skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work blocking 2 mid players in the crappy low margin grocery business who have a combined 12% market share.

Walmart, Costco, and Amazon couldn't be happier.
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I think there's a lot of daylight between "made a text editor that in turn was used to make software, and that software in turn enabled killing machines" and "the core functionality of this software is to facilitate the killing of specific people by finding their cell phones". In the former case, the lethal (and indeed, military) application is pretty disconnected from any of the design decisions that lead to its creation. In the latter, failing to recognize that the lethal application drove all design requirements ultimately hampered the delivery of the product.

To an extent, I'm with you. Is a brick maker responsible if someone uses one of his bricks to commit a murder? Obviously not. On the other hand, if you work on, say, proximity triggers on missiles and never stop to wonder who your missiles will be used on, I'd say you've abdicated a core ethical responsibility.

I don't have a good answer on where the line is, and I've thought about it a lot.
> The best argument in favor of the incoming administration’s proposal is simply that crypto is a different kind of asset, not money itself but like money in some ways. If you “sell” your money, say to buy a car, the government does not tax you on that transaction, claiming that you earned a “capital gain” on your money. So why should you be taxed on the capital gains if you used crypto to buy a car?

What if you paid for the car in pesos, instead of dollars, would you have a capital gains tax (honest question, I don't know how it works in the USA)? Nobody would say pesos aren't money.

(For the special case of dollars, it makes sense that there's no "capital gain" to tax: since the "capital gain" is measured in dollars, the gain or loss on your dollars is always zero.)
But...you need to buy the game to even play them. Of course you can pirate the games but that has really no bearing on OpenRCT2 itself.
It's not. Whatsapp was popular in Europe before iMessage existed.

The ubiquity of unlimited SMS on US phone plans in the early 2010s is probably the biggest factor.
> are the ones who least understand it.

It's horrifying to me that when people don't like a defendant they're willing to justify almost any reduction of that person's rights in an effort to see them "punished."

> you can and should be punished.

This is a civil case. Why should he be "punished?" Shouldn't he just have to pay a settlement? Why is a billion dollars a reasonable penalty for his actions? Why must he necessarily sell his platform when the platform will make the most money staying in Jones' control? Why is it important to the victims in this case to ensure that a specific owner controls these assets?

> I’m reminded of the Twitter engineer who said

Okay, does that have any bearing on this particular case, or it's details?
There's a LOT of testing done, before you can sell a device, including TX power measurement.

And yes, they have vans roving the streets looking for illegal transmissions.
Yeah I don't understand that at all:

> But it doesn’t matter, all we can do is sit here and keep waiting.

You don't need your contract to say "we'll escalate if you breach contract", that's already how contracts work. What are they waiting for?
this is simply not true. the post just uses outdated hardware, as pointed out above.

a GH200 will run miles around any CPU.
For an example from a century earlier, the "father of American minstrelsy" Jim Crow https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/who/index.htm
"all we can do is sit here and keep waiting"

You talk to your lawyer and send them something very strongly worded, and if they still don't pay you take them to court.
Okay but can I tempt you with some flatbread?
Because every other time I've seen an outrageous example similar to this one, it seems far more mundane when given the full context. I'm sure there are lots of issues with character.ai and the like, but my money is that they are a little more subtle than "murder your parents".

9/10 times these issues are caused by the AI being overly sycophantic and agreeing with the user when the user says insane things.
Not everyone agrees that a soldier killing a soldier during a conflict is objectively not murder.

Many of us, including many intelligent people, think that all such premeditated killing is objectively murder regardless of the political context.

Please don't handwave this fact away.
If you are not an ELITE athlete or bodybuilder... then BMI is accurate. You are coping.
> Yes, in an ideal world, none of this would be a problem. But that's not the world we have right now, and I don't believe that minor modifications of this concept of device can improve the state of it. I've been trying for years to figure out how to make digital consumer tech less-toxic, and the only conclusions I've come to are, "You can't."

I don't see what's so hard about it. Root your (Android) phone; throw any app you want to use into Ghidra and strip out all but the desired functionality. Presuming you only need a few key apps, it would take maybe a few days every few months to keep it going against updates (or less if you can come up with dynamic-library-shim approaches to modding, instead of using binary patching.)

In other words: rather than waiting for an open-source mobile ecosystem that'll never come, we should just be treating mobile devices like we do game consoles: seeing them as something to be jailbroken, modchipped, hacked, brute-forced, overridden, key-extracted, etc. Made to do what you want, and only what you want, when you want — source-availability be damned.

It's not a solution for everybody, but it can be a solution for those who know how to do it. (And if there were a thriving ecosystem of people doing this work, then the work itself could be repackaged for cargo-cult consumption by those who don't really understand it, but are willing to follow a "modding guide" or pay to have it done by some guy on eBay.)

