skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is difficult for me to explain because I very rarely deal with in absolutes and have found that most people want online discourse to be in absolute terms.

One thing I've done when talking to cryptobros and other privacy extremists is ask them to think back to a time (and we all know they've all done it) when they railed non-stop against the "banksters" and consider how much more power and influence they would have if the rules they themselves want regarding privacy are applied evenly to all circumstances.

There are a few people, and I'm inclined to believe them, who say "yeah Capital One and Deutsche Bank have the right to mask their cartel money laundering activities under the concept of absolute anonymity and any attempts at know-your-customer or records-keeping requirements for banks are antithetical to freedom" but they are very rare.

Again, I believe those people are being earnest because I know extremists exist for every position.

But most people just shout "THAT'S DIFFERENT", get angry, and call me a boot-licker or something like that.

edit: another scenario I use is:

Privacy-conscious business owner: Hello yes, I would like to start a business selling car seatbelts whose webbing is impregnated with a fire retardant that we know will cause fatal cancer.

Evil Government: Ok, please fill out this paperwork to get a business license and provide points of contact so people can sue you when they get cancer from their seatbelts.

Privacy-conscious business owner: No. That is a violation of my rights. I have the right to perfect anonymity.

Evil Government: I suppose you've got us there! Have a nice day.
That's not how intelligence manifests. "Geniuses" are usually products of opportunity as much as anything. Indeed I am minded of a "where are they now" on british television of some University Challenge winners and despite being believed to be geniuses most of them had not done anything remarkable.

Intelligence definitely does have a genetic component - but again that isn't how genetics works. The "UN Man" Tabula Rasa doctrine is ideology, not science.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.104
Sorry for offtopicness - could you please email me at hn@ycombinator.com?
Really appreciate you sharing this - I used to downplay the real-world application of these kinds of methods ("if you were making a real product you'd have a priority queue and a scheduler and so on") so if I ever teach kids again I'll let them know that people out there build real things like this.
This is my trick. I tell myself to just do something small then I can quit, which always turns into doing it all like normal. But having the option of bailing makes it feel so much better, which makes the suck less sucky.
What does "revoke its IP address" even mean? Do you mean have it return 0.0.0.0 for all *.roomba.com domains? How would that solve anything? I suspect it'll actually make the Roomba not work at all.
I expect more from IEEE than a bait-and-switch:

> license plate on that car showed that it was registered to ... Steer EV ... Agents served a subpoena on Steer EV for the renter’s billing and contact details. Steer EV provided those—and also voluntarily supplied historical GPS data for the vehicle ... In this case, the GPS data likely came from a device Steer EV itself installed in the vehicle

> according to researchers, Tesla is potentially in a position to provide similar GPS tracks
Anyone know how this compares to min-dalle?
Looks to be a continuation of Mozilla TTS[1]. I'm kinda surprised there's no mention unless you go back in the git history[2].

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/TTS
[2] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/tree/e9e07844b77a43fb0864354...
The book "Conspiracy:
A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire" is a wonderful example of how what seemed to be a lucky break for Peter Thiel was actually a product of extensive preparation for an opportunity to take revenge on Gawker.
>In the EU, drowsiness/distraction detection becomes mandatory this year.

Fascinating, thanks. I was unaware. Do you know if there is any sort of standard that they follow? Or do manufacturers decide for themselves on what counts as drowsy/distracted behavior?
It’s more than strictly ‘finance’ and about cryptographically proven ownership and asset tracking
California state capacity as an EA concern
That would be a wartime activity. In peacetime you just don't want to run into one.
This is awesome, thank you (and to the other HN commenters) for providing so much valuable perspective as always.
Buried in your 'or similar' is the more controversial and helpful (IMO) use - the infamous 'this should never happen' exceptions.
Will the Chicken Tax law also affect light duty EV trucks? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
From a customer perspective, people are wanting to retreat away from a lot of existing, global players. How many people would use something that's basically Amazon/Google/Facebook/Twitter as long as it isn't Amazon/Google/Facebook/Twitter?

The last decade was defined by being the one unicorn that could disrupt an entire industry, but those days are gone and we take it for granted that one company dominating a space isn't a norm. There aren't really more industries that are tech vs non-tech. In the next decade, more businesses will come online to disrupt and compete with tech company incumbents. Customer acquisition costs will go up and personas will become more nuanced.
Why would the extreme left have hatred of certain ethnic/racial groups? Which ones would that even be? I hope this isn’t some the left hates white people thing. Bigotry of superficial things doesn’t make sense for what the hard left is about.

Conspiratorial thinking for the hard left is nothing close to what it is like for the alt-right. They are basically not similar at all. The alt-right is about Q, saying Trump lost a rigged election, or thinking moderates are grooming children and molesting kids. What is the equivalence with the hard left?

