skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You completely ignored the substantive part of my post, so I'll restate without distractions.

I ignored those parts because you're moving the goalposts way past my original comment[1], which only objected to the claim that people were somehow coerced into having their location sold because the apps doing the tracking were providing "basic necessities". Is the fact you're using an iPhone, are visiting from an IP address that suggests you're in Kansas and using Verizon an "information leak"? I guess, by some definition. Is that anywhere close to getting your location tracked? Hardly.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42117527
Step one should be having an edtech ecosystem that doesn't allow students to use the web. There are just too many distractions online. I think noone has really invested the kind of capital required to do a good job with this. Most of the software my kids have to use for school is pretty bad.
There needs to be a word for when someone does something bad in their own interest, and as a result the wider society degrades far more than the individual profited. Corrupt anti-corruption officials, yes, but also college professors issuing passing grades to customers, er I mean students, news networks that give in to the urge for sensationalism and ideologically driven attention, lawyers who escalate conflict for profit, and so on. The individual act is (relatively) harmless, but over time if left unchecked these acts degrade institutions and eventually society itself (or confidence in society, which is the same thing). These actions cause a society to move from the good nash equilibrium to the other. A healthy society can endure a certain amount of malefactors, has an immune system for them ranging from "stink eye" to "prison", but when the violations gets higher than a certain threshold, across a certain number of industries and institutions, when the immune system starts failing to catch even a fraction of it (or the immune system degrades completely), the host society begins to weaken and the majority of the herd flips from "cooperate" to "defect".

How about "enshittifiers"?
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Wouldn't braces solve this, by moving all teeth towards the back in 1-2 years?
A lot of people are assuming that replacing cars driven by minimum wage/sub-minimum wage drivers with high tech robotaxis will make this sort of transportation almost too cheap to meter. Long-term there's presumably some advantage espeically as costs drop to the level where an autonomous car is just a car.

I'm not sure there's ever this magical transition where a car you use a few times a day (and is specific to your needs) is ever replaced by an on-demand service to a significantly greater degree than today.
Hey you totally ripped off our design for hey.com!
I believe it's implicitly legal everywhere in the US.
You'd be surprised how long it takes to enshittify a piece of tech as well established as Google. The MBAs may be trying but there are still a lot of dedicated folks deep in the org holding out.
And a good fraud chief probably isn't going to tell you what they're looking for. :)
Is the certification required for things labeled as hearing aids, or for things that perform hearing-aid-like functions?

Could you sell a "heering eyd" or an "in-ear sound amplifier that lets ornithology enthusiasts hear faraway birds better", which incidentally functions as a (non-insurance-covered) hearing aid, at least for those who can Reddit?
How is that a bad thing? The welfare states is the means through which the world's most livable city and those comfortable lives are achieved.
Also at least here in Australia, Threads is ranked #3 of all free iOS apps.

And it's been in the top 3 ever since it launched a year ago. X is #69.
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read the full statement at https://github.com/rustfoundation/interop-initiative/blob/ma... not the press release that says in hundreds of words no more than the headline.
In the UK they heavily discourage even the £50 note (roughly €60/$63). We basically only use 5/10/20.

Most shops won't take them and cash machines don't give them out.

Which is pretty odd now given how high inflation got here for the last few years.

Here's an article from 5 years ago saying that £50 notes were widely regarded as just used by criminals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48993008
The cynic in me expects people to read this thread and pat themselves on the back for definitely _not_ a being Harry Nyquist OR a poor performer / low contributor!
Yeah, but Peter actually flirted with the Dutch, not Germans. Nobody just sees any difference ;)
As another poster pointed out, Harley Davidson had a painful time, and ended up having to make more motorcylces outside the US.

Similarly, Soy Bean farmers needed a large bailout.

Both of those sound pretty bad to me, and they were somewhat targetted - he has suggested blanket tariffs, which you only need to look back to Smoot-Hawley, which is generally accepted to have worsened the great depression.
I'm guessing there's no money in it unless you glue an ad machine to the side and use search to drive advertising.
I really hope they can make it work.

