skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they have apple pay that integrates your cards into their system

A feature which they've loudly and publicly said many many times they can't use for tracking your purchases, as they anonymize the data before it gets to them.

Apple has a long history of not using user-generated data for their own use, sometimes to their own detriment.
So we're talking about the indirect income from advertising.

The article is poorly worded -- yes, advertisers spend a lot of money, but were those advertisers to disappear, other advertisers would buy those spots. So the question becomes, to what degree does the induced demand raise the marginal profit for advertising spots. And how that in turn affects how much networks are willing to pay the NFL for licensing, and that in turn affects how much the teams get in kickbacks from the NFL. So likely marginal at best.

The flipside is also how much viewership increases because of sports gamblers watching that would otherwise not watch. Also difficult to confidently assert the value of.
I have never felt "pure pleasure" during a run. At my absolute peak I've finished marathons and said, "Yeah, I don't hurt much, and I wouldn't mind running some more."

I've never felt a "commitment to winning at all costs". I'm as much in awe of the winners of marathons as anybody sitting on a couch. They are literally running a completely different race from me. I never even see them.

I run marathons because I think the training is good for my body and my brain. The actual race is just a way to set a goal. I'd actually be healthier if I ran half-marathons instead, but having a very longstanding habit of running marathons. I have an irrational fear that I'll miss some signal of decline.

Eventually I'll get over that fear. But not this year.
Roadmap to Enhance Internet Routing Security [pdf]
PostgreSQL 17 Gets Incremental Backup, SQL Queries for JSON
Ok, I wont.
Cummins, Bosch, and KPIT partner to launch Open Telematics software
I was unable to find a "letter" from Missouri Governor Michael Parson about this case, but there is a press release from the Office of the Governor (url copied below). Here are some of the highlights of the Governor's statement to the press:

The Governor's Office offers the following summary of the crime: "Marcellus Williams murdered Felicia Gayle on August 11, 1998. He burglarized Ms. Gayle’s home, ambushed her as she left the shower, stabbed her 43 times and left the knife lodged in her neck."

Because of the bloody and brutal nature of the crime, the police were able to recover DNA evidence at the crime scene. However, as the Innocence Project observed, the DNA evidence that was left behind by the killer does not match Marcellus Williams. The perpetrator left a knife in the victim's neck, but the DNA recovered from the knife - which could have conclusively determined who killed the victim - was contaminated and destroyed by the state, as noted by the Innocence Project.

Yet, the governor's press release completely ignores these facts, and then proceeds to deliver an astonishing statement: "I also want to add how deeply disturbed we’ve been about how this case has been covered. Mr. Williams’ attorneys chose to muddy the waters about DNA evidence, claims of which Courts have repeatedly rejected. Yet, some media outlets and activist groups have continued such claims without so much of a mention of the judicial proceedings or an unbiased analysis of the facts."

DNA is proven science, and a true "unbiased analysis of the facts" would presumably include the critical details that (1) none of the DNA evidence recovered from the crime scene matched Williams, and (2) the murder weapon was mishandled by state investigators, thereby destroying potentially exculpatory evidence that could have exonerated Williams.

The other evidence cited by the Governor's Office is all circumstantial. Contrary to the Governor's assertions, the witnesses who testified against Williams were in fact incentivized with reward money, and they did not offer details of the crime that were unknown to the public through media reports.

In summary, there is no direct evidence connecting Marcellus Williams to the crime scene. The real murderer in this case is Missouri Governor Mike Parson.

https://governor.mo.gov/press-releases/archive/state-carry-o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Felicia_Gayle
Yes but I've read the reports in the Annals of Oceanography and the sub-director General of Fishing Affairs said it is happening and the only reason they haven't been able to pursue it is that the dolphins keep vetoing any real measures at every yearly convention. It's a bit of a fishy subject.
"Waterfall" is pretty well conceived, to be fair. It only gets a bad rap because people stop reading after the first paragraph.

The following paragraphs, what everyone misses, essentially say "but that is not enough, you also need..."
Talk recordings for fwd:cloudsec Europe are now available
Golang's toolchain.

Compiling, building, embedding assets, strongest stdlib under the sun, golang.org/x, standard codestyle and formatting, standard unit tests, standard benchmarks and CI/CD.

Best toolchain I've ever used, beats all other programming language ecosystems in my opinion.
Apple is always pushing customers to buy more Apple hardware, it's not even subtle anymore.

Need to register an already bought Mac to your MDM? Have to buy an iPhone to install Apple Configurator for that.

Need to register an already bought iPhone/iPad to your MDM? Have to buy a Mac to install Apple Configurator for that.
can you make a profit before and apologise after without any cost?
You actually don't even need to sell them. Just sign an exclusive, non-revocable license agreement.

