skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It "jives" because he's not s reviewer. He's just an opinionated YouTuber who has a cult-like following who listens to him verbatim.

The most obvious thing I can point you to is that his "review" of Humane should be the same as his "review" of his own wallpaper app. Yet... Marques doesn't dogfood his own advice. That speaks volumes about his ethics and motivations.

He's driven by $$$. He gives zero shits about the validity of his messaging. Just as long as it's edgy to get the views, which is why he's finding success right now on the other side of the coin: negative "reviews".
Compare and contrast with the OpenAI old board vs sama drama the other day. And the end result of non-profit being steered by the for-profit entity.
OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode Unavailable in the EU
I sure can; either you really believe it which means you must be quite deluded or you pretend to believe it (and cherry pick what and where you bring it up), in which case you are a grifter. Both I don't want to spend time with.
Books are ideally free for all as is. That's the goal of a library. But we know how that's going...
"they" seems to be referring to DoNotPay, the subject of this discussion.

"mad libs" is a game where you have a set of text with a bunch of blank spaces and then the group fills them in with words to come up with a funny end result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs
So now the government needs to compel a corporation to hand over some data,
because they are no longer able to read it straight off the wire like they could before.
That sounds like a significant improvement to privacy.
Intent is easier to falsify than impact, generally.
Comparing God to Santa is ludicrous. There’s more types of evidence backing the God of the Bible than many things taught in school or reported in the news. I put a quick summary here:

https://www.gethisword.com/evidence.html

With that, the Bible should be taken at least as seriously as any godless work with lots of evidence behind it. If you don’t do that, it means you’ve closed your heart off to God for reasons having nothing to do with evidence. Also, much evidence for the Bible strengthens the claim that Jesus is God in the flesh, died for our sins, rose again, and will give eternal life and renewed life to those who commit to Him.
They can already send texts over satellite so probably pretty feasible. Idk though
Maybe one thing is that price per item can vary a lot, eg a $50 coat isn’t going to take 60 times less space than a $3k coat so it’s possible to spend a lot more without using lots more space. That said, the author doesn’t seem to be buying wildly expensive items. I assume they get through with something like an ordinary sized wardrobe and chest of drawers, plus some kind of shoe storage near a door. And I guess they dispose of things that are unused or too worn.
Software development for the DMT headspace
I propose an experiment which demonstrates computation on the (DMT-altered) human visual system. It is a simple visual stimulus/web application which when viewed while on DMT should solve a graph cut problem, using colour as input and hallucinated depth perception as output (see blog post for full explanation):

https://smoothbrains.net/experiments/tilespace/index.html?ra...

I hope. I haven't tested it yet. Prior art includes Scott Aaronson's experiment in using soap bubbles for computation[1], and Mark Chiangizi's efforts to build logic gates from Necker cubes[2]:

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf

[2] https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/2008-changizi.pdf
well it appears spontaneously in this game that has a hard set of deterministic rules, but there is no proof that actually this is the cause of demographic flight - just an argument. Probably a correct argument, but I am cursed with the tendency to see the opposition to my beliefs as perhaps true.
I respect the "fine we'll take our ball and go home then" approach to put some actual pressure on Google.

I do wonder if they could have just chosen to stop offering Google Drive support on Android and instead pivot to storing content on their own servers with a simple data export option, or using something like Dropbox instead.

It really seems like this latest cloud compliance battle was just the straw that broke the camel's back, and the real problem is that the Android app wasn't earning that much money as it was, so this was a convenient time and reason to kill it.
That's fair. I think it could go either way. It just bugs me when people are so certain and it's always some shallow reason about "probability" and "it just generates text".
Oh yeah, re: SQL expect - I always wish joins had a "cardinality assertion", like a regex *?+ (or ! for exactly one)
My mistake, sorry. I thought you were implying Canada wasn't a NATO member.

I agree with your economic nationalism comments. But Canada is in a special position here: the US Arctic is contiguous with Canada's much larger Arctic region and a US/Canada icebreaking partnership seems to make sense. The US nationalists might be okay with it because of NAFTA, generally close economic ties and the whole "fortress North America" thing. Canada has at least two shipyards capable of building icebreakers and the US has money.

Another example of this close, almost ambiguous economic relationship: the US Department of Defense is funding Canadian mining juniors. I have never heard of this happening before: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/377704...
if this metaphorical door is already open and something is in plain view though. I guess the question is what constitutes plain view digitally.
No, it's not. They go after downloaders as well. I speak from experience. :)
It's just free markets in action. Finland is a small country that depends on international trade. Industries must remain competitive or go out of business. Unions that harm the competitiveness too much won't survive in the long term.

