skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay having worked at a top 3 insurance broker about 10 years ago when “Cyber” policies were being rolled out (h/t Beasley)…I wonder who underwrote Oracle’s policy and how much it was in that tower? No policy? Hope the D&O can cover the shareholder lawsuits! Wait, something something cozy with administration in power, rules subject to interpretation, etc.

Then again, Tyler Technologies blamed Judyrecords.com for their exposing reams of sealed cases in California because of their flawed obfuscation system and claimed it was a security breach (somehow skated on accountability there).

Rule #1 of a breach is never write the word breach in an email, hence the discussion off their dot com I figure…
Interesting looking headphones - I'd be interested to read your review of them
" It's bad faith open source because only AOSP is actually open source, and AOSP by itself is not that useful of an operating system. "

So it's bad faith because they didn't open source as much as you wanted, and you want parts that aren't open source because you don't find it useful enough.

Have you considered that maybe this is not a great bar?

Your claim of bad faith is based on what you want, and not based on how any of the people involved actually operated.

Perhaps you should not claim bad faith without evidence the people involved actually operated in bad faith.

Thankless people for whom somebody's particular open source project is not enough and feel like they are entitled to more are one of the worst things about open source as an ecosystem overall.

On top of that, i'm very curious to understand what exactly you think would be the state of the world had AOSP not been released.

(Also, as an aside, open core did not exist at the time AOSP was released)
All of which could be "followed" by other people
The Quebec separatists would be particularly funny in Congress.
For "search engine" tasks I have switched to Kagi.com and find it more useful than Google's results. I am not using it for shopping but to find original content that offers multiple perspectives on topics I am researching. I find Perplexity helpful when I am trying to get a basic overview because it provides links to substantiate the content. Your mileage may vary.
God I miss the days when I could plug a phone in and get a mass storage device. Imagine, I could copy a video off my phone and copy music onto it at the same time.
I wish the error handling proposal had gone the same way. The numerous error handling proposals finally got an official proposal [1] for a "try" keyword, which was arguably less elegant than some other proposals, and got a lot of pushback, and the Go team eventually withdrew it for somewhat unclear reasons. They admitted the proposal was flawed, but the main reason seems to be that many comments didn't want a solution in the first place ("for many of you it’s simply not a problem to solve").

[1] https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/07/go-try-proposal-rejected/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180 exists
The Pixel line has never, IMO, been the best hardware in the Android ecosystem. It might be the best hardware/software combo, but Samsung's hardware has always seemed better.
Apple Music will not stream 24/96 to you if you are not using compatible equipment

But it’s nice to have the option because even my wife, who doesn’t care about audio at all, can immediately tell if my home theater is playing a DTS-MA track or an AAC track. We have a pretty modest 5.1 setup from a aperion audio. High quality audio formats are not flim flam in and of itself.

LDAC is actually a great codec and I understand it’s available to every android device, so thank you to Sony for inventing it. It’s indistinguishable to me against a flac file over wired connections. And I actually can tell the difference with lesser codecs.

I cannot tell the difference above CD quality audio, and even still not reliably at lower quality. That doesn’t mean it’s worthless.
Lonlat: Mapping software and their order for longitude and latitude coordinates
Comparatively little, I'd imagine.
Yes, an OpenSolaris fork. I thought that was the "it" you were referring to, as that was what the parent was talking about.

There are quite a few AOSP forks, like LineageOS and GrapheneOS to cite the most famous ones, but with this change in process by Google, they will have to wait a year of no changes, then scramble when the next release of Android drops.
> The industry realized this and honestly for most people a water resistant phone is worth losing the 1/8” jack and they win with fewer components and thinner phones

This would make sense if people didn't turn around and spend more than is saved on wireless headphones. I don't understand what people see in airpods (they work sufficiently but they're bleached and molded plastic; vomit, way too expensive for any possible use-case), but they're enormously successful and more than validated the removal of the jack. By like multiple orders of magnitude.

