skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> In general, I think it’s a very bad look to endorse murder.

Stopped reading right there. You don't need to endorse it to recognize that all other means of redress have been corrupted or hijacked. If you leave someone only one option, don't be surprised when they take that course of action.
For the document use case, most document formats do not embed the font, so in that case, you are fine. The license includes an explicit call out for embedding into a pdf: "Embedding of the Font Software is permitted for Portable Document Files (PDF), but only in such a way that the recipient cannot edit or extract the Font Software from the document".

It is not especially clear what that means, but my assumption would be that if you use subset embedding feature when creating the PDF you are fine, as that means even if somebody tries to extract the font, they would typically get a not terribly useful result, as unused glyphs, substitution tables, etc. would have been stripped.

And yes, as a general rule you cannot usually embed or otherwise distribute font files except as permitted by the font license.

On the other hand, at least in the US, you generally can distribute rasterized output of a font, because past court cases have clearly established that typefaces are not subject to copyright, but rather only the computer programs that procedurally generate typefaces from parameters is subject to copyright (e.g. font files). So, it is the vector data and stuff like the hinting mini-programs in the font file which are subject to copyright, not the resulting images it generates. Of course, you must still follow the license for the font software while using it to create a rasterized output.
Boris Johnson didn’t allow ukraine to negotiate

No, that's just a myth. Was a matter of speculation for a while, but when it got investigated, it didn't hold up.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41812302
As excited as I am about this jump from the fuzzy NeRFs/gaussian splatting to real meshes, I'm not holding my breath for BREP generation. Mesh to BREP has always been fraught because for anything beyond "find the cylinders", it becomes really subjective what a good representation is, and your average mesh likely doesn't have any simple representation that captures the full organic shape with analytic definitions.

With mesh faces now supported in BREP, I'm more optimistic about a mixed modeling approach, where you can do the braindead find-the-cylinders conversion but keep the rest mesh, not needing to force it into some eldritch contortion of BSurfs.
It will be interesting to see if this work will help us understand why the universe isn't half anti-matter.
Nah, screen time is the video games (1980s) of the 21st century, or the TV (1960s), or the radio (1930s), or the gin (1800s).

I’m on mobile now, but if I were on desktop I’d dig up Clay Shirky’s essay on gin and the Industrial Revolution. There has always been a moral panic about new forms of entertainment and time-wasting, because people look at these diversions and think “Why don’t people use all that time to benefit society (ie me)?” That’s just a refusal to admit that people don’t have any obligation to you or larger society, and fundamentally are out to make themselves feel good.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1h4l8df/comme...

> I used this “AI” for my company about 6 months ago.

> We had to cancel after only two months because it kept making things up that weren’t easily checked. Ex. I noticed your company recently bought xx I think that was a savvy move

> Cue people asking me what I was referring to, where they could find an article, etc

> These unanswerable questions were all the responses I ever got back. The effective response rate was 0%. So not only was it not producing it was also actively hurting the brand with all the nonsensical comments.
> You are mixing up 2 issues here.

When people talk about "restricting your caloric intake", they are very obviously talking about what's written on the package and not after making calculations based on whether it's fat, protein or carbohydrates. So I think both issues are very tightly related.
20% faster for some operations now, but with only a small subset of SQL implemented. Sound like making it as fast as SQLite will be hard with full compatibility given that I expect a lot more branching etc?

https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/blob/main/COMPAT.md
This is God's punishment to SF for worshipping Mammon. I, for one, welcome SF's downfall lol
For very simple things C might be accidentally faster.

But C lacks many modern data structures, which are critical for performance on modern hardware and bigger input data.
I worked at one of the big adtech companies at the time. DNT was a carefully negotiated compromise between the ad industry (and by proxy, the sites that depended on it for their income), the browser vendors, and privacy advocates. We implemented DNT it in our edge infrastructure and were ready to deploy it.

But then Microsoft broke the agreement by enabling it by default, as part of their war with Google (and after their own adtech ambitions ended in a 6 billion dollar write down on their acquisition of aQuantive). This killed it for everyone.

The ad industry was never going to go for an opt-out version of DNT. It worked while only a minority that cared about it opted-in, but not when the (then) dominant web browser made that choice for all of its users.

