skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US it’s next day sometimes, a week other times, and 30 days on the slow boat from China.

I suspect it isn’t next-day in, say, Broome. Last time I was in Hobart even it definitely wasn’t next or two-day shipping, lol.
It did not hit me yet, but I'm already rewriting my extensions to firefox to switch if Chrome really axes uBO
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths
Yes. But just for the Action Cable parts, as in you'd deploy Action Cable standalone with falcon, and then keep Puma or whatever for the purely transactional requests.

If you don't, you'll notice that your Action Cable latency will be all over the place when a transaction request comes in.

It's acceptable for "hobby" use, but if you try to provide a good user experience with reasonable latency, you can't just collocate Action Cable and the rest of Rails in a single process.
Until AI generated imagery has been tested by the legal system it may be a bit too optimistic to call this "Royalty-free, copyright-free gallery of images".

How different from a source image do these AI generated images need to be to be considered "copyright free"?

If I grab a series of photos from shutterstock, run them through a generative AI photo enhance process to improve the white balance, contrast and levels is that adequate enough to be considered "copyright free"?
if I had to take a blind guess: Chinese doesn't have a concept of casesensitivity. It's a logographic language so casesensitivity is almost irrelevant.
I love building with Jazz. It's so refreshing to build apps without thinking about backends.

The number one thing I'm looking forward to is React Native support. Having local data that syncs is essential for many mobile apps, but there are no easy solutions yet. (Besides iCloud, which is limited to iOS/macOS)

With Jazz, I can see a future where building syncing, cross-platform apps becomes effortless.
I guess Ender's Game since it got me into reading again as an adult. I love all Vernor Vinge as well.
This might explain (or be related to) why when I installed an Amazon app through Amazon's store it would get hijacked by the Play Store version eventually.
Is there an easy way to discover whether or not a given business is owned by PE?
US East 1 was the default region until a few years ago. If your account is older than that, then most likely all your stuff is there.
> But a partisan aside about a judicial decision on a case between private parties is off topic

Surely politics has something to do with this decision? These things don't just happen in a vacuum. The judge presiding over this case was appointed by Barack Obama and generally government deregulation is something that Republicans advocate for.
ICBMs are not useful in a conventional conflict.

BTW Russia and the US at least, saw this coming decades ago. Which was the reason behind the intermediate range missile treaty, which was sadly ripped up in the early 2000s.
https://opencw.aprende.org/high-school/humanities-and-social...
Barring that, every human could end sentences with a couple racial slurs to verify that they are not on AI
England annexed Wales and Ireland and would have annexed Scotland if it didn't use marriage instead.
...and as an App to collect & contribute data, check out NeoStumbler:
https://f-droid.org/packages/xyz.malkki.neostumbler.fdroid/
This specifically is trivially defeated by ECC, though it wouldn't be that much harder to instead flip 3 bits and ECC would be unable to help. ECC has very poor penetration outside the server world though, so we're still safe. For now.
I definitely can’t tell, even knowing that these are from AI.

GeoGuessr-like sites are going to get trolled hard with AI photos of nonexistent locations.
> However, Apple still collected a 30% fee, just manually. It wasn't an integrated system, but you had to sign a legal agreement for the kickback.

Source on this prior to 2011? I don't believe it is true but I might be mistaken.
I always find this development curious. About a decade ago I worked in this space. When someone brought up ad blockers I just said "put the analytics on our main domain. No one is going to block the entire website". The answer I got was "no one would ever do that because of the implications of serving advertising from your main domain". Yet, here we are.
I had a Blackberry Z10 after the N9. Even though they were very different in their goals, it felt very much like a spiritual successor. BB OS10 dying as soon as it did really hits me to this date.
I don't believe you at all. I think you're either a liar or a lying to yourself.

