skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past, before the EU single market and widespread free trade agreements, a country would simply raise a customs duty when another country would overly subsidize an industry. Or they would raise the customs duty merely to protect their domestic industry. Or because they don’t like that country for some other reason.

A large purpose of the EU is to remove those trade barriers to make the economy more efficient. Of course some countries figure out how to take advantage of the single market using regulatory arbitrage, quickly entering a race to the bottom. Thus the EU is becoming the regulator in a lot of (non-tax) areas to prevent this. This is just the next logical step in this regard.

It’s worth noting that any EU rules on taxation are decided with unanimous consensus. No country here has to do anything against their will.
"Flipsters", perhaps :)
In case of services it’s in the country where the service is provided - thus in the location of the concert. Now, online streaming again is provided is provided in the location of the viewer, that’s a bit of a mess (used to be involved in running conferences, same thing there)
> People might scoff at the petty vandalism, but how many of you over the age of 35 had a scrupulously clean adolescence?

Both my parents were cops in a small rural town, and my father was physically abusive. Damn straight I was squeaky clean.

With modern technology, now every phone is both a cop and an abuse vector. Who needs dads when you've got social media?
That's not my point at all. I didn't make the droplet vs airborne distinction.

I mean that the masks can and do stop some droplets and larger particles, but smaller particles pass through and around them readily. It seems like really small particles might be causing infections with newer variants. But I'm also not sure what we even know for sure about this at the moment. A lot of mask research has been don with modeling or lab setups to spray liquids through them. The narrower set of real world studies cast a lot of doubt on anything but N95s worn properly. So I'm not sure where that leaves us.
At what frequency would you check? Is polling the toilet really more efficient than receiving a "plumbing complete" event from the plumber?
I can imagine - because I did it about six years ago. And since then I've hired some team members who may or may not have had social media presence but I sincerely doubt that their presence or absence had any impact on being hired. And the same with the candidates not hired -- I don't think it came up at all.
I wasn’t aware AI can already take plain English text and create functioning software.

I guess it’s time to look for another profession.
I tend to agree. My kids have to earn device time by doing other things. We use ScreenTime with my son to keep him honest. Also had to setup a network for the kids that turns off between 11pm and 7am, caught them on devices late at night a few times. You need to give them opportunities but you also need to keep them honest, sometimes that takes limits.
Well I'm browsing HN so.......
Can't wait to see how the Internet connection of the first Mars colony is gonna get censored.
Don't Be Evil turned into Don't Use Google
I haven't tried this personally but I'm already a huge fan of it. I build and benchmark various retro PCs and some of them are fast enough to be fully patched, which I do if it's an option.

For XP I really like the unofficial SP4 service pack which rolls up all post-SP3 updates into a single executable, with or without .NET. The later POS-only patches are also available. It makes it really simple to bring an old system "up to date", even if the last update was a couple years ago.

These machines are just for fun of course and I don't do real work on them, and I'm behind NAT and monitor my traffic, so I'm not really worried about these systems.
50% capacity factor for nuclear power is an aberration: typical capacity factors are over 90% [1] [2]. By comparison, capacity factors between 20-35% for wind and solar are the norm. Nuclear's capacity factor problems are also solve-able: France identified that irregular metallurgy caused faster corrosion, and this informs future builds. Nothing can make the wind blow more consistently, or make the sun stay in the sky for longer.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
2. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliab...
I love the style/theme of the site. I might use it on some of my own sites too. I think it's now old enough to be cool again...
Yeah, I didn’t intend it as a formal proof, but it is an easy argument to make.

I’m sure an error limit can be given, as it uses a quite basic arithmetics only.
I could not convert this to Ask HN: May be Mod can
The final action sequence of the first arc is good, and had a great emotional payoff.
Do not give them access to roblox, you won't even get a grunt.
yeah I was wondering how a small group of say 5-8 teens made it to NYtimes. The paper tries to fool you to think these are just organic encounters that are part of a massive movement(anti-tech) when its really just hand picked people close to a friend of someone that works at the paper. Remember it was discovered this year the editorial desk of the NYtimes has a mandate that all stories must paint tech in a negative light.
There are definite cost reductions that can be made, but they pale in comparison to keeping humans out of the loop.

