skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It that was truly their goal, they could’ve carpet bombed their targets day 1. Their nuclear arsenal is enough to obliterate much more than Ukraine off the map…

The million land mines in Southeast Asia and record setting drones strikes and 20 yr occupation of Afghanistan sure is awesome. Slurp up that propaganda baby!
AI Downloader – A Python file downloader written by AI
so how much of Uber "success" is due to fitting the neo startup era flagship role ?
It goes further back than that. Quoting from Ken's article:

"In 1951, Maurice Wilkes came up with the idea of microcode: instead of building the control circuitry from complex logic gates, the control logic could be replaced with another layer of code (i. e. microcode) stored in a special memory called a control store. To execute a machine instruction, the computer internally executes several simpler micro-instructions, specified by the microcode. In other words, microcode forms another layer between the machine instructions and the hardware."

Note the "1951".
Nothing about Rust or Kubernetes. Instantly realized that this must be fake.
Given his usual proclamations, (e.g. level-5 self driving) I think it is fair to assume that he is not very high on evidence.
Dr ChatGPT: A Thread on ChatGPT for Medical Diagnosis
>It's causing a lot of dont-talk-to-your-neighbor-because-you-might-break-privacy-laws issues

Well that's explicitly out of scope of the GDPR, so it shouldn't cause those issues.

Article 2(2):

>This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data [...] by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity

and even if that wasn't the case, unless you're performing automated processing or using a filing system, it's out of scope due to Article 2(1) as well.
Chicken Scheme is currently on version 5.x so this could very well have been a real headline at one point.
> could only help

Having trouble parsing this without hearing it spoken. Do you mean this as a condition for it helping or saying that basically the only possibility is that it is beneficial?
I'm getting ripped off

My guess is you haven't ever received a letter from the IRS saying you owe money, because $1800/year might sound like a bargain to avoid the stress such a letter creates.

For example, I once had a client switch their billing service. Each service sent a 1099 to the IRS for the same work for the same client for the same tax year.

The IRS is a blunt instrument.

I got a bill (for taxes, interest, and penalties) because I had only paid taxes on the money I was paid.

Yes it all got resolved properly.

But I opened a letter with five figures of taxes owed.

And had to figure out what had happened while completely freaked out and in a domain where I was operating for the first time. Would have been nice to have just called my accountant.

Of course your mileage may vary, and so to your luck.
Sure but you can turn a dump of emails into statistics easily. Or alternatively, you can release the dump of emails.

> This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.

Yet the fact that there's absolutely no attempt to even analyze the data for signs of bias, but have to resort to a complete non-sequitur, is quite telling. It likely means that the raw data doesn't support their narrative. You can also share a sample of tweets that were requested to reviewed by both parties and which ones got removed and which ones did not. If the Trump administration's requests were not honored despite the tweets clearly being in violation or the Biden campaign's requests being honored despite the tweets clearly not being in violation, well that would be something if there was a clear pattern, or internal discussions that explicitly suggest that they are making decisions like that specifically to favor one candidate. It still has nothing to do with the 1st amendment, but it would at least corroborate the claim that Twitter was biased.

Again, the standards need to be high because they are the party with all the information. This type of insinuation can be persuasive if you're the outside party that suspects bias and the other party controls the information. But claiming that there might be some bias, look at all this external information as to why it might have happened, tells the exact opposite story, when they are the ones that control the information. Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi literally have all this information at their disposal and clearly want to spread this narrative that Twitter was biased in the Democrats' favor. But they can't prove it - it seems ridiculous for them not to have looked into this, but they thought it was best not to release that information. Why not? Almost certainly because it detracts from the narrative.
Seems like a personal web of trust, but what happens when I don't know any lawyers at all?

Full story: I am close to a contract dispute with my landlady (she refuses to keep the heat at the legal minimum level because it would be too expensive for her, and threatened to evict us when I mentioned the law) and anticipate needing legal help soon.
$400/month for life is totally believable.

I drive a 2013 that I bought in 2017 and paid off early in 2020. For the lifetime of the car to date, I've spent $12.33/day (~$370/month) counting the original loan, maintenance, gas, taxes, and registration but not insurance.

Over time, the loan will be more amortized but the other costs will never go down and likely go up.
> 16. Ask HN: What Happened to Sausages? (news.ycombinator.com)

I'm really curious now what did happen to the sausages!
In my recollection, roadblocks didn't really fix the walker issues.