I fully understand why people hate tracking and targeted advertising (which has if anything gotten more invasive in the past decade), but at least at the time it was essential to the commercial web.
This post makes a few detours, but the section about their own work is always interesting to me. I've always been a "pull on the threads and then pattern match"-kinda worker, rather than a "productivity-chaser" or "advice-seeker". I just pull on the threads that interest me, and over time these threads always have a way of coming back together. It's the difference between being goal oriented and process oriented. This is a much slower, much longer arc to building your taste, skills, and reaching some semblance of your abstract goals, but the other way just wasn't fun to me.

When I was in undergrad I remember reading a lot of blogs and hoping to live up to their idealistic views (shoutout pg), because I hadn't quite yet identified what career I wanted to lead. I dropped out, and then around 24/25 the desire for those goals really shattered. I pursued a very self-directed path that has thankfully worked out (so far-still ample time for it to falter). As this post points out, the only advice that is universal on the internet is that there is no universal advice. Find what rings true to you and lean into it.
If you want to double-down on the sketchiness of selling robo-plagiarism of human authors' creations, to put humans out of work, call it "Artisans".

We all know that a bunch of people are getting rich off massive copyright violation, and anyone who understands how sketchy it is would rather be one of the people getting rich, than to martyr themselves pointlessly in front of this freight train of thieving greed.

But go and call it "Artisans", just to add insult to world-crushing injury.
https://archive.ph/2024.12.10-093243/https://www.wsj.com/us-...
As noted in the article, it could be a very sharp transition from "largest factorization performed so far is 3x7=21" to "we can factor real-world RSA."

If you want to make a classical computing analogy, it's like we're struggling to make transistors with more than a single 9 of reliability, and obviously you can't do complex computation with a circuit where every step gives garbage 1-in-10 times.

Except it's not's obvious. 90% reliability could probably be made to work with silicon transistors with bog standard error correcting logic at the hardware level. Quantum error is a little bit more troublesome to work with, but there are also no known theoretical reasons error correction wouldn't work at existing error rates. We just need better algorithms, which might very well exist.

Or, the next generation of chips would offer more 9's reliability, and even with existing error correction just a few more sigma in reliability would put us over the tipping point of being able to make reliable large-scale systems.
Problem comes down to, what is cloud provider?

My company has a piece of software we will sell you that requires Redis/PostGres. For fee, we also offer hosting of said software. Are we now a service provider? Our software does come with ability to manipulate the data in Redis so do we have open source our entire code base? Would we get stuck in lawyer battle royale?

We have resellers coming on board so interface is being built that lets them deploy our software for their customers so Redis will be deployed by us and given to reseller? Are we cloud provider then?

Now, I think reality is Redis wouldn't see as cloud provider because we don't go "Here is Redis, do whatever you want." Lawyers however get paid to think of worst thing that could happen and our lawyers said "Eh...... I'd hate to have these terms hanging over your head."

That's why alot of people recoil at SSPL.

Luckily, Valkey is drop-in replacement for us, testing is almost completed and likely we will switch when paperwork is all completed.
damn my wide feet. nice shoes tho. wish they'd fit me
These are great.

Always a pleasure discovering a portfolio of apps from an indie developer that genuinely do one thing well, are well designed, and all have the coveted “Data Not Collected” app privacy card to boot.
You should read the text, it's not about calling elephants bananas but real issues with software in the public domain
But it’s not when we’re talking about this in the context of weight loss/gain. When people colloquially say “gain weight” or “lose weight” they almost always mean gain/lose fat and/or muscle. Water weight is neither of those, and is generally bounded (unlike fat loss/gain).

Whether you gain or lose weight through water weight has little to do with calories at all. If you take creatine, for example, it’s pretty normal to gain a few pounds of water weight until your creatine levels equalize in your body. That doesn’t mean that your body’s “metabolism” changes or something based on the calories you ingest. You’ve just got another pathway to gain/lose apparent weight, albeit temporarily.
> It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen.

Yeah, I’m not reading the rest of this article if the author doesn’t understand how insurance companies work. Doctors hate them too for a reason.
"Alena Tensor in unification applications" (2024) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad98ca
The problem with your analogy is that open source has a definition. As does public domain. As do elephants and bananas.

In your analogy we're not the ones calling elephants bananas, you are. We want to keep calling one bananas and the other elephants. You are suggesting that since elephants are similar to bananas you can simply use either word.

Legally, Open Source and Public Domain are -very- different animals. Open Source comes eith a copyright, and a license (which has requirements), public domain does not.

Of course public domain and open source are both "shipped as source code". Then again so is a fair bit of proprietary software. That doesn't make it open source either.
Looks like it's still in beta?

I tried it out a few weeks ago and it was extremely buggy. I'm curious how it has been for others.
I play Texas Holdem.

