skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pace and extent of innovation in this space is breathtaking. Almost every day there's a new super original idea showing up, that builds on something we just simply didn't have four months ago.

The open sourcing of these models was of course instrumental to this. So thanks Huggingface et al., I guess!
It really only takes the EU and US agreeing that something is bad. Together they represent a huge chunk of the imports of nearly every sector of the global economy. In practice that is what globalization largely is - other countries producing stuff that the US and EU buy.

If you manufacture a chemical and the US and EU both decide that chemical is banned and can't be imported, your business may very well be toast, and you will have a large incentive to produce stuff that they want instead. This doesn't necessarily even take legislation as the relevant governments have a variety of ways they can apply tariffs, disincentives etc. to stuff they don't like.
The benefit Is true of all investments. The payoffs are down the road.

In this case, the environment and health will reap the benefits once 3M brings alternatives to market that can compete with the current “bad” options.
Please explain how tolerating petty crimes creates food deserts.
Can you post a link to that study? My first thought is that 1300 cannot be a caloric surplus. 1700 maybe if we are generous with "average-sized" and assume a completely sedentary person. To me that just sounds like people who aren't counting properly.
You don't need to have a good model of calories out. Just keep track of calories in and your weight over time, and reduce calories in until you're losing weight at an acceptable rate.
Why engineering teams should stop counting Agile story points
I love my cast iron, stainless, and carbon steel pans, but calling them nonstick is a stretch. In fact, their stickiness is pretty much their valuable property in getting good browning on food.

You can definitely cook delicate fish and scrambled eggs on say, cast iron, but you will either be scraping hard during clean up or using an absurd amount of oil to cook. I don't mind it myself, but its clear why nonstick is popular.
> some people see the problem not about tobacco, but have thought about three moves ahead about several ways this can go very, very wrong. This kind of relationship with the government, well meaning at the beginning or not, will end up going only one way.

This was my first thought. I hate cigarettes with a passion, but allowing the government to encroach on small freedoms like this is a slippery slope. I think it is better to disincentivize things like cigarettes through taxation.
Land is a means to an end as well. It has lots of uses, but nobody is satisfied with just land.

And frankly I’d rather have lots of currency than lots of land.

Why doesn’t the zero-sum nature of currency markets prevent growth?
Ask HN: How to protect against endless SSH login attempts to my server?
I changed my SSH port and use fail2ban, but it seems these botnets have endless supply of IP addresses or there are just that many countries scanning.

I think changing the port blocks them for a little bit until they scan all my ports again. They found me at 2222, so I had to change again. They were using up about 8-10GB of bandwidth per month just on SSH login attempts.

Bonus bandwidth usage:
https://i.imgur.com/T0sJCpM.png

Seems like 1-2GB per day sometimes, hah.
I think its just having a comments section. Which basically what twitter replies are or like linked in replies.

If books had a comment section they would be toxic.

Even this site gets toxic in the comments, there isn't any brand building, no real reason to collect likes.

Github can get toxic in pr comments.

Toxic behavior gets encouraged by likes and stuff. Ime the worst message boards were the ones with reputation that could be awarded or taken away.

Group chats have a social repercussions for being an ass. The internet doesn't for the most part.
My anecdote is just about the opposite. I was a happy Jetbrains customer for more than 10 years and all was fine (very fine, actually) on Windows for developing Angular on the frontend. Goland is a treasure. Kotlin with IntellliJ can't get any better.

But then I needed proper support for Vue 3, Tailwind and Svelte. VSCode was (is) light-years ahead but what drew me away was how Jetbrains handled the issues. Endless hours writing tickets, creating examples, ... for nothing. Finally, after switching to Linux it turned out that US int. keyboard layouts don't work properly. There's a workaround, but again, the way the support handled the issue was not what I expect from such an expensive service. I was basically told to read through years old long issues to find out how to manually fix it.

That was the day I canceled my subscription.

VSCode is totally up to the job. But somehow I'm still not happy.

Maybe time to try Neovim or Helix (multi LSP needed).
This. And AI assistants will mostly help people who are good at collaborating. Think of Jarvis and Tony working together to solve a problem. Now think of you and ChatGPT filling a Value Proposition Canvas or preparing the questions for a user interview. ChatGPT’s current limitation is that it doesn’t have enough context about the problem space. So to get good results I have to talk to it for a bunch of minutes to explain everything. But I’m sure they’ll fix this pretty soon so I could feed it additional context (a bunch of documents or the code of my project).
My biggest problem with anki is that the isn't a nice way to make cards. There's a vscode plug-in that lets you do markdown but it's too limited and clunky last time I used it.
Honestly, everyone should be able to sustain themselves 20 years later if they can write a best seller once. If you can't well then you are either extremely unlucky, have health issues or are just plain lazy - we shouldn't base this particular law on this.
Here are some pictures of a General Railway Signal NX system board, for train dispatching.[1] This was the first intelligent user interface. From 1924.