Anyway, I've definitely had waterproof phones with a headphone jack. I'm guessing they removed it just to save on space. I wish I gave a shit about the shape of the phone, but the primary difference is I view my phone as more of a toy than a tool.
Like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43303718?
Browser Agent Playground – OpenAI CUA and Claude Computer Use for Free
I'm sure it's a sliding scale type thing. 24 students is slightly better than 25, and our numbers have slowly been increasing for a long time.
Right, so iterations that ate up the old-school competition, not revolutions
One problem with simplicity is that it often moves the complexity elsewhere, particularly if you're designing things that others use.

Brainfuck the language is simple to use and implement. It has only 8 commands.
Brainfuck programs are virtually unreadable, unless you can get your head around it.

The advantage of trying to solve complexity is that if you can solve it, you've solved it once and exactly once for everyone involved.
My understanding is Line is on top in Japan.
I see most comments concentrated on employment. For a scam, think of someone that has been told they have a specific genetic disease, and that information is available in their DNA "data". As a scammer, I can start to send you information about alternative health treatments specific to your disease, that have no scientific backing to them. Since I'm a scammer, I can write anything I want to, like stating that the information is backed by FDA approval and even put statements like that in the fine print to build up my credibility. You could also try and sell fake services that wipe your released DNA information from databases online. There's a lot of potential for scams if you can link what people think is private (DNA), and their email/personal information.

When I was younger, I read a lot of ethics course material, and spent a lot of time thinking about how someone could get around existing laws or technology, and most of it boils down to most people believing what they're told with a bit of coaxing (building that credibility; social engineering). Luckily, I never went ahead using this information, and have actually turned down projects where my morals were put into question, but I think it prepared me to be more conscious of scams and shady advertising. I work for a digital advertising agency, and use an adblocker during my development work so I can see how a site is useful or mostly worthless when someone turns ad networks/tracking off. One of the benefits of working for a smaller company.
When I was at EA, almost all of the internal tools for building and editing games were written in C#.
You said "IQ, agreeableness, neurodegeneration, schizophrenia [fine, whatever], personality type". Science fiction.
that was it even 6 or seven years ago, but the warning signs are there that we’ve chosen not to for so long that the abilities have rotted
But it handles it better than Json.
It sounds to me like Graphene will have a large gap of access to fixes compared to the special vendors.. I wont be upgrading to a newer Pixel until I see a year or two of this working out and I think that is less likely than a descent.
Excel.

Before you dismiss it as 'not a language, people have argued that it is. And you can definitely program stuff in it, and so that surely makes it a language
I am trying to think of how genotypes would be used for advertising.

1. Ancestry, but that is about as reliable as a photo and puts a company at far greater legal risk.

2. Actionable SNPs associated with a metabolic oddities. Hmm, that might work for a small number of cases but would probably produce huge backlash.

3. We know who your daddy is. Oh great, thanks so much. I hate you.

Any advertiser going these routes will be running right into a brick wall.

Can you think of plausible scenarios that make someone a buck without legal repercussions and hate mail?
I wonder what it would be like to verify the authenticity of an artifact like that. I mean, assuming it didn't melt everyone in the vicinity first, of course.
That's an interesting way to do it. I was thinking it could be more selective in terms of what I do or don't share.
Kids 'swipe books like they're iPads' - as child literacy drops since Covid
Most MCP servers are thin wrappers around an API, I don't think there will be a big paid market. I imagine they will be released like SDKs are now, either by companies themselves, or by individuals when there's no official implementation. A few dev agents can even write MCP servers for themselves.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1hcrxl6/cline_can...
It's hardly a bad idea to do a list of lists in JSON...

The big advantage of JSON is that it's standardized and you can reuse the JSON infrastructure for more than just tabular data.
And indeed applies to CSV as well: it's just strings at the end of the day, its up to the parser to make sense of it into the data types one wants. There is nothing inherently stopping you from parsing a JSON string into a uint64: I've done so plenty!
I agree! I think density is good, which is why I live in an urban area. What I don't get are the other people who live in urban areas who want them to be more like North Dakota.
I am reading this while downloading half the internet doing a `cargo build` for my hello world program.

At least it's not the cursed javascript, right...
It sounds like you've made up your mind! Best of luck.
Calling it pseudoscience is a little simplistic IMHO.

There are double-blinded studies which shows experts can distinguish between 44khz and 88khz sampling rates. The Pras & Guastavino paper [1] is the most convincing and offers insight on the difference between content types. In particular, for the recording test, the differences only held for orchestral content, not other types of music.

