skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with voter ID (and a whole lot of other issues like easyness of ID theft via SSNs) is that the US - as one of very few developed nations - has no requirement for a citizen to have a valid government issued ID card because of right-wing crazies.

The Left does not criticize voter ID per se, the Left criticizes that many people are effectively locked out from voting because obtaining ID cards can be an utter pain in the ass.
"Anonymous" LLCs are going away. FinCEN will be requiring reporting of everybody with ownership greater than 25% starting in probably 1-2 years from now. The fucking feds won't let us have anything without stalking our every move.
In my locale, there's been extensive construction of bike infrastructure. There's some kind of grand plan, but it makes sense that provisions for bikes are added when they're going to rebuild everything: The road, crosswalks, sewers, etc. And there's no space left in town where they're not trying to cram everything together.

So the choices of bridges or tunnels tends to be one of what will actually fit. There's one giant road intersection where there are two bridges and a tunnel.

The tunnel fits entirely within the footprint of the road above it, which is 6 lanes and carries heavy trucking. Its cost was probably absorbed by the overall project cost and need to support those 6 lanes throughout. The bridges can be much lighter, since they really only need to support themselves, but need extra space at the two ends for the ramps. One of these ramps displaced a house that was there.

In the town where my son attends college, there's a bike path along a river, that regularly gets flooded when the river rises. But that was by design -- space for the bike path also doubles as a flood control measure, as is true of a lot of park space that's built along rivers.
I think what the conclusion, though, is that the loss of privacy to language models pales in comparison to the loss of privacy to the rest of the internet.

The language model is just a different way of organizing the information that is already out there. It doesn’t create or expose any new information, and it’s ability to correlate information with other information isn’t superior to the other, existing, ways. If someone is attempting to find out the real person behind your username, a google search still works better than typing your username into the language model.

The real lesson (and one that predates language models like GPT), is that we can no longer rely on the strategy of being ‘lost in the crowd’ to preserve our privacy. When you took all of those actions that connected your username to your real name, you probably thought, “this is just one little obscure thing, no one will ever find it.” Of course, Google finds everything.

This is completely unrelated to things like GPT.
It's already happened in Poland in basically the same situation (a miscarrying woman was left to die from sepsis because the doctors didn't want to risk being accused of aborting). Many doctors would prefer to not go to jail, even if it means risking a woman's life.
Nothing's Carl Pei thinks everyone else's smartphones are boring
DuckDuckGo is still better than Google. I haven’t used Google search at home in years. I recommend Protonmail for email. You have to pay a subscription but the reward is encryption, no ads, and they don’t sell your data.
The debug protocols for XC2xxx are documented and you can interface with the device using an Infineon MiniWiggler. Unless the core or flash protection has been enabled, which is not likely on an "auxiliary" control unit like this, you can read/write flash and possibly also step-debug. You should be able to use the bootstrap loader startup mode and Infineon MemTool to read and write the device.

The core IP is called C166S V2 and IDA does an OK job disassembling it. Unfortunately the instruction set is quite nasty anyway so it's not pleasant to reverse engineer even when the tooling works. I agree that coming from the "outside in" might be easier than coming from the "inside out," especially if you are able to acquire the internal BMW powertrain-CAN documentation which will make this project very easy.

Infineon do the best job of producing documentation of any major automotive CPU vendor, IMO. Their toolchains and user manuals are both available and much easier to understand than for example Renesas or Freescale.
The only way to fix this now is through collective, not individual, action. Policy, for example.
Observation. Long-tail boutique shops curate interesting content for their niche customers. Said customers buy this content from large aggregators like Amazon due to lower price or delivery advantages. Essentially the long-tail boutique shops serve as “free” advertising for the aggregators.

This was the same in the early e-commerce wave of brick/mortar specialty stores being eviscerated by websites due to customers going to brick and mortar to physically touch and view merchandise only then buy it online for a cheaper price. For example, Fry’s Electronics, Best Buy, Sears, etc suffered from this trend.

Hence, the new trend toward “influencers” on social media who demonstrate products and provide referral links to the big aggregators instead of selling the product themselves. Some of these influencers are able to brand their own products to make even more money, but they are in the minority.
Alternately, asset price inflation didn’t matter until it priced everyone out of housing, commercial real estate, retirement, and any other asset accumulation.

This inflation episode coincides with millennials nearing the end of the typical income growth phase of their careers without substantial asset buying power. Eventually people will simply drop out of the race, or demand vastly higher wages to compensate.
No one is devaluing your "labor". Perhaps you are devaluing yourself because you think that software development (and especially open source) is about "labor".
Outside of a few subreddits and many smaller ones, quality discussion on reddit at large scale never really existed (or at least not since i joined in 2012) because the type of content that was/is upvoted most heavily is quick, low-thought, quippy and usually low-quality.
Did people of the time you mention or of the present, consider those who caused the intentional death of their own children through rejection of vaccination to be wicked?