US domestic market is much larger. Uncompetitive industries can survive on domestic demand. Especially with some regulations that help. It doesn't even have to be explicitly protectionist regulation. Just regulate things the way Americans consider the best, instead of adopting international standards. That can create sufficient barriers to entry to allow uncompetitive industries and uncooperative unions survive.
So many red flags about Saltman. I have to imagine some of the investors are having second thoughts.
Why do the apps even need direct access to Google drive? Android should give a generic API to access a folder with files and whether this folder lives in local storage or Google drive or even another provider should be the user's decision.
Ironic given the app’s purpose.
Sadly the UK has also been hit with the fallout of the EU's AI Act, and we are also not able to have Advanced Voice Mode.

I have just cancelled my Plus subscription because of this, and wrote to OpenAI to explain that the EU's AI Act does not apply to the UK.

Hopefully OpenAI will soon release this feature to European nations that aren't burdened by the EU's low-quality and overly-aggressive technical regulation
Sad to see. Things like this are why there isn't as much AI innovation in Europe.
> Serious question: Why aren't Libgen, Annas-Archive, and others operating solely as an onion service on TOR?

I think hosting in country outside of US jurisdiction (Russia?) and being accessed through VPN is more consumer friendly solution.
It's an eternal struggle. The "perfect capitalist" wants infinite money with zero cost labor. The "perfect consumer" wants high quality products for free delivered instantly.

Even if we assume a more altruistic ideal, a businessman needs enough money to keep providing their services. But as the economy gets worse, that breaking point becomes less and less obtainable for a reasonable consumer (who's price is "cheap enough to maintain their QoL"). You can't really fix that without lobbying to being down living expenses as a whole.
Those are TK? They look good!
all hardware is subject to the bathtub curve
We do! https://www.earthspecies.org/about-us#careers
It seems like the entire fight is over Google Drive, which is not a hard requirement for pretty much any Android app. While Google's behavior here strikes me as ridiculous, dropping Drive support seems much more rational than dropping Android support entirely.
Matt Talks About WordPress Situation [video]
It depends how much walking / hiking / running / whatever else you do.

A typical pair of running shoes lasts somewhere around 300-500 miles. (You could probably stretch a pair further than that, but you run much higher risk of injury once the cushioning wears down.)

If you put in a modest 5 miles a day and have two pairs in rotation, then expect to replace both pairs every 6 months (if not more often). It is not uncommon for semi-serious runners to spend $100+ on each pair of shoes. From that perspective, $500/year doesn't seem that outrageous.
That’s pre-training where the AI inherits the biases in their training corpus. What I’m griping about is a separate stage using highly-curated, purpose-built data. That alignment phase forces the AI to respond exactly how they want it to upon certain topics coming up. The political indoctrination is often in there on top of what’s in the pre-training data.
Actually not sure about LibGen in its current manifestation, but the wikipedia page clearly traces its origin and earlier iterations to Russia
I believe you still need a meta account.
In short, Google bureacratized them almost to death over Google Drive access, and then offered up a solution where they pay KPMG for an annual audit.

But the audit would cost them two months of revenue, every year.

So:

> So, as of today, we’re not just accepting our frozen-in-carbonite fate. We’re embracing it. We’re going to take the app offline.

By making a native app, you're donating free developer time to the platform owner. If they're not making it worth it for you, screw them.
Oy, this just gave me a dystopic angle on a collective intelligence initiative I'm excited about: using LLMs to get non-human entities like rivers on advisory boards.

https://x.com/zarinahagnew/status/1815442685446033613

> Voice of Nature - leveraging advanced environmental data, we're developing fine-tuned AI agents that can deliberate on behalf of non-human stakeholders & better represent/surface relevant information about our ecosystems, as a method to improve collective intelligence.

The dystopic angle: what if future energy goes into bringing nature into active engagement with capitalism...

Hopefully I'm never living in the world where someone has a bridge in Brooklyn to sell and the buyer is the Hudson River :)
My code could effectively be free. The thing is most consumers don't care for code, they care for products. So I don't think open sourcing a currently closed source project would impact 99% of tech out there.
Indeed, it starts with the judge deciding (without trial or jury) whether capital charges can be brought. Then a capital jury is chosen.

In practical terms, it also requires an incompetent lawyer. Ruth Bader Ginsberg said "No well defended person receives the death penalty." I read that in an article about the one isolated case where she was wrong.

I also suspect that the death penalty corrupts the societies that use it.
I think many people here at HN can admit to spending that much on their hobbies, even the ones without summer houses. It just sounds like fashion might not be one of yours?
Sure, but I think at minimum there's a reasonable realty where Automattic/the foundation:

1. Creates an official policy that states the level of usage of the public WordPress services/resources which constitutes requiring a business relationship with the Foundation (e.g. N terabytes transferred per month)

2. Attach a dollar amount.

3. Inform WP-Engine that they're in violation of this new policy and they have N days to comply or their access will be terminated (where N is at least 90 but ideally 180/360).