The black and white thinking is also super simplistic. How do moderates not have black and white thinking in comparison to the extremes? IE a moderate would say don’t vote or spend time on any one but the two main party candidates in the US. In other countries, they’d say focus on who has a proper chance of being elected. Black and white thinking and self fulfilling.

> The fact that you don’t think they’re equal is just because you have more sympathy towards one end of the spectrum over the other.

Or maybe I know they aren’t equal because they aren’t. Perhaps it says more about you and only you, that you jump to such an assumption and conclusion without knowing me.
"days of shamans, prophets and sages"

Are these really examples of what is described? The spiritualism gained from those entities persist to this day. Wars were fought and people continue to live by what those entities taught. Sounds different from the short lived rush that is being discussed.
For a brief time, Ford tried to rebrand as a quasi-electronics company in some circles. Ford has been on the record saying they would be in a position to create “customer experiences” and “ownership offers based on connected vehicle data.” It’s all a bit cryptic but you can look up the Team Upshift project.
> There is something to be said about that level of engineering.

Or simplicity. Keep it simple and make it work reliably.
It's absolutely possible that it's artificially high right now since it has risen so much. With a big jump, you can never tell whether it's the right amount, too little, or too much.

But fundamentally, supply is short due to years of falling behind on building it after the ~2008 mortgage crisis. It's going to take a really long time to catch up on that backlog. There's a relatively low maximum percentage you can increase the supply each year.

And now that mortgage rates are higher again and there are recession fears, investors may not be as excited about putting their money into housing construction. So we will have less of a push in the next few years to close that supply gap.

So I think the prices may fall or stagnate, but I doubt the bottom will fall out of real estate.

IMHO, another factor is that the pattern of development has changed. For a long time in the US, the pattern was sprawl, which presents few barriers to building huge amounts of housing because the land is cheap and maybe even in some unincorporated area with no red tape. Now, many people prefer density (or at least not sprawl), which means the housing that's in demand is more redevelopment and infill than giant new subdivisions. That's more tedious, more expensive, and more regulated, so it will happen more slowly. So another reason why supply is limited.
Yup, I did. that’s why I ask
You can also use Visions of Chaos on Windows which has semi-automatic installer for several dozen models: https://softology.pro/vocrev.htm

(I'm a Patreon supporter but otherwise have no connection)
The “cars to drive kids 300ft to the house” problem is due to the rampant safety-ism in today’s society, not really a car problem per se.
Look, according to Volvo, (who make an EV and ICE version of the same car, on the same manufacturing process),

"The emissions from Materials production and refining of the ICE are roughly 40 per cent less
than for the BEV" [0]

Therefore, forcing people to scrap working vehicles and buy new ones, in such a short time period, is going to dump massive quantities of CO2 in to the atmosphere in very order. This sounds extremely dangerous. I don't understand their reasoning.

Surely they need to fix the EV electric energy mix to make it more renewable, before forcing people to buy the EVs

[0]https://www.volvocars.com/images/v/-/media/project/contentpl...
"Hey! To make sure you stay secure, we require a short video. Please look straight into the camera and tap the screen."

"You look great! We just need you to blink 5 times, and you're almost done!"

"Almost done! Just show us your best side and turn your head to the left like shown above."

"Of course, you only have best sides. Just turn your head to the right like displayed above, and we can continue."

"You've almost got it! Please open your mouth and show us your teeth."

"Wow, look at you go! Just one step remaining: Tilt your head to the right like shown above."

"Now, to complete your verification, hold your national ID beside your face. Make sure it does not obstruct your head! We need to be able to see your pretty face!"

(Tongue in cheek, of course. But my banking app actually uses this kind of language, even for verification stuff, and I don't like it :D)
One year in high school I was in a mild panic the morning after Christmas break because I couldn't remember my locker combination. On the way to school I was mentally preparing myself for going to the office and asking them to help me. Then when I got to school, as I was taking things out of my locker I remembered that I needed to go to the office so I could... hold on. My locker is open. I opened it. What was the combination again?

Then I stood there probably looking like an idiot (mercifully I came in a bit early so it was a mostly empty hallway) spinning the dial around trying to recall what I just did a minute ago.
Ehhh.. "Cultural idiocy and laziness" ignores some important systemic factors. You can be investigated for neglect for letting your kids play in a park you can see from your window.
https://www.familydefensecenter.net/client-stories/mother-ch...

You can't "make it safe" for your kid to ride a bike to school if, when you think you HAVE made it safe, a police officer can still charge you with neglect.
https://bikeportland.org/2011/09/01/neglect-charges-follow-1...