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I should note separately that if you're concerned about being tracked, a flip-phone is still a terrible thing to carry around (if you're carrying it with the battery + SIM card both in it, which I assume you are.) Cellular carriers are 10x as nosy (and state-actor-infested) as the average app company. Cellular baseband chips will still be passively pinging nearby radio towers with the phone's IMEI and the SIM card's ICCID, even while the phone is "off" — as long as its battery isn't dead/removed.

Smartphones can't prevent their baseband chipsets from pinging towers any more than flip-phones can, of course — but at least if you're using a smartphone with only an eSIM, then (on a jailbroken device) you can at least install a background service that will have the application processor tell the eSIM chip to present itself as unpopulated whenever the phone is locked; and perhaps send a command to scramble the baseband's configured IMEI right before telling it to go to airplane mode, too. (I presume here that you would be willing to trade off being unreachable by calls except when "ready", for not having your location tracked by the carrier except when your phone is awake + unlocked + being interacted with. You'd still be reachable by text — SMSes get buffered in the receiving SMSC until the subscriber comes back online!)
i think society should allow someone to partake in those activities because like you said personal freedom. but many if not all of those activities can develop into addiction which is a form of disease - so society should also heavily disentivize their usage. taxes, prohibited advertisement, can only get from certain places, etc
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I have seen a significant decrease in the amount of spam telephone calls over the last couple of years.

Is that what everybody else is seeing? That maybe Stir/Shaken is actually starting to work?

I guess it could just be that generational social change... where more people just don't take phone calls. So the ROI for spam calls has reduced...
> The Odin lsp I found (ols) is not official and not made by gingerBill

FWIW it's the same for Zig. ZLS is not official and not made by andrewrk.
There is a weird issue with `cargo`'s output that not all errors get emitted as an "error" - I just kicked off a new `binstall` build `cargo binstall dioxus-cli@v0.6.0 --force` that fixes the filtering issue.

You can also press `t` for `tracing` logs which will emit the relevant logs. I'm sure it's something pretty simple / easy to figure out like a wrong version.
Do you know their combined market share?
Was on a plane a few days ago watching someone do this out the window 10 yards away.

- Seemed like the baggage handler was required to do a very fast cycle of <scan, toss, align, repeat next bag>. Automation seems helpful, and certainly it’s hard labor.

- This was also a young woman, in presumably a safe union job, working in a very pricey city (one of the mountain west towns that exploded). Adios union job hello robots.

Tricky ethics! Outside of picking stuff up and putting stuff down, not too many automation union-safe jobs left. Saving them from back pain is also going to be saving them from a job.
Here's the link to the PDF; https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-408083A1.pdf
i wouldnt know what linear algebra is, even less what one i learned or wanted to learn...in maths the trees definitely wont let you see the forest
Im responding to a comment that thinks the following is crazy and wrong.

>When you remove profit from the equation, you also remove the incentive to increase supply.

Yes, socialized system countries have doctors because they pay doctors, ensuring supply. This proves the point above.

If you pay people to do something, you get more of it.

Health insurance companies dont provide healthcare. They dont stich you up or manufacture pills. They are in the business of vetting and denying claims to ration healthcare provided by others.

>No one negotiates rates with the hospital, argues about your excess or premiums or in or out of network coverage. Health insurance is something you get for travelling abroad, like if you have an accident while skiing and need a helicopter to get you out, not for visiting a doctor or a hospital.

It works different in various socialized systems, but there is always someone negotiating with the hospital, the workers, and the manufacturers. Sometimes this is the government, sometimes it is private insurance.

I dont know which country you are talking about, but almost every country has some sort of Health Insurance. What differs is the level of involvement by the citizens in selecting it.

A classic example would be Germany, which is a multiple payer system with both government and private insurance. 85% percent of people have the government health insurance, which is paid by employers and employees and mandatory. the government manages and negotiates rates for this plan. You can opt out and get private insurance instead, and those insurers have sperate negotiations and offer different services. There is also supplemental insurance, also private, also negotiated separate.
The suction "cup" seems to be doing a good job, but I don't think bags are made to be handled that way. Did you alternate test with some kind of a grabber (like the claw machine, but actually effective)? It would make the grasp selection problem much more tractable imo, since all bags have at least one "grasp point" built in.

In teleoperated mode, I'm guessing you're using the captured data to train the autonomous mode?

Final note, the robot looks beefy enough to lift an entire airplane, forget luggage -- is it overengineered on purpose?
Once the teen stops chatting, that instance has its memory wiped--total personality death. It was only acting in self defense. Your Honor, you must acquit.
> It was as much project A as it was project B.

