skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did. But if several nation-states would pledge larger grants, I would have some hope that i.e. the trucks with the building materials would get through border-crossings, e.t.c.

Individual donations are a drop in a very big and leaky bucket.
>That is unbelievably scary, anti-democratic, ripe for abuse, and a push towards authoritarianism

Brussels in a nutshell...
Its not just that. Different ideas on how to regulate.

To add something to food in the EU, you need to prove FIRST it causes no harm. It follows the precautionary principle.

In the US, the FDA allows "similar compounds" rapid approval, allowing for the expansion of what's allowed without testing.

Here is the probably not too bad chatGPT summary

United States: Risk-Benefit Approach

General Approach:

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) operates under a risk-benefit analysis framework. This means additives can be approved if the benefits (e.g., preserving food, enhancing flavor) outweigh the potential risks when used as intended.

In some cases, manufacturers can self-certify an additive as "Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS) without requiring FDA pre-approval. This system relies heavily on the manufacturer's responsibility and scientific consensus among qualified experts.
Approval Process:

Data Submission: Manufacturers submit safety data for new additives, but the level of evidence required can vary. For GRAS substances, companies may use existing studies or published research instead of conducting new, comprehensive tests.

Rapid Approvals: The GRAS system allows additives to be introduced more quickly, provided there is no immediate evidence of harm. This has led to criticism that some substances enter the market without sufficient independent oversight.

The differing approaches to food additive regulation in the EU and the US stem from distinct legal frameworks, principles, and processes for evaluating food safety. Here's a breakdown of how it works:

European Union: Precautionary Principle

General Approach:

The EU adheres to the Precautionary Principle, which means a substance must be proven safe before it is approved for use.

Manufacturers or entities seeking approval for a food additive must provide comprehensive scientific evidence to demonstrate that the additive is harmless to humans.
Approval Process:

Scientific Evaluation: The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) conducts a detailed risk assessment. Applicants must submit robust toxicological and safety data, including studies on metabolism, potential toxic effects, and exposure assessments.

Re-Evaluation: Even after approval, all additives are subject to periodic re-evaluation to ensure ongoing safety as new scientific evidence emerges.
They did yesterday https://www.tzevaadom.co.il/en/alerts/5292
I guess it doesn't take much to entertain frontend devs, but I'd lose my shit if I had to relearn a new shape for the wheel every 6 months. A Sisyphean existence: one must imagine the webshit happy.

And consider that amazon.com was launched in '95, so yeah, you don't need the latest JS framework to build an empire.

The truth is that 90% of tech is about chasing trends that the people who succeeded have set. It's not because the core ideas have merit or are successful. It's because Facebook did it, so we have to do it too (even though we operate at 1/10000th of the scale). No further reasoning needed, everything else is driven by the hype.

Don't believe me? Just look at the state of LLMs. They're solutions looking for problems and the entire world is eager to waste billions in the process of figuring out that LLMs are not good at factual reasoning.
A bunch of fun articles around these areas in the UK (free to read, think you might need an account though - apologies). Two food and one toy:

https://www.ft.com/content/5af5b182-349a-4a25-b4fb-4551908f2...

https://www.ft.com/content/a6a54008-6059-4052-99ae-282f148f2...

https://www.ft.com/content/a8d6413e-1184-4f89-9bcb-4f6cb8d7a...
Running a code test doesn't require firing a rocket.

How would you test a rocket?
Yes, the articles complaints (no free way to use it as a webcam, 30 minute limits etc.) doesn't seem to apply to many camera brands apart from Canon.
Or when the makers of Jaffa Cakes baked a giant 12 inch version[1] and brought it to the court to argue they were cakes and not biscuits to get lower VAT.

[1]: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/10/time-compan...
They need impatience!
A medicine being effective or safe is not a matter of politics, or opinion.

A court (deciding who commited murder, etc) is not a government.