Practically the same as selling, but technically not. Non-profit still gets to live up to it's original mission, on paper, but doesn't really do anything internally.
merge-commits or patch-series are already making it vastly more difficult for git-bisect than linear history with single self-contained commits. I used both and git-bisect on merge-commits is a nightmare.
Groundbreaking Study: Anti-Trans State Laws Increased Suicide Attempts by 72%
These are all examples of people who were not even remotely looking at the sums of money involved in AGI, both in terms of investment required and reward. I used “trillions” rather than “billions” for a reason. Inflation adjust it all you want, none of these passed up 1/10th of this opportunity.
I suspect that would not be good eat'n. Female ocotopuses that have laid their eggs start to fall apart - you can see the skin peeling off of them. The females stay with the eggs until about when they're ready to hatch and then they just sort of go to pieces. The males, I suspect, suffer a similar fate after they've mated.
It's not just Google, literally every new service always does this. Prices will always go up once the have enough customers and bean counters start pointing at spreadsheets. Ergo, local is the only option if you don't want to be held for ransom afterwards. As goes for web servers, scraper bots, and whatever, so goes for llms.
In fairness he did pretty well for everyone at Reddit seems.
While the research of this guy is certainly impressing, the shtick never failed to repulse me.

It just seems so forced and over the top, and for me personally incredibly annoying.

I get it that it is a love it or hate it kind of thing, so I would be curious to hear about the opinions on people from the other side ?
We use infisical to manage 100s of secrets in our various environments. Honestly don’t know how we coped before it.. Makes it very easy especially for a team where devs jump between projects. It has a few areas which can get frustrating and they had a few bugs some time ago.. but it has been a excellent improvement in our workflow for day to day dev and deployment.
Database migrations to arrive at a target state are an interesting beast. It’s not just the destination that matters, it’s how you get there.

The naive approach of applying whatever DDL you need to turn database schema A into B is not necessarily the one anybody would actually want to run, and in larger deployments it’s most definitely not the one you’d want to run.

Intermediate availability and data migration go well beyond simply adding tables or columns. They’re highly application specific.

The main improvements in this space are making existing operations CONCURRENT (e.g., like index creation) and minimizing overall lock times for operations that cannot (e.g., adding columns with default values).
Can you list some sources or quotes? I'm not familiar with the parts you're referencing, it seems like you're putting a lot of words in his mouth.
Doomsday '9.9 RCE bug' might hit every Linux system
Are you somewhere not-America? Day trading has zero requirements here.
LAPD has a long track record of baseline incompetence. training will not fix what is wrong here.
"Do you actually think there are meaningful numbers of people who have believed that WPEngine is actually wordpress itself?"

Yes.

"Wordpress.com leads to much more confusion on a regular basis."

Wordpress.com has a license to use the Wordpress trademark. I don't believe we should be comparing Wordpress.com to WP Engine here.
God is not physically real. Neither are numbers. Both come from thinking minds.

God is an egregore. It may be useful to model the various religions as singular entities under this lens, not true in the strictest sense, but useful none the less.

God, Santa, and (our {human} version of) Math: all exist in 'mental space', they are models of the world (one is a significantly more accurate model, obviously).

Atheist here: God didn't create humans, humans created an egregorical construction we call God, and we should kill the egregores we have let loose into the minds of humans.
so keto cures cancer, not butter specifically
"Concurrency != parallelism" is an important distinction in this context. The base C++ coroutines feature is not about threads or parallel processing, but rather is a generalization of the concept of "subroutine" with respect to control flow and stack usage. An example using coroutines to service many tasks (if not otherwise involving threading features) is not much different (at the level of what the CPU sees) from a single threaded implementation using a loop or continuation passing to process concurrent tasks. Performance should be identical between both the language-supported coroutines code and the manually implemented single threaded loop if the work is batched the same.
Show HN: 1Minute Break – VS Code extension for developer well-being
As a developer, I often found myself working for hours without breaks, leading to eye strain and back pain. I created 1Minute Break to solve this problem for myself and others.

that reminds developers to take short, regular breaks. Features include:

- Customizable break intervals
- Interactive break reminders with suggested activities
- Water intake tracking
- Ergonomic exercise prompts

It's designed to improve productivity and health without disrupting workflow.
Feedback welcome!
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=1minute-...
I have to disagree. We work with Google services and Amazon - we use Google for our cloud services. They are league above amazon in every single way.

The only thing amazon has managed to ever get right is Routing (Route 53), Gateways, and pure AWS only stuff (like containers).

Once you try to incorporate any of their other services (Ads, Seller Central, Vendors, etc.) you see how bad it is.

