skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With regards to:

"(g) took a 20% share of the profits from all of Romelus’ videos."

and court judgment summary:

"OnlyFans’ revenue share didn’t add to the content illegality."

Couldn't it be argued (and this is a very general question about the proportionality of prices charged and expected services provided) that by charging 20% the responsibilities of the provided must be conmesurate?

The legal expectations for a free platform like twitter or facebook cannot be the same as a host that charges 50$ per file for example, as there is an expectation when hosting a file of some services, whether they be reliability or integrity of the content.

If there were a trial against facebook for the data being lost, the case should be easily dismissed as there was no consideration, the content was hosted for free, now if we go to trial against a host that charges 50$ for a small file, then we would have to discover where the money went! And what expenses were used to host the material!

Similarly we cannot expect the responsibilities and warranties of a free service to be the same as those of a paid service.
If you can't compete directly due to US export restrictions on cutting edge chips, then leverage the worldwide non-commercial sector. At least to start with. Facebook took the same strategy when faced with the prospect of training models to compete with those of the companies that had invested billions in infrastructure before them.
If you work for a few years with JVM based languages this set of articles are so interesting! I remember reading through these for the first time several years ago.
Choosing the right embedding model for a RAG system
In the long run, if there is competition, it should drive down costs. If the sensors / compute hardware / software costs more than the labor of a human driver then self-driving vehicles won't be viable, but the bet these companies are making is that it will, and in the long run, those costs will be amortized. And if the costs of offering a robotaxi service are lower than a human-taxi service, and if AVs are not a monopoly, then the price will eventually end up cheaper as well.
“ standing for long periods of time might not be much better than sitting after all”

Well duh, if you trade one sedentary all-day posture for another sedentary all-day posture it’s not likely to be of much benefit.

The point of standing desks is to vary posture during the day and being able to choose to stand or sit while continuing to work gives you one more way to achieve this. Mix with breaks and walks and it’s starting to look better than sitting on your ass all day anyway.

I try to stand for calls/remote meetings, I have a couple every day and it adds up to about 1h of standing / shifting my weight around and helps me stay focused. But not overdoing it is key - on days where I have more than a couple of meetings I’ll totally be sitting for some of them.
Everything on this list is 200 miles or higher.
Let’s be real. Statistically the value of equity in a startup is $0
They're not as expensive or annoying to deal with as I thought, either, assuming you already have a standing desk with a motor.
The only reason I know and have used this api is because it helps prevent the tab from going to sleep if you hold on to the lock: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/edgeinsidera...
"work" remote:)
Standing all day will not help your VO2 max. You need to get your heart rate up.
Can you elaborate? I don't see how physical tickets factor into this. I mean, it seems like it's the same outrageousness either way to me.
United Nations agencies like UNRWA? As for the killing reports, it seems that Israel always kills civilians and particularly kids, they seem to like to spend their money in bombs directed at them because I never see reports of combatants being killed.
Yes, excellent points! But you don't have to do floating-point math to interpret G-code or generate motor control waveforms. You could probably do it on an 8051 fast enough to run a 3-D printer entirely in floating point, but you can also do the math in integers, only going beyond 8-bit precision when necessary.
I made a standing desk and pulled a bar chair in to sit or prop myself on as occasion suggested
Band 20 LTE/800MHz allows the carriers to vastly increase their coverage area for a lot less money.

Customers can only access that spectrum if they have a VoLTE compatible (including emergency call) device.

The carriers have legally binding landmass and population coverage goals as part of the spectrum licensing terms.

The carriers can also market the fact that better rural coverage is available on newer devices.

Therefore the carriers have only been selling fully VoLTE compatible devices for many years and pushing as many VoLTE-enabling software updates out as possible.
This is just some empty ideological slop published by a lobbying group, mixed with conspiracy theories and racist dogwhistles? How is this relevant to HN's goals, and how do these types of posts keep getting allowed?
Citation needed on being a criminal matter (in the case against the content provider). I mean I guess the only real definition of something being a criminal matter, is if there's litigation and court rules in favour of plaintiff. Second best definition is if someone opens a criminal case, at least then there would be a contention that it's a criminal matter.

In this case neither happened so there's no source to backup that claim. I wouldn't be surprised to see a criminal case being opened against a publisher/alleged publisher for dissemination of a criminal act, but I do think it would be dismissed eventually.
OIDC is still far more flexible than I would have liked. It still allows the implicit flow, and it even created a new abominations that didn't exist in OAuth: The Hybrid Flow. If you just want to follow best practices, OAuth 2.1[1] or OAuth Best Current Practices[2] are far better options.

[1] https://oauth.net/2.1/

[2] https://oauth.net/2/oauth-best-practice/
Something to note here is that this isn’t a gas tax and this cost increase estimate is coming out of thin air.
How else would you like for Mozilla and Firefox to diversify their revenue and remain relevant?