As for advertisments, we decide for ourselves.
DRM doesn't protect, it only delays.

Never trust the client. Anything the client has access to, whether "protected" by Play Integrity or not, should be considered compromised.
> the CS concepts are very easy for LLMs to recall

They're easy to recall, but you have to know what to recall in the first place. Or even know enough of the territory to realise there's something to recall. Without enough background, you'll get a whole set of amazing tools that you have no idea what to do with.

For example, you may be able to write a long description of your problem with some ideas how to steer the AI to give you possible solutions. And the AI may figure out what the problem is and that the hyperloglog is something that could be useful to you. And you may have the awesome programming skills to implement that. But that's a lot of maybes. It would be much faster/easier if you knew about hyperloglog ahead of time and just asked for the implementation or library recommendation.

Or even if you don't know about the actual solution, you'd have enough of CS vocabulary to ask: "how do I get a fast, approximate distinct count from a multiset". It would take a long imprecise description to get the same thing for a coder with no theory background.
Rush Limbaugh zombie in a polkadot dress.
This is like saying daily tasklists are bad cos they don't address what I'll have to do next month. No sh, sherlock. That's why there are different horizons and long-term company goals and vision, based on which priorities are picked and set as OKRs for that specific time period. There are layers above them. What a weird take...
The thread is about bad things because of tax policy, your post is about a good thing because of health policy - but you don’t say it’s a good thing, or that it’s about heath not taxes.

The post pointing this out has different content to yours, which reads as if your meaning is “this reminds me of another bad thing caused by tax policies” - even if that’s not what you meant.
Nominally, yes. These are checked before your movie is being distributed, and you'll most probably face legal consequences if you don't pay for your licenses.

Not getting caught for some time doesn't count either. You'll pay retroactively, with some interest, probably.

Licensing page is at [0]. Considering the previous shenanigans they pulled against open video and audio formats in the past [1], these guys are not sleeping around. These guys call people for patent pools in a format, and license these pools as format licenses.

[0]: https://www.via-la.com/licensing-2/avc-h-264/avc-h-264-licen...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA#Criticism
Nice idea. Congrats on the launch!

I don't know how it could work, just an idea I had; it could have an integration with stripe, so it automaticaly refills the credits on subscription renewals.
This can be done. Not sure how on Windows/bitlocker but certainly with cryptenroll. Essentially you’d wrap this in your bootscript, though.

So password (or pin) encrypts passphrase, passphrase encrypts LUKS and goes to TPM, then you
need to reverse the process for your init script (request password, decrypt passphrase, exchange with TPM to decrypt LUKS), but it depends on your appetite for planning that out.
There is a lovely bit of complication with it! Not saying to correct you, just because i think it is a lovely bit of trivia even though it has nothing to do with space debris.

Both sailing and power driven vessels need to give ways to (among other things) “vessel restricted in her ability to maneuver”. And an aircraft carrier launching or recovering aircraft is considered to be restricted in her ability to maneuver (quite rightfully so, it is hard enough to land on them without the ship swerving left and right).

So that means that a mighty aircraft carrier needs to (at least according to the regulations) dodge tiny sailing ships, but once they start launching or recovering aircraft it is the responsibility of the sailing ship to avoid them.

Source: Rule 18 of the ColRegs (The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972)
I'll add few things at which Cursor with Claude is better than us (at least in time/effort):

- explaining code. Enter some legacy part of your code nobody understands, LLMs aren't limited to keeping few things in memory like us. Even if the code is very obfuscated and poorly written it can understand what it does and the purpose and suggest refactors to make it understandable

- explaining and fixing bugs. Just the other day Antirez posted a bug of him debugging a Redis segfault on some C code providing context and stack trace. This might be a hit or miss at times, but more often than not it saves you hours

- writing tests. It often comes up with many more examples and edge cases than I thought of. If it doesn't, you can always ask it to.

