skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm reading the text of the law correctly [0], this does not go nearly far enough.

(b)(2)(A) seems to say that all an entity needs to do to comply with the law is to add a checkbox associated with some text that links to the EULA for the software, and also says "By checking this box, you acknowledge that you have read the EULA and know that access to the software will be revoked if you no longer hold a right to the software".

Most folks are never going to read the EULA, and no reasonable person would expect that a button that says "BUY" would seal a deal that permits the "seller" to unilaterally revoke the customer's right to the "sold" software.

[0] <https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2426/id/2966792>
> That could be ISPs, Google/Microsoft/etc. or some kind of non-profit.

Or Apple[1,2].

[1] Oblivious DNS over HTTPS, https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc9230.txt

[2] About iCloud Private Relay, https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602
>Regarding his potentially attaining an equity stake, Altman said, “There are no current plans here,” the person said.

>OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor told CNBC in a statement that while the board has talked about the matter, no specific figures are on the table.

>“The board has had discussions about whether it would be beneficial to the company and our mission to have Sam be compensated with equity, but no specific figures have been discussed nor have any decisions been made,” Taylor said.

So, they're definitely talking about it and it's definitely an option. Yes, technically, there might not be a definitive plan, but the intent and want are both there, and at no point has anybody flatly said, "There will be no equity stake".

Given Sam's history, none of what was said by them today means anything at all, and it cannot be trusted. This is just corporate weasel-wording.
Occam's razor is strong here
Does follow-fork-mode in lldb not also defeat this?
I'm not telling anyone they have to or should do this, only to tell them what they can do. You don't need any special software to copy files. If you really, really want to, you can periodically plug your phone in and copy photos off over MTP, to a computer that does have something like SyncThing installed. Is it convenient, or fast, or sleek? No. But you have that option. If you don't like being forced into choices like this you are free to buy a different phone.

Though, I just want to be clear: there really is a concept of local files on iPhone, both iPhoneOS and iPadOS have a file browser which is not just cloud-synced, and there's even an unofficial SyncThing client (though they locked photos syncing behind an IAP, of course.) I don't currently use iPhone as a daily driver but I can grab an iPhoneOS device right now and save an image from any website, no problem. It's the same thing I'd do anywhere else. There is some complexity around photos versus files that's bound to confuse people, but it's really beside the point, nothing is stopping you from saving/copying/backing up files on iOS. Of course, Apple will absolutely not let you get a first-class experience with anything other than iCloud. Third party apps don't get similar capabilities. A lot of time I spent using iPhone was actually spent sitting in apps like Google Photos trying to let them actually get caught up with their syncing because Apple are dickheads. Whatever.

But I'm not going to try to convince someone that it's worth switching to Android, manually syncing files, paying for an IAP, etc. to locally back up their files. In my opinion, the value of agency can only be learned, not taught. If anyone wants help getting some of it back, I'm happy to try to help within the bounds of what they want. If they don't, it's not my place to tell them how to live. (I'm definitely upset at how badly people are being exploited, but that's a job regulators are slacking on. It's not people's job to not be exploited.)

What I'd really like are phones that don't suck, but we're done making those. You get a heavily locked-down glass slab with a huge camera bump, no expansion options, no headphone jack, and glass that breaks when you drop it 3 feet. Frankly, I'm constantly looking for ways to simply ditch the phone entirely at this point.
Thanks for this. I was anticipating some grand conspiracy, but nothing need be so complex. Just swoop in offering a product for a market who is required to buy. Pay yourself above market rates, and if you get lucky, you can maintain the system for years before ruin.
Big discussion on said alternative 25 days ago (490 points, 105 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41420783

.. and 5 months ago (144 points, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40031090
Can you explain what zip filesystem is?
On MacOS, apps like VSCode have to ask permission to read directories if they weren't opened via the OS file picker. So my text editor can not read my Google Drive folder unless I explicitly allow it to.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240926163805/https://www.theat...

https://archive.ph/CmsIZ
not worth it to you
You hang out in unusual parking lots.
Briefy.ai

As a media studies major with lots of readings, I use it to summarize PDFs and quickly reference the source. It’s also great for class—when my prof asks questions, I can ask Briefy for answers, which helps with participation. Briefy will only answer based on the materials input, so it's much better than randomly searching online with Google. Plus, it summarizes YouTube videos directly on the site, which I find super convenient.
The tech community loves shady people and plain doesn't care. Look at where Musk is today. He's been lying and being an idiot for years. It's not like people didn't know about Altman. Yet, he somehow landed these extremely high paying and powerful jobs with literally no resume.
This. I’m stupefied that they would include someone in immunosuppressants in such a study. It’s pointless since requiring them in a “cure” makes it largely worse than the disease (when well controlled).
1. Thats a criteria based on harm, not “free society”.