You can’t complain about them advertising their own services while still producing a leading browser.
"Turns out, I just don't like writing."

For many of us writing is tough and quite hard work so it's understandable why many don't write much.

For instance, when I look back at my posts on HN—which I rarely do because it's embarrassing—I see typos, wrong word usage and grammatical errors that I didn't notice at the time. I only wish I could correct them.

I had a colleague who is now deceased but he could take pages and pages of handwritten notes and they were perfectly legible, logically coherent and could be essentially typed into papers with little or no editing. I envy his ability, I only which I could write with such accuracy and fluency.

I've often wondered why I can't do that. It seems to me that too many concepts come into my head at once and I lack the ability to sort them quickly and write them out in a linear/coherent fashion with enough speed.

The result is that editing can take more time than the actual writing. It's somewhat of a disincentive, so much of what I'd like to write doesn't get written.

It's interesting to compare say Mozart and Beethoven in this regard. Looking at Mozart's handwritten scores one sees page after page of almost perfect notes without cross-outs or alterations. On the other hand some of Beethoven's scores are such an unholy mess they're almost illegible.

On evidence, it seems the mental processes of both these geniuses worked in quite different ways.

Edit: it seems to me whether one likes writing or not one has to do so to communicate efficiently and effectively. I've often wondered how many great ideas have been lost because they were never documented.
The F# team has done a great job of building compatibility bridges back to the C# way of doing things so the actual impact isn't bad.
Looks nice. I've used MkDocs in the past for https://baseball-stats.net.
I can't tell if this trail of talk is about Tumblr, Blogger, or something else - idnk, does anyone else remembers Astroatlas?
> With Java experience, but what fraction have a systems outlook?

It depends what you mean by systems outlook but JVM based code is pretty common (to the point I’d say ubiquitous) in large distributed systems.

In open source it’s much the same. Many of the large Apache projects are in JVM languages, for example.

> The primary drivers of complexity are indirection: factories, dependency injection, microservices, these are all part of the same malaise

The indirection in Java does drive me crazy. But dependency injection is a problem to solve in every language and libraries that can do code generation at compile time like Dagger2 make this predictable, debuggable, and fairly easy to reason about on the JVM.

Microservices are, in my opinion, more of a business organization solution than one tied to any specific language. If you haven’t read Steve Yegge’s blog post about Amazon vs Google I think it’s good reading on why/when SoA is a good idea.
This type of rhetoric is why people believe the republicans peddle the culture war and why you're constantly called -ists and -phobes. If your political ideology is built on a foundation of disparaging whatever minority of the day, people won't take you seriously. There are actual issues you should be addressing. The culture war as peddled by Republicans is nothing more than a distraction from their unbelievably garbage fiscal policy. And it's worked well - most Trump voters cannot articulate Trump's fiscal policy at all.

What you, and others, are missing is a sense of scale and perspective. Transgender individuals are an unbelievably small part of our society and truly mean no harm. They are Americans like you and I. They want to be happy, live and prosper. Their goals are your goals. They are not your enemy, and they couldn't be even if they wanted to. You may not understand them, and that's fine. But be wary of scapegoating such a minuscule minority for the problems of America. Such ideology veers dangerously close to fascism.
Maybe it's worthless because it's all already been scraped?
Reducing taxes should push for local and federal governments to become more efficient and waste less.

We’re at an incredible deficit as a nation, interest alone on that deficit outpacing defense spending.

Creating additional taxes, which will potentially slow growth/gdp, will only harm our efforts to resolve our woeful financial situation as a nation. Additional taxes further pushes business out of the country, leading to a spiral to insolvency.

Californian’s should be asking, where do these taxes go? Not to solving homelessness or violent crime. Not to resolving catastrophic water issues (reservoirs drying up), or fixing brownouts across the region.
A follow-up of coincidence, fwiw: A couple of days after our conversation, a close friend stepped off the sidewalk, without this time checking the bike lane. Hip replacement recovery is expected to be some months.
The exchange could be limited to only existing, paid plans. New plans would require a device compatible with the new specification. I don't think it's too hard since American phone carriers were able to offer free LTE devices to users with activated 3g devices.
Especially according to Stephen Wolfram!
The title is a bit misleading, "standing desks don't improve risks of cardiovascular disease" would have been better. I would wager it did nothing for my chances of getting cancer, skin moles, or being hit by a car either, yet that doesn't mean they are "as bad as sitting"

I personally switched only for my posture, and it mostly fixed my issues with neck and back. I never thought it had any other benefits than that. Maybe burn a marginal few calories? So I wouldn't say they're as bad as sitting. At least for me, they're better
Who Would Support Deploying the Military to Domestic Protests?
Key excerpts:

> The U.S. public was overwhelmingly supportive of deploying the military to contain protests that might turn violent. In our hypothetical scenarios, between 60 and 75 percent of the public approved of deploying the military, while just 15 to 25 percent disapproved. This support, moreover, was consistent across party—similarly large majorities of Democrats and Republicans supported deploying the military.