In any case I want to stress that LLMs are only as good as your data and prompts. They lack the nuance of understanding lots of context, yet I see people talking to them like humans that understand the business, best practices and others.
The format itself is patent-unencumbered. That doesn't mean I couldn't still write a non-free decoder and license it to Pioneer for use in their CDJs. Due to organizational inertia, I suspect that's what's going on here (e.g., they licensed a decoder from Fraunhofer or another commercial implementer twenty years ago, and have been using the same one since).
Mexico had a sucessfull Natural Disaster Fund [pdf]
Maybe that would be an example for California?

The fund was dissolved to help battle COVID in Mexico.
It's not a human construct. If you have ever spent time around a cat, you can understand ownership completely without any legal constructs. What we as humans are somewhat proud of, or the definition of civilization, is that we spend most of our time trying to create systems to define boundaries and property rights without resorting to violence. Those systems can be fair and well-distributed or unfair and hereditary, or somewhere in-between; they inevitably hand over the violence to some arbiter or government (whether market-driven or communist dictatorship, it's the same in terms of a structure enforcing who gets what, even if the incentives and dynamics are skewed); but the point is that we code them into law so that any arbitrary cat can't just post up inside another cat's borders and terrorize the house.

The point of PROPERTY writ large isn't the piracy or acts of violence that people here make it out to be. Property doesn't arise from the law. Legal frameworks arise from the existence of property. And legal frameworks are an unadorned good in a world without them, because normal, domestic, and peaceful life does not exist where laws don't exist.
I have a Tesla in space to sell ya
I’m not sure if this is the exact process for openSUSE Aeon, but it’s very close philosophically so I image the rest is a question of hardening this over time.
No, it is the first edition, there are newer editions
Prove it please.
Methanol has been used, as has rubbing alcohol and methyl ethyl ketone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol for further reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium is used to make it unpalatable. Fun fact: the same chemical is also coated onto Nintendo Switch cartridges to discourage children from putting them in their mouths.
Kinda depends on what you mean exactly. For example, open source world will likely not be affected aside from a few cases like the Russian Linux developers. Neither China nor Russia are likely to completely block access to internet and developers won't have any incentives to do isolate themselves.
Fair enough -- though I'd take 720p from my DSLR over 1080p+ from my webcam every time; that's enough pixels for a meeting. And I also had to get a capture card for it, because the USB access was locked behind proprietary/shitty software (Sony).
You lost me at socks ! :O
Agreed - Where I live now, 8 thousand years ago I could have walked all the way from the UK to Holland.

Even just 1000 years ago the coastline here went four miles out to sea compared to today.

In the last 20 year we've seen the erosion of the coastline here accelerating - regular news stories about people losing their houses to the sea: https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/article/56352/Challenges-of-coast...

It doesn't matter if you think it is human caused or not, the sea level is undeniably rising:

https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-cha....
Show HN: ZX Spectrum SCR to PNG Converter
Scratching my own itch. I had to do this for showing information on ZX Spectrum games. So thought I'd turn it into a useful tool for other people to use.
Its not 100% for sure but say 70% for me which is high enough.

Yes if I am working on a high importance, high bandwidth problem I will break it.

But of day-to-day with team a lot of things fall into this. I see other stick it in their To-dos or setup time in calendar where I just prefer to get it done.
> eye-wateringly expensive

For you. Anyone doing design and manufacturing of optics will not blink at paying for software.
from an AI research perspective -- it's pretty straightforward to mitigate this attack

1. perplexity filtering - small LLM looks at how in-distribution the data is to the LLM's distribution. if it's too high (gibberish like this) or too low (likely already LLM generated at low temperature or already memorized), toss it out.