2. Gambling has massive harms on others. The family of the men who gamble (it’s usually men gambling on sports), including the minor kids who cannot leave the individual and are dependent on them, as well as broader society which now has to pick up the pieces for this individual and the people dependent on him.
> I wonder if that's precisely the sentiment that has been part of the reason the USA has become the country with the highest % of incarcerated people.

No. We don't have hundreds of thousands of billion-size crypto fraudsters. We do have a lot of drug users and small-time drug dealers that are in prison for drug offenses, for example. Or a lot of mentally ill people who are in prison... well, because there's no other place to put them in, really.

I am not here to argue about if US should incarcerate more or less, but certainly having a billion-dollar crypto fraudster sit in prison more than 2 years would hardly make a change in that situation. It's an exceptional crime, and people expect exceptional punishment for it. Either way, it won't make difference for hundreds of thousands of people in jail for unexceptional offenses.
https://archive.ph/RloOu
Linux desktop is not secure at all. Basically anything you install can do anything without limitations. In a few minutes I could whip up a VSCode plugin that sends me your browser session storage and have access to all of your everything.

It's getting a lot better with Flatpak, Wayland, and PipeWire, but the pieces are still being put in place for an actually secure Linux desktop that comes anywhere close to the security of MacOS and iOS.
My mac right now running Sonoma 14.6.1, with no system modifications or MDM:

≻ ps aux | grep -i cups
xxxxx 31407 0.0 0.0 410741456 1600 s000 S+ 3:18pm 0:00.01 grep --color=auto -i cups

cupsd is not running. If I go to print something cupsd will start up, and after a while of idle it'll shut down again.
Supporting the play store is increasingly not worth the trouble. It's already questionable from a revenue standpoint and they're making it an ever more hostile place for all but the biggest corporate developers.
(this was originally posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41657833 but we merged that thread hither)
Um, I don’t know if that’s the same sort of thing, but if it makes you feel better…
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41658733 since that thread has the original source.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think put yourself in the shoes of someone about to be executed innocent of their crime. Then make your argument. It sounds like “some of you die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” otherwise.
I guess what I'm saying is that the politics (I phrased it as ethics, but I think we're talking about the same thing) are far more consequential than people give them credit for, and isolating the mechanics from the ethical framework is why Open Source is losing coherency as a movement—it's a religion with no doctrine, and in the absence of a strong inward-facing ethic it doesn't have enough staying power to hold out in the face of monetary incentives.
macOS has a firewall on by default.
Consistency is overrated. Ban gambling
I don't think it was a strategic move any more than scihub (also originating in Russia) was

Also, IRC channels with many thousands of textbooks have been around for decades (and have nothing to do with Russia)
PowerBI might be the only BI solution with a decent functional language

DAX is supper powerful, if you design your datawarehouse as a proper stat scheme, there is nothing you cannot calculate using DAX

Nothing in the market is even close, most BI tool have magic expression language, DAX is a proper language
The major costs you're missing are marketing and "plate" (up front cost to produce the content). Those make up most of the total costs. For textbooks, the decision makers are professors (so door-to-door sales to get their attention), and the market is pretty small, especially for upper level content (so few units to amortize fixed costs over). Print, paper, and binding are cheap, say ~$10-12 average for a textbook. Typically, distribution channel takes a 20-25%, depending on channel partner, and many colleges mandate that sales go through the school bookstore because they get a cut, so publisher's website isn't necessarily a viable option (without a lot of student marketing). Author royalties run ~13-15% of revenue, and editors hit plate expense (they're publisher employees, so not a variable cost like authors). Textbook publisher Ebitda margins wind up running 20-25%, but most publisher's pay a lot of interest expense, partly because the major costs are up front, and partly because there's been a lot of PE ownership. Net margins can be tight as anyone else's.

Source: worked for a plaintiff publisher in this case. Think Pearson, Cengage, and MHE all publish financials also.
Cool story bro

So what you are saying is that we need to keep guessing at the scam you are running.

Because there is always a scam
Tentacular comment!
Except corporations that will pass on 100 million dollar companies, because it’s not enough to move the needle
I’m reading the sequel to Robert Grave’s classic, I, Claudius. In it, Cæsar Claudius describes the Imperial Senate’s process of proactive prostration.

The Emperor never requests favours. Instead, ambitious Senators must guess his desires and offer them to him, at which point a song and dance is done about his refusing and the Senate insisting and him, reluctantly, accepting the honor.
> For the rest of us,

I am curious: What are your decision criteria?

Academic research papers are systematically flawed, true. But they form a part of the story of finding truth.

What do you use?
This looks absolutely amazing and absurd at the same time.