We all hate how shitty the big sites have gotten in the name of maximizing profit, but I think it's more insidious than that. It would be one thing if running (say) a news site with decency and integrity was merely less profitable; there would still be people doing it. But I fear that it's actually become impossible to sustain a business like that. The ones that try either die or sell out to survive. (Or are so limited in scope that one person's unpaid part-time labor can sustain them.)
Trying to quantify genetics and intelligence is fraught because of history and ethics. We cannot put one twin in a box of food and water and the other in schools of varying quality. We also cannot clone Einstein and put them in various schools then test them.

Everyone has to live and grow within unjust societies. Some groups will suffer from racism, others may benefit. So it's going to be hard to prove much of anything without a lot of twins and decades of natural experiments.

The eugenics movements and Nazi experiments have also made the whole subject taboo.

Finally IQ is quite arbitrary and the tests evolve over time too.
Basically exactly the same thing here. It used to be that google had the better results, but DDG got a little better and google a lot more shit, so here we are I'm pre-filtering what I look for.
Training data is trivial to collect. Betting on Tesla because they have more training data than Waymo is like betting on Roscosmos because they have more employees than SpaceX.
As a platform trying to connect aspiring founders with successful experts, is it worth creating a Bluesky grouping consisting of founders, ceo's and successful experts wanting to help aspiring founder. Goal is to gain traction for https://www.gravi.co
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"We don't need driverless cars, we need carless drivers."
Would that actually hold up in court?
Threatened with a Ban in India, Wikimedia Agrees to Give Editor Data to Court
The original article title is:

> Threatened With A Ban In India, Wikimedia Agrees To Hand Over Personal Information About Wikipedians To Delhi High Court
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Does anyone know what the simplest possible recipe for running a Python script in a WASM sandbox using Spin is?

I basically want to do something like this:

my-sandbox-cli-tool 'print("hello world")

And have the snippet of Python code I provide run inside a WebAssembly container that runs one of the Python compiled to WASM builds (https://github.com/brettcannon/cpython-wasi-build for example) - with a time limit and restrictions on memory usage, and file system access, and network access.

I am on a continued quest to figure out the cleanest way to achieve this, I have so many projects I would want to build on top of this capability!
I hope they make good progress. I've been agressive about modern c++ since before I heared of rust and having to drop back to C just to use rust is worse than the status quo. Sure I make unsafe mistakes but they seem less likely than intentionally dropping to unsafe
For me, it seems the direction for search is going
towards AI sites. (Gemini, ChatGPT)

Trying to reinvent Google/ Search in 2024 seems
a bit like jumping the shark
> Most notably, 'null'::jsonb = 'null'::jsonb is true whereas NULL = NULL is NULL

Because 'null' in the JSON spec is a literal value (a constant), not SQL's NULL. Nothing to see here.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7159
I don't think either platform is going to "win" in the sense of reaching the size and influence of Twitter, but both will hopefully be more resilient than Twitter was.
Exactly! Basically everything is recorded and tracked separately but synchronized and then composed in the editor with animations etc.
We built it ourselves actually!

The first prototype was just aluminium foil, tape and hope, but we wanted something more solid so we built one out of n°100 copper mesh and some 2020 aluminium extrusions!
None of this has to do with. AI. At all.

This is politics and policy
Even if the boss keeps the money, it may be tacitly part of his salary. Perhaps that motivates him to provide better service to the jump customers so they don't go to some other station and pay some other boss. This system might even work more effectively than one where the jump fee goes to the government. Even if it does go to the government, aren't you then bribing the whole government to get preferential service at the expense of non-jumpers? So I think it's morally a gray area.
It would be interesting to see a community onboarded where everyone's username is a subdomain @name.gravi.co, so people know they're officially associated. There's lots of software folk there so it would probably be a good place to try.
> Hearing aids typically cost anywhere from ₹ 50,000 to upwards of ₹ 8L depending on the correction capability

For those who don't recognize the ₹ symbol it is the symbol for the Indian Rupee and an "L" after a number means 100,000, so ₹ 8L is ₹ 800,000.

