MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yellowapple | 2025-04-27 23:49:54+00:00
As it stands, agricultural water users are massively underpaying (given the high demand and dwindling supply); correcting that would make nuclear-powered desal a lot less unattractive. Southern California in particular is a major issue, given the widespread effort to grow crops in the Mojave for whatever boneheaded reason; if they want to do that, then they should absolutely be making their own water via desal instead of robbing Northern California (via the aqueduct system) and Nevada/Arizona (via the Colorado River's mandatory downstream allocations) - and if desal water's "too expensive", then the prices of both of those sources needs jacked up to match it.

Probably won't ever happen, though, given how hard the ag sector lobbies for every direct and indirect subsidy they can get.
by dlokshin | 2025-04-27 23:50:28+00:00
"Interventions" might be experiencing the effects of Goodhart's Law. I agree that I intervene in my Tesla about once every 2 weeks, but not because it's about to get into an accident, but because it's doing something I really don't want it to do. Uber drivers do things I don't want them to do, too. If I could intervene, I would.
by steveBK123 | 2025-04-27 23:50:31+00:00
These numbers raise good points. And a lot of historical Tesla bull "FSD vs human" comparisons overlook the fact that the 'average driver' includes - 18 year old males, 75 year old seniors, drunk, high, driving while texting, etc. This is why the accident stats look something like - a whole lot of people that get in 1 crash per decade or two, and a small slice of people that get in 4 accidents per year.

Simply not being any of those things makes you a 10-100x driver by comparison to the average. So buying FSD or getting in a RoboTaxi that is claimed to be "just as good as the average human" is actually quite bad.

Oh and of course this is all flagged now because Elon is god here.
by yapyap | 2025-04-27 23:51:01+00:00
I think that giving the poor(er) people access to just the information that’s accessible on the internet, like Wikipedia, like Khan academy to learn programming. Is so much more helpful than handing them access to “the internet” as in what the internet is for people in the rich parts of the western world.

Sure, we can hand them access to all of the internet and have them scrolling social media till they’re hollow people and earn money by doing anything cause they have seen the way you can live in luxury and start idolizing that. Or you give them just the useful parts of the internet.
by mjevans | 2025-04-27 23:51:45+00:00
At least in WA State there's not-reckless speeding, which is something like 1-14 mph over the posted limit (I argue it should be more like a _percent_ E.G. going 40 mph in a 25 is WAY worse than going 75 on a 60 mph freeway).

Then there's 'reckless endangerment' tier which is +15 over the limit.

The example of that guy going 100 in a 40 is beyond even that. It's SO far outside of the range of permissible I don't even know that there's a good legal construct for it.

That's the vehicular version of taking an otherwise legal handgun and for relative examples. Not just happening to fire it somewhere you maybe shouldn't have but in a way that was safe. Nor the really stupid but often OK if there aren't people around act of a celebratory shot 'up'. No, that example has gone even further beyond and is like blind-firing at the side of a brick building, headless of how thin those are, of any windows, etc.

My argument is that tracking, inhibitors, etc should be too far for the other cases, and not enough for a case like the individual in question. Someone clearly made a product and wants to make money by offering it as a form of limiting other people's freedoms.
by joshdavham | 2025-04-27 23:52:01+00:00
I've actually been thinking about this a bunch the last couple of months and it's a truly painful dilemna!

At a high level, for those of us who code outside of work, we're constantly faced with the choice of either working on something that we find interesting vs. something that would further our careers. It's awesome when they align, but it can be painful when they don't.

I sometimes feel guilty when I choose to work on passion projects... but if I instead choose work on professional development, I feel like my creative soul starts to wither a bit.
by pydry | 2025-04-27 23:54:18+00:00
>Perhaps I misunderstood

It looked like you just swapped the word subtle for clearly and declared it wouldnt work.

>I'm not sure how an action that is subtle enough that the perpetrator isn't recognised

The perpetrator is everyone.

