skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm not seeing it, but why do none of these "postgres durable packages" ever integrate with existing transactions? That's the biggest flaw of temporal, and seems so obvious that they can hook into transactions to ensure that starting a workflow is transactionally secure with other operations, and you don't have to manage idempotency yourself (or worry about handling "already started" errors and holding up DB connections bc you launched in transaction)
DDG privacy browser and Brave browser are both trying to make this work.

Personally I use FF with lots of blockers and settings on my laptop/desktop, and DDG browser on my mobile.
I have no qualms with wanting to shape the world when it comes to trying to put your own creations, opinions, etc, into the world for others to have the option to consume. But I'm not a fan of wanting to shape the world by stopping people from doing things.
The problem with reading vs writing is building "true understanding". If you are reading code at a high level and building a perfect mental model and reading every bit of code, then you're doing it right. But many folks see finished code and get "LGTM brain" and don't necessarily fully think out every command on every line, leading to poor understanding of code. This is a huge drawback in LLM-assisted coding. Folks re-read code they "wrote" and have no memory of it at all.

In the edit experience I am using, the LLM provides a git style changelog where I can easily compare before/after with a really detailed diff. I find that much more useful than giant "blobs" of code where minor differences crop up that I don't notice.

The other massive drawback to the out-of-codebase chatbot experience (and the Edit With Copilot experience IS a chatbot, it's just integrated into the editor, changes files with diffs, and has a UI for managing file context) is context. I can effortlessly load all my open files into the LLM context with 1 click. The out-of-editor chatbox requires either a totally custom LLM with various layers to handle your codebase context, or you have to manually paste in a lot of context. It's nonsense to waste time pasting proprietary code into OpenAI (with no business agreement other than a privacy policy and a checkbox) when I can get Copilot to sign a BA with strict rules about privacy and storage, and then 1-click add my open files to my context.

Folks should give these new experiences a try. Having claude chatbot integrated into your editor with the ability to see and modify your open files in a collaborative chat experience is very nice.
I read about Signal's double-trouble tactics, but I haven't heard about Apple's.

Ah, okay for iMessage, something called PQ3[1], hm, it uses Kyber. And it's also a hybrid scheme, combining ECC. And a lot of peer review.

And there's also some formal verification for Signal's PQXDH [2].

Oh, wow, not bad. Thanks!

Now let's hope a good reliable sane implementation emerges so others can also try this scheme. (And I'm very curious of the added complexity/maintenance burden and computational costs. Though I guess this mostly runs on the end users' devices, right?)

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/
[2] https://github.com/Inria-Prosecco/pqxdh-analysis
All of Amazon.com works with their adsystem domain disabled by uMatrix. Only about half of their almost 100 js files are needed to browse products.
https://SerpentineGame.com brings in close to that with advertisements and premium subscriptions. It is a clone of a game called Tangleword that is itself a clone of Boggle. I originally wrote it in 2008 and am currently re-writing it from scratch because the technology stack is so old and cumbersome to maintain.
Related:

You do not need to worry about the argument that you are a Boltzmann brain - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41031300 - July 2024 (1 comment)

Boltzmann Brain - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22079253 - Jan 2020 (149 comments)

Boltzmann Brain - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12152658 - July 2016 (17 comments)

Boltzmann brain - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999074 - Jan 2014 (18 comments)
That's certainly possible, but it reminds me a bit of a similar thing I've seen in their UI that rhymes in a way that makes me think otherwise. In the code interpreter tool, you have a little preview of the "steps" it's following as it writes code. This turns out to just be the contents of the last written/streamed comment line. It's a neat UI idea I think - pretty simple and works well. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's going on with o1 too - the thought process is structured in some way, and they take the headings or section names and just display that.
> The U.S. government wants everyone to abandon C/C++ -- how will they do this if they depend on SQLite3?