I would guess antivaxxers both then and now would consider those deaths to be just deaths or the will of the supernatural or maybe even that it was the children who were wicked.
With the current court position I am optimistic the NFA will be overturned, so probably won't bother buying one. Still cool tech though!
This makes a lot of sense, and thanks for the insight. I was at Google very briefly, but I bet if I mentioned my real name, it would ring a bell.

It'll be interesting to see the evolution of all these companies that've invested in mobile, now that mobile is so crapflooded, no one wants to pay for apps anymore. I don't know what the future of consumer computing looks like; I do know that I'd prefer not to have any part in it.
Finland was part of Sweden until Napoleonic wars. At that time, the Enlightenment was a fashionable topic among European monarchs. Instead of annexing Finland, Alexander I of Russia set it up as an autonomous grand duchy, as a test case for more modern forms of government. Finland gained a political identity and kept Swedish institutions instead of adopting Russian ones.

Economic growth started in the mid 19th century. Industrialization began, the old guild system was abolished, and there were fancy new things such as public education, own currency, and railroads. When Finland gained independence during WW1, it was largely a formality. There was still a bloody civil war, and Finns didn't really start working together until WW2.

When WW2 ended, Finland was still largely rural. There were war reparations to be paid and refugees from lost territories to resettle. While Finland had leaned towards Germany until then, it was no longer possible, and Sweden became the new role model. Finland focused on heavy industry and technology. People started moving to cities (and to Sweden). Because Finland was a special case as the favorite capitalist country of the Soviet block, trade with the USSR became lucrative. The economy was mostly free but not fully open, and the occasional devaluation of the currency was a key financial tool. By the 1980s, Finland had become a wealthy country.

The end of the Cold War was a catastrophe. Trade with the USSR/Russia collapsed. Business leaders didn't know how to operate in an open market. The government didn't know how to deal with that. The result was probably the worst depression in Finnish history. Other political choices of the time (such as joining the EU) were better. The next center-left/center-right coalition made some good choices, as did Nokia. After 2000, Finland started regularly appearing near the top of various "top countries by [a good thing]" lists.
I think it's pretty pathetic some of you are focused on copilot (as if youve never ripped code off SO before). I'm willing to bet none of you have contributed anything to open source either. Dunning-Kruger effect on full display.

To the rest, congratulations and thank you from those of us who thanklessly use your hard work. I hope this kind of public appreciation takes off and we see more large names using this as a template.
Ask HN: Is it possible to make a DIY watering system using an old iPad? How?
I have an old iPad (iOS 12.5.5) which I don't use for any purpose currently due to slight screen issues. I was wondering if I could repurpose it into a control hub for some sort of watering system which I could use, possibly with even remote control support - basically replacing the Arduino/R Pi component in most DIY kits. Would this be an idea that's possible without significant effort?
And if your version of quackery differs from the preferred “mainstream” mysticism, you are labeled a heretic
It might be possible to do this without the Node.js server by using the File System Access API

https://web.dev/file-system-access/
I don't really understand how that creates fewer bottlenecks. It may save communication overhead because every dev can spot integration issues on their own, but at the cost of monstrously complex and time-consuming build-and-test pipelines. The microservice approach just requires some kind of service contract and meaningful release versions. That's always been a very manageable cost in my experience.
That is a good point, but I was thinking of it in terms of 2 roads are going to cross and rather than make an intersection you have the choice of a bridge or a tunnel. On that road, the same trucks/bicycles/etc will use it regardless of your choice, so the tunnel can't be any less "height aware" than the bridge.
It used to be the case that people could simply pick which news sources they wish to subscribe to. At which point did we become complacent with subsisting on our corporate overlords’ algorithmic curated crap?

I will never forgive Google for killing Reader.
I can’t believe people are still using Google for anything. Use DuckDuckGo for search and Protonmail for encrypted private email. Use Proton VPN for everything else.
Yes, still illegal. And I also don’t understand why it is equated with drugs, but alcohol is not! Not a single murder has yet been committed under https://www.get420now.com/product-category/cannabis/ cannabis, not a single war has been unleashed. It's just that people who don't use don't understand how oh the effect of it is!
Ok well not sure as to the data, but this suggests that stillborn babies and miscarriages lead to children going to heaven https://thefederalist.com/2017/05/05/christians-believe-misc...
First, I’m 55 years old. Stop acting like I haven’t seen shit. I could’ve better worded it to say that it makes me feel inferior. I don’t believe I’m inferior and it doesn’t cause depression. The loneliness is what causes depression.