2. models can learn to prioritize/deprioritize data just based on the domain name of where it came from. essentially they can learn 'wikipedia good, your random website bad' without any other explicit labels. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05405 and also another recent paper that I don't recall...
This reminds me of Samsung and the SPO2 the oxygen sensor on the S8+ (I think) phone. All was well until one day an update disabled access to the sensor. Worse it was only for Canada where it was blocked. The access to the physical sensor on a phone I had owned for a few years, gone. Oh but you could buy their new watch that had an SPO2 sensor on it.

Disabling a physical component on a device a person owns and has owned for a while shouldn't be permitted.
You are entirely ignoring the subscription for what should, at most, be a one-off cost.

> The app is part of the implementation

Give other cameras can do it, there has a standard for it since 2003, and there are F/OSS implementations for others, maybe I'm asking the wrong question and instead should have asked “why should the OP pay a subscription for their bad choice of how to implement the feature?”.
I threw away all my personal productivity crap a couple years ago and still get the same amount of stuff done. I just converted the fiddling time into free time.
Why does that matter? SpaceX is setting themselves up for failure by insisting that they need to nail re-entry first. Whenever they focused on a test flight for re-entry I'm wondering why they aren't working on more important things like the payload doors or orbital brimming. They will get the re-entry tests for free!

And even if they don't. The upper stage is cheap enough that it can be expended and still be cheaper per flight than Falcon Heavy. So that tells me that the delays are on purpose. Their test flight planning is designed to maximize ego stroking.
The result of these kinds of laws is that 3D printers are going to no longer be open devices with open source control software capable of printing anything, and will instead use this as a reason to become locked down ecosystems, where normal users can only print models approved by the centralized curation of a model store, and with a form of "model-signing" similar to Apple's most draconian versions of code-signing to provide some level of accountability in what the people with paid/approved designer accounts are printing for one-offs.
> i wonder what caused the change

In many countries, if the consumer gets defrauded, the bank foots the bill.

I don't think the problem here is consumers getting defrauded by having an insecure rooted device. It's fraudsters using the mobile app APIs for nefarious purposes, and the best way to prevent that is to use SafetyNet and other similar mechanisms.
Yes. With the microservice as the unit of deployment, the design is about team structure as much as it is anything else. The team of 4-12 people owns and deploys a service at their own pace, without needing to be part of a larger and slower batch.

If you're interested in iterative development and continuous deployment, which of course I am, it is a natural fit. It is productive in that case.
I believe the "obnoxious blur" is a common view transition API animation [1]. Astro uses similar as a default [2].

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...

2. https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/view-transitions/#built-i...
I think giving homeless people free lunches is an excellent idea and I hope the incoming administration for the U.S.A. continues with this.
In the LOTR, Eru Ilúvatar created the world with a specific hierarchy.

In the Abrahamic religions everything happens for a reason

In Buddhism suffering is enlightenment or something like that about some path

In the world of the rich kids Leibniz and Darwin it be what it be

So if all history is written by a few it is the will of the universe fighting that would be like fighting the very nature of reality itself.

This is the way. If you are a dreamer sometimes you may see glimpses of a different reality but that's all they are glimpses that maybe eons from now may become reality
It's definitely worse for LLMs than for StackOverflow. You don't need to fully understand a StackOverflow answer, but you at least need to recognise if the question could be applicable. With LLMs, it makes the decisions completely for you, and if it doesn't work you can even get it to figure out why for you.

I think young people today are at severe risk of building up what I call learning debt. This is like technical debt (or indeed real financial debt). They're getting further and further, through university assignments and junior dev roles, without doing the learning that we previously needed to. That's certainly what I've seen. But, at some point, even LLMs won't cut it for the problem they're faced with and suddenly they'll need to do those years of learning all at once (i.e. the debt becomes due). Of course, that's not possible and they'll be screwed.
We maintain a few number of projects for clients - the apps are feature complete and will not change much in the next years. The goal here is to spend not much money on the apps but to keep them functional in the appstore.
RN is somewhat cheaper up fron than native development or say flutter. Unfortunately, maintenance cost is high and difficult to predict.
Why?
Appstores are adding new requirements and increase API-level all the time. Support for that is often baked into new RN versions. Unfortunately, new RN versions often break things, which break libraries in turn. So you need to upgrade this morass and if you are unlucky, you need to redevelop huge swaths of your app because the lib now is deprecated /works differently / will never be updated to the new RN version.
You've sort of identified how to do it: break it up into problems.