ABI, the same way you don't need the Linux kernel to be rewritten to remove your app dependency on C/C++
False alarms for the most part appear to be just someone scanning and disregarding an issue like surveillance watching someone to make sure they aren't stealing in the supermarket. There are more intrusive ones, but that appears to be edge cases in my reading of the article.

I do break from the perspective of the majority here and believe that the interventions do outweigh the false alarms given that. I do think laws need to be established so that what warrants flagging is clear and apolitical and that the tracking cannot be used for any purposes outside of safety (ie if a kid talks about cheating on a test and t is found through this method, it should be disregarded)
You're talking about a closed system for a single game though, what exactly does a blockchain actually give you in that example?

All 3 of those are possible with a traditional database.

Even if they wanted to provide a system for sharing those assets and other marketplaces being able to built on top of it, a blockchain still doesn't actually provide any benefits.
We fixed the title (it was originally "Boltzmann Brian")
Maybe so, but this particular move seems unambiguously good. DNT is a net negative and is misleading. Its only practical effect is to add another bit of entropy to shady fingerprinting mechanisms.
As a CNC enthusiast I wondered what this was and what the market was like (I don't partake so hadn't heard of a rolling tray).

A quick look on Etsy and it seemed super saturated, do you push through the noise somehow?
I know this is a sensitive topic. I am sorry it bothers you.

The sadder truth is, that I say what I say - AFTER having already applied your advice. I have spoken to strangers, reached out to see what they think. I spend the time to understand the many subcultures people are not parts of.

Go look at what is showing up in streamer feeds.

Talk to people, and when a 20 year old tells you “yeah bitcoin is great, because I have no hopes. So even if it goes to the shitter, how much worse can I be.”, you will see that people are truly happy to see things go to hell.

I do wish I had seen other things and had different interactions. But there is a substantial level of nihilism.

If you wish not to believe me - we’re in a thread where an insurance CEO was assassinated and the perpetrator is being hailed as a hero.
Everything we did was observable:

1. People couldn't buy BAT to send at the time (Dec. 2018) of the Tom Scott affair, all the tokens were virtual from our user growth pool, subject to our terms. No user funds. This does not excuse the right-to-publicity infringement that I addressed in another comment replying to you, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379166, but that wasn't your false claim here, so stick to your "collects money" canard, please.

2. Again with "secretly modifies referral links" canard. No, not "links", exactly two typed in domain names in the address bar, and no one can keep a secret with a URL attribute you can see in the same address bar, via devtools, and with network monitoring; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42354392. Think through your own argument more, please — no ready-fire-aim.

3. Injecting ads would be noticed by users, but you won't find anyone who ever saw us "replace" or "inject ads into websites". We tested the tech with placeholders on Slashdot in early 2016, but the placeholders were not ads and the test ended. Lack of evidence is enough here under normal rules of reality and discourse, or else this is an "are the ad injectors in the room with us now?" joke.

We'd have been roasted and likely sued if we had done any such "replace" or "inject" thing without publisher opt-in. Again, I urge you to think through your criticisms before replying carelessly.

EDIT: I'd forgotten about the NAA's "cease and desist" letter sent in April 2016, which was not actually a C&D even though its PDF filename called it that, because we never did anything to cease or desist from. See

https://www.techspot.com/news/64391-publishers-call-brave-ad...

https://brave.com/blog/braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-d...

The NAA (now News Media Alliance) complaint to us, misnamed a Cease & Desist Letter, went away. Later in 2016, this same group tried complaining to the FTC about Brave and Opera, see https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a802b19a-7ba0.... That complaint also went nowhere.
Temporal can use postgres as a backend. What makes this product different?
Wondering about this as well :) That would be a game changer.
Thank you for sharing. I can assure you that there are many people with exactly the same difficulties including me :)
The Model Card Canvas
I made News Minimalist — a news aggregator where all news is ranked by significance on a scale from 0 to 10.

The ranking lets readers select a "significance threshold" and ignore all news below it.

