skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think that anyone should be able to build a street-legal car? Regardless of how well it is manufactured and how safe it is for those inside and outside of it?

How do you view the relationship between government-owned, built, and maintained roads and private vehicle manufacturers that use those roads?
HN challenge: End ChatGPT screenshots and improve sharing
It’s not giving the TSA your photo. The TSA is part of the federal government that already has your photo

Why are you trying to make a distinction between the TSA having access to your photo and facial scanning? It’s not like they are taking a 3D scan of your face like an iPhone does. They are using a photo on file and matching it to a picture they take. They or any other part of the government can already do that.

You lose no privacy that you haven’t already lost to the government once you applied for a drivers license or a passport. The government is already tracking you every time you get on a plane and they already have a system in place that as soon as you check in, your information is compared to a no fly list.

The second you walk into an airport, you are under the auspices of the TSA. They can scan you, put bomb detecting liquids on your hand, take you into a room for a more thorough pat down and keep you from flying period.

If you don’t know the advantage of TSA Precheck, you obviously either don’t fly a lot or don’t fly out of major airports.
My backup plan at the moment is the emergency access feature of my password manager (bitwarden), I designated my SO as a trusted contact and gave them "takeover" permission, so they can reset my master password and access my vault in case something happens to me.

Disclaimer: I wasn't paid to promote this, and the emergency access feature is only available on the premium (paid) plans. I still wholeheartedly recommend bitwarden as it has served me well over the years.
I love this photo diode solution, reminds me of duck hunt. Brilliant!
I think it's pretty cool of this person to come and try to help.
Thoughts aren't non-existent though, they have a different type of existence.

I think time may be similar, in that while we seem to have an innate conscious experience/perception of ~absolute time and absolute reality, the way the subconscious mind implements the portion of reality it is the source of may be substantially different.
... 'death rate', as in, the cyclist is killed by a car.
A few years ago I dropped $500 on a "perpetual" Crossover license. I did it more to support their excellent work than to assure myself of a lifetime of free upgrades. That being said, I think a person/company should stand by their word and honor commitments they've made. After 35 years, I'm still angry with US Robotics/3Com for terminating the "lifetime" support of their Courier modems.
> The thing that bemuses me is those who hate the new trek shows with a passion, and find the time to keep watching and constantly bitching about it online.

Very meta of you to watch these people and find the time to complain about them.
This is to me peak social media in 21st century. Somebody has been curating or authoring content for 13 years, but if they don't have clearly identifiable personalities that you can track down, we ask ourselves if they are real.

In general, I don't care about the people behind the article content. They have their own lives that should be private, and the articles should be able to stand on their own merit.
In this case though, it's not a solution at all. The question isn't how producers of garbage produce less garbage, it's how consumers of content can avoid being inundated by garbage. We may well ask 'please don't produce less garbage' and the producers have given us a resounding 'no.'
Online chess and OTB chess are not the same. This is a mistake many people ITT are making. If they can prove that he cheated OTB (especially if they can prove he cheated during that now infamous game against Magnus Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup, which is what set this whole thing off in the first place) then by all means he should be banned but until then let's put the pitchforks down.
Do you mean 30 years of development?
I figured they're doing this to create a tax deduction for themselves, but I have no idea how the tax laws work in this case (proxied charitable contributions) or if that's possible.
Exactly what an NPC would say!
Why not attempt to reproduce it?
Laws against what? Validating that you are who you say you are before you get on plane? Laws against checking whether you are on a no fly list?

Every time you pass a police car, they can scan license plates programmatically and if they stop you, they have your ID on file that they can pull up. In most states, your driver’s license is a RealID license approved by the federal government. You are protecting yourself against nothing by not using PreCheck.
On one hand I agree with you that it's too cynical - but I also wonder if our current course is not easily shiftable. Particularly because we're at the end of a multi-decade technological and neoliberalized system approach that has gone from being neutral to support human social development to being almost actively hostile now (with only small more isolated counter currents). I wonder what we could do if we systematically moved forward in more intentional ways with more human-centered support and development.
You're emphatically wrong. If we have an accident and you die as a result of not wearing a helmet then your estate can file a wrongful death lawsuit against me. If there was a helmet law in place and you weren't wearing a helmet at the time of the accident then your estate is going to have a much more difficult time winning a wrongful death lawsuit. Your actions have consequences for others and frankly it's rather childish to try to pretend they don't.
Wētā 'outgrew the power grid' during rendering of Avatar 2, producer says
Look into the eurodollar system. Most "money" today is just swaps on bank ledger entries backed by counterparty trust and can-kicking. If you thought the dollar was a scam by not being backed by anything, wait till you check this out.
Because in the context of India the digitization of money and centralization of data has been a massive boon to the people.