Matt's recent interview with the Primeagen suggests that while "discussions" with WP-Engine go back years, he couldn't give a straight answer for whether other services may be vulnerable to the same retribution WP-Engine faced, specifically and quantifiably why WP-Engine received retribution while other entities don't, and if specific prior notice of the actions Automattic took was given to WP-Engine. Instead, it was vibey: A bunch of "well, they use a lot, server resources, our trademark, yeah other entities use a lot too, but those other entities give back, stuff, to the community, WP-Engine gives back some stuff, but not enough." Prime tried to get more out of him multiple times but it just ended with him saying "I'm sorry, I'm sick and really tired".
Still, if the non-profit has private inurement, the non-profit shouldn't be able to take anything tax-free as it wouldn't qualify as a 501(c)(3). The bigger issue is definitely Delaware non-profit law though.
they could replicate their ink policies on to paper...the dearer it is to print the less people will do it
Yeah, the correct answer is to basically chuck it all. If you have a bit of possibly unique content, perhaps contact a relevant archive (which I did recently) but otherwise accept that you don't need to find a home for everything. Books, DVDs, and CDs can go to your local library's book sale though most will end up pulped. VHSs are mostly just trash at this point even if someone, somewhere might want them.
For 33-45% Americans, the only source of morality is what the Orange Dear Leader says. That's why they are fine with supporting a candidate who openly calls for jailing people who criticize the Supreme Court judges and wanted to shoot protesters in legs.
Thanks!

And you raise a good question. So just to make sure we're on the same page, even though the extension is browser-scoped it still has access to the system's clipboard across other apps so things you copy in VSCode will show up in the history. It just doesn't know that you copied it from VSCode specifically so yes you can't filter by application like you say.

So with that drawback in mind, I believe the advantage is that it's less intrusive and cross platform by default. Whether it's simpler needs, app fatigue, or work restrictions, some people just don't need a whole app for this one feature (especially when those apps usually come with a whole suite of other productivity tools, requiring more permissions and resources).

This is all just based on my own experience as a user of an existing popular extension though (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clipboard-history-p...). I can't speak for all other 100k active users but my guess is that what I described above is approximately the reason for its popularity.
There is a lot of evidence that it was originally made by someone Russian-speaking, starting from the fact that initial LibGen collection was some Russian and English literature taken from a Russian torrent-tracker. However I'm sure there was "no strategic point of view" whatsoever, just a pet project by some kind-hearted people.

You can read some other research here - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/2603....

(And I also have some very brief "scene" knowledge from circa 2010-2012, which confirms the fact, but you'll have to trust my word for it.)
Agreed, minus the Primsa.
I know TBB will still be supported 5 years from now, though.
We've had to go through this process for the app I have, and it definitely was cumbersome and makes the process a huge pain. Fortunately, after a while Google often lets you switch to a Tier 1 assessment, which involves using various tools to analyze your code and make improvements without shelling out a ton of money.

At the same time, Google is in a tough spot here. The files and documents in your Google Drive (or Gmail) are incredibly sensitive. One possible solution is using the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file OAuth scope, which only lets you access files a user has explicitly shared with the app. I'm curious if iA Writer has limitations that makes this a bad user experience, but from a user security point of view, I can see why I want the apps that get to see my whole Google Drive audited too.

[1] https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/api-specific-...
there are things they managed to fix in software that you thought would need to be fixed in hardware
Interesting data tracking. I have to say for my jeans - I never put them in the dryer, always hung dry. All my jeans are now 10-20 years old now and except for some wear on the back cuff from wearing them around the house without shoes on they look and feel brand new. I can't find author mention "dryer" anywhere in the article. Hung dry clothes last a long time. it's the machine dryer that slowly destroys them IMO.

Another thing Im doing is switching to 100% cotton (or just no plastic fibers). I love the breathability and light feel of cotton shirts.
We have a similar experience developing for android. They ask us to change things constantly, fill out endless paperwork, most of which is irrelevant to us (we have to verify a payments account for our free, ad free, no in app sales app). Every so often it's a random change to requirements around this permission or that, or more information needed for a security or data policy.
> No, I'm suggesting that only testing on system shipping weak protection systems and poor defaults is misleading.

But then he would not have found and reported the vulnerability, yet it would still exist and affect people.

Once the vulnerability was discovered it doesn’t matter if one operating system or the other has protections in place that will stop it. What matters is that the code is vulnerable and that there are people who are not protected. Proving that it is not exploitable on systems configured a certain way does not invalidate the original finding.
I don't care who's right or wrong; I’m just glad WP Engine is finally facing some consequences. Their treatment of clients is appalling—lying through their teeth, charging absurd prices, and offering abysmal support. My company lost many clients because of them.
All my code (that isn't owned by a business, contractually) is free (well, technically I have a couple of private repos, but they're not paid access, they're just not available). So are all of the translation and commission work I did: people were paying to choose what I'd do next, not to keep something exclusive for themselves.

