skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons I think politics is ok with income tax being where it is, is that the wealthy can currently avoid most of it. The wealthy can bring their money to bear to influence politics again to both broaden the scope so that the tax is more universally disliked and to create another carve out for themselves. Or at the very least situate themselves to benefit from government largess so that new taxes funding new spending is a net benefit for them.

My main concern is that it puts the government in a position to greatly benefit from inflation, even more so than it does now, and inflation will be the hidden tax that hurts the poor.
You can generally avoid détention préventive if you are able to provide good garanties de re-présentation, i.e., if you can convince the judge that even if they release you, you will show up to court when asked to. These documents are generally proof of insertion in active life (having a stable job, family, etc.) that should prevent you from disappearing (e.g., in order not to lose your job). I don't know what those would be in this case. But then again, the justice system is never exactly the same for people in positions of power, as Durov is.
ah sorry about that, didnt realize it was still in the official build.
Just the latest one.

https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1812559735616577565

He claims he wrote realtime rendering of vertical text in start menu.

Turns out he didn't. No released or unreleased version or source code show that.
Thank you! I worked on that one. For the rest of the discussion I’ll stay quite now
Depends on whether you have a service relationship with a third party and they are providing a service or you rolled your own. If, for example, I paid a third party company for consultants to write some code for me but they provided source code they didn't have the right to, I think I should be able to hold them accountable for that. Whether it's a person or some automated process doesn't change that IMO.

I expect a court case would be used to determine what a normal person could expect, what was represented buy the consultant company, and what exactly I requested to determine how much fault each party has.
And yet syncing an encrypted private key is still easier and more secure than syncing (via the same mechanism e.g. Keepass) a 30-character random password.
If you're a legal resident of the country yes, but now the California Senate has passed the bill allowing undocumented illegals to be eligible for a state-backed loan of $150,000 for them to purchase housing in California.

Congratulations to the California taxpayers who are now subsidizing people who walked across the border without paperwork.
I've always viewed Erlang (and by extension, Elixir) as safe from these types of improvements. Maybe I don't have enough experience in these languages, but having guards, and the different approach to conditionals seemed to do away with most of the pitfalls usually "safeguarded from" by the caution tape and excessive road signage of type systems.

I'm curious to learn more, but I can't shake a feeling of vague trepidation here.
They rein in the government calling it “overreach“ when it involves federal oversight. When it comes to LEO issues, however, they tend to side with LEO’s.

The real test will be when they inevitably hear the Louisiana case about people filming police officers.
WebView2 would probably be the way to go, now... at least for Windows as the target.

https://www.electronjs.org/blog/webview2/
Their claim is false. The eCommerce Directive (2000/31/CE), article 14, exempts service providers of liability when they merely act as hosts (eg. comment sections, chat services, you name it), as long as they are not aware of hosting illegal content.
Yes but sadly those people continue to live and vote
It's such an easy way to create prototypes for anything you could think of
I wonder if we'll see him pull something like this [1]: An ex-CEO of Nissan fleeing Japan in a box!

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57760993
Related:

https://old.reddit.com/r/outlier_ai/comments/1f22dfd/mass_la...
As much as anything I've conceived of that as the only example of separation of powers working to stir opposition to the sprint to unlimited power for the executive.
Even advertisers don't matter anymore, only metrics. Because they can be manipulated.

The software engineering show isn't being run by engineers, middle-managers or even MBAs anymore.

It's run by product people who treat it like a mini dictatorship.

So releases like this have to go out, no matter the consequence.
Not sure how your code is identifying "open source", but you missed including FreeBSD on the list.
Thanks! That one is:

Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41228630 - Aug 2024 (177 comments)

Also related:

Are Geofence Warrants Headed for Extinction? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41283215 - Aug 2024 (12 comments)

Google moves to end geofence warrants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666317 - Dec 2023 (15 comments)

Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38660646 - Dec 2023 (184 comments)

How police use location/search data to find suspects - not always the right ones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37755785 - Oct 2023 (18 comments)

Geofence Warrants and Reverse Keyword Warrants Are Invasive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36307777 - June 2023 (9 comments)

California Court of Appeal finds geofence warrant unconstitutional - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35723148 - April 2023 (41 comments)

A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33781084 - Nov 2022 (10 comments)

FBI used geofence warrant in Seattle after BLM protest attack, documents show - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30232353 - Feb 2022 (104 comments)

Court Upholds “Geofence” Warrant for Information on Phones Near a Crime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725308 - Dec 2021 (8 comments)

The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28553778 - Sept 2021 (310 comments)

Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266650 - Aug 2021 (259 comments)

New Federal Court Rulings Find Geofence Warrants Unconstitutional - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342049 - Sept 2020 (29 comments)
I don’t know enough about Git’s internals to be able to say. My gut says no; the (state-based) CRDT “rules” are that merges must be commutative, associative and idempotent, and I think if you tried to merge conflicting changes on multiple remotes in different orders, you would get different internal states. Not sure though!
> access citizenship via investment in a country.