The contemporary US has a narrative about parenting and risk to children that creates some very weird requirements.
That’s not a compromise at all to me. That’s total capitulation. Once any party has the right to sanction or ban and CEX comply with government orders, what is the point?
This is going to happen at some point now that const generics arrived.
Imagine that.

Funny how the police push back on having applied to them what they are more than happy to see inflicted on others.
> The j7 and j7+ model, available only from iRobot in September 2021, debuted PrecisionVision

Yeah, they have cameras in 'em - they advertise being able to detect pet poop, a material.

> Honestly just buying a Roomba is a pretty good signal that you have some money to burn but not so much that you can hire a maid.

Dismissive and also untrue. Roombas save time by spending a relatively small amount of money - about the same amount of money you'd spend on a good vacuum.
This is so fantastic. I wouldn't have believed it was possible had I not seen it here. I maintain multiple old OSX machines solely for this purpose; migrating to Linux for this step makes me feel so much safer for my CI build systems.
With enough solar panels, abundance of corrected soils, and a much smaller population, one can coast on the current agriculture investment and get a reasonable productivity (you will still spend a month or two every year on it) for a lifetime or two. Plenty of time to reboot tractors.
Yeah this is quite common with fintech (stock brokers and crypto IME) KYC nowadays I've noticed.
I might get a lot of flame for this, but I would say this is probably true of most Rails project because Rails has a lot of great standards (opinions). I am not sure why people hate Rails, I love it exactly for this reason.
And now that scan could eventually end up out there someplace.
Slack Integration for SaaS Notification Systems
Maybe revoking DHCP lease and setting it manual only? But yeah, if the roomba requires internet, it’ll be dead.
This article is purely speculation. There nothing back up this claim. I have a Roomba and the map is mediocre at best.

Will they use iRobot's platform to sell their future data collection initiatives? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe they didn't need this acquisition to sell newer products that does more mapping and data collection.

People write articles based on some random thought dump
These entities:

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

> As a business accepting Ethereum, how do I know whether my customer has used Tornado Cash in the past?

Why does that matter? You need to make sure you don't break sanctions. You don't have to worry about other people.
Gitlab just can't shooting themselves in the foot.

Driving away individuals is apparently their strategy now.

Sad. I used to teach new developers starting with Gitlab pages.
Solidarity, friend. Keep doing what makes you happy, keep learning every day, keep trying new things, keep meeting new people, and you're giving yourself the best odds you can get.
The news site, not the JavaScript package.
Out of curiosity was that person asian?

Maybe they were just using some of those beautifying filters like chinese streamers do.
I know that aphantasia exists (I know a famous mathematician who has it) but I had expected it to be fairly uncommon, like color blindness. Soo I was surprised by the percentages mentioned.
I had a call with a Polish government last year to get access to one of the government portals and they were asking me to move my head to the side and also move a palm of my hand very slowly in front of my face.

Interesting times.
Does this mean using C inside of rust is ok? I'm pretty sure the original team kept hitting memory problems and it was in fact not ok. Browsers crash often enough that I don't want unwrap making it worse
I have stopped worrying about creating an online portfolio from the day I have discovered Fueler. In the last one year, I have closed 100+ high tickets freelancing projects just by showing work using Fueler Bucket
Really? To me it seems to show up in every discussion about the general economy these days.
When I posed this to an engineer friend working in the automotive space his comment was that weight distribution and handling / safety (and liability) would be huge issues in retrofitting ICE cars en masse.
> Libertarian presumption that people, removed from the system of control, would all act better

Libertarians don't believe anything resembling that.

Libertarianism requires a government empowered to use force to guarantee peoples' fundamental rights.

If you have more questions about what Libertarianism actually is, feel free to ask, as I am one.
This is a great example of where the law hasn't caught up to smart contracts.

We don't have a good framework in place for sanctioning contracts by address, contract itself, or by effect.

I'm expecting a push toward laws will evolve to make calling mixers illegal, but that will likely hit some 1st amendment push back. If money is speech, then is it free if it has no privacy?
At least for me, the intensity of a psychedelic trip was little about the visuals and a lot about that indescribable consciousness change. I don't think AI's are going to be collapsing people's innate sense of reality (the way that psychedelics does at least), perhaps leaving them questioning what media is and isn't real though.
This only seems to affect Americans who want to move funds via crypto coins.

In other words, FUD.
Oh I know. Just wanted to give wffurr an opportunity to find out for themselves :)
A secret language of cells? New cell computations uncovered
Bridge loans are a lot like being pot committed in poker (when the pot odds for the remainder of your chips are worse than your odds of winning that specific hand). In both situations, you have a lot more information on the immediate situation than in some indeterminate future scenario, so it can sometimes be your best option.