Previous systems had "interlocking", to prevent collisions. Early systems had big levers and mechanical bars and blocks to prevent setting up conflicting routes. Signals had to be set to stop on all ways into a switch before you could throw the switch. Later systems added train detection, and you couldn't physically move the levers if a train was in the way.

But this just prevented errors. It didn't help with the job. NX (for eNtry eXit) was the next step. When a train was approaching an interlocking (a set of switches and tracks under one controller), lights on the board showed train presence. The dispatcher then pushed a button ahead of the train, indicating that they wanted to dispatch the train coming in on that track.

That's when the magic happened. Lights then lit up on all the tracks where it was possible to exit the interlocking. This took into account conflicting routes already set and trains already present. The system routed around conflicting traffic if possible. Only the reachable exits lit up.

Then the dispatcher would push one of the lit exit lights, and the system took over. All the un-selected exit lights went out. The selected route lit up and was locked in. Commands were sent out to the switches along the route to physically move the switches. Lights flashed on the board as the switches moved, and when contacts at the switch had verified that the switch was in the correct position and locked, the flashing stopped. Then, with all switches set and locked, the signals changed to allow the train to proceed.

As the train passed through, the track segments and switches behind it were released and could be used for other traffic. All automatically.

This system was so good there are still working installations, a century later.

[1] http://rrsignalpix.com/grsnx.html
> I’ve never used the standalone apps. Do they provide a better experience?

In my experience there is no difference in terms of slowness, no. The standalone apps are usually just bundled with more features for the specific use case by default and in some cases they have features you can't readily get in just IDEA.
Those add up to <$100/mo if you do it right, and you generally shouldn’t finance cars.
> Copyright should end soon enough for public adoption of a work to still be culturally significant, even if that interferes with its market viability.

Why? That notion is not part of the current reasoning behind copyright, and I don’t buy that it should be. Feel free to make a case for it.

It seems like this idea could backfire dramatically in today’s fast-paced meme-based globally connected environment. It could be used to argue that copyrights should end the moment something becomes popular, which would undermine both the economic protection for the author, as well as the greater social good force to incentivize creating new and culturally relevant work. It could lead to the opposite of what you say you want, it could lead to lower overall cultural value.
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The rest of the comment makes it pretty clear why income is not the whole story. Overextending finances can happen in any income bracket.

Renting is a service that is available to everyone, not just those who can’t afford houses. Most people who buy houses previously rented. Gotta live somewhere when you save up.
Protest voting is shouting into a void. Cognizant voting is voting in a way that supports your beliefs and their place in the world. If you don’t see a representative who represents your beliefs, then you need to consider running for office yourself.
You choose: no electricity for 1 month, or no food for one month? Do your priorities matter now? It matters what we get to first. Unlimited energy won't matter if everyone starved. We have multiply redundant energy, but food is vulnerable. We can't grow our food with soil that's broken and without the right fertilizer (if you don't think it's a risk look into it more).
A not so unfortunate sharp edge in Pipenv
It is pretty unusual in most parts of the world for landlords to get access to one's credit records. Credit reporting is a pretty US-specific phenomenon, even if you're applying for a bank loan or a credit card.

You usually present proof of earnings and possibly references from previous landlords. And if you get unlucky - well, same as in the US, in many of the nicest markets, you're facing an uphill battle to evict people.
If you're under 30 this is normal.
This is incorrect. The article had significant results for 2 groups (everybody and a subset of the participants) on the 29 day result, and also had significant result when looking at 28 days.

They claimed the opposite - since multiple end points and groups all had significant weight loss, it’s not p hacking
Indonesia says bauxite (aluminium) export ban to proceed in June 2023
A problem is that "penny" isn't actually penny for hobby or very small internal in-corp project.
Thank you for pointing this out. I am disappointed by how ignorant so many commenters are when it comes to socio-economic issues.
Other factors in fairness are kids and medical stuff. I spent 3k fixing up a wonderful 3.5k used car - have had it for years - runs great even though 16 years old. I do want / need to buy a new car but prices seem crazy to me! Kia soul maybe as a cheap car? Everything else has puffed up to high 20s and 30s (and far far higher) - this old car costs nothing to insure - and Kia seems to have waiting lists around the block for warranty work. My old car I can have anyone work in it without warranty issues.