Corporatism is going to be the death of art, because we've normalized the idea that art is an ancillary function of some business project that first and foremost wants to generate profit.
>Ultimately, having and keeping stuff just weighs you down.

This, so much this! We should own nothing. Then we'll be happy!
A lot of my undergrad and grad school involved using ETM+ imagery. Gosh does that sink in how long ago that was.
Doing Good in the Addiction Economy (2013)
NTSB Issues Urgent Safety Recommendations on Boeing 737 Rudder System
I'm probably a bit out of the loop her - but you referenced Gatsby's collapse?

Did something happen to them, in the community or project?

Googling, I saw that they were acquired by Netlify in early 2023 - but not much concrete beyond that?
Tangent but I've huge collection of comics. I am waiting for AI to get good enough so that I can turn it into knowledgebase
it's a real problem that will not be solved by trying to apply current laws

digital assets which don't suck under capitalism require real innovation from the government or, if that doesn't work, the people themselves
~~"buy what you need"~~

"do not go shopping until after something has a hole in it, then when you are there, replace only that"
Why do all android app roads always lead to Google's app store? Why not move everything to another app store, such as Amazon's? All the code, work, time, and other sacrifices aren't worth giving them a shot?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_app_stores
> I am a little confused about the scenario you're describing here: with the PR based flow, you can't merge the second half of the PR while waiting on some change to the first commit.

As I understand it, based on what's in the article anyway, diff 2 is started from diff 1 even when they are totally different tasks, so you'll be blocked in the sense that you'll have to rebase or merge if the review finds a problem.

I figure you might as well branch 2 off of main while you wait for the go-ahead to merge 1 into main. Stacked diffs don't seem to meaningfully change this flow.

> In the stacked diff flow, and using those tools, each reviewer only needs to review their half individually. They will not get pinged for changes to the other half. They will be presented with only the diffs that affect the parts that they need to review.

I guess part of it is I have never worked in an environment where the frontend and backend work didn't need to be closely coordinated anyway, so those pings aren't a big deal. Everyone needs to know what's going on, to minimize rework.

> ... does any of that make sense?

I dunno. Maybe my brain isn't compatible, heh.
Some number must be people who only care about winning like Sam. Plus they're getting huge returns.

I get strong "next Mark Zuckerberg" vibes from Sam. Build a zombie product that approaches worthlessness after a few years, but made himself hugely rich in the process, and buys off tech and people as needed to maintain some kind of relevance.
Maybe. In California that has been ruled to not be the case: https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2021/sep/donor-no-stand...

I don't know the laws of Delaware well, but I would be surprised if he has standing even as a donor.
It's the same issue. If writers could meaningfully get an audience who buys their work independently, they wouldn't need a publisher.

Publishers offer support and printing, but ultimately an author needs a publisher to spread reach (i won't say "make money", because authors sure won't make much). Becsuse it's all about being loud and publishers have resources to be loud. Much better odds compared to a grassroots community paying a fair price when the author is ready to release.
This is a great use-case for WebGPU: https://chat.webllm.ai
Anna doesn't have any advertising. Their income is purely driven off donations, most of which are part of subscription packages that offer faster downloads.
They are available over IPFS and you can download their datadump via Torrent
Ask Epic Games. The short answer is that you will not make very much money from your Android app if it isn't in Google's store.
The did say "longest lasting art". It feels more survivor bias to mention the Picasso's of history over the many more wealthy who spent their time in the craft.

It's not fair, but it makes sense. And sure the most well known art is not the best art. But a place like this should know the best tech is rarely the most popular product.
> Another thing Im doing is switching to 100% cotton (or just no plastic fibers). I love the breathability and light feel of cotton shirts.

I've been wanting to do the same; it's kind of amazing how at some point everything started to be made with plastics, even jeans.

If I had the time, space, and equipment, I'd make my own clothes from patterns. Because I have none, I guess I'll be carefully inspecting tags while shopping (and I'm prepared for a lot of frustration). Wish there was more of a cottage industry around homemade clothing!
Just to be clear I'm using it for the same reason as trailing commas.

If I'm inspecting a dataset I use WHERE 1=1 so I can add and remove conditions more easily.

I realise the confusion is in my wording of dynamic - I might amend the README.md to clarify. Thanks for the feedback!
> there's the possibility that if this worked, companies wouldn't need to track users

I don’t buy it. “PPA” don’t allow for targeted ads, so it does not functionally replace tracking. It’s an additional statistical tool made for advertisers and designed by advertisers.

> from this to attributing malice to Mozilla's intention there's a long way

Silently sending (non-aggregated, aggregation happens later) user data to third-party servers is enough to attribute malice.