...

> Even in a Jan. 6-type scenario with an election on the line, U.S. voters were just as likely to favor deploying the military against protesters of their own party as protesters of the opposing party.

...

> Our surveys, however, show that military officers are overwhelmingly opposed to deploying military forces into domestic unrest. In our scenarios, just 25 percent of the military approved of military deployments while 72 percent disapproved. The majority of these officers favored aggressive responses to protests—for example, sending in riot police armed with assault rifles and body armor—but felt it was inappropriate to deploy the military.
well, it is work. quite a lot!

when you feel you want to "write more online" what do you want? why do you want to write online? do you want to participate in some discourse? understand a topic, do a deep dive? communicate something? do you want fiction or non-fiction writing?
FYI, the whitelist is enforced differently with MVNOs. I was able to prove a UK Xperia 5m2 was compatible and get it allowed on a prepaid MVNO.
Censor? This is not related to tech or what HN is meant to discuss. We didn't see a flood of election or political content in the last couple weeks for this same reason

An absence of a type of content, does not imply a stance on the content. The site’s curation goals do not align with this article whatsoever.

If there’s a tech related piece to the conflict, like we saw with the pager infiltration, then that makes sense to have on the site.
I've been doing this for over 20 years, but I confess that I've never gone back to look at the tickets. Maybe one day, out of nostalgia, I'll look at the dusty box full of old tickets and have good memories of shows, movies, good and bad. For now, what matters is the feeling that part of my life's memory is being preserved for something that I don't even know what exactly it is...
Why not offer posters at the merch booth (or something more ticket-sized, I guess)? I always look forward to show posters. It helps foster a sense of community too, when you work with printers and a cadre of artists.
Completely agree with you. However, what does this mean for a software engineer or anyone who must be in front of a computer for extended periods of time?

I’ve moved to biking everywhere and daily walks with the dogs, but still have 8 hours where I’m mostly sedentary
This only works if you are in charge of the timelines or have a manager who values quality over quantity
Show HN: PingPie, A FOSS alerting tool for hobbyists and small biz
I made a dead simple monitoring tool that integrates with Twilio. It sends you a text when your site goes down. It can be used on a Raspberry Pi, or whatever Linux system you like.

SaaS solutions like uptime.com exist. But I like monitoring and wanted something that was very cheap (less than a penny per alert) and doesn't require a SaaS subscription.

Feedback and criticism are deeply appreciated <3
Hydra unifies brute forcing dozens of protocols into a singular (cli) API. It is useful in that you don't have to have dozens of tools for each kind of service you might want to enumerate, each with their own interfaces.
Yeah, I didnt read the OP before commenting, wasting everyone's time...
Maybe for the first-wave of OG crypto geeks. I think there's a second wave of crypto-bros who came to run a grift, and then a third wave of suckers that were just there out of financial FOMO. Crypto supplanting established institutions wasn't so much an ideological goal for them, but a necessary condition of their tokens becoming valuable enough to escape, in crypto-bro parlance, wage slavery.

If this is the case, I think it's easy to see why the core movement of folks trying to create alternative societal infrastructure, usually with an anarcho-crypto-utopian vision akin to Daniel Suarez's world in Daemon were quickly drowned out by the massive second wave of grifters. Maybe now that the grift is played out we can get back to the cool stuff decentralization enables aside from Ponzi schemes.
Wait until you read about the efforts by the current left-wing government to block social media for children. Which is basically an attempt to deanonymise the internet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083547 - Big discussion from a couple days ago
Completely off topic, I lived in Fredonia around that time. I worked at the school, so I pretty much hung out in the townie bars (Coughlan's and an family run bar/italian restaurant I'm blanking on) . What was the big party bar you are talking about?
I know you're just messing around, but honestly I find I'm more work-productive doing this. The human mind is mobile and performs much better when you have some variety, movement, occasional relaxation. Obviously some people take advantage and don't really work, but I find that working 90-95% capacity and 5% walk around the house, BS with my wife, do some small chores etc. is a lot more productive than trying to work 100% and ending up stressed, overfocused, and burnt out.
No. A software engineer’s impact cannot reasonably be measured over 7 days. It would need to be much longer, at least a month (likely much longer than a month) for junior to senior level, and even longer for staff+ level.

It may be possible to crunch enough data to determine what short term behaviors are most likely to result in short, medium, and long term gain, and then you could, in theory, peg someone’s weekly “progress”. But today I think that’s (dystopian) science fiction
Study argues that movement is better than a static position (standing or sitting). Shocker.

What they're obviously missing is that when you're at a standing desk, the friction to engaging in some kind of movement is drastically decreased (unless you're talking about spinning).