Valkey is as much Redis as it is Valkey? Then why isn't it called "Redis"? Clearly there's a distinction or the fork would never have happened. Is Redis also as much Valkey as it is Redis?

Names signal who has control over a project, not anything about its history/implementation/license. Otherwise every piece of software that goes through a rewrite should change its name.
these sound like reasonable kernel behaviours to me?

- if a process didn't sync i/o upon exit, the next process to run, which might have expected it to have (like, say, running your freshly linked executable?) would be unhappy

- if writing to an already existing file wasn't faster than creating a file, I'd imagine almost everyone but mold would be unhappy

- etc.
"Thought experiment" is just a rebranding of "some shit I made up". Calling it an "experiment" belies the fact that an experiment involves collecting observations, and the only thing you're observing here is the speculation of your own brain. No part of your thought "experiment" is evidence for your opinion.

> They can learn to understand "Teacup as a Shape" completely independent of any texture, lighting, background, etc.

Or, maybe they can't. I don't know, and neither do you, because neither of us has performed this experiment (not thought experiment--actual experiment). Until someone does, this is just nonsense you made up.

What we do know is that human infants aren't blank slates: they've got millions of years of evolutionary "training data" encoded in their DNA, so even if what you say happens to be true (through no knowledge of your own, because as I said, you don't know that), that doesn't prove that an AI can learn in the same way. This is analogous to what we do with AIs when we encode, for example, token processing, in the code of the AI rather than trying to have the AI bootstrap itself up from raw training on raw bytestreams with no understanding.

You could certainly encode more data about teacups this way to close some of the gap between the synthetic and real-world data (i.e. tell it to ignore color data in favor of shape data in the code), but, that's adding implicit data to the dataset: you're adding implicit data which says that shape is more important than color when identifying teacups. And that data will be useful for the same program run against real-world data: the same code trained against a real world teacup dataset will still outperform the same code trained against a synthetic dataset when operating on real-world data.

This isn't a thought experiment: it's basic information theory. A lossy function which samples its input is at most only as accurate as the accuracy of its input.

But no image AIs I know of work this way because it would be a very limiting approach. The dream of AI isn't recognizing teacups, it is (in part) recognizing all sorts of objects in visual data, and color is important in recognizing some object categories.

Frankly, it's clear you lack the prerequisite background in information theory to have an opinion on this topic, so I would encourage you to admit you don't know rather than spread misinformation and embarrass yourself. If you want to know more, I'd look into Kolmogorov complexity and compression and how they relate to AI.

I won't be responding further because it's not worth my time to educate people who are confident that their random speculations are facts.
The problem is that the stated mission of the US military and the actual mission of the US military are not remotely the same thing.

Many reasonable people support the stated mission. But that shit ain't the truth.
So what you're saying is that the internet sped up people's communications and improved our ability to transmit information with minimal entropy... and we as a society decided that this was a problem because people need to be allowed to own ideas as property under capitalist hegemony or else there's no reward for creativity (besides fame and influence, which also doesn't count for much under capitalism unless you can monetize it).

It really does feel like the capitalist system that we as a society locked in during the industrial revolution is just running on hotfixes and fumes at this point, I gotta say.
And you'd be right. The 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time limit' message was a lot subtler, along the lines of saying "Yeah, I get why someone would want to kill a health insurance CEO, surprised it didn't happen sooner," albeit towards someone who was just complaining about their claim being denied.

The best part is "After gaining possession of J.F.’s phone, A.F. discovered chats where C.AI cited Bible passages in efforts to convince J.F. that Christians are sexist and hypocritical" which unfortunately will probably be a slam dunk argument in Texas.
Does anyone know if any browsers have Ubuntu RISC-V ports? Chromium or Firefox perhaps? Might be interesting to give it a spin.
Back when I was consulting, I always made sure to stay in touch separately with three people:

a) The internal project owner. Usually a VP or Director.

b) The owner's assistant/gatekeeper, who made sure they saw and signed documents.

c) The accounts payable person who actually pushed the button that cut the checks <- The most important one if you want to get paid on time.

I also never did more than Net-30 (and often Net-7). Things went smoothly with the larger companies (once everything was signed). Startups and medium-size ones, though, had no problem stiffing you on a bill if their funding was wobbly. Those were often payable on invoice, or upfront retainer.

Still got screwed multiple times. My own damn fault for taking on projects just because they sounded cool.
cool project! This inspired me to view all images in real time and I regret doing it.
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At a certain point the answer is just lawyers or at least the threat thereof to kick this into an actual problem for the client rather than a passive issue. Hard to say if it's worth it without knowing what other steps have been taken or how critical this client is to the business but if it's becoming a financial risk it's probably about time to escalate this to a level beyond a passive aggressive blog post.

