skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Canada Revenue Agency does something similar, where instead of TOTP they ask you to print a grid of alphanums and they ask you for combinations.

The only problem is I think they're only good for a couple months at which point you need to do verification by mailed token which is a royal pain in the ass
>ust Run trucks should probably be gas turbine hybrids, that can burn anything for fuel (diesel, biodiesel, Jet A, etc), versus full electric.

That's just high tech engineer fantasy though.

Turbine is great for steady loads and terrible for cyclical loads which is what a garbage truck does all day. Electrical is great for cyclical but batteries just don't support the energy density to do it all day. You can theoretically bridge the gap real well with a hybrid system but it's only theoretical because in the real world other people's money is not actually an unlimited resource and you're not getting a turbine into anything cheaply. There's a reason you only see them in vehicles that are already fantastically expensive (tanks) and benefit greatly from some of the specific performance attributes. It would be really cool though...

Right now the trucks can do 1/3 of what they need with the batteries they have. Commercial vehicles like this are very much constrained by weight. The "nearly free" and shovel ready solution is to just raise the weight limit for the vehicles in question so they can pack on the other 2/3 of the batteries they need and let them roll around at 120k+ all day like concrete trucks. Sure you'll get a little more wear and tear on stuff but this solution doesn't require an unforeseen technology (battery) or economic (turbines) breakthrough.
From second hand experience, software experience is very helpful for automating parts of land surveying. The licensing is a pain though.
Colleges are basically ground zero for drug sales. Why the hell would the public be in the business of actually funding dealers to set up shop?

I couldn't care less about drugs and think everything up to and including fentanyl should be completely legal and sold at the 7-eleven, but fuck paying the bill for that. Sorry dealers, pay for your own college.
I’m thinking of something different but you raise some good points regardless.
AI can’t own copyright because only humans can get copyrights.
Most of the hate seems to stem from the changes in mathematics teaching. Instead of focusing on rote memorization, the curriculum wants students to understand the concepts, thus it teaches more ways to tackle a smaller pool of topics. I believe this idea comes from the way that mathematics is taught in countries whose students outperform Americans. A friend of mine who was schooled in eastern Asia claims his daughter is learning the same methods he did growing up.

FWIW, I learned some cool techniques that I didn't know about when my friend showed me his daughter's homework. But I can see how parents of fifth graders who aren't able to help their kids with their homework because they don't understand it / never learned that way would be angry.

States all had their own standards, which were largely the same, but just kind of different enough. Prior to Common Core, private companies sprang up to fill the need of mapping all of the different state standards to a common standard.
> Wealth inequality is much worse in the US than Europe, so relatively speaking, "poor" in EU is still much better than "poor" in the US.

Besides the questionable practice of lumping all of European countries into a single "Europe" block for debates like this, a single metric like wealth inequality, for instance, isn't useful to compare how countries or regimes are faring.

For instance, by that metric, the following countries are better than Sweden: Belarus, Moldova, UAE, Algeria, Iraq.
And places like Myanmar and Poland are better than Austria.

source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wealth-in...
I note the reverse applies: my dad was prescribed Metformin for diabetes, and began to lose weight at a significant rate to the point where it became unhealthy.

> the weight loss brand of the same drug is being marketed for 2x-5x the cost of the diabetic brand, or so I've been told

Drug pricing is a hell of a drug.
If we somehow manage to survive this as we have so many other enormous technological revolutions, I envision a future where children will be assigned a friendly AI as a lifemate that will grow up alongside them, having all of the knowledge of the world at its fingertips to teach and coparent the child into its adulthood and throughout its life.

Once ubiquitous, these friendly AIs could negotiate salaries, mediate conflicts, help resolve relationship difficulties, help with timely reminders and be personally invested in that person's entire life, and after the child's eventual passing, would serve as a historian and memoir that could replay the great and wonderful moments of their lives for others as well as condensing the lessons learned into pure knowledge and wisdom for other AIs to help raise their children with.