At current exchange rates that puts hearing aids in India from $600 to upwards of $9,500.

AirPods Pro 2 are ₹ 24,900 ($295).
I was hoping this will be about Kagi. A lot of companies that make bold promises of taking on Google end up in the drain 2 years later.
> I am also concerned about the fact that a junior dev is being asked to rewrite

If OP is basically soloing a rewrite of an 11 year old company, they seriously need to consider asking for a new title
Citation needed; Netflix has a ~$350 billion market cap [0]. Google has one of $2.227 trillion [1], and 10.25% of its revenue is attributed to Youtube revenue. Since I haven't found a quick reference to youtube's net worth, let's assume it's 10.25% of $2.227T, which is ~$222 billion, making YT smaller than Netflix.

[0] https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nflx/market-cap/
[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/alphabet-google/marketcap/
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/289659/youtube-share-of-...
Super neat! Does the v2 branding mean that the more "fully featured" observability product is going away? Or is it all going to be rebuilt on top of clickhouse?
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The worse thing about this article is that the child statistically is far more likely to be harmed by law enforcement, than by a passing motorist.
Very easy to launder 20M

Be a promotor or promotion company, sell VIP tables at big event or music festival for 20,000 euro each, 9 out of 10 clients don’t show up (because they don’t exist and you made them up)

Do it all summer, our economy is big enough to support this

Your money is now clean from selling VIP tables

Deposit cash, pay taxes, move on
Sour grapes.

There’s no fairness to the audience you’ll have. Or they will have. Some people will experience a pebble in their shoe, tell the harrowing story, and people will hail them for the courage that they are showing. The openess. The hard-earned wisdom. And there’s nothing anything can do about that.
I'm amazed by the volume of opinions on this matter.

If you've never been a military pilot, I don't think you can give a qualified opinion on this incident.
I don't like it, but I think the long term plan is to eliminate paper money, and with it privacy.

I live in the Netherlands and you can really live 100% cash-free here. A lot of places are card-only, even.
> It’s possible that adding an index will do nothing

This is one of the more perplexing thing to me where Postgres ideology is a bit too strong, or at least, the way it works is too hard for me to understand (and I've tried - I'm not going to claim I'm a genius but I'm also not a moron). I hear there may be finally support for some kind of hints in upcoming versions, which would be very welcome to me. I've spent way too much time trying to divine the voodoo of why a slow query is not using indexes when it seems obvious that it should.
The wealth gap will continue growing because it is much easier to make money once you have a lot of money.
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> In the fall of 1981, three of the four children followed their mother to the grave. According to Peskov, their deaths were not, as some have speculated, the result of exposure to diseases to which they had no immunity. Both Savin and Natalia suffered from kidney failure, most likely a result of their harsh diet. But Dmitry died of pneumonia, which might have begun as an infection he acquired from his new friends.
Because the south decided to start shooting up Federal Forts and killing tax collectors.
This is one of those things that I think is interesting about how "normal" people use the Internet. I am guessing they just always start with google.

But for me, if I want to look up local restaurants, I go straight to Maps/Yelp/FourSquare(RIP). If I want to look up releases of a band, I go straight to musicbrainz. Info about Metal Band, straight to the Encyclopeadia Metallum. History/Facts, straight to Wikipedia. Recipes, straight to yummly. And so on. I rarely start my search with a general search engine.

And now with GPT, I doubt I even perform a single search on a general search engine (google, bind, DDG) even once a day.
Also it would be great to be able to add "corporate" holidays, where the whole company is off because of X reason.
That graph only includes text. There's also video archives.
This is one of the earliest videos I remember being passed around campus networks, predating YouTube by several years. Nice to see the original news station pulled it out of the archives and preserved it at a much high quality. Truly from a different time, in more ways than one.
It did on a machine from back then too, hence why PCs came equipped with a "turbo button", which were actually a "slow down" button to prevent issues with games made for a specific cpu speed.
Hogan had a deal that was part-ownership of Gawker, entitlements to a share of revenue, and damages, prior to Thiel and his lawyers coming along.