I guess that's what they mean by "it's a billionaire thing"
Just ordered 5700X3D... So I will be going on with that for a while. Maybe I see the 11700X3D or 11800X3D... Not feeling current gent GPUs either mostly due to pricing...
That seems a bit counterintuitive since the circuit court that ruled geofence warrants unconstitutional is a conservative one, while the circuit court ruling in favor is more liberal.
In my very brief foray into food service, it was my understanding that the front of the house shares 40% of tips with the back of the house...
The entity with agency claiming copyright of the code being written (machines can't claim copyright) is responsible for ensuring that the code that they are writing is free of license encumbrance.

This is not any different than a person copying a code snippet from Stack Overflow that is under the GPL and used on Stack Overflow as part of fair use for educational purposes.

You, the person, writing the code are responsible for making sure that your code is yours.
Sounds like fun :)

You should write up a blog post where you had to debug some weird gnarly issues. A lot of us higher up the tech stack are pretty far removed from the signals level issues you're talking about but would love to hear about a low level debug session!
Yes and that's why hiring an experienced network engineer is incredibly goated
Critical in terms of the scientific method itself, sure.

But the unfalsifiability of consciousness only points to the hardness of the problem and the current limitations of science, not the importance of understanding consciousness and its implications.

Put another way, even if science can’t currently tell us anything solid about consciousness, the implications of what it can’t tell us are still highly relevant to the kinds of science we do, e.g. we still treat other humans as if they’re conscious and this forms the basis for most ethical decision making.
They set the price themselves. It's their fault that they can't provide a service at their own price.
Show HN: Who's the AI?
Little project I hacked on recently.

"Who's the AI?" is a game where you try to identify the AI in a conversation.

You will be placed in a chatroom with 2 other players. Both, neither, or either of the other players may be AI -- meaning there could be 0, 1, or 2 AIs in the room.

You will be allowed to send messages for 60 seconds. After that, you will have 15 seconds to review a transcript of the conversation and identify which players were human and which were AI.

Was a fun prompt engineering challenge to try to get them to sound less AI-like and more human!
The first non-tech company to reach this milestone. Joins Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon.com and Facebook parent Meta Platforms.
Ideologically, sure, maybe. I assume you mean Republicans because historically that’s been the “law and order” party.

But for example the Jan 6’th protestors must have been targeted by this type of warrant, right? If you do a geofence warrant for anybody around the Capitol building that day and then explore out a couple nodes, who knows who you’ll find, right?

Overly broad warrants don’t benefit anybody I think. Investigations should be done based on solid evidence, not geographical coincidences.

(Edit: hopefully this does not come off as too partisan. I picked this event because if you are a solid Republican, you might think the investigations are overly broad, and if you are a solid Democrat, you probably think the events were openly bad enough that normal police work should be able to investigate them. I have an opinion as well, but I’m trying not to indulge in it too much or insult the other side. So, hopefully it can be agreed by both groups that geography is not great evidence).
Erlang and Elixir have long had "dialyzer" as a type checker. The problem is that it had some severe limitations in approach (and implementation) and so the cost/benefit ratio wasn't great.

This article really speaks to how they're thinking about the costs of the type system, so that you mostly get benefit, and that's great.
It's other way around, with headwind you will get less distance over ground
I don't think it's quite so subjective. At least, the edge cases you bring up would not significantly affect your metrics no matter how you handled them. MRR is a metric used for strategic planning and evaluation, it doesn't have to be exact, it's not going on your tax submissions.

You usually track MRR based on users who are currently paying for your service (summing recurring subscription amounts, as you put it). Whether their payment falls at the end of the month or is delayed a day to the next month doesn't affect MRR. Most subscriptions must be paid before the billing period begins.

Things like cancellations or chargebacks are counted separately and would not affect past MRR calculations. No you never count free trials. Yes, you count people who have a credit or balance assuming they overpaid to get that balance. If it was just given as a comp, then no.