And I’m not about to express my interest to sun stranger on the Internet that I don’t have a biological or physical connection with. That’s not the connection I’m looking for.

And the fact that you think people who talk about football are stupid Is depressing. Football, to me, is stupid. But not the people. It’s not a value judgment to say you don’t like football it’s a value judgment to say people who like football are stupid.
Which dragon would then-you actually enjoy chasing in todays modern-oversaturated online socialized world?
In NYC a typical bar-band gets one free bear per player, sometimes not even that.
That is exactly what I was referring to. I wonder if some people are just unfamiliar with copilot licensing issues or they don't see how that is an issue.
And how can that be done?

Sometimes you simply can't compete with another country with really devalued currency and very low wages
I was speaking to the requirements of the bridge's height requirements, not the ones of the road it goes over, but point taken.
I'm not sure that's true. The short circuit between production and feedback (YouTube studio analytics, etc) are causing a lot of the small creators to optimize for whatever fluke that got them famous, and then replicate it again and again and again.
It feels like what happened is that the tools the big shots were using (test audiences etc) were democratized and now most of the long tail is playing the same game. Optimizing for some (local) lowest common denominator and treating their creations as a commodities and not as art.
Had some fun years playing Planetside (2? It was on PC) until my clan (D2A) died off due to lost interest around the time the planet exploded. It was amazing in Planetside to have our clan organize hundreds of people to form into platoons and take over continents. I was also into Destiny 2 on PC for a while when it came out, but I was in a few different raiding clans and they all died after just a couple of months, like going from thousands of active players to under 50 dead. I’ve played Diablo seasons with a couple of coworkers and that’s been fun, we don’t get to the top 100 or whatever globally but still got to the point where we were pushing GR 100+ levels using pretty standard Icy Veins builds. It was fun, but no one can usually find 20+hrs/week for video games anymore. Some of my D2 clan mates were college students so they’d play for 40-60hrs/week and get through all new content / raids in a week or two, then it’d take the rest of us a month or so to catch up.
I can never understand the ‘right to be forgotten’. How does that not conflict with another right, my ‘right to remember’?
Yea I thought the same.
Sounded more like fragile “milennial” complaint than an actual good article with solid facts.
You could find 100 solid ways to distrust google.
Didnt think the author hit a single credible point.
It appears that places without lockdowns (Florida, Sweden) did as good or far better than places with severe lockdowns (California, New York). So I still don’t see the evidence despite all the spittle from supposed scientists who know such things.
I think you underestimate the scale of how “short tailed” everything used to be.

Yes yes tiger king, stranger things, etc. these things are popular.

In 1983 over 50% of the entire United States watched the last episode of MASH live as it aired on NBC. And people talked about it for 10+ years.
The FTPL seems to put a lot of focus on the government debt aspect of monetary policy (not unlike MMT, which however draws different prescriptions). I think more mainstream Keynesian/Monetarist theories don't deny that government debt is an important part of monetary policy, they just add that there are other things that play important roles too such as private debt, banks, supply shocks, money velocity etc.

In the long arcs of monetary policy, government debt might play an outsize role along the lines of what the FTPL predicts but in the shorter term, because businesses and people often move faster than governments when it comes to borrowing and spending decisions, there remains important monetary policy work to be done to smooth out the potentially costly monetary transients.

In times when governments are acting somewhat responsibly and not spending too much beyond their means, FTPL might be much less relevant and there would still be monetary policy concerns stemming from fluctuations in the private movement of money or from other supply or demand shocks.
> If I want to take photos I use Pentax ME Super

A man of culture!
As a Systems Engineer / SRE you’re damn right it adds more effort and delay. And it’s not because there’s “no reason” but because when you’re operating a production service at scale you need to put in the effort to make sure dependency changes won’t cause a massive outage or lose customer data. Automated tests and CI/CD only go so far and are not a cure-all.
Given the history of the music industry, surely this isn't a surprise to anyone.
I do open source, and I do charge for it. I make a bit less than I would on proprietary, but plenty to live off of.

Any technical project requires focus, and if I paid the bills with something else, I wouldn't have time and space to focus.

I've never been particularly successful with side projects until they became full-time projects. I don't know many other people who have. Side projects are great for exploring, but when one gains traction, to be successful, I've always needed to find a way to focus on it full-time (which means using it to pay the bills).
The problem is that movies aren't the special event they used to be. Now that we have them available when ever we want to see them then it's easy to stop it and move on if we feel a bit bored. In a way, being able to get all we want whenever we want has made the experience less than great. It's very ironic.
My comments have been mainly to address the nature of the conversation here and to provide some balance. Specifically, most readers of HN are not deeply steeped in the nature of issues, and the overly broad language in some of the comments can easily give the wrong impression.