https://www.gounfaked.com/

I think it's possible you may think you would be able to differentiate AI generated photos and real photos. But if you looked at that site and told me the SAME thing, then I would know that you actually are lying to me.
cityscapes and urban photography - only a handful of examples given but those images still got a ways to go
This is great; for your next trick, can you please figure out how to install MacOS on an iPad so that we can all finally get the dang computer we want Apple to build?
They usually require headphones plugged into 3.5mm jack...
Because they don't know and don't want to know anything else. Not a single polyglot developer I personally know have ever chosen JS for server side, not once.
The best book I've ever read has been The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1 thru 7.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html

History, Philosophy, Mathematics, and more!
MelissaData has quite a hefty API set up and minimum commit - how did you get them to give you API access to the direct mail leadgen API?
In baseball and other sports, pros and cons of different styles are readily and honestly talked about, even when coaches have a bias. See e.g. https://blog.paddlepalace.com/2014/01/coaching-tip-playing-t... for table tennis. Few comparable articles in programming exist; either people can't conceive of other styles or contexts, or just want to talk about the superiority of their bias regardless of context. If downsides are mentioned at all it's often not about the preferred thing, but some deficiency of something else.

A commonly made up deficiency attributed to Lisp is that it's particularly bad at large scale, either in teams or program size. That would surely be surprising news to the teams doing stuff today or in the past, some responsible for multi-million lines of code systems (some still in operation). Or to use an old example, the documentation for Symbolics Computers, pictured here in book form: https://www.thejach.com/public/symbolics-books-EugyAAEXUAUG_... Such a set of books doesn't come from a "lone wolves only" ecosystem and heritage. Not to mention doc and so on not shown for applications they made for 3D graphics or document editing (https://youtube.com/watch?v=ud0HhzAK30w)
I see where it says Google isn't allowed to do this kind of thing. I hope they were forward thinking enough to ban exclusivity deals across the board, or this is going to turn into a total goat rodeo.

The EU has a lot of well-meaning laws, but create quite the mess of unintended consequences.
The page mostly talks about image resampling where the goal is more or less preserving all frequencies, but it's also extremely effective at implementing Gaussian blur. Basically, you do n iterations of sampling by 1/2 using this kernel, followed by a very small FIR filter, then n iterations of upsampling 2x using the same kernel. Here, n is essentially log2 of the blur radius, and the total amount of computation is essentially invariant to that radius. All these computations are efficient on GPU - in particular, the upsampling can be done using vanilla bilinear texture sampling (which is very cheap), just being slightly clever about the fractional coordinates.

It works well because, as stated, the kernel does a good job rejecting frequencies prone to aliasing. So, in particular, you don't get any real quality loss from doing 2x scale changes as opposed to bigger steps (and thus considerably larger FIR support).

I have some Python notebooks with some of these results, haven't gotten around to publishing them yet.
I read it at 12, got nothing out of it. Read at 16, thought it was the best book in the world. Read it at 22, got nothing out of it.
> But nowadays they are just as mainstream industrial as their competitors

Shame their control panel is massively behind their competitors, it's the worst cloud control panel I've had the experience of using, even worse than Azure and Google.

It's slow slow slow slow slow and horribly buggy, did I mention it's slow?
Fair, but it's still an impressive feat in its own right.

Crash dodging comes with its own challenges, explained more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3f4T0WaDVM

There are some player actions that can avoid or reduce the risk of crash, including:

- Pushing down <7 points
- Pushing down 7+ points (note: very difficult at lvl 29+ speeds)
- Turning off the next box while a line is being cleared
- Avoiding specific line clear types on specific levels

However, on some levels, these actions will crash the game instead.

Crash probabilities are summarized here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zAQIo_mnkk0c9e4-hpeD...
as is Greenland
You missed the point, I’m afraid. What’s neither normal nor good is writing someone off as an idiot because their taste in books differs from yours.
Stop, drop, shut 'em down, open up ports

Oh, no, that's how Ruff Ryders roll
Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom
The in-laws have decided shelter and family bonding at a Disney World hotel with the once in a lifetime experience of Hurricane Milton is better than turning around early and going home. What do you think? What exactly goes on at that park when it's closed?
True.

