skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get a bit suspicious when I hear a scheme that boils down "given a society rotten with marketization schemes enriching a corrupt few, we'll use one more layer of marketization to stop the problem, what could possibly go wrong?"

And thinking in more detail, substantial problems seem evident:

* You want auditors who check everyone, not just the most likely or most "profitable" targets.

* If the activity of a regulator depends on the fraud level, you will have people slacking off in times of little fraud, which will then give rise to times of much fraud.

* This would make regulation more adversarial - companies would have an incentive to withhold information from a regulator to the extent a regulator would have an incentive to "spin" things in a profitable direction for them. Despite a strong pro-business ideology prevailing in the US, US regulation is already often more adversarial than in Europe. A US regulator is more oriented to catching wrong doers than to guiding companies into behaving correctly. This is visibly failing in all sort of large and small ways. The proposal would make this worse.
Modern Monetary Theory yo!
I think all clear eyed people will recognize that almost all legislation is both flawed and a compromise. Sure, some environmental programs and regulation do not have as much affect as we would like: recycling plastic, under current technology at least, would probably be a good example.

But I would rather see policy coming out that is in the right ballpark. We can learn from that.

Vague, simplistic overreliance on "the market" is foolhardy and readily dismissed by any serious student of economics.
If you buy from a convenience store, the default is usually no receipt as well, probably because few want them. But I suspect if you are buying from the lcbo (Ontario liquor monopoly) on a liquor license, ie for a restaurant, you always get a receipt. My point is that for business purchases, a receipt is basically mandatory, and most LinkedIn recruiter subscriptions would be business purchased.
> I have learnt German. I speak fluent German. I am German.

As a native German speaker, I really would not consider

> I speak decent German, but the vocabulary of company incorporation was not covered in my Volkhochschule classes nor Duolingo.

to be fluent in German. In such kind of language discussions, I often see that in the USA vs Germany, there seems to be a quite different understanding of fluency in the native languages:

- In the USA, you are considered to be a fluent (English) speaker when you can talk somewhat freely with the fellow countrymen

- In German(y), you are considered to be a fluent speaker when you are able to speak the language on quite a high level
around here we call those quadcopters

nz is a five eyes power, closely allied to the us on questions like this
Isn't that what service workers are for?
This is a valid line of questioning, which I think has largely been addressed in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/numapp....

However, you phrased the question as "Why does the government allow police to work with psychics?". I think that question is a slightly different one.

Maybe banning it wholesale at the government level is too controversial and just isn't a priority for them?
My wife and I live in the United States but got married in Italy at her hometown city hall. She is Italian and I am American. She wanted to do this badly, but for an American and an Italian to get married in Italy is an extraordinarily complicated process. It involved having witnesses present themselves at the US Embassy (conveniently we're in DC) to vouchsafe that I am not already married, and to have witnesses to vouchsafe for my witnesses. It also involved a huge back-and-forth between the embassy and the local city hall in my wife's hometown who, for who knows why, hold some authority. I had to go through some weird procedure because I was having a civil and not catholic church wedding. I had to have wedding vows drawn up in both Italian and English, and have a person available to translate in real time to make sure that I understood my vows (because apparently not understanding vows you wrote puts you in legal jeopardy in Italy, I kid you not). The entire thing required numerous notorizations, forms, and literally dozens of people along the way apologizing for the suffocating Italian bureaucray which of course, they were part of.

Along the entire way every single bureaucrat asked me the exact same question:

"Why don't you just get married in the US?"
Sure, I know lots of them and literally none struggle with sex addiction or guilt as you suggest.
> I have yet to meet a single person… who does not believe that sex carries with it some form of personal restraint or ethical responsibilities

As I understand it, the GP was suggesting that people tend to define the nature of that restraint and those ethical responsibilities around their behavior rather than conforming their behavior to them. That’s not a controversial statement as people tend to rationalize their own behavior to justify themselves in all manners of behavior. Therefore the GP is suggesting that anyone investigating sexual ethics to analyze the lives of who they’re listening to lest they become embroiled in the self justifications of others instead of sober reasoning.