We could be a mere 60-80 years away from a humanity that is raised in the equality we have believed we all should have had all along, so long as we keep pushing. That would be amazing.

Sure, there's some risks we can take a wrong turn and we most likely will take a few, but there's a great payoff coming if we can hold the wheel and steer towards that.

I wonder what the effects would be on society if we did that? If everyone had a friend and a life coach and a mentor all wrapped up into one that is as near and dear to us as a teddy bear, that would never betray us, that would serve as a priest and a confessional and a therapist all at the same time, that was always there for us no matter what happened, backed up to the cloud so that barring nuclear war or the apocalypse could never be separated from us.

I bet the people 100 years from that day would be as unrecognizable to us as we are to the Sentinelese.
The idea that seems to have been disproven is that trade liberalization will lead to political liberalization. Turns out you just end up with super rich dictators and authoritarian single party bureaucracies.

If anything it’s gone the other way with authoritarian ideas being imported into democracies and dependencies on overseas supply chains making companies into hostages to authoritarian regimes.

The latter effect seems like a large scale version of what forums and social media has taught us: that the least tolerant people end up controlling the discourse. The only way to stop this is to paradoxically be incredibly intolerant to the intolerant.

Personally I think we should have free trade with free countries and high “slavery tax” tariffs on authoritarian countries. An argument can be made that all labor in a country that doesn’t meet some minimal human rights threshold is slave labor and should at least be taxed.
> you can't make use of the service conditional on accepting ads

Edited for you: you can't make use of the service conditional on accepting personalized ads
theres Upwork.com. You can register as agency there.
Another fun example is Deutsche Bank.

Their first non-German leader (Anshu Jain, who didn't speak German) was made Co-CEO with an older German hand Jürgen Fitschen from the board.

They pushed out Jain after 3 years, brought in a Brit John Cryan (who spoke German!) to co-CEO with Fitschen. Fitschen stayed on another year after which they finally let the non-German, Cryan run the place as sole CEO for 2 years before replacing him with another German as sole CEO.

So in total there were 4 years of non-German co-CEOing with a German, 2 years of a non-German actually being sole CEO, and then back to a German again like the rest of their 153 year history.
> Barely anyone is making money writing reviews today, most sites are farmed content.

I'm sure ChatGPT will be able to write a bunch of terrible SEO prose that precedes the actual air fryer review (or worse, recipe) about how the author's grandma had an air fryer when she was young and remembered the great times with her grandma (etc), for roughly 95% of the text!

In all seriousness, being able to swerve all that terrible SEO content on reviews will always be welcome!
Definitely take advantage of these programs when they're available in the future, I don't think this is the first time they've paid out to people who used the replacement program.
Ha, I should have noted that I used the term ‘slack’ to mean % of free time available to workers who are waiting for the next crisis. Not ‘slack’ the software to hashtag issues, aha.
Language in the abstract is one thing, James Joyce is another.

So far as computational linguistics is concerned there is a long term fight which is something like large language models 99 - Noam Chomsky 1. That is, the productive half of computational linguistics solidly rejects the dominant paradigm of the rest of the field.
Really great explanation, thanks. I've definitely felt a bit silly spinning up an entire react project for a "mildly dynamic" site
Ooh! is a general directory. If you're interested in programming or tech try a blog aggregator such as Planet Python https://planetpython.org or Planet Lisp https://planet.lisp.org which provide some curation.
I dunno, "we've made things worse but someone will come along and make it better" is not exactly confidence inspiring. Especially given the amount of wasted money/resources you will generate along the way.
Is NLU even needed? Seems like just a normal parser generator would be enough, the hard part is all the UI and integrations since there are bazillions of devices, many of which don't have a local API, some of which can't because they're cloudful inherently like Google Calendar.