While I stand at my desk, I frequently find myself pacing, jogging in place, stretching, etc. I don't have to first GET UP OUT OF A CHAIR.
My tricks for beating procrastination are:

1) Give yourself permission to do bad work.

If you're stuck, just start writing whatever junk is in your head. Make it hilariously bad! Write like a total idiot.

But often that alone is enough to unstick you. Having very rough work is infinitely better than staring at a blank page.

2) Procrastinate "a little bit"

Rebrand some procrastination as manageable short breaks, stop beating yourself up, and take control back from your rebellious subconscious. That way, you're working with yourself, not against it.

3) Always be asking yourself, "What's the smallest thing I can do RIGHT now?" and doing it.

E.g. you might not know how to write a full paper, but you can write down all your random ideas on a sheet of paper. Do that. Then once you're done with that, the next step might be writing an outline. Then, expanding each outline into a short paragraph...

But don't think that far ahead, just do the smallest thing now!
My last company a number of people had treadmills. The walker always looked like they were headed toward me on calls. Group Zooms became hilariously ominous as more people marched toward me in unison.
If you have the mdbook-epub plugin, it's nice to be able to turn the myriad documentation "books" into actual ebooks that I can read on my kindle.
Slightly ot or maybe not, the educational inflection point was deep in the mid of the Cultural Revolution, which suggests that mass rustications are indeed situations to look into..

(The mechanism is probably that STEMish rusticants began to selforganize learning centres)

COVID might have already started the process of Montanacation — elite diffusion to the hills —for the US (tho 2024 might actually reverse it)

For russians so far, the conscripts are so far drawn disprop from the lows; the tops prefer to emigrate/stay out of the country, so wait a bit.
>>> Or is that the whole point, that regular users can't block it because it's at the telco level?

Seems like the cooporating ISPs are selling your data/identity.

They have an opt-out at https://consenthub.utiq.com/
What I do is design everything while I’m up and about and on paper/whiteboard and then sit down just to code it out, it’s so much better, way better architectural outcomes when you start with sunshine and fresh air.
Testing OpenAI Whisper Transcription
Work Number is from Equifax. ADP's similar product is called Smart Compliance.
> This is a trademark policy

exactly

but if you distribute something containing a trademark and the trade mark policies don't allow distribution it is pretty much automatically a gray area of trade mark infringement

i.e. you do a clone of the rust repo and a some changes is with the current form of the draft trade mark infringement as long as you don't also at least 1. rename the repo, 2. update the readme

but even if you do it might still not be enough

trademark law as it currently is can easily be ab-used as an additional form of copy right protection and as long as you don't replace any occurrences of rust/cargo you are always trading in a potential gray area of law which can be abused

and who wants to contribute under such circumstances?

also who wants to contribute if they have to change the readme/repo name just to make a bug branch but then also not have it in the PR you submit, but also needing to have this changes in any branch including the PR ...
The Uber FIGJAM (F*#% I’m Good, Just Ask Me)
It's a problem they created themselves, so it's moot. They wanted walled gardens and a larger slice of the ad pie. I have zero sympathy for these tech conglomerates who dare to rule public discourse with an iron fist. They have not earned it. They colonized the world wide web and systematically attacked old ways of communication.

If the choice is between preserving freedom of speech for a individual and for a corporation, it's not a head scratcher. You favor the individual, almost universally.

The "whinging" is completely warranted. Gone are the days when I can easily email a phone number, or use XMPP to talk with Facebook users.

And now these companies have the audacity to lean on "you posted it on our platform, so we reserve every right but copyright" and systematically make the internet opaque to search engines in order to muscle some AI money from other companies. They're openly eviscerating the public forum, after intentionally killing off forums by employing sickening addiction-bolstering algorithms and dark UX patterns.

We are openly engaged in information warfare with the modern, digital equivalents of the East India Tea Company, and again, I have zero sympathy and will not let them hide behind "muh freedom of speech" when they actively undermine multiple universal human rights as recognized by the US Constitution. They undermine your freedom of speech, your right to due process, right to decline unwarranted search and seizure, and more.

We have had this same exact issue swelling with landlords for decades. As citizens increasingly are forced into lifelong rentership instead of home ownership, they are finding their rights slowly eroding. First, it happened with the poor and disenfranchised. A landlord can enter their home at any time, and force all sorts of rules that inhibit freedom of expression and reduce privacy, increasing government reach. The experiment worked, and now we're seeing it manifest in what's left of the middle class. And I feel zero sympathy for landlords and property management groups over this, as well. None. All of these user-hostile companies, these artifacts of late-stage capitalism, they are causing societal harm that may end up being irreparable if something is not done.

We made phone lines neutral. Mark Zuckerberg can keep his rights just as we can, but Meta The Company is not a human.