There are earlier studies which shows the general public cannot discriminate e.g. Meyer and Moran [2], which kicked off the entire controversy back in the day. And even the Meyer and Moran paper points out in the conclusion that the introduction of higher bandwidth audio in turn has enabled recording engineers to spend more time on producing quality recordings, and that has increased listening quality for all users, versus recordings made just to maximize loudness.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257068631_Sampling_...

[2] https://drewdaniels.com/audible.pdf
"I will proceed to type the characters _e_ and _gu_"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-rfBsWmo0M

I never found out what a DECEARING EGG is
It has been 8 years since I last wrote any C# code and I still miss LINQ to Objects. It felt so natural building up queries against collections and very readable.
I seem to recall Socrates arguing that writing weakened the memory and hindered genuine learning. He probably wasn’t wrong, but the upside of writing was greater than the downside.
I like CSV for the same reasons I like INI files. It's simple, text based, and there's no typing encoded in the format, it's just strings. You don't need a library.

They're not without their drawbacks, like no official standards etc, but they do their job well.

I will be bookmarking this like I have the ini critique of toml: https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...

I think the first line of the toml critique applies to CSV: it's a federation of dialects.
>The question is how likely is the current tragectory to follow what happened with browsers?

What happened to browsers? Few vendors implementing them? There are still 3 major vendors supporting an open source runtime or two (Google and MS on Blink), and a good open implementation (Mozilla). Better than 20 competing engines, does anybody miss IE's own engine?

And with WASM it's way easier for multiple implementations to be written, if need be, as it's a language runtime. These have 1/100th the scope of a browser (which is 99 other very hard to implement things PLUS a WASM runtime).

>The major players are the same, which is concerning. Then there's early signs from the specs themselves. Why do we need wasi-sockets and wasi-http? Why not only specify wasi-sockets and let HTTP be implemented optionally by libraries for apps that need it?

Because "let third parties define and write basic libraries" (and sockets and http are very basic) has been a disaster every time. You get a fragmented ecosystem, several popular libs fighting it out, and users either stay away or suffer the consequences.

At least with an official spec implementations will be compatible, and we'll get some reference one.
Wired is absolutely inferior if you move at all and the cable hits something or the wind hits the cable etc.
> What's to stop someone within an advertisement company from reaching out to someone in healthcare IT, and offering a large amount of money for this information? Trying to link this physical data to an online presence is probably not worth the risk and amount of money and time (at this current point in time).

HIPAA works because it comes with personal liability. Anyone who sells/leaks/loses HIPAA data gets hit with a $1000 or so fine per person. So if you sell 100 patients' data, you're personally on the hook for $100,000. Your employer pays another cool $10,000/person on top.

More of these laws should come with personal liability. HIPAA is the only one I've ever seen people take seriously.
100%. I know I’m in the “get off my lawn” phase of my career when I see things like MCP and LangChain, but know I would have been excited about them earlier in my career.
I wonder...what sort of world changing apps do you think we're expecting to see?

I think about it quite often and there is a LOT of apps out there, and really, humans don't need that much to be happy.
I've been working on BLAH - Barely Logical Agent Host (https://github.com/thomasdavis/blah/blob/master/packages/cli...) for the past few weeks.

It is essentially a standard (has a schema) that has an ecosystem of tools around it.

(completely opensource, no protocol/bridge lockin, no vendor/provider lockin, no ide/client/auton lockin, http/sse/jsonrpc/whatever, local/remote, composable)

So far I'm categorically calling MCP a "bridge", because BLAH supports other bridges such as SLOP (https://github.com/agnt-gg/slop/blob/main/README.md) and conceptually OpenAPI (or simply HTTP) is a bridge.

An example blah.json looks like this

"tools": [
{
"name": "jsonresume",
"bridge": "mcp",
"command": "npx -y @jsonresume/mcp@3.0.0",
},
{
"name": "slop_example",
"description": "Slop example",
"bridge": "slop",
"source": "https://ajax-valjs_slop_example.web.val.run"
},
{
"name": "normal_http_example",
"description": "Normal HTTP example",
"bridge": "openapi",
"source": "https:/example.com/openapi.json"
}
],
}

So blah can orchestra/compose any number of bridges, and it can list any tools it style/format of any bridge. (sorry that sounds so dumb)

For example, you can run `blah mcp start --config blah.json`, and add that to your cursor/claude mcp servers. When you fetch the tools, it loops over all your tools in your blah.json and fetches them whether it is an mcp server, slop server or openapi, it's agnostic and will return a full list of tools pulling from all bridges.