How is that not a victory compared to after? "A fraction of the damages, in bankruptcy" doesn't seem quite comparable.
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I'd assume the same way they collected that much cash. Illegal deals. You want to bribe someone? use cash. Buy something of high value, put low value on the books but pay the rest in tax free cash? This is pure guess work
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I wonder if open sourcing it might have been a low(er)-level engineering decision, so there wasn't any marketing/PR awareness.
Wall insulation?
I think it’s reasonable to assume that some clothing is harming health, and the degree to which it does is entirely unknown.
further context https://x.com/nousresearch/status/1856417883934601246?s=46
Isn’t that why it ends up in a wall?
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I moved my Proxmox single node home-prod setup to Incus over the last couple of weeks.

Incus feels a lot less…legacy? Old school? Something.

Not a lot different when it gets down to it though. It’s easier to work at the CLI with Incus. Backups are a little less straight forward.
> Higher prices? Immigration! (never mind that immigrants are cheap labor, which should lower prices).

One argument I often see is that housing costs are increased by the large increase in population. Can you speak to that?

Can you imagine a rate that might be too high? 1 million/year? 10 m/y? 20 m/y? 50 m/y? There must be a limit, even for you.
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Neural Art
"0.02 per share impact"

you sharing mp3s is more expensive
> pocket of a corrupt cop and does not benefit society in anyway.

It motivates him to stop speeding drivers which is good for society.

To your second point, maybe a better system would be the policeman gets paid a commission on the tickets he issues so they're still recorded. But if it's not set up that way, bribery might be more effective than not.
No, medical devices are regulated because society demands a certain degree of certainty from those who claim to treat medical issues. Most societies don't want it to be legal to sell snake oil to vulnerable people suffering from a health issue.

There are many dangerous unregulated things that can destroy your hearing or vision. But they don't claim to protect them.
It's not much data.

With current 22TB magnetic disks it's less than 20 disks, they would fit into a single machine (4u, likely).

The Storinator XL60 from 45drives (https://www.45drives.com/products/storinator-xl60-configurat...) can hold 60 disks, for (advertised) ~1.4PB of data.

(btw i've learned about 45drives through Linus Tech Tips channel so I think it's obligatory to say LTTSTORE.COM - for the meme)
Hint: when people start using a weird metric that no-one has ever hard of before, they are generally doing so because real metrics are, ah, less favourable.

For the ultimate example, see WeWork’s old ‘community adjusted EBITDA’, which was pretty much just revenue.
Not saying it doesn't, but I've been using it daily for years, and at least haven't noticed them.
Surely, other opinions can have relevance. Do you think an aerospace engineer can have no opinion? What about an avionics tech that works on display and comms systems? What about an aviation safety officer or a commercial pilot? These are all people with relevant perspectives.
I understand but 15 years old PC are well serviceable (even if not up to current specs), so why destroy them because they're unsupported ? We will need to be more conservative of resources and these PC can be used (think running starcraft 2 which I enjoy or other older nice PC games)
In the US, it's a bit of a mix.

There are ~3 categories of hearing devices in the US...
1. Prescription hearing aids - go to audiologist, pay $$$$$$ for devices
2. OTC hearing aids - AirPod Pro etc - less money
3. PSAP - Personal Sound Amplification Product

In theory, from top to bottom, you loose features and complexity. But, I haven't been able to find a good summary of technical requirements for each tier of device, just vague language.

Very generally, PSAP is a "dumb" amplifier - all frequencies get amplified - often used by hunters and bird watchers to hear animals.

What I can't figure out is the difference in requirements between OTC and prescpription - is there some feature that Apple CANNOT deliver OTC that a prescription device may?