Fortunately, I do not have milk digestion problems, so I can use whey protein concentrate, from which (by mixing with a vegetable oil) I make something that has the aspect and taste of melted cheese, which I use instead of real cheese.

While whey protein concentrate has a little lactose, it has much less lactose than almost all other dairy products.

Where I live, in Europe, whey protein concentrate is $0.575 per 25 g of pure protein, including taxes (i.e. VAT) and shipping, so it is a little cheaper than the cheapest protein source on this list.

While this list includes enough items with a reasonable price, any of those with a price over $1 per 25 g of pure protein is likely to be an attempt to exploit naive buyers of fitness-related products, by including excessive profit margins.
I think the algorithms make the difference here. You can't really make a cereal box stand out on a physical shelf in any unique way (or you can, but it'll be a cost expense. Ruining the point of undercutting). IME with online storefronts for traditional brick and mortar their own brands never seem to come on top.

Meanwhle I will almost always get an AmazonBasics if it exists as a first result.
Python 3.13 has free-threaded mode support (--disable-gil)
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#whatsnew313-fre...
Ask Permission, Not Forgiveness (2023)
In the 1960s
A bunch of the people images are very clearly AI though. I’d wager about 30-50% of them could be recognised as generated by people with a bit of understanding of how these models work.
I think you're looking for Home Assistant:

https://www.home-assistant.io/
NHC Is Unavailable
The National Hurricane Center website has been returning "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" for a while now.
> Stop requiring Google Play Billing for apps distributed on the Google Play Store (the jury found that Google had illegally tied its payment system to its app store)

Woot! I'll be able to buy books in the Kindle app again.
how dare they use their algorithms to make sure all their cost effective versions will show up first.

That's probably the more pressing issue.
Regarding Hotwire Native: I tried Strada a few months ago, but I never got it to work. Hotwire Native was running within 10 minutes on each platform. The docs are miles ahead of the Strada docs imo.
E-ink maybe isn't it, anyway. A few years ago I built an e-ink clock/gimmick that refreshed every few seconds with some different text on a given part of the screen, and within 1.5 years the sides unto about 2cm in - but not the parts being constantly refreshed! - had more stuck/weak pixels than not. A halo of rot. 50 years is a long time, much longer than 1.5.
This phenomenon is also heavily starting to affect NSFW images too. It is awful.
In almost every industry this is the case. Perhaps with the exception of some government contractors.

Even with projects that went to extreme cost to maintain secrecy ultimately failed to do so, IE the Manhattan project.

Most tech companies (and non-tech companies) take a fairly pragmatic approach. Generally trust your employees but configure systems with an audit trail so you can hold them accountable later for malicious actions. If accidental, there's not much you can do anyway so just buy insurance.
Die, I presume.
It adds a non trivial amount of time for each file access.
To some extent it's an illusion of openness and availability.

Want to actually call it an 'Android' device and/or avoid an ugly warning message to your users? [0] Gotta agree to a bunch of Google's terms including preference for their mobile app suite over others. But hey if you want some extra revenue from search you can just agree to not offer a 3rd party app store [1]. Oh also anyone in OHA (most major phone OEMs) can't make a product with a fork without getting into hot water...

To be clear I hate them both and miss the future that could have been with Maemo. As it stands however Apple is just being consistent and having full ownership, whereas Google is arguably strong-arming other manufacturers in a way that limits consumer choice, even if it is a bit more open.

[0] - AARD Code, anyone?

[1] - Smells of MSFT/Intel Bundling/exclusivity Rebates that resulted in various levels of antitrust action/settlements
Is chrome going to block uBO im never up to date on the latest. I do know theyre allowing 3rd party cookies now... so maybe theres a chance
There's no F-Droid in Play Store
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So did Microsoft ever fix this?