It made me wonder if all the required features and electronics are puffing up costs a bit?
16 --> 15 would be a good candidate, as everyone would assume base 16 and you could use the full character set in your (secret) base 15 message. Too lazy to test it out, but theoretically plausible.
Can you elaborate with a fake example?
I think that I follow what you are saying, but what happens now that first time buyers have to pay higher interest rates, and can't afford a large enough loan to tempt sellers out of the low-rate 30 year fixed mortgages that they are currently paying?

In Canada everyone has to refinance every 5 years. I assume there will be more liquidity in their housing market over the few couple years than there will be in the U.S., and that their prices are more free to adjust to current conditions.

I have difficulty seeing how government backed mortgages don't distort the market? It's such a high percentage of first time home buyers that receive these subsidies, and then those owners benefit when they can roll that extra equity into their next house at higher prices, while at the same time these higher prices mean that it becomes harder and harder for future first time buyers, especially now that rates are coming off long term historic lows. I've assumed these subsidies are one of the reasons why housing costs have grown so much faster than inflation and wages, helping those who got in a while ago and could ride the wave.
You're derailing this from a substantive discussion about surveillance to one about the meaning of a colloquial metaphor. I'm not going to debate the meaning of "black and white." If you want to make a substantive comment about whether there are national differences in the level of surveillance, I'll reply. But I won't take the semantics bait.
I came to the conviction that digital artworks, any form of digital property, really, needs a public clearinghouse.

You simply shouldn't be allowed to sell any digital license for a product you didn't register at that clearinghouse before. The task of that clearinghouse would be to provide the customer with the bought content in case of dispute or any other problems. So if, e.g, Amazon goes out of business, all my books would be available for me to download from said clearinghouse because I own the license. Same for steam games or Disney videos.

Many (but not all) of the problems with DRM or copyrighted works would vanish if we established this legal requirement.
RFC 9328: RTP Payload Format for Versatile Video Coding (VVC) / H.266
For better or worse, real estate is one of the earliest investment opportunities available for the most Americans. The ROI is easy to understand and capital is much easier to access compared to VC, bespoke business loans, etc. The industry is large and competitive, not investing or participating in the market isn't going to actually change housing affordability. Almost everyone except the poor/working class is invested in real estate directly or indirectly.

Most importantly, only residents vote in local elections and it's local policy that has the largest impact on housing supply and renter protections. Market's are quick to react to policy changes but policy has to actually change - advocating for individual actors to behave against the market is, on average, not going to actually help the people you aim to help... instead other actors (and perhaps actors biased to even more amoral decision making) will take advantage.
For the CTEA (which is the one called the Mickey Mouse Act), that was only a few years after the EU copyright harmonisation in '93. Disney lobbied heavily for that, of course, and it was in their interest to do so, but it's likely it would have passed anyway if the EU had tied favourable trade deal conditions to harmonising copyright duration; the Senate report for the act specifically cites trade with the EU as a motivation.

The Copyright Act of 1976 increased the duration specifically in order to comply with the Berne Convention the US would end up joining. There's not a particular reason for why '76, other than legislators finally decided the US would join what was considered the international standard.

Both of these were more or less coincidences, in my opinion.
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Maybe there are less than in then "golden days", but take a look at https://priyom.org/ to get some first-hand experience.
EDIT: This site features a schedule/calendar with links to several webSDR sites, making it very easy the hear some of those transmissions live.
Feel free to share any resources you find particularly illuminating.
> real estate taxes as they are today are not a factor to seriously dent foreign or corporate wealth from vacuuming all properties available

That can be fixed - namely, via land value taxation, at a rate as close to 100% as possible.
> The top ten wealthiest people in the US did not inherit their wealth

Not sure what you mean by that. Just going through the wikipedia articles they certainly seem to have inherited some part of their fortune. Using money to make more money isn't particularly complicated. You also inherit the social standing which makes successful investments much easier.
Sure, it's quite possible and often happens that you do day 1 on-disc DLC and other such nonsense based on the warped incentives (though usually, I would say, the specific example of a large XP bonus isn't that they balanced around that and gave everyone -30% afterward, because that leads to horrible backlash like...I think it was Battlefront 2 where the XP system very clearly was not balanced for you not paying, and people threw a huge fit?).

As I said, I'm no more of a fan than anyone else of this, but I don't know what a better alternative here would be. The gap in cost versus upfront price is pretty large, and I doubt many developers could charge $300 or something like that and get a net gain in income.
I have a hunch that 4chan used to pass around rule 34 images steganographically in other images, but I was too lazy and too horrified of what I might see to find out for myself.
Reminds me how my mother used to say that we’re not rich enough to buy cheap things. I think it must be some proverb somewhere, but I only ever heard it from her.
I’ve found that the more context I give to it, the better it is to help me solving a problem. If I spend a bunch of minutes giving info about what I’m doing, why I’m doing it and what I personally know about the problem space, it will usually help me to either explore more or to arrive at the solution faster.