It is easy to pick a subset of bugs and weave a particular narrative. You have filed several issues, many of which are still open, and many have been addressed. Thousands of bugs are fixed for every release, including many you have filed - and Julia is better as a result.

Should Julia be better tested, yes it should be. Should we have better tooling, of course we should. Can the triage process be improved, yes. Should code coverage get to 100% - it has steadily increased over time. None of Julia's dependent libraries have 100% code coverage. Many of those projects are even larger than Julia itself. Can every possible bug identified be fixed - we would like to - but eventually there is limited developer time and everything has to be prioritized.

I will once again mention that the triage process is not a secret process. I welcome you to join some of the triage calls to give higher visibility to issues that you feel should be fixed (but are unable to provide PRs yourself for).
I'm the founder who bought the testimonial.io domain.

You really underestimated the value of a SaaS, with 6 subs contributing $3,600 ARR, a business will have the chance to be sold 10x at $36k. I can easily recoup my investment from an exit offer, and the domain itself has its investment value too.

Look things forward, not backward! A twitter account has 43k followers today maybe will have 430k followers next year.

429 is fine, even Cloudflare has an outage just a few days ago. For me, it's just learn the lesson, fix the bug by simply upgrading the plan, then move forward :)
You can't judge how much of a burden healthcare costs are unless you account for how much of a person's income or some proxy of it healthcare is. Just saying that the US spends more per capita than other OECD countries doesn't say anything without more context. IF you want to show that the healthcare spending isn't efficient in the US you have to at least show that it's not just because everything costs more there or that everyone earns more in the US (gdp/capita is higher than ~85% of OECD in US).
Why does GDPR help? Have you read it? It has no provision for protecting you from information you choose to share publicly. GDPR will not force Google to scrub the information you chose to put online, that’s not the spirit of the right to be forgotten idea. GDPR does not enforce absolute privacy at all times, it merely sets reasonable standards for companies to prevent leaking your information without your consent; it’s specifically for when you didn’t choose to publish your PII.

Your problem is that you gave consent and chose to publish your PII and now want it revoked globally long after the fact. That is extremely problematic since it’s very very difficult to unpublish things once published, and there is little if any precedent for people being able to change their mind. Nobody expects to be able to unpublish a book such that it cannot be recovered or reprinted after copyrights expire, that’s just not a thing, right? This isn’t a problem with language models, this seems like more of a problem with exposing yourself and then changing your mind.

It would be great if there were tools to help manage this, but that’s not something that has ever existed nor is codified by GDPR or any other current laws. That said, your concept does present an opportunity for an idea that someone could implement and start a business or organization for.
Another reason for China, Japan and Korea has got to be the intense focus on education, and the belief that education has (financial) value.

Singapore showcases this very well. The ethnic Chinese and the Indians are very much focused on pursuing education for their children, even back in the early colonial days and that has led to great success for that portion of the population. The Malays however, have a more idyllic bent in their cultural preferences and that has led to a more impoverished life overall in their population.

Maybe it’s because the early Chinese and Indians were imported by the British and brought with them the stereotypical immigrant work ethic while the Malays were indigenous and didn’t have the same kind of drive.
I think there is another factor to this. Hollywood has fallen off a cliff of late. In my subjective opinion, this started around the mid 2000's and the last decade has been the worst decade for movies in at least 50 years. Look at any top 10 lists for the last decade and the best movies don't hold a candle to what the 90's had to offer. I'll go out on a limb and say none will make it to the National Film Registry for historical preservation.

There's hardly a movie I've managed to watch all the way through, and yet I regularly find myself discovering new gems from the past and getting completely engrossed with them. If anyone else concurs or has some explanations, I would be delighted to hear.
It's really nice to be able to shift the car into neutral when it isn't working. An electronic system that can't be shifted out of park if it's broken is a nuisance. One of my Hondas lacks a mechanical neutral control in the cabin, but there is a shaft you can turn on the side of the transmission under the hood to force it into neutral if you need to push it out of a garage or something like that.
Society can only give what it takes (from you and others).
> Nothing on the supply side comes close to a sudden injection of 7 trillion dollars in the economy.

I think you should look into commodity prices. I'm surprised at how many people aren't paying attention to the global game on this. We're literally going to starve out other countries by outbidding them. That's what's going on here.

> As for everyone else experiencing inflation, guess what, they blame it on us.

No we don't because we know it's a material problem. That's "common knowledge" in Europe. The story here, and as far as I can see, everywhere is "producer costs."