For sake of argument, let's pretend you can shave half off the costs. So, now we're talking $8B annually for one support call / user / year. Does this undermine my argument about under-estimation of $1B costs?
Hey, Eddie the Eagle got a rule named after him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Eagle
Yeah, I seem to recall the machines we were buying 6 years ago (Oracle-branded machines, that is!) were 288 threads... out of something like 6 processors.
We recently deleted my 3 years old YouTube Kids app and the change made me contemplate my own live decisions. She likes Disney and a few other toddler style games. Seeing the difference in her behavior has made me look hard at my own YouTube watching.
> They take some vague feeling they’ve been thinking about, dig into a bunch, write down what they’ve discovered, realize half of it doesn’t make sense, delete most of it, write some more, realize the new stuff contradicts itself, panic when they realize they don’t understand the topic as well as they thought they did, talk to other smart people about why that is, learn something new that reminds them of this other thing that might tie into the second paragraph, discover that this thing they believed before they started writing isn’t actually true, realize that if that thing isn’t true then this other thing is probably really important, and so on endlessly.

I love this sentence. It really captures the iterative nature and messiness of learning.
Cybersecurity Advisory Regarding Business Email Compromise Schemes to Steal Food
Stochastic Parrot is the term you're looking for https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
I never said Apple's decision to fire him had nothing to do with the video or people's reaction to it. I'm saying it's Apple's decision, no one else's.

> how does this have anything to do with profits?

Because apple is a publicly traded company and has a fiduciary duty to make all decisions with the profits of their shareholders in mind. If they didn't, they could be sued.
I think you wanted "eliciting."
Well, they can list the accomplishments just fine for their other subordinates, who submitted a non-blank performance review.

Just not you.
I just copy and paste from the previous year.
The Twitter Files, Part Six
What do you do with her when you are out with friends? Restaurants, etc?
That's the core idea of capitalism. Punish the bad companies. Reward the good companies. Your definition of good is whatever it is. And the system adjusts over time.

Products and services will improve at the learning rate that the market imposes.
I don't have kids so you can throw away my advice instantly

But if I were doing it, I'd do the same, but allowed couple of days per month of unrestricted internet usage. Just so they would experience how unproductive these days are compared to normal days
It would be cool if they could be converted into
residences, creating a NIMBY immune
housing supply
boost!
Neat, could one combine this with https://download.wsusoffline.net/ ?

Edit: would need to pull from https://archive.org/search.php?query=wsusoffline&sin= I guess
There's a Hendy stamp mill on display in Murphy Park around the corner from the factory. It's larger than the one pictured on Wikipedia
Because the solar farm is going to saturate the energy market on sunny days, and fail to produce energy at night and on cloudy days. There's diminishing returns on intermittent energy sources once peak production is saturated. Comparing intermittent sources of electricity to dispatchable sources of energy is comparing apples to oranges.
> the real problem isn't the technology itself

I very much disagree with this.

We like to think that technology is value neutral, and we, as Olympian gods, are just applying it in good or bad judgment. Technology (the actual material thing) shapes the world around itself, it creates the conditions of its use _in absence_ of our judgement. The very existence of a bleepy bloopy thing that fits in a pocket, which constantly grabs your attention with gossipy, antagonizing content. That _thing_ in itself creates the nurturing conditions for phenomena like cyberbullying, meme-addiction, declining attention spans, political polarization...

Another example; the very existence of power tools created the aesthetic sensibilities where we aspire to large expanses of perfectly trimmed bushes and leafless virginal lawns. Our aesthetic desires did not proceed the technology. It is the technology that engendered it.

Let's run down more: easy-to-obtain guns, heavy and fast-accelerating cars, cheap mass-produced food, disposable furniture and living arrangements ... They all shape the world (and our minds, our relations to others) in _their image_.

We can be equal slave to the machine as well as master to the machine. Modernism is the submission to this slavery. Humanism is the celebration of our mastery. Now answer the question; do we live in modernist dystopia, or humanist utopia? A leading question to be sure, but I reckon the contrast is instructive.

Technology sometimes _is_ the problem itself. Fixing the problem, in many cases, will mean forceful rejection of this technology, rather than just finding the correct application of it.
Great points again!

>> On K8s complexity
This is improving. When we see customers without a K8s setup, we have automation in place to get that bootstrapped quickly. Overall, this will only get better in the future.

>> harder to get an MVP running
True. The way we handle is by having trials and MVPs done on the SaaS plan. I anticipate vendors to actually offer the traditional SaaS version as well. At OpsVerse, we see customers running trials on SaaS and then switching to Private SaaS when they subscribe.

>> total addressable market
Actually, for DevOps tools, the self hosted market is bigger than the SaaS market (Worldwide DevOps Software Tools Forecast, 2021–2025 - https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US48052021)

That is a target market. Plus the a good portion of the companies now using traditional SaaS too are good candidates!
Norvig discusses this topic in detail in https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
As you can see, he has a measured and empirical approach to the topic. If I had to guess, I think he suspects that we will see an emergent reasoning property once models obtain enough training data and algorithmic complexity/functionality, and is happy to help guide the current developers of ML in the directions he thinks are promising.