It's making close to $1000 MRR now with all money coming from premium subscriptions: users can personalize their feed with category/country filters, block topics and get access to news summaries.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/
I always wonder how enforceable these blanket rights would be in court. Didn’t Meta claim to own end users’ photos in the T&Cs back around 2009 and it got challenged and shot down (ianal)?
No, Bell Inequality test falsified it.
I looked into GPC, and I'm not sure if it's much better. From the implementation notes[0]:

GPC is also not intended to limit a first party’s use of personal information within the first-party context (such as a publisher targeting ads to a user on its website based on that user’s previous activity on that same site).

GPC also appears to use the same tracking signals as DNT, so it has the exact same potential for abuse, as far as I can tell. Maybe I'm missing something, but unless there's legal power behind this, I'm not sure if it's better.

[0]: https://w3c.github.io/gpc/
I have recently been listening to the "The Complete History of Science" podcast [1]. I have not gotten to the Copernicus portion yet, but I really enjoyed the ancient Greek astronomy episodes (including the episode on Aristarchus).

[1] - https://thecompletehistoryofscience.buzzsprout.com/1916377/e...
There's two reasons to be hopeful about it though: AI/LLMs are very good at filling in all those little details so humans can cherry pick the parts that they like. I think that's where the real value is in for the masses - once these models can generate coherent scenes, people can start using them to explore the creative space and figure out what they like. Sort of like SegmentAnything and masking in inpainting but for the rest of the scene assembly. The other reason is that the models can probably be architected to figure out environmental/character/light/etc embeddings and use those to build up other coherent scenes, like we use language embeddings for semantic similarity.

That's how I've been using the image generators - lots of experimentation and throwing out the stuff that doesn't work. Then once I've got enough good generated images collected out of the tons of garbage, I fine tune a model and create a workflow that more consistently gives me those styles.

Now the models and UX to do this at a cinematic quality are probably 5-10 years away for video (and the studios are probably the only ones with the data to do it), but I'm relatively bullish on AI in cinema. I don't think AI will be doing everything end to end, but it might be a shortcut for people who can write a script and figure out the UX to execute the rest of the creative process by trial and error.
Do you have a source on this? I am aware the auto industry is highly automated and robots outperform humans at a lot of the manual labor, but the word "partially" is hand-waving away a lot of big shifts in industrial engineering and national regulations. It just seems difficult to disentangle. (E.g. it is difficult for shops to automate until they get their systems in logistical order, and a low-regulation environment might encourage a race-to-the-bottom of pushing cheap robots way too hard and ignoring QC failures.)
The Rich Can Afford Personal Care. The Rest Will Have to Make Do with AI
Citadel gross trading profit totalled $28bn last year,

https://www.hedgeweek.com/citadel-makes-record-16bn-profit/#....

60B is a balance at a specific date 12/31/2022, they trim the balance by the EOY and harvest losses.

the average balance is much bigger and fluctuates heavily given market demand.

UPD: I stand corrected, the market making arm only made meager $5,000,000,000 for the 6 months, so more like 10,000,000,000/year, not 28

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/citadel-and-jane-street-set-...
No, not really. There is no speed up for general matrix multiply, and generally it won't be practical for any problem with large amounts of input and output data. Closest thing is HHL algorithm for solving big linear systems, which requires a bunch of caveats on the matrix, and even then, it needs to be a subroutine of another quantum algorithm, since it outputs a quantum state, and not the full vector.
But if you get in something serious you know you're not going to go bankrupt.

Absolutely true. In my case and per my preference I put the money I would have spent on insurance to eat healthier foods, get quality supplements, good walking shoes and other things that improve my overall health. It's not for everyone and perhaps I am taking illogical risks but I have come to terms with such risks. I suppose time will tell if I chose poorly. The unknown for me is if I would qualify for a black bar on HN.
I'd second that. I am far far away from being a pro, but my gut feeling and memory tell me that I felt way bigger forces while doing big, steep dirt jumps than any form of downhill. Though, the pros are actually fast around the corners, unlike me. So maybe there might be some g-forces, but I doubt they are anywhere near an F1 car or something else
I somewhat agree... but browsers aren't a profitable business. In 30 years of browsers being mainstream, nobody has built one that's sustainable –– only works if it's subsidized by a larger company.