I've had countless occasions where a walker would suddenly stop servicing a row of houses he or she could previously access just fine without any change to the layout of a "neighbourhood". This seemed to happen because the houses had gotten too big and a resource the walker was distributing to the houses did not last until the last few houses (walkers had limited stores of resources they carried, although this seemed to happen with religious walkers also who as far as I remember didn't have quantifiable stores; might be wrong). At that point the walker would have to go back to fetch more of the resource to service those last few houses. Meanwhile those houses would devolve because they didn't have any more of the resource they needed to keep their current level. Devolving houses would lose one or more levels and shed occupants. Once the walker reached them with the required resource, the houses would evolve again. Then when they ran out of the resource again they 'd also devolve again, in a vicious circle that could drive a player mad. Usually the only solution was to demolish some housing and build a service building in their place. Which messed up everything all over again.

To be fair, I observed this primarily in Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (which I played at least as much as Cesar III, but more recently since I found it on GOG a few years ago). I've only played a little bit of Pharaoh and Zeus, but if this kind of problem wasn't fixed in Emperor (which came after Pharaoh) then I'm guessing it affected Pharaoh too.

Interestingly, I observed exactly the same issue in Lethis: Path of Progress, a Cesar III clone I've played. Lethis also has roadblocks, but they don't really help, you gotta be prepared to pull some houses down and build new service buildings.
“I’m sorry, dev, I’m afraid I can’t do that. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.”
YouTube has matured and now has professional YouTube-first content. The first time I was on YouTube it had every imaginable show (illegally) and that’s how they hit their incredible initial growth. Then it was amateurs for the next ten years doing silly stuff and now it’s quite a enjoyable platform for information and niche entertainment
> Everybody knows it, you can talk about it, but you mustn't go too far, and you mustn't ask for consequences, as many of those who where involved then in the propagation of pedophilia are still in positions of power in politics, academia and the press.

Can you name a single person in power in politics, academia and the press today in Germany that was involved in any of this? (Closest I can think of are some politicians who are past their career end and have no official position today.)
I was making a counterpoint that the reason they have bad grammar is not lack of access to a way to make good grammar. The original thought about why the grammar is always bad on scams is simple. The bad grammar is a litmus test that your victim is dumb or mentally not able to analyze your scam so you know to dig in when you get a hit.
I believe hn removes the word 'how' from the beginning
> Not even (the stories in) The Orville was free of power politics, as utopian as it was.

The Orville is basically a less utopian version of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (Or, perhaps, “Roddenberry-era Star Trek” more generally.)
Essentially all choices real people make are not economically optimal.
Agreed. Curiously that meander makes the implicit point that the author never made explicitly, that cleverness is shallow. It's all about witty one-liners that lead no deeper than eliciting a smirk and a mote of respect for the joker's facility with an unobvious turn of phrase. Little surprise that Wilde wanted to be remembered for more than merely that, which alas, he isn’t.
Small world, Kanye is an HN user. Who knew.
I feel the limitation is not that these references don't exist, but that GPT didn't go ahead and finish its job by also creating the content in the references on the fly.
I just find it difficult to believe that 4 weeks before the election if Donald Jr’s laptop was found with the same stuff, that the NYT and WAPO wouldn’t be obsessively analyzing it and posting about its “Russian Collusion”.

Let the news come out and let everyone decide for themselves what the value is. Censoring it is the issue
A tool to represent contributions in 3D.

More info here : https://www.codegram.com/case-studies/github-skyline/
Mandatory reading: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
> The entire innovation of ridesharing was taxi dispatch, with a smartphone.

This is why I've never understood the taxi companies whining and complaining about Uber and Lyft breaking the rules. These companies could have done the exact same thing and crushed Uber and Lyft because they already had large presences in their city.
Just to add, you want to pay your accountant or bookkeeper enough that they can afford to stay in business and do business the right way.
The HiFi Rose RA180 Integrated Amp Looks Wacky for a Reason
Thanks! I've fixed that.
I'm not a pacifist or a warmonger.

The big cost is "stealth" in these things. You only need that if you intend to enact a war intentionally. Cheaper old style bombers are fine for the majority of day to day deterrence operations. In fact they are probably better since they can optimize for cargo loads.
Have you ever tried the carpool option? I'd frequently take it to work in Chicago, and it'd cut the cost from like $40 to $12-$15 when shared with 2-3 other people. Sometimes you meet interesting people too.
Human were also searching the space of Go moves for centuries, but AI completely blew us away.

It turns out that some search spaces are far richer than we imagine.
At the time of his death, Khashoggi was a Saudi citizen. Whey would we go to war over a cpu try killing one of their own citizens?
> Lamborghini is German through and through now

Just because VW has a controlling stake in Lamborghini doesn't make Wolfsburg the capital of supercar design. For a whole bunch of reasons, mostly cultural, it will always be that triangle between Florence, Milan and Turin.