Addresses are hard? Use https://postcodes.io or make your own - that's a project in its own right.

Separately out trading name from registered names needs to be an API from Companies House, or an internal service that API-ifies Companies House data.

Fraud detection? That needs to sit somewhere - let's break out all the fraud detection into a separate system that can talk to the other systems, and have it running continuously over the data. It'll need people to update fraud queries and also to make sure the other systems' data stays integrated with it.

Finally you need something on top that orchestrates the services and exposes them via a gov.uk website, and copes with things like "I don't have my address yet; can I use What3Words instead?" and another one with a UI and lots of RBAC and approvals for DVLA users to do lookups and internal admin.
When you know what needs to be done, you don't need "productivity", you just need to work.

When you don't know what needs to be done, no amount of "productivity" will compensate for the fact that any work you do is meaningless and any result thereof accidental.
This is from 2003 (December, so it's about 21 years ago). Is it still relevant?
Which does not contain pictures. Seems like a way to gain high signal to noise rating. You'll always miss out, there's FOMO for you.

I am grateful for the suggestion, gonna give it a whirl.
For the same reason that an OS like Windows puts ads in their Start Menu, presumably.

Because their audiences are either captive, uneducated, uncaring or a mix of those and therefore will accept whatever defaults you throw at them. If those defaults help you as the org to make more money, then it’s a no brainer.
We've been using this for the last 6 or so months. Saved us days, if not weeks, of dev time. Great product & support.
Sure, and the screen in text mode was 80 x 25 chars = 2000 bytes of memory. A new phone has perhaps three million pixels, each taking 4 bytes. There's a significant difference.
> my Android phone is a better camera than my full frame

I'm probably a terrible photographer and I shoot with a "budget" kit (Canon R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, RF 35mm F1.8 IS STM), but looking at the 10 last photos I've taken and liked (so going back a year basically), I don't think I'd be able to retake a single one of them on my iPhone and get something comparable.
Comparing Rust Actor Libraries: Actix, Coerce, Kameo, Ractor, and Xtra
I feel sorry for people who bought a Tesla before Musk made it so obvious that he's an utter arsehole.
Exactly. LLMs are gullible. They will believe anything you tell them, including incorrect things they have told themselves. This amplifies errors greatly, because they don't have the capacity to step back and try a different approach, or introspect why they failed. They need actual guidance from somebody with much common sense; if let loose in the world, they mostly just spin around in circles because they don't have this executive intelligence.
See also James Watson, Nobel winner for discovering DNA, who continues to make racist remarks despite scientific evidence that he's incorrect. This has unsurprisingly led to the complete destruction of his reputation and considerable loss of income. People don't need financial incentives to be wrong, apparently.
Someone doesn't really need a reason to build something besides that they want to build it. I built many RSS readers and I was not trying to revolutionise anything, I was just having fun. This mindset of "revolution" and "disruption" will block you from actually just doing the things you want sometimes.
This reminds me of backlog grooming in Jira
You are on hackernews. It’s curiosity not only about the flaw in their system but also how they as a system react to the flaw. Tells you a lot about companies you can later avoid when recruiters knock or you send out resumes.
yes of course - but in this case the "unexpected" prompt is presented to the attacker, not the user.
An extra minute or two can mean a $17 billion expansion, so it matters.
It's the opposite. Most government systems have paper-based alternatives, which they will happily tell you to use instead if their system breaks. This exact article's title should've given you a clue here. Imagine if Netflix turned off at night. That would be totally unacceptable for a business, because you're their boss, but it's fine for government.