(this is true for many people who work in ML towards the goal of AGI: given what we've seen over the past few decades, but especially in the past few years, it seems reasonable to speculate that we will be able to make agents that demonstrate what appears to be AGI, without actually knowing if they posses qualia, or thought processes similar to those that humans subjectively experience)
How to upgrade to the new Apple Home architecture
Whenever I hear people describe a complex chain of events only to conclude that there was a single root cause, I'm reminded of the old proverb:

>For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

>For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

>For want of a horse the rider was lost.

>For want of a rider the message was lost.

>For want of a message the battle was lost.

>For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

>And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

The moral of the proverb is: it is important to ensure that critical systems have redundancy built in.
If it was in my power, anyone who hires a software consultancy would be immediately sacked.
I am very curious of how long it would take to be ‘pwned’ whilst browsing the web with internet explorer on XP.

Seconds, minutes, hours?

Time to fire up a VM I think.
I had no idea that HoD was not new. I gave up on waiting for new books George RR Martin when he started writing for HBO and seemed to give up on novels. It was at least new to me..
Since this thread has a lot of chatter about all kinds of sci-fi adaptations, I'd like to endorse a show for Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling, which fuses cyberpunk setting and action, transhumanism and the evolution of the species, space colonization, and the rise and fall of human ideological empires based on all of the previous. A story that spans epochs and the entire Solar System.
I think you are mixing two arguments. One is a good, valid, argument which is about how volunteer maintainers don't owe anyone anything, and absolutely don't deserve to be harassed, insulted, coerced, guilt tripped, etc. And the other is is about internet Linux commenters (away from bug trackers and issue lists) replying in ways that close down and end conversation of anything which isn't toeing the 'party line' of how great Linux/FOSS/libre/gratis software/etc. is.

The parent comment by AnIdiotOnTheNet was not in the context of bug reports filed to maintainers, or insulting anyone, or demanding anything specific. The parent of that said that the patch looked good "but" would need driver support, perhaps suggesting that's a showstopper. AnIdiotOnTheNet asked what the point of having open source drivers is if they can't be fixed, or charitably steelmanned read as "the drivers are open so they can be fixed to work with the patch". Blueflow's reply "you are free to submit a patch" is technically correct, but low value - few people on HN aren't aware of that. The following "or request a refund" is conversation ending, "fix it or shut up, stop talking about it".

It's a common reply format on internet Linux discussions which is closer to 'silence wrongthink' or 'cancel culture' than tech discussion.

> "So yeah, if you are not willing to wait for someone else to come around and volunteer to fix it, patch it yourself or pay someone else to do it."

Or ... talk about it, rant about it, 'raise awareness', exercise freedom of speech. "Patch it or shut up" aren't the only options. And look, dkozel replied with a long and technically detailed comment[1] and didn't need anyone jumping in to silence unapproved questions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016094
Yeah, some of the sometimes literal Wild West in space was fun given appealing characters. Even Serenity worked pretty well. I'm not sure how it would have played out longer term. I certainly probably appreciate it better as a brief fan fave than something that maybe wore out its welcome sooner rather than later.
If ChatGPT is what we can expect from AI I’m quite afraid. It seems to be usually correct but often spectacularly and confidently wrong. I hope we never give this technology decision making power.
I didn't have fairness in mind at all. I just think that we tend to remember the past for its successes and not for its mediocrities, so I hesitate to say that we are certainly at a low point.
It’s never only been an hour of my time anywhere I’ve worked. At minimum one day but if you are provided feedback with back and forth (and most of my managers have done that) and you meet about it at least twice a year you’re looking at 2+ days worth of your time.

Are sure it only takes your subordinates an hour?
I am curious how fast you could query this data if it were inserted into a sqlite table with an index on hash.
This is what we first tried two weeks ago and posted in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33840405
2011 - Nord Stream gas pipeline opens, 2022 - the world's largest acrylic aquarium in Berlin disintegrates due to the sanctions. What a beautiful butterfly effect... I'm afraid we'll see more of similar incidents in the coming months...
I'll support it if they promise not to abuse this new platform for tracking and mining its user data.
Nah, you just need to break the addictions to that apps that cause that.
Very interesting use case of SMT.
> Funnily that's in direction contradiction to your previous want. Suburbs and cars are much more expensive, therefore you have to pay more for them, either in taxes to pay for the useless infrastructure, or to pay for it directly.

And yet we have the infrastructure. This is not a thought experiment. I am posting this comment from a house in the suburbs with high-quality roads and utility services, which we have managed to build despite our tax system.

So where is the contradiction? Clearly it's possible to live like this, because we do now, and we have done so for a very long time.
>Does every set have a measure?