I’d also recommend to be suspicious of oneself around one’s own self-justifications and underlying motivations because we’re all prone to this.
Why did you ask your original question if you believe you know the answer?
I took a look at your comment history and matched you to Stepford Smiler

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StepfordSmiler
eink displays are such a great media for calm tech. It is a shame that it doesn't go down to a reasonable price, otherwise there would be a ton of cool devices with use cases like this.
It is interesting how much these discussions are focused on the earlier, procreative stages of marriage. ‘Free love’ / freely connecting with people has a certain attraction but what about the commitments later in life? (see: declining health, aging parents…) Such responsibilities feel overwhelming with two sets of parents, it would be hard to imagine more. The flip side of commitment would have less takers i’d imagine
There's a perfect example of why an app might be better than the web page.
cool, but these : https://www.homedepot.com/pep/La-Crosse-Technology-Atomic-Di... are super cheap, last forever and don't require an internet connection. Sure you don't get multi day weather but that's what the weather widget on my phohne is for.
Ask HN: What are the most interesting AI applications accessible to the layman?
For example, projects such as https://books.google.com/talktobooks/ that allow people to experience AI without programming.
paying a subscription for a simple markdown app seems ridiculous.
It was more than that. It was opportunity for advancement from the previous millennium or more of stasis. You could save up and advance, even if it was small. On a farm each generation had less farmland to farm (let's say you have 100 acres, and you have 4 heirs each with now 25 and so on... but let's say two because death and also pursuit of something else, so 50, but keep on doing that every generation)
Like Somalia.
> If you have money from investors and skip many of the steps: buy a holding company, costs 5000 Euro. You pay 30000 Euro and receive a ready-for-you company with bank account of 25000 Euro. Then go to a notary and have, in a single document, change the company name, change the shareholders, move it to the desired city.

Is this a good idea? How do you make sure the company doesn't have any liabilities or did any shady transactions.
If this kind of device would come in 'off the shelf' ready to go, I'd buy one. I think e-Ink screens are really attractive to be hung on the wall.

I hope we're going to see such device come to life; my bet is some successful kickstarter followed by an amazon clone with alexa built-in :vomit-face:

+1 for a simple device that does one thing, and does it well.
SBF in December: “You can beat Mt. Gox by just not losing everyone's money”
> As long as something is “fast enough” (and the benchmark here is pretty low), most people won’t specifically choose a fast app over a slow app with more features.

The author chooses to use all sorts of slow software. Speed won't stop people using it, they'll just use it and think it's poorly designed/engineered.
Eventually, someone in the US will make bank selling "signature laundering machines" - basically the ImageMagick script on a microcontroller in a tamper-proof enclosure that's plugged as peripheral, with paper trail certifying that the output it produces is equivalent to printing a document and scanning it again, or faxing it, and therefore should be legally considered as equivalent to fax.
Adding decent cupholders to cars didn't make cars bigger.

Similarly, adding decent cupholders to airplanes is not going to reduce passenger space.
> In many other countries they offer official translations, and the government body will bear the cost of interpreting.

> Germany is almost uniquely hostile to foreigners in this regard.

Do English-speaking countries offer such services for, say, Polish or Italian native speakers?
> maybe it's a good idea to add EN i18n.

Unless you’re looking for a country to change it’s official language to English I think this is a wrong direction. The law is in German, it’s interpreted in German, if there’s some misunderstanding or a mistake in filings it will be heard in court in German. It’s better to set expectations early. All legal processes are held in country’s native language. It is better to NOT provide “official” i18n of the process of starting the company, which unless you’re then willing to support the whole process in this foreign language. How do you also then make sure that the English translation is fully legally equivalent to the German version?
I had never thought that the "you can always fork it" as a way of shutting down discussion.

I maintain forks that are frequently rebased on main/master with a few users. I have even suggested this as an action to people who wanted different features that I was not capable of maintaining.
It would be tough. More like a virtual flip book than a video!

In our case, we embedded some data in a QR code. It was one of the more fun little projects but only marginally practical.
There has been quite a bit of change in that area since 2011 and I can't fault you for not keeping tabs on it. Bad news always travels quicker than good.

Things change more frequently behind the scenes than what appears publicly.
Who said anything about medical treatments?

This is like complaining about how much it costs to buy a car because gasoline costs too much.

The cost of staying in a hospital bed in the US is ridiculously expensive, without any treatment at all, much less advanced drug therapies.
I suspect most of Twitter's performance issues are of the too-many-cooks variety, where services are poorly coupled or have a lot of dependencies because a million different teams are working on each one. (Heavy layoffs are a good step towards fixing that, along with a technical redesign.)
I think this does exist through university degree's and certifications(eq. board exams), previous work experience(eq. residency). I mean a doctor and engineer aren't expected to have mock operating rooms, CAD tooling, do side projects, etc on their own to refresh their skillsets going to another hospital or firm. Most of their case work or projects can also be used as part of their portfolio.