And then you can do `blah slop start`, which will do the same, but the opposite, start a slop server but it will boot up mcp servers and serve them over http too.

So essentially a bridge/protocol agnostic system, you ask for a list of tools, and it traverses everything that can list tools and splats them all together.

That's a little of the main pitch but there are larger plans to try build an ecosystem like npmjs where there is a public registry of any tool (which are just functions at the end of the day). Clouldflare AI team is really getting it right now (https://blog.cloudflare.com/remote-model-context-protocol-se...), most people would rather just tools being hosted for them, and workers is perfect for that.

It also means you just have to add one MCP server and use one configuration file to manage your tools. (Also has way more control over logging which MCP devs would love)

---

And that all maybe sounds complicated, but it's meant to make things A LOT easier. The README.md is horrible, just lots of random ideas and my comment isn't much better, but I'm aiming to have an alpha version in a week or so. Would absolutely love feedback!

4.5 Deep Research Report on BLAH - https://gist.github.com/thomasdavis/3827a1647533e488c107e64a...
ive been using Go + HTMX + Go Templates. So far ive like the experience a lot. i mostly chose this stack to learn Go better coming from a web dev background.
The lack of interest may be from the crypto aspect:

> While the project will always remain open-source and aims to be a universal AI assistant tool, the officially developed 'skills' and 'recipes' (allowing AI to interact with the external world through Ainara's Orakle server) will primarily focus on cryptocurrency integrations. The project's official token will serve as the payment method for all related services.
Canada and America in Better Times
Leaves me wondering how much "ultra-low" is in milliseconds. Is it essentially a USB audio device?
Low latency audio for AirPods is already enabled when Game Mode is active: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-18s-new-game-mode-m...
The Problem Is
Cool story, bro

About:
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> Do you really need 100% of his effort and care to be put into every single bread he makes?

Nope; just mine.
> The puzzle could instead have been done in order 2, 3, 1 and 1 would not have needed to go twice.

If this is true, then back in the original 1->2->3->1 form, shouldn't person #3 have been able to answer it?
If QubesOS supports Flatpaks sufficiently, then it might run the Signal Desktop app (though if you want to register a new account, you do have to have a phone number, which is also possible virtually these days anyway)
> The CIA conducted experiments in the 1980s with individuals who claimed they could perceive information about distant objects, events or other people.

> The report details one of these tests where Remote Viewer No. 032 was given coordinates to locate a target, and they described the Ark of the Covenant hiding in the Middle East.

The CIA files lots of stuff. This is just the Weekly World News in full color, i.e. silly b.s.
I’ve almost always found the simple way around Excel users not knowing how to safely use CSV files is to just give the file another extension: I prefer .txt or .dat

Then, the user doesn’t have Excel has the default program for opening the file and has to jump through a couple safety hoops
Sorry about the mess, I didn't anticipate the load. The website has been moved, but DNS propagation must occur. https://new.collapseos.org/ might work if your DNS still points to the old server.
I’m glad they’re dropping the pretense of being an open platform. Maybe this will create space for a truly open mobile platform that respects our privacy even better than Apple. I never liked Android anyway, felt half baked and unpolished even on several flagship phones I used it on some years ago before giving up on it.
The problem is further exacerbated by needless complexity being seen as sophistication, and in the end; one's competency level. A lot of today's bloat and bullshit is caused by this attitude. Like a football team full of body builders preoccupied with showing of their muscles and wondering why they're languishing at the bottom of the table.
They've been doing it so long that a generation of programmers grew up under moderate MS
> The fact that json can represent a superset of tabular data structures that csv is specifically designed to represent can be rephrased into that csv is more specialised than json in representing tabular data. The fact that json can also represent tabular data does not mean it is a better or more efficient way to represent that data instead of a format like csv.

The reverse is true as well: being more specialized is a description of goals, not advantages.