It's not enough $$$ to be a full time role, especially considering the costs of purchasing health insurance w/o a traditional W2 employer, but it's perfectly possible to buy in for the the table max (500) and leave with between between three hundred and a thousand dollars in profit in ~8 hours of play.

(Real life, not online. "Caro's Book of Poker Tells"[1] will aid you more than fancy math, though knowing the basics of what is a good hand, what a check raise is, that sort of thing will help -- the biggest thing to remember is to play less hands, and be aggressive when you do. Fold or raise -- no calls!)

[1] https://archive.org/details/carosbookofpoker00caro
So, basically everything but 4.5.
>If we're a simulation of a parent universe that is exactly like us just of it's past or an alternate past

Yes, this is a MASSIVE and COMPLETELY UNTESTABLE if

Everything about simulation theory is like, science-hostile or something it seems.
It is absolutely true that a work can be in the public domain and not have source available (or even contributable). But that doesn't really matter to most people. The question for most people is not whether something is open source, but whether they can copy and make use of a work without being held liable for copyright infringement. SQLite happens to be both public domain and open-source to an extent (i.e., source available).

Conversely, open source doesn't necessarily mean "free to use without encumbrance." There are many open-source licenses that forbid certain uses (e.g. Business Source License). On the other hand, a work in the public domain is free to be used by all without restriction.

A better analysis of open source vs. public domain would be in the form of a square, where one dimension would be the right to use the work, and the other dimension would be the ability to obtain and contribute source code.
Failure of the prosecution? No, they have qualified immunity.
Apple's Next Ultra Smartwatch Will Be Able to Send Texts via Satellite
"death sentence": about 5 million households in the US do not have checking accounts. Although it's a great inconvenience, and in many cases may be an injustice, it doesn't seem incompatible with life.

Note that a "normal" checking account customer poses basically zero risk to a bank - money goes in via direct deposit, comes out via debit, ACH, and withdrawals, and the bank is never left holding the bag.

From the article: Employees of crypto companies are not "normal" bank customers. Recent history shows that there is a significant risk that they may deposit commingled funds from their employer, which (a) puts the bank at risk for huge money-laundering fines, and (b) puts it at additional risk (I think?) if the crypto company fails.

If you have a credit score of 300 and complain about not being able to get a mortgage, I won't have a lot of sympathy. If your employment history is spotty and you're not a full-time employee, I might have more sympathy but I'll still understand why it would be hard to get a loan.

It turns out that if you work for a crypto company, you're a bigger risk to the bank than someone with bad credit is to a mortgage lender, as the possible losses are far higher than the amount of money they'd ever make off of you, and the fraction of crypto companies that have gone down that route is uncomfortably high. Oh well.

BTW, Walmart charges $4 to cash checks less than $1000, and $8 for $1000-$5000. If Grandma's check is $200 or less, it will cost $6. Your local post office will sell you a money order (up to $1000) for about $3, and you can get prepaid credit cards to pay online bills at your local 7-11, again for prices in the single digits.
How people use the term "fair use" is out of touch with the legal definition. That doesn't change the legal definition, it means people use the term incorrectly.
US has excellent education by the standard, commonly used international measures. In PISA, for example, white American children score better than any European country, and are only outscored by a handful of East Asian countries. These are all in turn outscored by US Asians, putting US on top yet again. US has a bunch of lower-performing population groups, who bring the overall average down, but even these perform better than their foreign counterparts. US blacks perform better than blacks in any African country, immigrants from South America perform better than kids in the countries they came from etc.

> For the rest, do you have any evidence for the statements, or that the outcome depends on race

Not sure what you’re asking for. Did you not know that there are large differences in means of test scores between various ethnic and racial groups in US? This is a commonly known fact, I don’t think really require me to provide specific evidence.

> And blaming the immigrants for undermining 'white' people is also part of a hateful disinformation campaign, so I think we should be very careful with statements that might be used to spread that hate.