However, there's an obvious bias there, and thinking that you're pot committed when you're not is a pretty common mistake with inexperienced poker players (and investors).
What always surprised me about Peterson was the fact that so many people swear by his videos. There's multiple claims about how his videos changed their lives or saved them. However, his methodology couldn't keep his own life from going awry.
Show HN: Vite-Powered React Framework
Please tell me how I can cook dinner at home while sitting at my desk at a call center.

If you're going with the inconvenience definition of labor argument, the inconvenience of having to be somewhere specific is greater than...not.
Not sure if you mean that, but the Sonos S1 interface has been reverse-engineered, see here:

https://github.com/SoCo/SoCo

https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api

This allows you to e.g. set the Sonos speakers to play any audio URI.
Robot would be a rental with addons charged as subscribed.
That greatly depends on telco policies at the destination.

In the US, alpha senders aren't allowed. Shortcode (5 or 6 digit numeric senders) spoofing is highly frowned upon to the point where you can't send from the same shortcode with multiple aggregators.

Other countries vary between anything goes, aggregator takes anything in the sender field, some high profile names are checked, or all sender names need to be run through the telecoms regulator and validated by the aggregator and cell carrier.

Of course, there's (usually?) no customer id transparency between the carrier and the aggregator, so if there's a misconfiguration at the aggregator, one customer may be able to send with a registered sender of another customer.
Well said.

I recently inherited a code base which was developed by some devs-for-hire while the company started building up the team to take over (including me).

I met the last remaining dev-for-hire for the handover and got the impression that the company paid very very close attention to how many hours they billed and which meetings they were allowed to attend, and 0 attention to the code they produced as long as it worked.

Thankfully, the code was actually working well enough - and the thing that I appreciated most of all was the fact that at lots and lots of places in the code, there were frank comments like

// This is completely undefined as of yet. I'm just implementing this how I think it should work, you can probably delete this and start over if it no longer makes sense.

So incredibly helpful. No Chesterton's fencing around, just clarity about the parts of the code everyone knew was just around to do its job, then get rid of.
So what are these design decisions in case of everything "meta-"?
> the value Microsoft gets from GitHub [is] influence

Don't forget easy access to all the code to train Copilot, the AI code launderer. With my tinfoil hat on: even the private repo edition!
Absurd requests will increase in absurdity as long as there is not significant push back.
Those statistics are for Autopilot only. They hide FSD data.

That data is also super misleading as they compare Autopilot highway crash rates with statistics for an average car (which is older and has fewer safety features than newer cars) that includes city driving (which is much less safe than highway driving). It's designed to advertise Autopilot as safer than it really is. In reality, it's about as safe as any new car with standard safety features (AEB, collision avoidance, lane keep etc).
This is amazing! For many years, I've been a happy customer (no other affiliation) of Rogue Amoeba, whose (closed-source, commercial) Airfoil software: https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/ does all this & more (MacOS and iOS only). I've had a multi room audio setup with Airport Expresses and dumb powered M-Audio bookshelf speakers for the past 10 years going strong!

I love this project, but for folks who use MacOS and want something that simply works, I can't recommend Airfoil highly enough.
May need grammar edits:

“How can end global hunger if governments can build and maintain roads and other infrastructure to transport foods?”
This sounds like a great way to get sufficient images/video of you to create a deepfake that could pass this test. Hmmm...
> Does this mean using C inside of rust is ok? I'm pretty sure the original team kept hitting memory problems and it was in fact not ok

This reads a little like flamebait.

Memory unsafety is bad. panic is _not_ a memory unsafe operation, it does not result in memory problems.

This post is not related to memory safety in any way.
As a side note, the Wikipedia page "Concept" on the AK-47, cites Mikhail Kalashnikov as saying two things that can be generalized to other fields:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47#Concept

#1 "I was a soldier, and I created a machine gun for a soldier."

#2 "A lot of Russian Army soldiers ask me how one can become a constructor, and how new weaponry is designed. These are very difficult questions. Each designer seems to have his own paths, his own successes and failures. But one thing is clear: before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field. I myself have had many experiences confirming this to be so."

Particularly the latter could be a valid corollary to the Chesterton's Fence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
Perhaps you would be interested in my manuscript on depression. It turns out that the trick is to stop doing things depressed people do, and start doing things that depressed people don't.

I really think it's going to be a profound addition to the literature. I am thinking it's going to be a NYT best seller, but I can't seem to find an agent.
Probably not, there are a bunch of products out there that support Airplay 2 like LG and Samsung TVs that don’t have a Secure Enclave
Don't exception also halt your program if you ignore them?

Also if using a library I don't want a bug in it to bring my program down, then I am forced to use workarounds like create a child process to use the library, start the child process from the main process and check on it to see if it fails or succeeds, that would be bad for performance and ugly.