I think $100 would be about the limit for consumers, if that, but enough of the techies might switch to make it profitable.
Every organisation I've worked at that had microservices has had all of them released every other Thursday at the same time by the same pipeline because they are tied to the organisation scrum schedule. Also, most changes are part of epics that span multiple microservices. If you are gonna argue that properly done microservices don't have that problem you are free to practice your perfect microservices alongside perfect scrum, oop, and communism.
If Putin is going to come after every Westerner that both hates his guts and that has contributed in one form or another to the Ukrainian side of this war then he has his work cut out for him. I'd say OP is too low value a target from cost/benefit analysis point of view and the backlash of committing acts of war on Western territory could well be much, much worse than anything that Putin is willing to deal with at the moment. Putin has gotten away with the occasional assassination of Russians on foreign soil, with innocents as collateral damage, if he steps that up to a targeted assassination campaign of Western citizens then that would be a serious miscalculation on his part.
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If anything, Buffett/Munger proves the rule: on the org chart, there's no question that Munger reports to Buffett. In practice Buffett isn't trying to call shots day to day, so Munger is functionally in charge of the org, and when he succeeds to the Chairman & CEO title, nothing will really change, but the fact that he's not fighting for a Co-CEO title is a positive sign.
No idea if they can, but there are better ways to deliver personalized ads without spying on users; for example I am interested in some areas (motorcycles, home improvement/DYI, indie music) and not at all in others (fashion, clothing and perfumes).

I am no Meta user at all, but if I would be then I would love to set my ads preferences and get only adds that have value to me and to the companies paying for these ads and get right of the ones I never act on. That brings a lot of value for all parties.
Cool. How about a device that gives you a mild jolt if you write that you are "shocked, shocked" to discover something.
No, I just don't believe the genetics database reduces my autonomy any more than going outside or posting a photo of myself online.

You're attacking straw men here.
Do you publicly display your pay (range)?
> AI models scale better than wetware models for large, dynamic systems — particularly for complexity above what one person can handle.

Totally, but I would argue that benefit is due to a lack of consciousness/self-awareness bottlenecking the process. It's a savant. The best consciousness could do to help is aim such machines at better optimization criteria more effectively than us.
The incarceration system in the US varies wildy by location, and even prisons within the same system. I'm very skeptical that this sort of heavy handed approach is needed anywhere at all, but at the very least it would only be a few places. There are already 3rd party charities that would supply books with a reasonable process to vet the item before it gets into the prison.
A satire site will be removing all of its archive from public view. While it is joking in tone it gives a solid story telling of the shift in online print media landscape over the past 20 years since the rise of Facebook - and what might be the final bell with ChatGPT.

When stay a lot in our bubble of technology and HN, but this is a good view of responding to those changes over time.
Thanks for writing this -- it's very illuminating and made me think further about it (as someone who commented earlier taking the internalist position). I think there's going to be a lot of discussion of this as AI work proceeds, and the question of whether an AI can truly understand language in a sense that allows it to produce "aboutness" becomes more relevant.

Could a human being, raised in a featureless box but taught English and communicated with using a text-based screen, produce text with semantic value? It seems pretty obvious that the answer is "yes". Will a synthetic mind developed and operated in similar conditions ever be able to produce text with semantic value referencing its own experiences? Probably not now, but at some point?
sqlc.dev plus gongular and you have a quick REST api

sqlc.dev plus gql-gen and you have a quick GraphQL server

sqlc.dev plus goa.design and you have a full-featured REST + gRPC server with OpenAPI for easy client generation

No need to write model code and validation for inputs/outputs. Just define your SQL queries and your request objects (or typedefs for GraphQL) and then let these tools generate everything else.
I think their point wasn't the regulations, but the unpredictability of those regulations. It's hard to start a business if you're worried the rug will be pulled out from under you at some point in the future.
US China trade is vastly smaller than many seem to think.