There's been a few attempts (Brave wants to monetize via crypto, Arc is pivoting away), but it's really hard. People don't want to pray for a browser – 99% of people are apathetic, and the 1% that cares aren't known for paying for things.
I think it funny how you can use Windows as a POSIX environment which is not that different from, say, Linux until it is different

With Windows you don't need to chmod +x a script or other executable, but Windows has its own approaches to the the problem such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_of_the_Web

Not to mention Powershell execution policies which might lead someone writing software to be installed on random machine to "just not use Powershell". And Smartscreen, not to mention a code signing system.
It’s not necessary for there to be parallel universes when all possible paths are already taken within this universe.
The note about her being a women and 21 at the time (Omg, an adult! Outrageous!) should probably not be there.

Other than that, agreed.
Silly related question...

How much gross taxable do you need to make from your side gig to take home 500/m net from a side gig? Here, that's about 1360/m if itemising expenses, or 900€/m with the standard deduction for side income and doing your own taxes.
It’s Gizmodo. There is a good chance the article itself is a plant. Product quality or even existence aside, these guys clearly grasp marketing.
(DBOS co-founder here) DBOS does exactly this! From the post:

DBOS has a special @DBOS.Transaction decorator. This runs the entire step inside a Postgres transaction. This guarantees exactly-once execution for databases transactional steps.
There is also https://bplustree.app/ and https://btree.app/
To be charitable, I think tptacek was referring to a variant of "accounts aren't closed because of credit risk" as not being true. The credit risk talked about in the article was ACH reversals with a bankrupt account owner falling on the bank, rather than overdrafts.
Blockchain is a terrible solution for games with transferable digital assets.

How does the game developer benefit from outsourcing their inventory management system like that?

What if they release an in-game item that turns out to be completely over-powered and want to change or remove it?

(Amusingly enough the original inspiration for Ethereum was that Vitalik Buterin hated that his warlock got nerfed: https://www.polygon.com/22709126/ethereum-creator-world-of-w... )
I've build BlueRetro [1] an universal Bluetooth controller adapter for nearly all pre-USB gaming console.

I guess I could update from my previous post in a similar thread. [2]

Long story short, my open source firmware is used by product makers and they make a voluntary contribution often base on how many unit they sell. It is also widely used by Chinese company on AliExpress.

I got one of those Chinese company to sponsor me a significant amount on GitHub sponsor since August 2022.
I guess they forgot about it, still going ever since!

I still make 1000 USD a month from the various HW makers.

One new thing I made this year after 5 year of doing this hobby, is that I finally manufactured and sold one adapter base on this code myself for the OG Xbox console. [3]

Factoring all the expenses I made 7K for a batch of 300. I plan to do a 2nd batch next year, which should yield double that since I will only incur raw materials & shipping expenses.

It took me 48 hour of manual labor to assemble them and ship them. So it's doesn't make much sense TBH, but it's a good experience. Made me appreciate my desk job.

[1] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35568543

[3] https://blueretro.com
Screentime is an issue, but you'd expect to be affecting most countries, not the US particularly.
CEO shooting suspect in angry outburst as he fights extradition to New York
OpenAI has completely pivoted to a Product company (vs a Model / API company)

The minute they switch to API is the time their userbase realizes that OpenAI neither has the best model nor the most cost-effective one nor the fastest one.

So, their business strategy is subscription and bundle a bunch of products and market it to the mass.

They have a brand "chatGPT" recognition and they'll milk that.