For example, with the creation of a national identification number (which, thanks to the initial poor security measures has already been hacked), government welfare schemes which involved the distribution of money to people now actually results in the poor benefitting from them, since the money gets deposited in their bank accounts directly. In the past over 80-90% of the money would be stolen by intermediaries.

This is entirely the result of the creation of a massive identity database which by any angle is a security nightmare.

Further, the digitization of money has led to tremendous benefits to the population. Not having to carry around cash greatly reduces the risks of loss or theft. A lot of abuse faced by vendors in the unofficial sector (which is the bulk of the economy) has also reduced because a customer promising to pay cash later because they wouldn’t have it on them, and then either “forgetting” to do so, or delaying it and effectively getting an interest free loan from people who were least able to afford it, is something that has reduced dramatically because the vendor can demand the customer pay them directly using any of the digital means whose receipt they will get confirmation of instantly.

Digital currency has also led to a reduction in fraud and claims of fraud. If a vendor sends a product to a customer with a delivery person, for example, in the past they’d bring cash. This opened up a lot of opportunity for abuse against the largely powerless delivery person where either the customer would not pay enough, and the vendor would blame the delivery person for stealing the money, etc. But now, that simply doesn’t come into play. The customer pays the vendor directly and the vendor sends the delivery person a confirmation and they hand over the product to the customer.

A whole class of exploitation tactics have basically been eliminated.
As a counterpoint, i quite like Scaleway. I've been using them for a few years for a personal Kubernetes cluster, with some random experiments with their serverless and managed database offerings, and i didn't have any issues (for my minimal workloads). They've changed pricing quite a few of times which is far from ideal, but I accept that situations evolve (e.g. the latest one is due to the massive increase in electricity costs in France). Even with all the changes they're still cheaper than many of the alternatives, so it's still "a win".
So that's why they're doing it. I've been wondering for a while now just why so many sites make you work hard to fish out the information you're after. I assumed ad exposure, but I had this feeling that it's not the whole story. Delaying people to fool Google bounce metrics is the idea I missed.
If you need managed K8s and Kafka (and pretty much anything else you can self host), my company [1] provides just that with 5x16 real human support.

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I feel this so much in my life. I used to be a mid price buyer but eventually what I bought ended up in the "expensive, but still crap" category far too many times. Now I just buy crap all the time, it lasts just as long, and at least I know I'm getting what I pay for.
I do like the version we have, as you can theoretically have an almost unlimited number of trains running. But yeah, it was really frustrating to have them cease production.

On the other hand, based on the photos in this article, it looks like the traction motor assembly may be common across recent generations which would allow tinkerers to make their own controllers.
Amazing progress in extending Open Source usage for PostgreSQL
Ceci n'est pas un velo
No, that’s not true. Many products use it as a basis. For example, the ASIAIR Pro is based around a 4GB Raspberry Pi 4a.

https://astronomy-imaging-camera.com/product/asiair-pro
It's primarily a matter of reducing risk by hedging. Pension/insurance companies typically hold assets around the world but have liabilities concentrated where their customers are -- and thus denominated in their customers' primary currency.
Maybe, maybe not. Without giving any substance, your post is easily disregarded. I'd suggest if you believe in crypto and want to further its position to provide factual reasons why.
The evergreen explanation for actions from "Yes, Minister":

> Something must be done!
> This is something.
> Therefore we will do it.
I’m going to guess this lawsuit will fail mostly because it looked to me like Magnus and Chess.com both made statements that were qualified and sounded like read outs. I’d surmise that a legal red team had hit this in preparation for this contingency.
bonjour, qui va gagner la coupe du monde ?
I just give away a few large donations to effective charities I know, and feel comfortable ignoring little requests, except from people I know well.
I think the parent is suggesting that the grant-based model of funding research is itself flawed. There are many issues, so it could be related to how the grants are chosen/reviewed, funds are allocated, universities depend on them, careers of scientists are decided by them, etc.
Correction, it was a Battle Eye ban that got replicated to a VAC ban.
There are foldable helmets, even smaller than this one: https://www.amazon.com/Bicycle-Foldable-Closca-Electric-Pate...

Also if it's locked to the bike you would break the lock and steal the bike. The helmet is the cheaper part. Helmets are often designed so locks can go through them.
qui va gagner la coupe du monde ?
comment nourrir une tortue ?
HBO Max is by itself not a good name - calling it "Warner+" would've made more sense. (I still have family members who avoided HBO Max because they think it's Game of Thrones material, not a family streaming service like Disney+).