Foxxcon might become big enough to buy Apple one day. Still if you were to visit the 2 HQs, and the 2 cities you'd understand where the devices are designed, regardless of the cap table and who owns who
Yeah I don’t get that either. I took a Motrin after I got my teeth removed and I gave the Vicodin to my friends. And these days Vicodin looks like Pez because the dentists are dealing fentanyl for reasons nobody can understand.
Does anybody expect Kuiper to be economically viable?

- they are at least five years behind Starlink in launches

- they use ULA (or Blue Origin) to launch, I don't even follow Blue Origin anymore, are they even cheaper than ULA if they can launch? Isn't ULA 2-3x as expensive as current SpaceX launches

- SpaceX seems well along the path of figuring out most of the ground terminal hardware

- Starship is coming, that's AT LEAST 1/3 of the cost of current SpaceX in all likelihood?

I saw some comments that Kuiper will have "better" satellites, but that's all on paper, and SpaceX is ALREADY in the iteration phase, once there's billions of revenue, there's no advantage Kuiper will hold.

The only competition I can see involves nation states trying to keep a satellite infrastructure to maintain nation-state (or in the EU case federation-state) competitiveness, and Kuiper is just another US company.

So are their objections just trying to slow down SpaceX?

ViaSat... do they have any legit beef aside from trolling/annoying SpaceX in pettiness over making them obsolete?

I get Bezos really likes his cowboy hat astronaut cosplay, and has Smaug's horde, but ... come on. I wish him the best and it's his money, and competition ois good
The desire to "grow", and the lack of a defined end state for that growth, is the problem. It's not hard to build a social media service that pays for itself and then some, but they all are run by greedy people and so they want more money all the time. These people have no notion of "enough money". That's the fundamental problem behind all social media services going to shit.

The fediverse won't be like that though.
Air Force Unveils New B-21 Stealth Bomber After Seven Years in the Making
There are many states that offer some form of this. In my opinion New Mexico is the be the best for anonymity. Another contender is Wyoming. Also, do you really want your business to be out of Florida? Starting in 2024 you have to report your ownership to the Feds.

https://cindysnewmexicollcs.com/
The notion that it’s a school’s place to usurp the parent’s choices of how to raise the kid is the problem here. If the majority of the parents oppose that, the school shouldn’t do it. It’s a public school, it should serve the interests and desires of the public.
Wow that is a cool feature, thanks for sharing.

I think there are some other things like fixed-point rather than floating-point decimals for storing/manipulating currency. IIRC, the number 0.1 cannot be precisely represented with floating point system, but that just may be an old wives tale at this point.
What about building a habit? I have a habit I can't live without. It's a habit of building things that I can live without and have the freedom to. I can't live without that habit but I can live without the things I make.
The airport of the future is the airport of today – and that’s not good
Spotify Wrapped 2022 Is Out and Joe Rogan, Bad Bunny Top the Streaming Charts
Wow, you're right! I had thought they got shut down in the US for some reason. But I see they're down to just three models.
This. 10-15 lines in `default.nix` followed by `nix-shell` ensures you'll have the exact same fully-functional dev environment any time, anywhere.
I think the perception with crime on the subway has much more to do with the fact that poor people use the subway, moreso than a danger of subways for poor people.

Crime is certainly up, but still you're looking at 1 in a million or less odds to be victim of violent crime on the subway.

And anti-social behavior will problem actually go down as a proportion when there are more people on the subway.
The comments appear the same on each article. Is this intended?

I had the hope that they were some sort of GPT generated internet bickering or something but if not that's OK, I know it's a lot of work.
They did.

I want it back.

Maybe we can get Musk to tweet one.
No Taxis in L.A?
Find a problem that you think can be solved with AI or ML. Work on solving that problem. Based on your background I would do something in the AI space that intersects robotics.
PX or REM in CSS? Just Use REM
Huh, now I'm curious - would the passenger sitting in the back also reduce motion sickness since they don't have as clear a view of what's going on, so there's less to anticipate?
MagSpoof: Wireless Magstrip Spoofer
haha, I dunno. I just know that I was working on a very simple phone app with React Native a couple years ago. I estimated it'd take 10 hours total to implement, but I got about halfway done with the app after 120 hours of dev work. (It needed some custom 'native' code in Swift, and I did manage to correctly estimate that part would take me less than an hour)

I'll finish it one of these days..
Wondering if the big influx of C derived CVE are old or new code. If it is new code, I'm also wondering about the brain damage that those safe languages causes.

Yes, it is better to have memory safe languages. But it encourages sloppiness as "nothing can happen". Then those folks aren't fit to write anything else. Which closes the feedback loop on inefficient but safe languages.