Sam is more of a Steve Jobs than a Bill Gates personality or at least wannabe
Fossilized dinosaur poop offers clues as to dinosaurs' dominance
> one is to be upfront about it on every advertisement and service description

Did you even bother reading the thread? What happens when your company gets sold, and all the old promises are thrown out the window? This has happened many times before (just ask Palmer Lucky about Facebook logins for Oculus), and that is what people are asking is preventable, and your suggestion does nothing to solve that problem.
Alpine skiing doesn't result in particularly high G-forces.
I think people are not afraid of the current change on licensing, but the magic is broken as soon as a company starts wandering around. Yes the current license is not that bad, but while we have valkey on the side now, how can I trust "Redis Inc." will not decide another small change which does not affect me, then the next one, until it makes something which does affect me.
Totally counts though!
We have driverless cars, Bitcoin just hit $100k, and LLMs are undoubtedly taking over jobs. Hyping something that never materializes is one thing, but these are not that.
I'm building Virtual Graph Paper (https://virtual-graph-paper.com) which is a web app for sketching on a grid.

Basically a (limited) vector graphics editor that's trying to be very approachable, aimed at use-cases where something like Illustrator or a CAD package wouldn't be a great fit. I keep hearing about new things people use it for, which is something I truly enjoy.

It's free and ad-free, but there's also a paid version in the form of a downloadable Electron app or a subscription.
It's funny how it asked so many questions (I didn't skip any), and it suggested Argentina, and listed jobs as a kindergarten teacher and "Customer Service & Product Specialist - Client: Home Appliance". I did say that I was interested in a vibrant tech/startup scene but I guess I had to turn up the importance of that to carry any weight.
You fight money laundering by letting people use the banks, have the banks record everything, and using the records on court to get the money back.

You may have something about limiting international transfers, but forcing people out of the banks is contrary to the goals of a criminal investigation.
wrote a lengthy paragraph on the perils of online poker then i realized you were doing it offline!

are you playing in the casinos? US I assume? tell me where the fishes are young man!
Agreed! If I were to fork sqlite, that would be my aim.
They are both. and there are UIs for their API, which costs $$. But web UI is free. And limited. It's nice to have options.
> If you re-read what you wrote, then the point of calorie counting is simply usesless - because satiation and energy levels contribute to the other side of your calorie equation (you likely expend more energy).

Biologically, the cells in your body require a specific amount of calories each day just to exist. Whether that's higher than your "base load" because you're very active or lower because you're fasting, the bottom line is that if your intake of calories is lower than your caloric expenditure, you will lose body mass as the body converts energy stores in fat and muscle via metabolic pathways.

In other words, you can lose weight even without exercise (increase in expenditure) as long as you decrease your consumption below your baseline caloric needs.
Open source and Free software have different philosophies, but in practice they are essentially the same. You are thinking about copyleft vs non-copyleft. BSD, MIT, CC0 are all Free Software licenses but not copyleft.
I'm sure glad I don't have Michael Jackson's doctor.
Why are answering the phone?
That Mac vs. PC ad comes to mind.
It might seem really unlikely any acquirer would ever sue, but if your big company has compliance auditors they will need to see something in black and white.
Project Gutenberg and the matching audiobook effort at Librivox are two of the best things on the internet (and I say that as a person who struggled to get corrections accepted by PG, but fortunately, Michael S. Hart, the founder intervened).
That sounds like a nightmare, and I'm glad I've never had to deal with something like that. Benefits of not being a professional developer.
> Everyone sees themself as at the "top" of their information pile. Many years ago I felt that people asking "give me the view from 30,000ft" were just lazy and entitled.

That’s exactly how I feel. I do go on and craft stories and make things nice. But after years of doing that I still wonder if all that “simplicity” does any good to the world. All the ignorance and missed learning opportunities…
A lot of them intentionally are not supposed to be sold for real value because in many jurisdictions, combining that with lootbox or drop mechanics would immediately make the game subject to gambling regulations.

Game dev companies don’t want that, they want to keep selling you stuff. See: games like the Sims