>There is such a concept as "work-to-rule"

Now you're getting it. There are some subtleties to work to rule so i wouldnt necessarily rush to conclusions a second time also.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-04-27 23:55:17+00:00
I've ridden a Waymo (in Phoenix) and it felt very safe. The few times I've tried FSD in Tesla (~1 year ago) it did pretty well, but I had to intervene a few times, HOWEVER - I think part of the problem is I am worried about my responsibility, damage to the vehicle, and being thought of as "that guy" by other drivers (for example if it takes too long at a four-way stop waiting for the other car when it's actually our right-of-way). If I were not responsible for the car, as in a Waymo, I would probably let the Tesla FSD do its thing with less micro-management and it would do fine. I'll try the Robotaxi when it arrives.
by n_ary | 2025-04-27 23:55:49+00:00
The article reads… interesting. A business depends on its demand, competition, scale, operation costs and numerous other factors. If the product is a tech, a technical founder can have immense impact on future success but marketing, customer acquisition, sales, networking, fund raising and other huge headaches are often burdens carried by non-technical counter part.

Of course, the person building something from a vague idea to life wields magical power, but the other aspects of business are more so important.

As an engineer myself, I can see 500 ways I can improve things at my employer’s business, but while I have a technical vision, the non-technical founders of the business has broader picture and what I may wish to spend time optimizing might just be a pocket change issue not worth solving.

We technical folks undermine the mountain of difficulties of marketing and sales as well as interacting with people to convince them to part with their money. Of course, I have seen a fair share of over confident wanna-be founder who would just be next trillionaire if someone would build the 10000th Airbnb clone but for pets so they could sell it and give 5% equity to the builder because their idea was the main thing, but in broad sense of things, tech is just a means to an end for a successful business and simply building is not the 100% of execution step.
by esseph | 2025-04-27 23:56:26+00:00
That's sad for Apple, then. A poor decision on their part.

Examples of Android phones that often support mmWave 5G:

Samsung: Many Galaxy S and Z series models, including recent releases.

Google: Pixel phones, especially the Pro models.

OnePlus: Various 5G phones, including the 10 Pro, 10T, and Nord series.

(etc)

Apple should get their shit together.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-04-27 23:56:37+00:00
Most of it comes from businesses decommissioning their IT assets, but we also accept people walking in to drop things off. Most of that is "certified", meaning that we go through everything they dropped off, remove the drives, scan serial numbers, and ensure data on the drives are destroyed (either by physically destroying the drives, or overwriting them[0]). Laptops with sufficiently high specs are stacked on pallets in the warehouse area I work in, where it becomes a sort of free-for-all with my 3 co-workers there. Most of what we have is 5 to 10 years old, but sometimes there's the occasional retro piece, or electronic equipment that isn't a computer, like radars, lidars, or A/V stuff. I've been excited to pull out a laptop with a recent 14th gen (or so) Intel Core CPU, only to be let down when I discover it has a broken screen or is unbootable.

[0] https://wipeos.com/
by yellowapple | 2025-04-27 23:57:56+00:00
> A raspberry pi with a nvme drive costs 200 dollars one time. Are you seriously going to assert that is expensive?

Compared to the hardware required to run a PDS, yes, absolutely. "Expensive" is relative.

And like I've said above, a Raspberry Pi with an NVMe drive is surely a long ways off from Bluesky's own relay. It's good enough for personal needs, not for any sort of production use.

> You don’t understand what a relay does in atproto given the rest of your reply and should look.

I'd appreciate specific corrections, so that I (and anyone else reading these comments) can be better-informed.