Nothing works - yet you are still required to use AWS credentials for one purpose (IAM).

LWA is a separate thing from IAM - Oauth should be easy - everyone has figured it out, but Amazon's is so terrible, its not even funny.

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I challenge you to try setting up the SP-API one day. You will see the pain.
> How much of this is simply a lack of healthcare availability in rural areas

Speaking as someone who lives in a rural area - this ain't it. The lifestyle choices are the biggest problem. Availability is just addressing the problem at the end of the problem.
From the standpoint of today, the deal is so lopsided to Microsoft as to be comical. They basically gave away their prized IP with the assumption they would have more capability leaps (hasn't really happened), and now the brains behind the original breakthroughs are all leaving/left. Microsoft is probably cannibalizing their enterprise sales with Azure. They are clearly middling at shipping actual products. People are acting like it's crazy to see executives leaving - IMO it's the perfect time right now. o1 is clearly wringing the last drops out of the transformer architecture and there is nothing up next.
I wish they would at least rename the company to "ClosedAI" because that's exactly what it is at this point.
Elon Musk sued over this:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1235159084/elon-musk-openai-s...
Why India Doesn't Have a National Language
On what planet would Elon not get a piece of this new for-profit company?
If there is a secure/verified way to take the bet I will gladly put some money up! So if Apple sells an eyeglass-like form factor AR product, then I win right? I guess we need a deadline? 2040?
Many of the futuristic items I read on manga(especially Doraemon) back in the day I was a child became a reality.
Some of the details are horrific, this entire article is worth reading:

> “One contestant had a seizure; they just left him there,” said Hannah, describing one of the seizure incidents. Medical attention wasn’t brought to them until nearly an hour later, she said.

Holy cow. This feels sort of like fyre festival, but it's hard to tell precisely what is going on here. This team has run big productions before, supposedly?
Not sure I get this. But I think it does matter since you understand why people do it to begin with. I worked on two enterprise solutions over the last couple of years that have this exact problem. That people are using WHERE 1=1 and then add random "AND something=something" that completely trashes the performance of the db. Also, it does not matter as much on-prem. But in cloud envs it does. Since you can't really spike CPU and mem the same way as on-prem.

The reason I pointed out this specific issue is just that I thought it was the worsed of many poor tips. ChatGPT can give better tips.
People need stable long-term housing, which is a need that free-market economics can’t really fulfill. It is not humane to have to worry about your rent becoming unaffordable year after year.
You don't need to sell/give the assets away to allow the for-profit to use them.

You sign an exclusive, non-revocable licensing agreement. Ownership of the original IP remains 100% with the original startup.

Now, this only works if the non-profit's board is on-board.
I think you're anthropomorphizing humans too much. Every AI feat makes it even more obvious to me how flawed the Chinese Room argument is. We just need to get past the realization "oh wow, I'm a machine too".

Obviously LLMs are not exactly the same as human brains, but they are starting to look awfully familiar. And not all human brains are the same! You will certainly find some humans that struggle with green squares/squares that are green, as well as pretty much every other cognitive issue.
You should try eating young children, life is too short to not eat good food. That's what that sounds like to someone that opts not to eat something on the basis of its intelligence
It will hopefully be in PostgreSQL 18.
Most of us laughed out loud this time too, for this very same reason. But it is fun to watch the rest of y'all learn :)
I agree wholeheartedly (and I'm not surprised that you of all people often write raw futures!). I want to push back on the "async rust bad/failure/not ready" meme because

- it's perfectly possible to be a successful user of the async ecosystem as it is now while building great software;

- this two-tiered phenomenon is not unique to Rust, JS and Python struggle with it just as much (if not more due to less refined and messier design). As an example, [1] is elegant, but complex, and I'm less sure it's correct compared to a gnarly async Rust future, because the underlying async semantics are in flux.

Of course I'd love for the remaining snags (like AFIT) to go away, and simplified Pin story or better APIs would be great, but this negativity around async Rust is just wrong. It's a massive success already and should be celebrated.

[1]: https://github.com/florimondmanca/aiometer/blob/master/src/a...
Giving away much of one’s wealth is very different than choosing not to accumulate it in the first place.

It’s hard to find someone who has gotten to a position where they might have a reasonable shot at becoming the world’s wealthiest person who doesn’t think they’d be a great steward of the wealth. It makes much more sense for a titan of industry to make as much as they can and then give much away than it does to simply not make it.
I haven't read the article, nor do I know anything about Bluesky, but let me guess: the social media echo chamber in question is a conservative echo chamber.

