooks.
US scientist convicted for China ties considering jobs in Hong Kong, mainland
http://atuin.sh for ctrl-r on steroids
So interesting. I just did a search for mentions of someone I know in multiple Telegram groups and channels, and got all the results, going back 5 years, instantly. And these groups and channels have millions of messages. All media is also perpetually available (unless deliberately deleted), and take a couple seconds to load. I don't see any other platform having that kind of convenience.
I don’t disagree with you.
So the "power distribution network" bit is a big pile of standard components? Is this what you get if you show up with a big pile of verilog and say "print this"? Why do the other bits looks different?
There's published proof the US government actively will go to the extent of having submarines go to undersea fiber cables to tap into them. They have private lockers in almost all the datacenters in the world, etc. Doesn't matter if it's an American company or not.
Aware of what? Government says a file is illegal? Sounds like a censorship regime to me.
We know there are infinitely many solutions, it is just hard to find a specific configuration of parameters. The question is, do all those configurations generalize or not.
It was all a scam.

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/crypto-is-a-scam.html
Derek Lowe is as good a source as any (he works as a research scientist but I've always believe writes in good faith):

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/don-t-drug-compani...

Pharma companies spend about 2x on sales and administration as they do on R&D. However, this compares favorably to large tech companies where the ratio is closer to 2-8x.

So yes, the statement that "pharma companies spend more marketing drugs than developing them" seems strictly true, but lacks context. Therefor, I rate this claim: mostly true. :-)
So many people dont know this - the tire muck that comes from theforever chemicals used in all tire manufacture is horrifically bad - to the point where one eco guy I was listening to basically gave up when he learned just how bad the chemicals from tires are. (ill try to find the podcast) -- and he notes how Humans tried to make reefs out of tires for Ocean Life.

In dystopian Dark Mirror Humor, I bemused myself with the day dream thought that Michelin Star restaurants, whom are awarded 3 stars for the distance one should be willing to drive is greatest with more stars - meaning that you should be willing to make a journey to the off-beaten path to visit and eat this food (which has yet to be em-poisoned with the forever chemicals our Tires have put into all the densely populated environments, thus this Elite Food is Clean.
Not if the CEO was arrested for not doing things the Digital Services Act says he doesn't have to do.
This is especially true since marketing drugs is essentially a negative sum game, it's banned in most developed countries with no discernible drawback.
Writing programs in Rust is not simpler then writing programs in C.
Whatsapp automatically resizes them (in standard settings)

But it still gets big.
This is a common misunderstanding of Google v Oracle.

In reality, the Appeals Court ruled APIs are copyrightable and the Supreme Court declined to make a ruling on that aspect.
Yes - everything is great. Just go to outer Sunset or Lakeside.
For example Stonestown Galleria mall - no crime there.[1]

[1] https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/sfs-stonestown-galleria-...
GFX 100 has similar mode. It’s not surprising that stitching multiple images of a moving subject , or thousands of moving subjects in the case of leaves and blades of grass, fails to produce something similar to a pixel shifted image of something static.
Absolutely!

I ended up digging the book out and finding the passage; hopefully it's ok to share because it's an amazing story and helps illustrate what makes that book so great to me:

"The best caveman debugging solution I ever saw was one that used the PC speaker. Herman was a programmer who worked on Ultima V through Ultima IX, and one of his talents was perfect pitch. He could tell you the difference between a B and a B flat and get it right every time. He used this to his advantage when he was searching for the nastiest crasher bugs of them all - they didn't even allow the debugger window to pop up. He wrote a special checker program that output specific tones through the PC speaker and peppered the code with these checks. If you walked into his office while his spiced-up version of the game was running, it sounded a little like raw modem noise, until the game crashed. Because the PC speaker wasn't dependent on the CPU, it would remain emitting the tone of his last check. "Hmm...that's a D," he would say, and zero in on the line of code that caused the crash."

- Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition
>> The journey will be far more rewarding than the destination.

> I’m always executing - I’ve already built 9 of my own ideas in the past year ...

No worries my friend. I only suggested what I did within the context of this thread :-).
Hmmm, the marketing question is complicated and I'm not sure what to think.

From a profit point of view, presumably the advertising department pays for itself; in other words, the advertising department generates money for the R&D department, rather than taking money from the R&D department.

But, the advertising presumably increases the number of people taking the drug. If it's teaching patients/doctors about a valuable new drug that will make peoples' lives better, then it's a social good. But if it's persuading patients/doctors to buy the drug unnecessarily, then it's a waste.

(Also, sometimes two pharma companies have competing drugs that are basically equivalent. So they get trapped in a "Red Queen's race" where they both spend money on advertising to try to gain market share. In the end they've both spent a bunch of money on ads and ended up back where they started. For those cases, banning marketing would be a clear win.)

Edit: Also, keep in mind that "ban/regulate pharma advertising" is a different proposal than "medicare negotiation".
Actual paper did exist but no one has a copy anymore according to the contacted author. It was an internal Xerox memo.
> It sounds like there’s a financial incentive for therapists to diagnose patients with conditions they may or may not have…big yikes

I think you might be thinking about this the wrong way. It's not like therapists want to diagnose people with conditions to scam them out of money (which I suspect might be what you're thinking), it's that insurance companies require there to be some specific mental health issue to be willing to cover therapy, so therapists have to come up with some acceptable reason to give to the insurance company.

Insurance companies may accept "adjustment disorder" (which is just basically having trouble adjusting to a life change) for a certain amount of time, but will often want something else eventually, which can just be something like depression or anxiety.

In some sense this means that therapists technically have to "diagnose" something (as in write it down as a possible diagnosis) to bill insurance but usually people are having some sort of issue if they are seeking therapy so it's probably often just a matter of determining what fits.

Arguably maybe it would be better for insurance to cover therapy even without a specific diagnosis, but in any case, having to write down "depression" or something on a form for the insurance company doesn't mean that they're necessarily telling everyone that they have some sort of serious mental condition or need to get on psychotropic drugs (not that therapists who aren't psychiatrists can prescribe those anyway).

Therapists aren't running around diagnosing people who aren't interested in therapy with bipolar or something to get them to hand over their money or to scam insurance companies.
The EU has proven itself time and time again to be so openly anti-innovation that it’s difficult to even take legislation like the Digital Services Act seriously. None of my products operate in the EU and for good reason. I have no interest in playing the legal games required to support them.

I wish I more fully understood the cultural differences that make this anti-innovation stance so prevalent in the EU.
Not true; for a long time, the rich people lived around second street/rincon hill (neighborhood known as "East Cut" today referring to the Second Street Cut, which levelled the area to improve transportation).
But writing a Rust compiler in Rust is already done.
Also worth noting that Linux has changed the way it uses ERMS and FSRM in x86 copy multiple times since kernel 6.1 used in the article. As a data-dote, my machine that has FSRM and ERMS — surprisingly, the latter is not implied by the former — hits 17GB/s using plain old pipes and a 32KiB buffer on Linux 6.8
From reading wikipedia it seems it's less than that since the 4th group also uses bit to set the variant.

e.g.

XXXXXXXX-XXXX-4XXX-[89AB]XXX-XXXXXXXX

From looking at all the ones in my system.