All IO is synchronous? Writes don't actually write when they say they do? Running 201 queries is as "fine" as running a single one with join?

It seems as they got every bad ideia in the book and somehow made it into something that works (that is, if it actually does).
Don’t google that I’m getting a $5B stock grant vibes
Automatic takeoffs are coming for passenger jets
you want to have a look at 4GL languages[3] (or even 5GL)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...
It Was Supposed to Be a Sting Operation. Did ICE Traffic Drugs Instead?
Original title (15 chars too long): Automatic takeoffs are coming for passenger jets and they’re going to redraw the map of the sky
Basically none. He isn’t known as Scam Altman in the valley for nothing.
Maybe. Day trading is silly.
It's a pity systems like remotestorage.io or Tim Berners-Lee's Solid hasn't gotten serious traction.

Ideally there wouldn't even be Google Drive integration! Ideally we'd just have a mount on our devices that syncs. This is how I use Logseq, for example. It's a little weird and frustrating that mobile phones seem to lack virtual filesystem support (like FUSE), so the sync app in use is just rsyncing to local storage, basically, which is kind of fine, but it means there's no chance to have say my home movies collection available directly from my phone.

This story isn't really one about Android or mobile, but the general beatdown on mobile really squaders what should be the most impressive expansive electronic device to have filled the world.
But wait! OpenAI are the robot overlords!
Discussed at the time:

I’ve tracked every piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25869464 - Jan 2021 (100 comments)
I think the only surprise in this is that he isn’t launching a crypto rug pull.
I know nothing of this topic, but it sure looks neat.

A few features that are great to see are:

- No dynamic heap allocation.

- No dependencies

- C99

Maybe it’s time for me to learn something new.
Love reading this. I spent a few years in the late 90s using Tcl/Tk to build cross-platform installers for Embedded tools/libraries, along with Expect for a bunch of our testing. One of those pragmatic toolsets for getting sh*t done.
still loads as of right now
It’s cronyism.
You don't ban people from consuming sugar, you ban companies from mass-producing food with unhealthy amounts of it. It's about friction and incentives. If you want to buy a bag of sugar and bake a cake that's fine.
> and these conclusions get taken in aggregate to advance various agendas

What do you use to advance your agendas?

I see that you "knew a guy" and apply "common-sense thinking" (that goes against mountains of lived experience, never mind research studies)

I think I have to accuse you of bigotry. Look it up.
hee hee x 8 x n.

(n is the number of octopi, and 8 tentacles per octopus).
BBC famously lost their 9/11 coverage for a decade or so until they managed to find a copy they hadn’t takes over. Their policy is only six month retention.
One of my past employers specifically declined to write up this while trying to sell into a crowded space like SI aims to. In my case I really got the stinkeye for asking about it (how we compare, and do we document that publicly anywhere) during my first few weeks. It definitely left a sour taste for me.
Yes, but repeals of very actively enforced law that's over 100 years old do not happen every day.
There are some forms of gambling that may arguably be a social good. For example, car insurance is a wager by the car insurance company that a driver won't get in a car accident during the coverage period. Commodity speculators may serve as a counterparty for farm insurance derivatives.

I’ve wondered if it could be possible to harness some of these "suboptimal" gambling behaviors into "socially good" gambling but I haven’t quite figured out how to do it. Maybe someone else here can do it.
There has been zero motion towards true AGI so far, hyperintelligent or otherwise.
I take an approach a lot like this - brief straightforward lowercase names e.g.

books/

periodicals/

films/

television/

That's the root directory.

Now for subfolders I keep a numerical scheme e.g.
films/000_action
films/000_docudrama
books/000_science/000_biology

So the 000_ prefix indicates a major class - fits well with a "grep" or to sort by name in a file browser gui both.

Then from that I can add suffixes such as
001_90s_cartoons_megaset
to signify this is a massive multi-terabyte wallop of interest

The upside of this approach is structure. The downside is that if one is building a good characterization of these things you soon realize a tag-based system might be better - the filesystem forces a tree structure. If these were managed by a database/indexing system, then presumably the tags would live there (not the filesystem) and the filesystem could merely be some sort of balanced tree that maximizes performance, filenames may as well be random 64 character IDs. This approach then requires some effort to organize into the tree (much effort over decades) for some structure to "bleed through" to the filesystem. But at this scale to really manage it, it's scripts and automation and indexes all the way.

The other hard part of it is maintenance and adding new data since data tends to grow exponentially. Still manual, could be automated if I was hardcore about it. One can also build search indexes but I personally tend to do every few months a simple "find | gzip -9 > listing.txt.gz" and then grep that for fast search in the future. There are faster ways to do this algorithmically surely, but this is perhaps the fastest way as far as minimizing the amount of time & effort I put in with a good payoff ratio for "just working"
I spend maybe $300 in a year on clothing. I ship at Goodwill and other thrift shops. I cannot imagine spending that much annually just on clothing. Would feel like such a chump.