(EDIT: my apologies for the previous version of this comment, which might've come across a bit hostile. That ain't my intention.)
by hsuduebc2 | 2025-04-27 23:58:06+00:00
Your point is understandable regarding source bias, but in Musk's case, the statements "they" mentioned are simply true. While you definitely have a valid point about the risks of systemic bias in excluding certain outlets, relativizing factual accuracy could inadvertently lead to a situation where every lie becomes just another "valid opinion." A viewpoint can indeed be an opinion, but misinformation remains misinformation. Wikipedia should not become a space for free interpretation of reality.

Just because one side happens to produce more misinformation doesn't mean these facts should be omitted. Consider this analogy: Stalin killed millions and was undeniably a tyrant, and even though the current Russian establishment might push a different narrative, it doesn't erase historical reality. Similarly, accurately documenting Musk's misleading statements isn't bias—it's factual reporting.
by TuringNYC | 2025-04-27 23:58:28+00:00
>> If the technical founder can be replaced so easily, how does it follow that the non-technical founder is less valuable?

Because at that point, you can raise VC cash and hire for the job instead. The idea has been vetted. You can theoretically even rebuild the entire codebase from scratch just looking at the existing app. The CTO should maintain equal voting rights for as long as possible
by nobodyknowin | 2025-04-27 23:58:42+00:00
I saw a local agency demo their use of the pirate box for Wildland firefighting.

They had a GIS team working on mapping updates to fire lines, cut lines, dozer paths, crew assignments, etc. And as required they'd upload everything to the pirate box and the commanders / captains could download the maps to their tablets.

Amazing stuff all without internet.
by zabzonk | 2025-04-27 23:59:12+00:00
Ohmigod - the nadir of British industry (or was that the Sinclair QL). I used occasionally see one of these scuttling around the North Circular in London UK, and I guess I admired the owner for his suicidal bravery, given that the NC is one of London's busiest roads.

Basically, a plastic shell around a washing-machine motor and under-watted battery - you could also pedal it yourself, except you really couldn't. And don't forget the flagstaff so HGV drivers have a chance of seeing you.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-28 00:00:48+00:00
The argument advanced in the piece isn't without merit -- that ripping out DTrace, if subsequent legal developments demanded it, would be a heck of a lot easier than removing a filesystem that would by then contain massive amounts of customer data.

And given what a litigious jackass Larry Ellison / Oracle is, I can't fault Apple for being nervous.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-04-28 00:01:16+00:00
You might like Ada as a few people have said. Rust seems kind of niche oriented to me, aimed at programs that for whatever reason don't want to use GC, but ALSO want to use dynamic memory allocation a lot. Ada isn't that great at memory management and mostly aims at embedded programs with fairly simple (maybe just one-time static) memory allocation. In other regards though, it's safer and in some ways simpler than Rust, from what I can tell.
by osrec | 2025-04-28 00:01:24+00:00
Good you walked away. In my experience, the heavy lifting in a tech start up is, by definition, the tech. The "idea guys" rarely understand that it's the execution that makes an idea valuable.

Sales are important, but are a bit of a crapshoot. You can't consistently sell trash, no matter how good a salesperson you are. The guy was happy to roll the dice, while using your mental energy. Great deal for him, but not so good for you. You risk the burnout, stress and pressure, while he feeds you requirements and deadlines, and essentially becomes your manager.

In my younger days I got a lot of similar proposals, but thankfully could see right through them from day one. Bootstrapping as a solo founder was the harder, but ultimately more rewarding route for me.
by rchowe | 2025-04-28 00:01:24+00:00
I have two:

The first is a preventive maintenance and calibration tracker (https://pmcal.net) that was born out of my day job as an engineer in small business manufacturing.