Hostile code scanners need to look at a lot, but they don't need permission to write much. If sandboxed that way, attacks aimed at the code scanner don't do much.
I wonder if this is related to the NHC outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771629
This is the kind of thing I'm interested in discussing but then stop myself because I'd rather not give anybody any ideas.
You're conflating the totally sound business decision not to use AI (as it currently exists, in its current legal limbo) in production, with an emotion-driven appeal to normalcy (which itself you have conflated with justice).

Support, boycott, war: these are words when your intent is to not associate with someone at all, not just in a business sense. You're trying to present your argument as soft and hard at the same time, and I'm saying that it's completely disingenuous if you don't choose one or the other: either this is an existential crisis that deserves radical action, or it's not and therefore not worth ruining relationships or unintentionally presenting yourself as hysterical or a less-than-rational bully. I'm asking you to choose for your sake, and for the sake of the argument you end up actually wanting to stand behind.
There was a time when "Black" was considered offensive and "African-American" was the generally-approved nomenclature. You seem to be implying that the "-American" pattern emerged as some sort of white conspiracy to paint everyone else as less American, but my understanding is that the opposite is true. Language and social preferences evolve over time, and that one has simply come and gone as the "correct" option of the day.

As a generally "white" person (of roughly western European descent), I will happily use any set of labels that keeps people from glaring at me. I feel pretty strongly that unpleasant language is a symptom of prejudice, not a cause. If changing words could change hearts and minds, I think we would have seen it happen by now.
I am surprised that ever worked. I was confident Win10 did verification that system files were in place and matched a hash or some other integrity mechanism.
That’s because people don’t actually give a rats ass about competition directly. They care about _cost_ AND _convenience_. Steam is great on both fronts and you don’t have to create yet another account or have another buggy pos launcher on your computer.
PE are vultures: vultures feed on dead animals, not healthy ones. You don't sell off a successful, thriving business to be gutted and restructured because you're going to make much more money keeping it going the same way.

"Private equity backed companies are 10 times more likely to go bankrupt than public companies." - is this because they're running successful companies into the ground or because the kind of companies that get eaten up by PE are the ones that are failing anyway?
You can start with Windows XP

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/22/24200536/windows-xp-ipad-...
Do it without the precisely connected wire, and then you can say "only a cigarette lighter" as mentioned in the title, otherwise it's click-bait
I see about a 100x slowdown on some applications[0] and IO heavy operations with defender in win11. It's unbelieveable how slow it is. I was a huge proponent of it in Win10, but I'm finding it hard to do so now.

[0] The software I'm using does a scan over a few hundred thousand files to read file headers. Without windows defender it takes about 30 seconds, but with defender it takes about 300.
Adaptive Pricing
You can buy an emergency AM radio, fully integrated with a lithium battery, a hand crank, a tiny solar panel, a flashlight. It can also charge your phone.
As an example of what CNAME cloaking is, let's say that a SAAS provider A wants to provide you, company Q, with fancy ad tracking software. In the olden days, they'd tell you to embed a script at e.g. https://A-ads-tracking.example into your website at address https://q-company.example

To block those ads, blocklists that uBlock Origin use have rules then that say "block requests being made to the domain name A-ads-tracking.example", which blocks the ads.

CNAME cloaking is where SAAS provider A sets up their ad-tracking services not on domain A-ads-tracking.example, but instead at a specific IP address of e.g. 29.1.2.3; then (and here's the important part) SAAS A tells you Company Q that you need to set up a subdomain of q-company.example which has a CNAME record pointing to 23.1.2.3, a subdomain with an innocuous name like media.q-company.example; once you've set up that CNAME, you at Company Q add a script tag to your website for `media.q-company.example` and now SAAS A is able to track all the users on your site. This indirection allows for effectively infinite cat-and-mouse on the part of you the owner of the Q Company vs the blocklists that the public assemble.