Not sure what you’re talking about, but I get the feeling that you’re trying to smear me with allusions and innuendos.
Integrated Intel GPU's have come a long way since Windows Vista. They started to be usable around 2012 and actually decent in the current decade
The Program, my fiction podcast launched on HN, 5 years and 1M downloads later
Thank you for the high quality comment. I'll try to add some insight here for race. Using the reports [1] and [2], the difference for Grade 4 students are:

American Indian / Alaska Native - 2.5% in 2019 - 1.6% in 2023 - 515 in 2019 - 504 in 2023

Asian - 5.3% in 2019 - 4.3% in 2023 - 586 in 2019 - 571 in 2023

Black - 13.2% in 2019 - 15.5% in 2023 - 494 in 2019 - 468 in 2023

Hispanic - 25.8% in 2019 - 26.3% in 2023 - 508 in 2019 - 491 in 2023

Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander - 1.7% in 2019 - 0.9% in 2023 - 500 in 2019 - 457 in 2023

Two or more races - 5.6% in 2019 - 8.1% in 2023 - 554 in 2019 - 542 in 2023

White - 45.9% in 2019 - 43.2% in 2023 - 559 in 2019 - 543 in 2023

It looks like all groups suffered at least 10 points in loss but these effects are definitely exaggerated by the reweighing of population proportions.

[1] - https://nces.ed.gov/timss/results19/index.asp#/math/achievem...

[2] - https://nces.ed.gov/timss/results23/index.asp#/math/achievem...
>> How does your buddy feel about the shooter, given his experience with the medical system?

He's already said he would never support what he did, regardless of what happened to him or how he was treated.

>> Would he approve of you using him as an example of why an elderly woman with a severe, largely untreated nervous system chronic illness, which cannot be solved by any one procedure domestically or abroad, should just fix herself somehow?

He's already told multiple people in multiple conversations I've been around him that he felt compelled to leave the country to get treatment because the system is so broke here. I don't need his approval or permission to use his experience.

Its been widely reported the shooters family is wealthy. With such financial resources, both the shooter and his mom could've easily sought treatment elsewhere, but did not. Apparently people don't like the idea that life is hard and sometimes caring for your loved ones isn't easy, is time consuming and takes a lot of energy to endure.

Its clear the shooter decided he didn't have the constitution to do something different and instead of taking the decision process out of UHC's hands and do something himself to help his family, he merely acquiesced to what UHC was doing until he decided he needed to murder the CEO of the company.

>> This reads very “I have black a black friend, so I can speak on race issues”.

"Those who preach about tolerance and acceptance rarely, if ever, practice it themselves."

Thanks for confirming this is your level of discourse.
If you can not run the test suite, then how do you know that you properly followed the spec? And did so securely? And in a performant manner? Even for edge cases? On obscure hardware, filesystems, and OSes? Even if the power cuts out? Or the cable to the hard drive (transactions)? Even if a stray cosmic ray flips a bit?

By the way, SQLite itself does not meet one of these criteria. Know which one? ))
You’re implying the situation is as stable as it is in other first-world countries. It’s not. It’s brand new, and Donald Trump has sworn it’s going away.
The linked article mentions public domain.

Please note that public domain laws vary depending on the country. What you call a banana might mean something different elsewhere.
Transcribing is almost at the end of the journalistic process. The hard part is getting the facts (correctly), checking and cross-checking, calling sources, trying to get back channels, in many cases have boots on the ground, and then summarize all those things and put them all together before editorialization.
Okay, I see.

Looks like you still new to this new generation of messaging apps.

They are far away from oldschool SMS -> they send messages over internet but connect people based on their contact lists (phone numbers users sign up with).
my biggest problem in coding is when I'm looking at things spanning 10 directories and 100 files with totally useless name like controller/viewer.js, viewer/controller.js, viewercontrols.js, etc and try to find where, 15 function calls ago and 80 statements ago some bug occurred. I was hoping that AI could help untangle these messes.
Tell me you haven't been out of the Bay Area in a long time without telling me you haven't been out of the Bay Area in a long time. What a tone-deaf campaign.
Gaming is actually a pretty reasonable use case for NFT's, or blockchain generally. At it's core, an NFT is a digital asset with verifiable ownership. Many, many games have the concept of owning digital assets; the fact that they're not on a blockchain is an implementation detail. All the hype around monkey-ape pictures and microtransactions was offputting to a lot of gamers, making the whole thing come off like a big cash-grab (which it mostly was), but from a purely technological standpoint, blockchain might not be a terrible solution for games with transferable digital assets.
I think he might have expected private security guards to tackle him as soon as he did it.
In the words of Jonah Aragon [0] "Mozilla constantly fails to
understand the basic concept of consent" [1].

[0] https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/07/14/mozilla-disappoint...

[1] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/you-are-too-dumb-for-tech
From the article: "I would say, generally, it's pretty good on US politics — even local politics."

Ctrl-F "bias": 0 results

Wikipedia is simply not trustworthy on anything remotely political due to the extreme ideological slant of its editors.