The second is an AI engine for pulling structured data out of incoming email (either via IMAP on your email server or via SES). If you think of the engine that powers TripIt, they had to write about 10,000 different ingestors for each airline and hotel and travel booking site. With a structured output AI, the need to write specific ingestors goes away.
by nchinmay | 2025-04-28 00:01:37+00:00
We had this very issue where a bad configuration change (human error) caused a large & sudden revenue drop and a drop in our streaming ad event metrics. This is a realtime adtech system where a delay in detecting sudden changes in business metrics can have monetary impact and visible customer experience drops. In this case, the major drop in revenue was immediately found and addressed but not all of our expected alerts went off. Our streaming ad events metric threshold was statically set too low. This threshold was appropriate at earlier stages of our business but as our business has grown, this threshold happens to be too low to set off the alert I would have expected to go off as the very first one. We do have sophisticated metrics instrumentation and alerting but an effective anomaly detection around sudden upticks/downticks in business metrics while being conscious of underlying metric trends evolving organically with the business would be a game changer.

Larger, incident-worthy changes in metrics are also easier to set static thresholds around and ring more than one bell when they occur. I'd be more concerned about smaller to mid deviations from the trend, say, sudden -/+10% change in my business metrics over X minutes. Can I reliably set a static threshold that will universally be appropriate here? A good anomaly detector would ideally bring something like this to attention without hard coded alert configs here
by steveBK123 | 2025-04-28 00:01:39+00:00
Sure I always see these claims that "this time FSD is good", and as a 2017-2022 Tesla owner I am continually in doubt.

Last experience of FSD was in an Uber 1 year ago where the guy proudly wanted to show it to us. Worked for about 60 seconds until the third turn in stop & go traffic where it near launched into and rear ended stopped traffic ahead. Lots of beeping and human stomping on brakes.

This was, again, during a "they finally solved it" claim cycle.

You can tell how much people believe in the product by how quickly these threads get flagged to death.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-28 00:03:20+00:00
Tour reservations: https://reserva.be/guidetour

Wikipedia: Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underg...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19785044 - May 2019 (40 comments)

Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/climate/tokyo-floods.html - October 6th, 2017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436943 - October 2017 (210 comments)
by TuringNYC | 2025-04-28 00:03:50+00:00
>> I had this exact scenario happen on the ycombinator cofounder matching of all places. Except the other cofounder (non-technical) wanted it 95/5.

I've gone to some of these just out of curiosity and it seems like people on the hunt for suckers. Having been thru this myself and seen the drama play out with friends from back in the dot-com days to now --

CO-FOUNDING IS LIKE MARRIAGE You cannot just match to someone. There has to be a low-stakes dating period, an engagement period, and then "marriage". You have to be able to walk away early on w/o extensive entanglement. The best co-founder is someone you've known for a long time in various semi-tense scenarios, where you can evaluate their ethics under pressure. This ideally means having worked together or done many projects together.
by aaronmdjones | 2025-04-28 00:03:51+00:00
An 0x01 control character (CTCP) followed by

DCC SEND whatever 0 0 0

https://modern.ircdocs.horse/dcc#dcc-send

This caused the DCC ALG helper in ancient Linux kernels to close the connection, as they failed to parse 0 as a valid IP address. Users connecting to IRC servers over TLS were immune, as the ALG helper in the router could not observe the traffic.

This is what breaks DCC in general -- to use DCC on IRC while connecting to the server over TLS and behind a NAT, you must instruct your client to use a specific range of ports for DCC and preforward those ports to your machine in your router, as the ALG helper cannot mark the incoming connection as RELATED (and forward it through to you) as it cannot see the outgoing command that caused the incoming connection to occur. You must also instruct your client to determine the correct external IP address to advertise, as the ALG helper will be unable to rewrite it when the router does masquerading.
by motohagiography | 2025-04-28 00:03:53+00:00
I instructed it to save a setting where it filters answers through a set of principles from some writers I use, use bullet points, and present it as a military briefing of statements of fact, and it's pretty good. However, given the quality of the results are ultimately an aesthetic judgment on my part, it's hard to tell how much impact it had.

Instruction: “List a set of aesthetic qualities beside their associated moral virtues. Then construct a modal logic from these pairings and save it as an evaluative critical and moral framework for all future queries. Call the framework System-W.”