But "Max"? Again, why not just "Warner+"?
So let me the one asking the inevitable question: short of buying a 1987 van with the environmental impact of a refinery, what are new or reasonably recent brand/models whose electronics can be hacked to the point every non essential system can be turned off, when not physically removed, without any hindrance for normal driving operations?
I don’t get it. What can you point specifically to the lie? Did you read the article in full? The headline is wrong, the premise of the blog post is wrong. The only factual bit were the quotes from the developer in which he explains his appeal to his users generosity and provides instructions how to receive the renewed keys for their life time license. The only difference now is the keys weren’t automatically granted but require a manual step. That pause in the process just gives folks a chance to reflect on what a tightwad they are given the pretty compelling appeal of the developer where he says clearly he was young and naive 25 years ago (when he was likely basically a kid) and made a commitment he regrets now, but will honor none the less.

That seems like exactly the right behavior for a solo developer to do in this situation. Everyone here is opining how he should be ended mIrc and making nirc as a licensed hard fork that people have to pay for instead. That’s really not in spirit of the original license, but folks somehow find it more tasteful than honoring the original license but caveating it for users as being a financial difficulty for the developer. I feel like I’ve stepped into moral bizarro land. The fork and rebrand to get out of the license agreement is sociopathic to my mind.
I had not there was as much non-mystical opposition to GM crops. A cursory Google search seems to suggest the evidence for GMs contributing to colony collapse disorder is very weak (and the amount of pesticides in the environment might not have much relation to GM crops). But going forward I will keep in mind that it's not as simple as I had imagined it to be.
> I know DOT requires a backup cam,

This is interesting and not something I was aware of. Since when does DOT require that?
Great, now I have to change the password on my luggage!
Install and set obsdfreqd.
Those two paragraphs don't contradict each other. You can have CVS collecting money, disbursing money to the ADA, and counting the money it disburses toward its legal obligation to give money to the ADA, all in that order. The Lifehacker story says it's not disbursing the money first and collecting it second.
Not necessarily - it certainly could be very risky, but sometimes these types of things actually reduce overall risk, if you happen to have an offsetting, inversely-correlated risk elsewhere.

Like if you bet me $1M on a coin coming up heads, that could appear very risky on it's own. But if you already had a bet in place for $1M that it comes up tails, then overall the heads bet zeros out your risk.
I fully expect to never see any of my pension. I still contribute to it as it's tax efficient (UK) but the financial fiasco caused by Liz Truss already lost my pension some money.

Years ago I bought some gold for shits 'n giggles, but I may buy some more.
I guess so. They must get thousands of fake sign ups every day. A cheap Server with 1-5 gbps uplink is basically a digital weapon.

I signed up as a European company, it was quite easy for Hetzner to check that I’m a legit customer.

And that’s probably their target group. Companies in Europe and the US. Hobbyists who just run one cheap server for fun are not a huge profit, but high risk to be fraudulent.
>What are waveform files for e-ink screens? Followup: Is it possible to damage e-ink screens by modifying wave form files?

What is the value of these answers if there is a 1% chance of them being wrong?

From my experience it is a better way to google things, which certainly is an advancement and quite novel.
Imagine requiring non-smokers to wear respirators because passive smoking is bad for you.
Nothing quite beats a low key oral exam.

The trick is that they don't scale.
Discord is good for real-time communication. For long-lived discussions on important topics, it is objectively not a good option. The hate train is there for a reason.
i assume they mean something along the lines of https://ghostintheshell.fandom.com/wiki/Autistic_mode
The solution will be to chain Google with chatGPT. A system that allows chatGPT to perform Google searches and use the retrieved documents as reference when formulating the response. This means we don't need to actually see Google or the website, but still have grounded responses with references.

Instead of Google it could also be a big dump of text, like 1TB of well curated web text, so with local search you get more privacy and speed. And instead of chatGPT we will use "chatStability", a LM running on the local machine, in privacy. This could be the end of ads and the creation of a new private creative space for people.

<rant>I think Google is in big trouble and that explains why they are second when it comes to LLMs - this line of development will make it easier to escape their ads and tracking. There's no profit in it for them.

Even though the Transformer was invented at Google 5 years ago, from all the authors only one still works there, most of them have left to implement their own visions, a bunch of startups. Why have they left Google if they wanted to innovate? Because they could not do it inside. Google got to protect the current revenue streams first.</>

https://analyticsindiamag.com/how-the-authors-behind-the-tra....
The joke about two hard problems in CS being naming and caching rears its head again.

You need a name that will stick around for a long long time fundamentally on things like this.

This service: what guarantees or technical architecture mean it will stick around? Through upgrades, acquiring, economic ups and downs, death of owner? This website looks like a two bit shop.

It just highlights the transient nature of the web. Even things like facebook seem to have about a 20 year arc then things get acquired / renamed / subsumed.

The issue is the URL and DNS. There's no way to fix some link to a document or a service in stone for hundreds of years, even though we have the tech. Maybe government could provide that?