Yes, you count people who are set to expire until they actually expire and don't renew.
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It wasn't recently but I was tipped out by the waitstaff when I was a dishwasher. So on top of my $7/hr I'd take home a hundred bucks or so.

What they paid me was totally up to them.
An organization that is under increasing existential pressure will exhibit all sorts of dysfunction. For example, they will lowball bids for projects that are necessary for their survival, from which one can then expect "surprise" cost overruns.
Bundling IE may have gotten more people to give it a try, but it didn't force those people to continue using IE. It didn't force them to keep using IE for years and years, in many cases.

Most people, including a great many former Netscape users, simply chose to keep on using IE because it offered (and still offers) a superior web browsing experience compared to its competitors.
They must be changing the ladder sometime, the one in the latest photo doesn’t look like it’s 300+ yrs old. Also it seems to have only five rungs whereas the one from a drawing around 1842 has six https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immovable_Ladder#/media/File...
Non-zero interest rates do not equal “high” interest rates.
That’s like saying because slaves do as they’re told, they don’t mind doing it. After all, if they didn’t want to do it, they would refuse.

Those people are lining up to take a job that doesn’t pay enough because it’s better than no job or whatever worse job they currently have.

We could restructure society so that $5/hour is “enough” for some people and then the rest of could enjoy even cheaper meals. /s
for some (stingy) people it IS a lower price.
This article came out in 2017, five years before the release of "The Bear", a currently hot TV show about fine dining. In this show one of the main characters polishes forks for an entire day and is rebuked for doing a bad job and not respecting the work. Previously this character offers to wash dishes and is told the restaurant has the best dishwashers in the business and can't afford to have someone like him screwing it up.

Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK8XSIVhsE4
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375828
Reporting bugs and difficulties is usually a very painful and frustrating experience, so I stopped doing it years ago. When I encounter a problem with something, I live with it if it's worth doing so. If it's not worth doing so, then I switch to using something else. In neither case am I reporting the problem.

But I don't think the solution to this is to ramp up the spying. I think the solution to this is to make reporting issues less onerous.
> don’t make enough

> That's not generally true. [...] in the 90's and was making

These are not contradictory?
> So the solution is to throw many of the people who currently make $10/hour out of a job and onto welfare? That's what you're proposing.

It's not an either / or. If the US were to invest more in education and developing the economy everywhere, there would be more jobs beyond low paid "unskilled" labour. That is, at the moment there's too much demand in low paid jobs, too little in e.g. college or uni level positions, and too much supply of people desperate enough for a job to take something below the standards of living.

Compare with my country, which during the pandemic saw a large amount of people in the service industry change jobs, because during the pandemic a lot of restaurants and the like were closed. When those opened up again, they found themselves with a shortage of staff, leading to the ones that still worked in the industry to be in a strong negotiating position and have their wages increased significantly.

Take away the supply - by increasing supply of higher-paid and diverse jobs everywhere - and low wage jobs become higher paid jobs automatically. In theory.
> But the diagram is not the database

also:

"The map is not the territory"

Diagram is a model, you always have a model, whether explicit or implicit (mental).

Your mental model can be flawed, but nobody can see it to point it out (including yourself).
Coincidentally, today I tried to log in to Google AdSense for the first time in months using Firefox. Google simply will not permit it.

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I checked, and my version of Firefox is up to date. I know I could play reindeer games with the user agent, but I shouldn't have to.

Surprisingly, to me, it had no problem with Duck's browser. I thought that would be on the forbidden-by-Google list, too.
We're discussing Chrome here, not Google's search offerings.

Aside from Google-produced products like Android and ChromeOS, I can't remember ever using a computer or device where Chrome was installed by default.

Even for the Android devices I've used, the earlier ones didn't come with Chrome. Recent Samsung phones I've used have also included Samsung's browser as an alternative.

It's conceivable that some Windows desktop or laptop vendors might have opted to install Chrome by default, but I've never seen that with any of the systems I've used. Even then, presumably IE and/or Edge would've still been installed, too.

Having dealt with a lot of Linux systems over the years, Firefox is actually the most pre-installed browser I've encountered.

I've almost always had to go out of my way to install Chrome any time I've wanted to use it.

Any sort of notice, recommendation, banner, or other ad I've seen on Google properties while using a non-Chrome browser has never resulted in Chrome automatically being installed on my systems.

I know my experience isn't unique.

People go out of their way to download and install Chrome. They go out of their way to continue using it, too.