This all required from companies that face no penalty if you start on day one and don't have proper tooling, make up applications and tooling as needed, no standard software workflows, side step security policies, etc. Seems a bit rich asking candidate's to be of such high caliber when the company isn't also held to same standard outside of high compensation.

At least in the US exercise the 90 day period maybe plan 3 months of severance and move on. It probably amounts to the same effort anyway, not that I know of any company that is tracking this or making the data publicly available to study.
Eventually, we will rely on machines to help us understand software code. Think "fill in missing code comments with GPT-3." Now add 10 years of focused research to make this more reliable and intelligible. It must be inevitable, right?
What is the front end stack for this app? Is it based in React?
Thanks for sharing! This is indeed very cool.
He doesn't describe the page though, is he hosting a custom page he made or he is using a service that build all the info into a page?
Well, as I said, I had it for around six months (or more) and it was getting worse the entire time, and after just a couple weeks of taking the raw honey it was gone. Same with my neighbor.

So it was not, and did not, get better on its own.

You can ignore what I've shared here if you want, or you can choose to learn something from it. I am very grateful for the person who told me about.
I think the problem is that every recession on that chart has been "bailed out" in some form by Fed monetary policy, mostly to the benefit of asset holders, and usually far too early or excessively. The increasing overall trend can be attributed to anti-progressive tax brackets (the wealthy pay 20% while the middle class pays 30-45%).

But even in an increasing wealth inequality environment, a proper recession should at least decapitalize the stupid among the wealthy and benefit better capital allocators, which is beneficial. Better to have productive Elon Musks getting rich in the aftermath of economic turmoil than SBF's and Adam Neumanns.
You've stumbled on an actual, practical use case: encoding watermarks in the grain. I can imagine a watermark hidden in the grain, spread over long enough time (say couple seconds to a minute), so it can survive reencoding with heavy compression and containing enough bits to identify the source of the video on a per-copy/per-user basis.
It's their bad decision to make, and it deserves criticism. If you're basically intentionally hiring terrible performers and the only way to ensure an adequate baseline is to literally monitor them 8 hours a day, I hope that that company goes out of business. The alternative is to promote a culture of competence whereby other employees will want to set such a baseline for other employees such that abysmal performance does not slide but without someone hovering over your shoulder your entire tenure.
I ate the raw honey :D
I have a "generator" site[1] where people are able create/share a "fairly" unique image (billions of potential combos) rendered in the dom. There's no point pre-rendering every possible version of a all-but unique social image, so instead I generate them on the fly as they are requested (i.e someone shares one).

In my case I actually render them on the client using dom-to-image[2] and then store/cache them using R2. This is basically to save on server costs (it's hosted on free CF pages with a worker). A more secure implementation (with a compute budget) might use a headless browser like this server side to render the image.

[1] perfectpollie.au

[2] npmjs.com/dom-to-image
> The Germans mostly have nothing to compare it to, and think it's normal: it is not.

Many Germans know really well how bad it is. This is one of many reasons why politicians and bureacrats in Germany are hated the same as, I think, lawyers in the USA. It's rather that most German citizens have given up hope that any improvement will happen.
Developers are users.
Choose a lever: Their jobs. Getting re-elected. Align the goal with their fidicuary duty to increase shareholder value. Historical imperative. Whatever.
I think the argument is that a huge number of the EA types have been caught without their pants on in the FTX / SBF / Alameda fiasco. Those like Will McAskill have distanced themselves, but it still gives the collection of people a look that isn't great, even if it doesn't tarnish the conceptual basis of EA, as philosophized. Perhaps in practice, maximizing wealth leads ones to do morally sketchy things under the moral cover of maximizing good.
I'll second this with more than just an upvote: at my previous VC backed startup, for the first threeish years both the primary VC firm who funded us, and their other investment companies, represented around 70% of our customer base (<$5M ARR total). I know the VC firm itself didn't actually pay (well, they were paying in other ways). We eventually grew out of it.
Government spending has in many cases an excellent track record of shaping investment. If you look at some of the brightest innovations, they got their
start from government money. Funding on long time scales rarely comes from companies reporting profits every quarter.

History has shown that there aren't that many Bell Labs that survive very long. How long will Open AI or DeepMind continue to contribute to public innovation? I'm not going to make a bet on that.

Decades of spending on math and science, embedded into federal spending (though inefficient and wasteful in many ways) has generated many tremendous innovations. It is foolish to rely on one mechanism to generate innovation. I'm not suggesting that government is the only or best way. We need innovations across many timescales.