When I talk about coaching I meant that I told ChatGPT to answer only with questions. In a way, ChatGPT is good at having socratic conversations. Sometimes it gets out of character but it depends mostly on your answers or questions.
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I think you should either conform to English English, or treat American as a first-class language of its own (and e.g. start offering translated websites).
I don't doubt that if it were very obvious that you were interacting with an AI, many people may be put off by it.

On the other hand, isn't an adaptive exam like the SAT also an instance of you having to work with some automated system to somehow "prove" yourself to that system?

I'd even argue that what I am proposing (I wrote the linked piece in case it wasn't obvious) ultimately leads to someone reading the chat transcript to gauge candidate suitability. That should reduce the stigma of having to abase yourself to an AI, no?
Copyright for X years since first publish makes sense. Lifetime copyright makes sense too.

But "Lifetime + X years" just rewards those for whatever reason has a longer life. There's no reason a work should be protected for a longer time because the author lived longer.
What the… dude, the bank bailouts of 2008 were signed by bush and co. And (as a dem) were absolutely necessary. Obama, if anything, just kept the machinery moving.
> $4.78 USD at the cheapest store here, and this is on special.

I was about to say that this is roughly what supermarket eggs cost here in Switzerland but then realised that your price was for a dozen and I was thinking a box of six.

Eggs here are often sold in units of one (you fill your own box with however many eggs you need) and cost about US$0.80 per egg.
IKEA furniture tends to be quite movable…
17yo was actually right in the era of the Toyota rust fiasco.
The schools are run by the teachers' union. If the schools are bad, it starts and ends with the union.

Yes, sometimes birth control fails, and there are sexual crimes. That doesn't explain teen pregnancy rates, though.

> without a library, internet, or a stable home life

The library, internet, or home life is simply not necessary to get good grades. The schools move along very, very slowly. 6 hours a day in class is enough time to learn it all several times over. If one pays attention.

> enough video

That implies that all the crime in poor neighborhoods is actually over-enforcement by the cops. That doesn't explain the bars on the windows.

> And that you can navigate the fafsa and the rest of the college bureaucracy, potentially without parental help

What do you need parental help for there? The colleges provide everything necessary. When I was in that situation, I sent a letter to each college asking for their admissions package. They mailed it to me. I followed the directions in it. Fulfilled the requirements. Wrote the essays. Filled in the forms. Sent it in. My parents did exactly none of it.

If one stayed in school K-12 and paid attention in class, one should be quite capable to handle applying to college.
I like the idea of an extension with a hefty tax. After an initial period of ~10 years, you have to declare the value of the IP each year and pay 10% of that p.a.

Anyone willing to provide your declared value to the public coffers can then have it placed in the public domain.
You say this, but the role of staff+ engineers often is being a project manager. Not all the time, but at least sometimes.

The difference in responsibilities between levels is somewhat to blame for this. If you are at a particular level doing this kind of project management work is what looks good on a promo packet, because it's cross-functional and you're leading a bunch of people, etc. But if you're not at that level people think you're bad at your role.

E.g. imagine a mid level engineer doing this work vs a staff engineer.

Great article that explores this more and even references the posted article: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227.

"People in group #2 weren't supposed to exist. They were doing some hard jobs - translating business problems into designs - with great expertise, but these accomplishments weren't interesting to the junior-level promotion committees, who had been trained to look for "exactly one level up" attributes like deep technical knowledge in one or two specific areas, a history of rapid and numerous bug fixes, small independent launches, and so on. Meanwhile, their peers who couldn't (yet) architect their way out of a paper bag rose more quickly through the early ranks, because they wrote reams of code fast.

Tanya Reilly has an excellent talk (and transcribed slides) called Being Glue that perfectly captures this effect. In her words: "Glue work is expected when you're senior... and risky when you're not."

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People who are naturally excellent at glue work often stall out early in the prescribed engineering pipeline, even when they'd be great in later stages (staff engineers, directors, and executives) that traditional engineers struggle at. In fact, it's well documented that an executive in a tech company requires almost a totally different skill set than a programmer, and rising through the ranks doesn't prepare you for that job at all. Many big tech companies hire executives from outside the company, and sometimes even from outside their own industry, for that reason."
> 3M has been facing a raft of litigation that has prompted the move

Seems like yet again corrupt and incompetent regulators and oversight fails, and real action only really happens when the courts are used to hold them to account for damages.

EDIT: Maybe those libertarians do have a good idea now and again...