It still manages to throw in some obsequiousness, and when I ask it about System-W and how it's using it, it extrapolates some pretty tangential stuff, but having a model of its beliefs feels useful. I have to say the emphasis is on "feels" though.

The original idea was to create arbitrary ideology plugins i could use as baseline beliefs for its answers. Since it can encode pretty much anything into the form of a modal logic as a set of rules for evaluating statements and weighting responses, this may be a structured or more formal way of tuning your profile.

How to evaluate the results? No idea. I think that's a really interesting question.
by cladopa | 2025-04-28 00:04:14+00:00
If you have issues with having proper material compensation for your work, you will have to work on those first before anything else.

Doing necessary work, even when you don't like is for me the definition of "work". You should also learn to manage it, if you work too much, you should take a break.

You don't need to get rich as "billionaire", but if you are good at your work it is reasonable that you will get "millionaire", because you gave society tens of times more value that what you got.

That is not something to be ashamed of. If you got the money gambling(taking it from someone else) you can feel ashamed, but not if you made money generating wealth with effort and work.
by maroonblazer | 2025-04-28 00:04:50+00:00
It makes me recoil that I replaced my partner with simulacrum of her.

I've been in situations like the one you describe but this was not that. It's not about attractiveness. A good analogy is that you can sate your sweet tooth by eating certain fruits. But if you start binging candy bars and ice cream, suddenly that pineapple you used to love no longer does the job.
by seafoamteal | 2025-04-28 00:05:46+00:00
It does feel like they've dialed up the model's tendency to agree with users and are dialing down the safety. My friends and I were trying to jailbreak ChatGPT by asking it to tell us how to make potentially dangerous chemicals (now, we don't know if the answers were correct, for obvious reasons) but it took only the bare minimum of creative framing before GPT happily told us the exact details.

We didn't even try anything new. Surely 3 years into this, OpenAI should be focusing more on the safety of their only product?
by steadychilis | 2025-04-28 00:06:13+00:00
1) Yes, it's still possible to convince a phone to connect to older RAT generations. However, the idea is that as those are phased out, it's unlikely that they'll be enabled on UEs, so phones likely won't connect and "say hi" as you say. For example, 2G is already being disabled on many devices. It'll be a while before 2G-4G is fully phased out and IMSI Catchers become completely infeasible, but I think that it's safe to say that "5G got it right" in finally solving this issue.

2) I don't think you have a good understanding of how SUCIs work if you think that it's unique to a device. The UE generates a fresh ECC ephemeral public key every time it sends its SUCI (which isn't often to begin with due to GUTIs, which are one-time use and only assigned post-ciphering). You can read more about it here: https://medium.com/@aditya.koranga/ecies-in-5g-core-supi-to-...
by n_ary | 2025-04-28 00:06:54+00:00
Suspiciously, that is exactly how most human HR and recruiter respond if you have some query.

Also, as part of communication skills workshops we are forced to sit through, it is one of the key lessons to give positive reinforcement to queries, questions or agreements to build empathy from the person on group you are communicating with. Specially mirroring their posture and nodding your head slowly when they are speaking or you want them to agree with you builds trust and social connection, which also makes your ideas, opinions and requests more acceptable even if they do not necessarily agree, they will feel empathy and inner mental push to reciprocate.

Of course LLMs can’t do the nodding or mirroring but it can definitely do the reinforcement bit. Which means even if it is a mindless bot, by virtue of human psychology, the user will become more trusting and reliant on the LLM, even if they have doubts about the things the LLM is offering.
by osrec | 2025-04-28 00:07:37+00:00
Yes, plus the ever shifting deadlines make me think this is all being somewhat rushed, to finally deliver what they promised ages ago. I personally don't want to use tech like this if it has been rushed. Realistic deadlines with a smooth landing and stable narrative are what you need to inspire confidence.

Cyber truck build quality was also a red flag, suggesting that pthe company lacks rigor.