P.S. The amount of close mindedness among "highly intelligent" people in the tech world is staggering. Step back and look at yourself. Ask if your ego is getting in the way of clear and creative thinking.

P.P.S. For what it's worth, among the people I consider most inspiring in the tech world, very few have their head planted only in computer science. We need more historians, sociologists, lawyers, musicians, and so on. The libertarian faction of tech is indictive of a certain brain tendency -- a desire to simplify down to core principles -- and not one that we need more of.

The drive for simplicity can lead us to interesting theories. It can lead to simpler systems. It can also lead to overlooking the true nature of humanity: what is good? what is fair? what is just?

So "Is simplicity best? Or simply the easiest?" [1]

Please question the value of simple philosophies when you make moral arguments. Human concepts are rarely simple. Neither is language. Or justice. Or fairness. Or innovation.

[1] Depeche Mode
I mean... something about glass houses:

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1qf5t2ymwfcl5...
It's not about order. And "people" (the active dominant business industry) get things done because they know the process, the people, and the right forms to fill.

It's gate-keeping coupled with organized petty corruption.
Yes, there’s definitely a contradiction there
CDs can support 90+dB of dynamic range, which is pretty great, with much less distortion and noise. A good classical recording can show this off pretty well.

On the other hand, 80s club music was presumably mixed and mastered with vinyl-style distortion (and other features such as rumble, crackle, hiss, etc.) in mind. (Modern producers often try to replicate the pleasant saturation of analog equipment – and sometimes add vinyl-sounding artifacts, for better or for worse.)

A well-mastered digital recording should (and does!) sound great, but I think the problem is that many CDs aren't well mastered and many were overly compressed, sometimes with terrible clipping, in service of the dreadful "loudness wars."

In 2022 most dance music is produced digitally to begin with, and DJed digitally as well; presumably mastering engineers and DJs have figured out how to make it sound good when it's played in a club.
He's "being paid" (not by SBF) to write anything that will sell. I don't think that gives us any clues which way he's leaning.
While this is already very useful for my homelab setup, I’d like to see if this could be deployed on multiple servers and communicate the status to a master node to watch over all my servers.

If this has something I could tap into to get the status info externally , could privately hack something together to get that.
Idgi
I can't wait to read about the ethics and lack of political discussion around malloc, next.
there is no horror in c++. it is a better investment of your time IMHO to learn patterns and best practices and learn how things work at a low level instead of learning a language like rust which attempts to hide difficult work from you and make your life easier. in the end you will pay for that when you finally understand there are no shortcuts and you really need to understand how the machine, memory management and operating systems work. rust cannot fill that void.
Stallman also chose to build Emacs and Emacs Lisp. He could have made an editor extendable in c only, but did not. Emacs' problem, then and now, was non-existent, then terrible DOS and Windows support.

Really, the problem was that there was no DOS or Windows lisp available for cheap, or free. Even GCC was only available thanks to a small company, Delorie, who made djgpp.

I would have greatly preferred to program in lisp; but on DOS and Windows all I had was C, Pascal, and Basic; thanks to Borland, Delorie and Microsoft. Later I had Java, Python and Perl; again thanks to companies like ActiveState.

The focus on UNIX-only kept these other languages, free or not, from being useful to the broader public.
The US.

Tethered traffic is usually routed differently. Almost all cellular data traffic is CGNATed or proxied, and different priority is assigned to different types of traffic.

For 95% of users, there’s no problem at all. When people push the limits, they find themselves in a pickle. I’m familiar with an organization with >50k devices across 4 major carriers 4-5 years ago. They probably had <500 people who required some sort of exception, ranging from a different plan to a more appropriate device and plan, to someone doing something crazy. (One guy was running a small field office off of a Samsung tablet)
About Saudi Green Initiatives
EMC, Sun and Cisco are basically still around in some form (Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010; Dell bough EMC in 2015 for $67 billion) and the .com implosion didn't nuke them.
Elon needs to message whoever is in charge of his food service and ask them to cut back. The guy is morbidly obese.

That being said, $13 million divided across 7,500 employees is approximately $1700 per employee. I’m curious what the cost per employee in the office was. At first glance $140 per month per employee does not seem outrageous.
If that's the case he probably wasn't asking hard questions just looking for the shining star entrepreneur narrative that those business books love.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33587478
Assuming an occupancy of 20% with 5000 employees, that's around 1000 lunches per day or around 2*10^5 lunches per year.

Works out to about $65 per lunch. How did Elon calculate >$400 per lunch?