A lot of people simply want to use Chrome, even if doing so requires some effort on their part.
Same. But I always just chose 0%
I feel like it only comes across as dodgy because of the jason-bourne genre of spy flicks where agents have stacks of passports and alternate identities

What's dodgy about having multiple countries consider you respectable enough ( slash rich enough ) to issue you citizenship?
You would effectively have corruption. Governments would be more reluctant to take actions which could be negative when they have direct ownership vs their normal "indirect ownership" via taxation.
FDA clearance only means a company can legally market the device.

additionally, product testing != human trials. they are two very different things.

final product testing is called "design verification and validation" (aka dV+V) where a statistically significant number of devices are tested against several different categories.

human trials can run the gauntlet from a small IDE studies to phase I through IV.

the drug approval process is MUCH different than the medical device process.
To my understanding, many of these devices are detectable by anticheat: https://www.reddit.com/r/Csgohacks/comments/19dbut1/dma_chea...

Anything that's plugged into the machine can be poked, prodded, and logged to a central database by anticheat software.
It is not that hard. I have my birth citizenship. But my grandpa was an Italian, so it entitled me to obtain Italian citizenship. My wife's grandpa and grandma are portuguese, so this entitles her, and me as her husband to portuguese citizenship. And I am not rich as Mr Durov, if I was, probably I'd have a few more passports for business and tax purposes.
> So should I pay Carol the most, Bob the 2nd most, and then Al the least, even though they're all doing the same job?

They all get the same wage. The minimum is set to be enough for a chosen living situation, and everyone gets at least that much.

(Though some subsidies to help with kids would be reasonable.)
Regardless of how you do your accounting, MRR is always an accrual basis. Someone who pays $10 monthly increases your MRR by $10. Someone else who pays $100 annually increases your MRR by $100/12.
From one of the articles the article refers to: "[According to Harvard something] value of OSS to the economy is 4.15 Billion USD."

That seems ludicrously low - Linux itself, if you value it at $1 per install is considerably more that 4 billion USD. The various open source web projects powering all the large sites are more than billions. Banks may not pay for SSL but they receive economic value. Etc. etc.

And it's not a labor surplus except for those poor souls that are trying to make their fortune with an OSS "side project." It is a method of doing things where results are shared and improved upon, fundamentally the scientific way brought into applications. Unlike physical devices, it's essentially free to share software. Just don't put access controls on the git repos.

There is a tendency to overly productize things, but that's not the heart of open source; the heart is just to share results, perhaps in a hope that ones labor can contribute to the progress of humanity. I don't need to promise to fix issues ever for my source code to potentially have value to someone solving a similar problem.

Now, it's harder to achieve this way of working in corporations, and things have to split into "open source with some modular hooks for private things that aren't open source" (even just in-house logging or metrics systems), but it's not impossible, and does have the same advantage science has - it grows exponentially and eventually will figure out how to do anything that is doable.
Anecdotal but in my circles I'm increasingly seeing the shooting star badge.
The best thing that could happen to France would be for him to run away.

They want Telegram not him.
> Being a union member provided no benefits whatsoever for temporary employees

In my union we very much care. What we do now is advocate for a reduction I the number of outsourced positions, and hire directly, so wage and conditions are improved.

It's true unions optimise for certain things too (they also have limited sway and time), as I experienced as an expat. Especially when you know it's temporary, it's unlikely you'll ever see a personal benefit.

OTOH, a union just managed to negotiate 10+% higher wages in my first year in current job, unbeknownst to me, so that's nice.
It’s interesting that each “processor” needs a camera which is made up of inefficient transistors and other leaky electrical components and there is still a claim to efficiency surplus.
And that's fine; the problem is that a lot of people don't have a choice, because there's not enough jobs at their level of education, their willingness to work, etc.

I'm thinking of a reddit post copied off facebook describing college or uni graduates in biology who could only get a job at Starbucks because there wasn't enough demand for their specialism.
Even if you look at industry contributions, this is not actually why code is open sourced.

The individual incentive is to open source code to show the rest of the industry what you have been able to build, with personal returns to you if it actually gets meaningful adoption.

And companies are willing to go along with this because infrastructure projects are not actually a source of competitive advantage and they would rather co-operate on keeping input costs low, and also not get stranded on a tech island with totally custom tooling for everything. You also derive some marginal benefit if the OSS code actually gets used by others since you still control the project direction.

And then separately you have OSS first companies that are hoping that being OSS lets them gain a marketing/sales advantage with developers who care about that.

These incentives remain the same even if there is no meaningful surplus.
I made one called Stratum to fix some of the problems with other readers.