To get around this CNAME cloaking problem, the software powering extensions like uBlock Origin need to be able to see not only the destination domain of requests by browsers, but the underlying IP addresses of those domains as well. This commit makes that behavior possible, or at least is related to making that code work better.
>If I grab a series of photos from shutterstock, run them through a generative AI photo enhance process to improve the white balance, contrast and levels is that adequate enough to be considered "copyright free"?

Hard to say. If I had the generative AI copy the photo but change the time of day and angle then would it be copying?

What if I went to the same location and changed the angle and the time of day? Would that be copying?

AI is essentially "drawing" the same photo from a different time and angle. What if I did the same thing photorealistic-ally by hand in photoshop? Would I be copying if I painted the picture in the same way the AI did it??

I want you to consider what I'm doing here with my reply. I am admitting to a crime right now. What I have done with this reply is literally rip off different vocabulary words and certain short phrases from books all over the world and mixed up those words and phrases to produce the reply here. I am ADMITTING to copying those books.

You going to accuse me of a crime even if I admitted to it? No. But if I did the same thing with AI.... you going to accuse me then?
And what happens at the end of the 3 years? If apps are pulled, are people who downloaded the apps through those alt-stores going to lose access to updates, causing security issues or a support nightmare when the users don't see new features?

We'll see Android users needing to have multiple app stores just to get all the apps they want/need, along with the updates. From a user experience point of view, that sounds worse, even if the competition is meant to make things better.
I bought it used. Why does that discount my statement?
Next up in the TODO list:

Force Google to open source Google Play Services and allow users to choose which which publisher's version of it they want to use.

That thing has become a huge proprietary spyware blob and without it the device is nearly useless. It's nearly obligatory for developers to code against it.
Wow, that stirred up some nostalgia. I loved this game. All the Jane's ones too.
Hackintosh currently has no way of running ARM-based macOS, so it is of no help here.
Very excited to see this. I think this is currently the most promising of the fully-decentralized local-first systems I've seen.
Participating in an Extinction Rebellion blockade would fall in both categories.
Your analysis assumes collateral damage is irrelevant.
Oh, the thugshaker incident. Now I remember.
Look at the bright side: "do a barrel roll" is still a fully-supported Easter egg.
yep, the headphone cable acts as the antenna!
at least an ai://baby-peacocks/images would be honest
It's not misleading at all, that is exactly what a USPS postcard stamp costs.

It's not fair to compare this to EDDM. The whole point of my site is so you dont have to mail to "every single door".

For example, I have 2 landscapers using my service and they target based on home value because they know most of their clients live in houses > $xxx. They also exclude renters because nearly all of their clients are homeowners. If they were using EDDM they might pay a bit less per postcard, but they would be sending to houses that will never signup for their service, so the actual CPA is higher

You mention "printing adds a bit of cost" but if you look around you will see that it adds quite a bit of cost. It depends on how many pieces you are sending but it could be .25 cents or .40 cents for 500-1000, or more -- but you have to send to an entire route, where you can send to a single house with my service.

Also, with EDDM you either have to batch your mailings per route, and deliver them to specific locations for USPS distribution, or pay extra for a print house to do that for you
Texas, where new nuclear has been dead in the water for years.

> “The cost of new nuclear is prohibitive for us to be investing in,” says Crane. Exelon considered building two new reactors in Texas in 2005, he says, when gas prices were $8/MMBtu and were projected to rise to $13/MMBtu. At that price, the project would have been viable with a CO2 tax of $25 per ton. “We’re sitting here trading 2019 gas at $2.90 per MMBtu,” he says; for new nuclear power to be competitive at that price, a CO2 tax “would be $300–$400.” Exelon currently is placing its bets instead on advances in energy storage and carbon sequestration technologies.

(passage from Dec. 2018 Physics Today; Texas natural gas is even cheaper than that now)