EDIT: I was wrong! It is mostly comprised of progressive refugees from X.
Ok I see. Allowing the real world through would still make you turn your head to see content placed around you though.
It’s interesting though that the hardware and software is all there, but something prevents accessing it- autistic savants ala ‘rainman’ can do instantaneous math at computer-like speed. There are humans who have near total recall. I think if we can understand why/how they can access this layer, so that it can become a generalized human attribute, without the autistic downsides, it’d be more revolutionary than LLMs.
Also, to someone who doesn’t understand how a crane works, it’s use and function are somewhat apparent by looking at the machine.

A computer doesn’t look like it does any particular thing. If it can do surprising thing A, what about surprising thing B? C?
> P.S.: For example, imagine having applications for jobs and loans rejected because all the companies' internal LLM tooling is secretly racist against subtle grammar-traces in your writing or social-media profile. [0]

We don't have to imagine such things, really, as that's extremely common with humans. I would argue that fixing such flaws in LLMs is a lot easier than fixing it in humans.
Never build for the future
https://archive.ph/oFnou
> At some point it was done and I got my discounted theme park tickets or whatever.

My aunt used to do this. Fit the profile of a mark - retired school employee from the northeast visiting Florida. She'd go on the hotel retreat or get a nice meal in return for listening to their pitch. Never budged on the high-pressure sales tactics.
Not my argument. You are fighting Umberto Eco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco ) here.

Let me repeat him as you probably didnt catch it (I dont understand how, but this is one of the things, I dont understand, so I wont argue about it):

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”

I can just confirm that what he has seen and described is correct. And the more that you are standing your ground, the more you are proving, he was correct.
> Sometimes I think about where I would be in life if I had no moral or ethical qualms. I'd probably be running a company like this.

I invented smaller variants of deliveroo, airbnb and uber in my mind, around 2008, but I thought no, the only way to make any money would be to exploit people and break laws. honestly, what held me back was more the hassle of lawyers to make it all work. I didn't think I could stomach the effort.
Validate your startup idea in seconds using AI
I made an app where you can input your startup idea and trained AI agents are going to make the full analysis that you are going to need to make a decision, so you don't waste any time doing so. After a few seconds you will get the full analysis which will also be downloadable in a pdf format.
Well, I am already pretty firmly against buying any car that requires you to create an account online to "activate" the vehicle. But I definitely won't buy another Kia anyway, based on the fact that our last one burned a quart of oil every thousand miles WELL before it hit the 100k mark.
His interview style is kind of like Sean Evans from Hot Ones crossed with the manic energy of Richard Simmons. It's mentioned in this article, but he tries to ask the questions that nobody else is asking, which can make for great interviews.

But, yeah, his schtick can be incredibly annoying. Part of the fun is watching the interview subject react to it.
A number of features stood out to me in this release:

1. Chipping away more at vacuum. Fundamentally Postgres doesn't have undo log and therefore has to have vacuum. It's a trade-off of fast recovery vs well.. having to vacuum. The unfortunate part about vacuum is that it adds load to the system exactly when the system needs all the resources. I hope one day people stop knowing that vacuum exists, we are one step closer, but not there.

2. Performance gets better and not worse. Mark Callaghan blogs about MySQL and Postgres performance changes over time and MySQL keep regressing performance while Postgres keeps improving.

https://x.com/MarkCallaghanDB
https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/

3. JSON. Postgres keep improving QOL for the interop with JS and TS.

4. Logical replication is becoming a super robust way of moving data in and out. This is very useful when you move data from one instance to another especially if version numbers don't match. Recently we have been using it to move at the speed of 1Gb/s

5. Optimizer. The better the optimizer the less you think about the optimizer. According to the research community SQL Server has the best optimizer. It's very encouraging that every release PG Optimizer gets better.
Ask HN: Payment Processor for Adult SaaS
I launched a demo for a product and got enough interest to make a living off of it.

The product is a choose-your-own-adventure audiobook erotica, for (primarily) women.

The issue I'm having is that most payment providers and Merchants of Record aren't comfortable with these types of businesses.

I'm considering incorporating in my home country, UK, but I'm open to any jurisdiction provided I can find a payment processor that plays nice.

Does anyone have any advice to point me in the right direction?

Cheers!
Red main branch is not what I am talking about at all. I am referring to the code being developed in a feature/bug-fix branch that is yet to be merged with main branch. OP believes that even in the development branch you should not fix your WIP code by adding "Fix linting issues". I thought that was implied by the nature of discussion since rewriting history of the code that resides already on the main branch would be beyond my understanding.
>The word "private" only shows up exactly once on that page, in the title.

However, the word "privacy" shows up 10 times in the article.
There is a recent podcast episode with the tool's author
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tools-for-soft...

It's worth listening to learn abouut the context on how that tool is used.
In the US, parking and private parking lots are easily one of the scammiest businesses.