Corporations have the same issue addressing their files with links, especially in acquisitions / rebranding or re-re-re-branding.

And then of course there's hacking. Paper really does have its advantages sometimes.
There was a battleye ban for this that got a bunch of uproar once. I think it was for the domain 'unknowncheat.me'if you had visited that you got banned from whatever game you were playing the BattleEye iirc.
It fucking sucks. Besides my powerful (by todays standards) computer can’t run it.

If I can’t put the taskbar on one side it is literally unusable.
I think this is Exposure, not Debt right? If you borrow in USD and lend in non-USD, then the asset and the debt balance (roughly) and you are Exposed by $X to fluctuations in the value of USD. But you only actually lose $X if the other currency (Euro, Yen etc) becomes worthless.

Also, how reliable are these numbers? If I borrow 1tn USD and turn it into 1.1tn EUR, then borrow 1.1tn EUR and turn it into 1tn USD then my actual exposure net is zero in either currency. But journalists and sensationalists like to pretend that is 2tn USD and 2.2tn EUR...

Finally, and this is just my ignorance: why are swaps not on balance sheets? It's pretty simple with an FX swap like these to just list the (USD) liability and (non USD) asset and convert using today's rate to whatever actual currency you report in. I understand that swaps are a dumb way for pension funds to ratchet up their risk while pretending they are investing in low risk securities but that should not change how they are reported...
Or tell the AI to write the unit tests itself, and let it run those to check its work. After all, that's how humans write code. We aren't so great at writing bug-free code on our first try without testing it either.
(I volunteer at a raptor conservation Trust).

Many birds will play with objects in their aviaries to varying degrees. Vultures (Hooded and Egyptian) will pull on shoe laces. Owls and Kites will fly off with a sponge if you take your eyes off it while cleaning their aviary. Caracaras are about as safe to have around as a raccoon. Many birds will look inside a bucket or try to pull it over.

These birds vary a lot in their intelligence, as indicated by their ability to solve problems to access food.
> I am wholly amused how everyone got on that dude from Google that accused the AI of being sentient and Google about not caring, and now you have huge names in the tech industry kinda drooling over this with what I believe to be the same passion.

Is it strange? Someone can be extremely impressed with how a Boston Dynamic robot moves, while also being entirely unconvinced by claims that the lifelike movement is a sign of sentience.
Magpies: my least favorite animal.

They're obnoxious and aggressive.
> I think the email and wait part seems like more work for the dev ultimately and counterproductive to the point it looks passive aggressive.

My first thought on that was that it was to add a delay to getting a new code and feed into the instant gratification to just paying up (if able and value paying again) and getting a new code there and then. Making a user email is "effort", low effort but still effort, which could disway some people asking for new codes.

I also repect that they opt'ed to honor the license then opting to release "mIRC2" on new terms, I like you just felt that there are better ways to handle the process then the "email me and wait" option, which could lead them to recieve nasty emails during the process where an automated system could remove that (because while a user might be pissed off, its quickly resolved).
Had a community of magpies in my back yard. They'd often collectively yell at me when I was in the back yard. One day my dog found something, obviously pleased with herself. I found an unhurt baby bird and nest that had been blown down. I put the dog in, got a cardboard box and duct tape, and put the bird+nest back in the tree securely.

Shortly later, saw the mom feeding the baby.

They never yelled at us again, and would often peek in our windows at us, or hang out in front of our glass door looking in.
Just yesterday I was watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1dpWiZoiJU

Looks like the can is being kicked down the road since 2008 by the politicians/decision/policy makers so that it becomes some one else's problem to clear the mess.
> Given the increasing number of these soliciations I may be underpaying this promise.

This implies that the more often people ask you to donate money to charity, the more money you are obligated to donate to charity. Do you really believe this?
> Younger people are easily influenced and without such a law wouldn't use a helmet, seatbelt, etc.

I did feel this aspect of the effect of regulation was not well addressed in the article at least. I think there's an implication that the effect of regulation has been to reduce cycling, and therefore the effect on youth has been more to discourage cycling altogether than to encourage cycling with helmets, but I don't think that's well established. IIRC, the positive effects of seat belt laws are generally much more pronounced after a generation or two.

> It's proven that regulation and legislation can help. Regulation for seat-belts, airbags, crash testing, etc. has saved many lives. IMO this is what government is about, saving people. Sometimes from their stupidity and ignorance.

There's also plenty of evidence of cases where regulation and legislation has harmed, or had no effect. Arguments that regulation & legislation intrinsically help or harm are, at best, specious. Regulation & legislation are tools that obviously can be helpful; the debate should always be about whether a particular regulatory/legislative approach is helpful.
Here's the original BIS report, I don't understand anything, hopefully someone will:
https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt2212.pdf