>Not every set has a measure. In order for a set to have a measure, it must satisfy certain properties, such as being countably infinite or having a well-defined notion of “size” or “length.” For example, the set of real numbers has a measure (namely, its Lebesgue measure), but the set of all subsets of the real numbers does not have a measure. In general, only certain types of sets can be assigned a measure in a meaningful way.

This response is just nonsense. Very interestingly the question is phrased using colloquial terminology and ChatGPT answers in a way where it talks about the colloquial phrase as if it were real mathematical terminology, in turn getting extremely confused and making stuff up.

(The reason the response is wrong is because the central point is lost. Being measurable is a property of the measure. ChatGPT claims some set isn't measurable while not naming under which measure, which is just nonsense. In fact the real numbers might "have no measure" e.g. under the empty measure and the set of all subsets of the real numbers might "have a measure" e.g. under the counting measure.)
Awesome video -- pretty low on fluff compared to how bad YT can get these days, which is a pleasant surprise.

I totally understand the physics and reality of sound/light/etc. traveling different speeds in different mediums, but it's always such a wild thought to me. It tickles my brain in such a delightful way.
i often log in to ChatGPT to come up with a few examples of something.

e.g. the other day i looked for "technical words where their colloquial meaning has superseded their technical meaning" and it came up with acceptable examples like "bug" "hack" and a few others. i wasn't looking for those exact words in particular but i could have worked with it to come up with more examples from other domains easily.
Technially, the Darwin Kernel it uses is OSS

https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu
NIMBY can be solved with enough money and willpower; we don't have that right now.

It can also be reduced or solved by telling people outside "the area" they don't get a say.
We went from using YouTube as a babysitter to accepting that we have to reduce our personal time allotment and be more engaged with the child.

The television was removed from the living room wall and the only screen time is shared activity screen time with a parent on the weekends for an hour or so. Lots more board gaming, reading, talking, crafting, playing. Way more parental involvement required.

If there was some way to limit YouTube to specific channels and disable recommendations we might still allow it. Maybe you can do that with premium. In any case, we chose a household solution rather than trying to work in a technical solution.
It looks like this upgrade is only available if you use a hub (HomePod or Apple TV). We don't have either — does this mean we'll never get the improved responsiveness/stability? Or will this roll out separately to individual devices?
If I post that same question on Wikipedia and confidently assert the answer is 1, some good Samaritan will edit it within a day & say no dumbass its 6, and then link me to the Talk page & we'll duke it out over there. On ChatGPT, you have no recourse other than the thumb down button. When you give it the right answer it simply refuses to accept! It's sure amusing as an adult, but be aware that several schools (atleast here in the midwest) are discussing this in the classroom - my kid said his teacher was talking about ChatGPT and that's why I proceeded to show what it does. So kids might be quite confused by this behavior. Better to just go with the standard disclaimer "I don't know. As a large language model trained by ClosedAI blah blah blah insert boilerplate here, I can't figure out the answers to basic equations mankind has known for a few centuries now unless more VC money forthcoming. Ask Powell to pause his ratehikes and market shoots back up, we staff up the org with few mathematicians and they'll tell you its 6. Right now its 1, suck it dummy"
Youtube has been essentially banned in my house after seeing the effect it had on my kids. The problem, in short, was that Youtube continuously feeds them new content. Sadly - especially given the huge amount of actually great content on Youtube - everything that it wants to show my kids is absolutely dogshit garbage. A bunch of Gen Z kids with obviously wealthy families just acting like idiots. I couldn't stand it any more.

I am, in general, a fairly permissive and liberal-minded parent. I had to put my foot down and have just disabled the site on the devices they use.

It makes me sad because I know if they were directed to the right kinds of videos they could learn all kinds of things and be inspired by the creativity of the folks behind them. This is not what comes up in the feed and the content that they've become most interested in is the mental equivalent of eating off-brand Oreos for every meal. Hard pass.
Nobody has hyped chatGPT as being good at math
But it's "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
lol no? type inference is great u just suck at programming.
People that come from big tech companies seem to have no problem with it, and many people I talk to are thrilled with the process so we must be in a somewhat normal ranges. I think I have quite different goals. They are happy to play games and burn a week because it often results in raises and promotions. I'm intrinsically motivated and value happiness, and lack of games and politics above maximizing pay so to me it's misery.
I don't fill these by policy anymore, and when an employer requests that I do them, I tell them by default I fill my perf sheets with whatever their maximum evaluation is.

If I am employed to perform a service, I am going to provide the best service that I can, that one has paid for. If my service is not satisfactory to you, fire me.

Performance reviews are a weird unnecessarily subservient exercise in corporate dance.