I will buy new running shoes... And hiking boots if needed but even then I wait until I can get 40%-50% off. My last Keen boots were 55% off. My last Brooks running shoes 40% off.
I would love a real world driving sim. I don’t really care for driving on race tracks, but real roads.
I don't think the police are using this software. I'm pretty sure they have their own official access to governmental (DMV) records.
> How is it possible to make tax free "donations" for profit making applications?

The nonprofit invests the tax free donations into the for-profit. It gets to keep its equity just like any other investor and as long as that equity held by the non-profit, there's no taxable event. If the nonprofit sells its share - since it was closely involved in the creation and management of the for-profit as an active investment - it becomes a taxable event under the unrelated business income tax rules. Until that time, the only "profit making applications" like ChatGPT and the API are run by the for-profit, which - I repeat - pays its taxes.

I genuinely don't understand why people think they've skirted taxation except out of sheer ignorance of how non-profits actually work. A 501(c)(3) is not some magic Monopoly "get-out-of-tax-free" card and the IRS isn't stupid, there's a ton of rules for tax exemption. They'd have a much easier time with tax avoidance if they were an actual for profit corporation with billions of dollars because GAAP rules are a lot more forgiving than non-profit regulations.
What the photographer who’s taken philosopher portraits thinks of philosophers
looks like it's natively supported on Linux, and apparently runs even better running the Windows version under Proton: https://www.protondb.com/app/467290
Honestly really impressive. SQLite is eating the world.
1-800-GOT-JUNK
> poor async communication skills

Without judging whether it's good or bad, I'd say async communication skills are still not the norm. Very few people are good at those. After all, human brain evolved for in-person communication skills. Collaboration over Zoom is so new that we need proper training.

Also add poor async management skills, which also is the norm.
He means after the advent of the phone camera. Practically anything anywhere is available to view on video or image of some kind. Used to be reserved for important planned events.

We now face a kind of reverse problem though where we're drowning in so much content that some interesting things can be missed or lost.
Ask HN: Any hacks or tips to quickly grow product post launch?
We've actively worked on the growth, but we're struggling to gain real traction. I'd love to hear from those who've had success—what are some effective tips for driving growth at this stage?

Here's what we've tried so far:
1. Product Hunt launch: We launched there and got some visibility, but it didn't result in a big increase in users.
2. SEO: We do SEO every day, targeting relevant keywords. While it helps with steady traffic, it hasn't brought the breakthrough we're looking for.
3. Social media: We have accounts across platforms and post consistently, but engagement is still quite low.
4. Collaborations: We've worked with 2 YouTubers in our niche, but neither led to significant user growth or conversions.
5. Affiliate program: We've set one up, but most affiliates seem to want fixed payments. We're unsure how to find creators willing to join on a commission basis.

The product itself is solid and solves a genuine problem. However, we're at a bit of a loss for what to do next. Any advice, unconventional strategies, or even personal experiences that could guide us on how to push forward and attract more users would be greatly appreciated!
Once again, humor/sarcasm does not survive being compressed into text on the internet.
I've seen this done on Windows using CreateProcess, although I believe it wasn't specifically for anti-debugging purposes but instead a process that wanted to reinitialise itself from the beginning.

A far more effective actual anti-debugging technique is to have the parent become the debugger of the child, preventing any other debugger from attaching to it.
Sometimes simply being programmable is enough, you don't need all that much speed.

SeRV at 60 kHz is going to do between 1000 and 2000 instructions per second, depending on the instruction mix.

As something to compare that against, an Apple ][ running AppleSoft BASIC runs `FOR I=0 TO N:T=T+I:NEXT I` at 250 loops per second.

On SeRV that loop is going to be something like ...

loop:
add a1,a1,a2
addi a2,a2,1
bge a0,a2,loop

... which will take 96 clock cycles per iteration, or about 600 loops per second at 60 kHz, so that's 2.4x faster than AppleSoft on an Apple ][. Which many people found fast enough to start a revolution.

Yes, AppleSoft is using floating point numbers, which are slower than integers, but Integer BASIC only runs that same code at about 330 loops per second.

Original IBM Model 5050 PC runs the same loop at 415 loops per second in BASIC (380 for BASICA), if that's your reference ecosystem. Not a big difference. Still slower than SeRV at 60 KHz.
What's upvar? :-)
This is a really dumb answer.
So much evil is done by people who are certain they know what is best for others, and therefore are justified in forcing it on them.
I was going to say Brave but while digging up supporting evidence[1] it turns out they nuked it in August of this year, citing lack of use :sob:

1: https://brave.com/blog/ipfs-support/