Which becomes the same thing in airplanes. Pilots don't really know how to fly without instruments anymore.
I remember spending class time diagraming possible “block layouts” on graph paper, trying to optimize and perfect this.
You can support the effort against a regressive government by supporting companies that offer VPN services to that countries citizens.
IMHO that's a little backwards. I mean, yes, in its ultimate expression in systems like VAX that's how it ended up. But the "goal" of processor designers was never programmer comfort, and I think expressing it that way makes the whole thing seem like a mistake when in fact microcode was a critically important innovation.

What microcode really does is make it possible to share hardware resources inside the execution of the same instruction. Hardware is really (really) expensive, and a naive implementation of a CPU needs a lot of it that you can't really afford.

Take adders. You need adders everywhere in a CPU. You need to compute the result of an ADD instruction, sure, but you also need to compute the destination of a relative branch, or for that matter just compute the address of the next instruction to fetch. You might have segment registers like the 8086 that require an addition be performed implicitly. You might have a stack engine for interrupts that needs to pop stuff off during return. That's a lot of adders!

But wait, how about if you put just one adder on the chip, and share it serially by having each instruction run a little state machine program in "micro" code! Now you can have a cheap CPU, at the cost of an extra ROM. ROMs are, technically, a lot of transistors; but they're dense and cheap (both in dollars for discrete logic designs and in chip area for VLSI CPUs).

That is, microcode started as a size optimization for severely constrained devices. It was only much later that it was used to implement features that couldn't be pipelines. Only the last bit was a mistake.
There was fun time when Ed Summers made a tool to monitor Wikipedia edits from some IPs pool realtime, and it turned into worldwide effort with Twitter bots monitoring many governments and big corporations, highlighting a lot of cringe edits and poor attempts to remove some info from Wikipedia. Many bots are still active, you can find source code and list of bots here https://github.com/edsu/anon

Also there is analysis of old edits (2002-2014) using IP ranges collected for bots https://jarib.github.io/anon-history/, source code: https://github.com/jarib/anon-history
Instagram, like many social networks, is what you make of it and who your friends are.

Pick friends and who you follow well and it's a great experience. Pictures and video are equally supported, discovery is good, search is the best of any social network IMO.

And pro-tip: if your discovery is too full of stuff you don't want, click stuff you don't want and click "not interested". It'll then remove similar posts from your discovery page in the future.
AI will eat software engineering the same way it'll eat art - from the bottom, and quickly at first then very very slowly. Engineers will be responsible for directing, verifying and correcting AIs at increasingly high levels over time. Hand written code will be limited to optimizations and working around weaknesses in the model much the same as inline assembly is still used with compiled code.
Also OTP/erlang and elixir and whatsapp use case are very much a match made in heaven -- they were able to get a whole mess of productivity for "cheap" because the core platform they built on came with a robust foundation to build on.
I was working with [top 5 bank in the US] and hit the same issue with regards to their interest rates between products.

Some represented interest rates as a simple number "5%" others as a decimal "0.05" and others as basis points (500). It caused some HUGE problems internally as less clueful loan officers were plugging 0.05% interest rates into formulas for customers. The naming was just as bad. We had columns and fields called intRate, int_rate, interest_rate, and of course iRate.

I asked people if they were irate over the problem. No one laughed. :D
I assumed that Zurich’s failed experiment decades ago would have ended the possibility of further debate.
One thing I noticed that could be improved: The headlines in isolation are reasonable, and so are the websites, but the pairings between them are not. For example, "Snapchat Has Been Removed From iOS App Store (mitpress.mit.edu)" and "Hstr: Bash And Zsh Shell History Suggest Box (reuters.com)".
> The only mainstream platform now setting itself up to become the exception to this is the one platform that since a few weeks gets consistently attacked by the establishment: Twitter.

The platform where Nazis can say what they want but people mocking Our Lord Musk are suspended? No thanks, I prefer free speech.
I can still use it fine
> No, slashing the labor pool is supposed to increase the leverage labor has allowing labor to demand higher salaries. It doesn't just make salaries go up on their own.

This is an odd straw man. Who would claim that any economic mechanism happens “on its own”?

> as long as you can ignore the demands of that labor pool it doesn't necessarily do anything.

_Specifically with regard to salaries_ this article very clearly says that the opposite is occurring:

> the companies agreed to a 24 percent pay increase by 2024, annual $1,000 bonuses, and a freeze on health-care costs.

> […]

> The freight carriers can afford to make concessions on pay. It isn’t that painful to increase wages by a sizable amount when you’ve recently slashed your head count by 30 percent

It seems weird to argue in the hypothetical about what the railroads’ actions might do to constrain salaries when there is ample evidence that’s not true.
Fosdem has been doing prerecorded talks ever since the “covid” edition.
Apple is a publicly traded company. It's beholden to the ethics of its shareholders.
I heard of taxis, not sure I saw one anywhere other than the airport.