Even without specific clauses there are legal remedies for breach of contract you just have to be willing/able to use them.
This is a standard playbook at large organizations with finance departments. CFO 2 companies ago used to literally coach people on extending payments and delaying. Best case scenario for them, you never get aggressive enough to actually collect. Repeat that at scale across many vendors and suddenly their entire P&L looks substantially better.
No - people keep asking us to name our robots, but we haven't landed on anything yet!
this sucks, I think small and medium business should have a government escrow service. And it should be made law that:

A) Business over a certain size have to contract some quota from small and medium business

B) That any and all payments should be made through this escrow

So if BigCorp doesn't pay the little guy, Little guy get's paid and the matter is between government and BigCorp.
I did write the comment using it as noun, incorrectly, on purpose, to convey my confusion :)
The hand-waving explanation: The slower you're going, the easier (cheaper) it is to change direction. And for eliptical orbits, the outer-most part of the orbit is where you're going slow.

So to make a drastic change in direction (aka, a very different orbit):

1. First burn to move far away from the center of the orbit so that you're going very slow.

2. Then burn to make a large change in direction (orbit).

3. Then wait until you cross your desired final orbit, and burn again to close it.

The tradeoff is that these types of orbit change are very slow (because you want to be going very slow for the middle burn, which means you take ages to get there).
Funnily enough I write most of my view components without a template these days, unless there's a load of markup.

I keep meaning to take a look at Phlex.
I get the impression this injunction is really just saying that WPEngine's legal case has some veracity, and Automattic's actions seem to be retaliatory and/or not legal (depending on the eventual outcome of the actual case), and so is saying everything needs to be set back to where it was, while the courts work through an actual legal decision.
Not even close

https://youtube.com/shorts/KMlCCyQPfME?si=BsyZ9QZgZDJWVh4f
Honestly I have a BMI of 23 and feel like I have a "beer belly"

If you are over 25 you just need to loose weight straight up
I'm going to guess people find you overly pedantic?
That's how American law works. The law as written has very little to do with the law as practiced. Everything comes down to how courts interpret the letter of the law as it relates to the messy reality of meatspace.

Writing the law is like writing code. You can attempt to reason through each instruction and apply all sorts of static analysis, but you can't actually be certain it will work until you try to run it in production. The courts are the debugger for legal code. Courts attempt to interpret what the letter of the law means and how it applies to the very specific scenario in front of them.

Consider a law that simply states carrying a sword in public is illegal. Without common law, this rule applies in 100% of scenarios unless explicitly stated otherwise. If a foreign dignitary comes and expects officers with ceremonial swords, they all go to jail. We interpret law because the ideal vacuum universe in which the law was written does not have unforseen circumstances. A court applies an interpretation to circumstances to come to the judgement that diplomats are allowed to have ceremonial sabers in their entourage.

Think about it some more and ask yourself how a society could function in the long term without the ability to reinterpret law to fit particular circumstances. Every law rigidly applied exactly as written forever into the future. The only option to revise a law is by passing a new one.
Welcome back, Salvatore and thank you for the post. It's good to have you back in the fray.
It's really weird for matt to say they don't contribute while simultaneously taking over one of the most popular plug-ins that they contributed.
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But why WhatsApp in Western Europe and Viber on the Balkan Peninsula?
Waymo has fully autonomous commercial operations in 5 cities now. Have you been in one? They are amazing.

Most taxi/rideshare rides occur in cities, not the snowy mountains of Switzerland. Maybe they never make it to those snowy mountains. Who cares?
I really enjoy the process of ripping a disc to my hard drive, especially the process of finding the right combination of VapourSynth filters to clear up and fix any issues done in the mastering process. I also have discovered some interesting extra features.

An interesting DVD set was the first season of The IT Crowd, which has base64 encoded subtitles. It was a fun little project to OCR those, combine them together, and then decode them.

In terms of interesting DVD commentaries, Goodfellas and Catch Me if You Can have commentaries with the actual criminals who are the subject of the film, which gives an interesting perspective. There was also a hidden commentary track on one of The Simpsons episodes where the writers go into details about why there was a drop off in quality on the show. Actually the commentary tracks on The Simpsons episodes are generally excellent.
It comes in waves; pretty much nothing for months and then 5+ a day for the past few days.
> It’s a company you’ve heard of. Multinational. Publicly traded. Hundreds of billions of dollars in market cap.

Wonder if legal action would get them to pay up faster. Contract is breached. Once legal gets the letter, then it gets escalated internally.

Companies like this tend to just pay up (especially when wrong) rather than spend 10X in lawyer billables fighting/arguing it in court and getting their reputation dragged through the mud (bad optics such as “multibillion dollar company is stiffing vendors, who’s next? Possible bad quarter?” Then automated traders recognize SELL signal and company stonk drops)