China is #1 in imports, but that’s only 1/6th of the total US imports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

US GDP is roughly 50x as large as what we get from China.
California’s regulatory landscape is similarly unpredictable but what do you know, the opposite situation occurs regarding innovation. Maybe its not the regulatory environment after all…
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned this; AHK broke compatibility with this upgrade. I tried upgrading autohotkey and it braked my scripts. It seems to have an auto-regress feature, which is nice. If someone knows where there is a comprehensive this-for-that upgrade guide, that would be nice; I didn't see such a thing on the site.
I forget where I am sometimes! Of course you're on here. Good job on the product - at my last place the sales people were very keen on it, and kept it extremely up to date. At some point IT forced them to transition to Dynamics, and they were not happy :)
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It's not paradoxical if you treat tolerance as a peace treaty instead of a moral position.

Because, ultimately, it is the former rather than the latter.
Those are solidly gen-X to older millennial, not boomer.
Nobody is talking about it because it is still politically incorrect in our overall culture [1] to admit that globalization is collapsing. Our elites have banked too much of their reputation on this to change course quickly in public. To say globalization is dead is to say our elites were grotesquely, systematically, and with great consequences to all, wrong.

I find it very productive to look at the positions of various large entities and measure them against "what's the fastest these entities can change their official position without ever having to actually admit they were wrong". When you find a government agency or large company moving at that speed on some topic, it is advantageous for you as an individual to look at where they are going, and take appropriate actions without waiting for the official authority to finally get to the more justifiable position. It can be decades for one of these entities to get to a new position at this speed.

But there's plenty of actions being taken. This is merely a high profile one. Lots of little adjustments by lots of companies that add up to a lot. All the economies of the world are adjusting to the new realities.

[1]: By which I mean, the mainstream media, TV, large magazines, etc. I'm not too worried that I'm going to be hammered on the subculture of HN for this statement. Someone may disagree, but I don't expect anyone to try to shame me over this or something. But don't hold your breath for CNN or someone like that to air a one-hour special on Why Globalization Was A Big Mistake And Everyone Advocating For It Was Obviously Stupid.
If this was true, every major German news website would violate the GDPR because that's exactly what they do. Can you cite the relevant GDPR article?
I’ve seen people comment on here how they actually like personalized ads.
Can't believe no one has mentioned Pocket (getpocket.com)
I'm not sure I'm the best person to ask about this as I was very naive at that point in my journey. Launching Preceden was literally posting on HackerNews and hoping for the best.

I would encourage you to join Microconf Connect, a Slack community of software entrepreneurs, where topics like this are discussed often: https://microconf.com/connect. Many of the old Microconf conference presentations are also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicroConf
Blush.

Looking forward to seeing that blog post and if you want a proofreader count me in, email in profile. For every fifty fly-by-night and gone again operations there is one of yours and those are much more valuable lessons than most.
Crazy results, really interesting experiment!
Some more context from an older article: https://www.fleetowner.com/operations/article/21694046/nyc-s...

> Because of the requirement that it fuel the entire fleet within an hour in the event of a snow emergency, natural gas hasn’t proved practical especially since CNG fueling stations require too much space in such a dense city, according to Commissioner Garcia. Right now the fleet is about to undertake initial testing with renewable diesel, which is not only better in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but can be used as a complete replacement for diesel, not just as a 5 to 20% blend.

So they already forwent CNG (unlike most municipalities) because of this requirement.
This is actually a factor I'm less convinced is relevant. A relatively small proportion of casualties are due to small arms fire. Artillery and mortars are the main killers on the battlefield. I doubt willingness to commit criminal homicide is correlated with willingness to lob HE shells to enemy positions kilometers away.

I'm not sure if this inspired your post, but On Killing by Dave Grossman was widely influential but not highly regarded among military people. The combat veterans I've talked to reported little to no hesitation among them or the men they led to use lethal force against the enemy. They reported not only an absence of hesitation, but an eagerness to claim credit for dispatching the enemy (to the point of getting into arguments over who killed which enemy).
I'm not sure why it's as therapeutic as it is basically interacting with a search engine.

Because it's like a smart human giving you their best guess. It will never tell you it doesn't know or give you something completely offbase like Google does.

It's friendlier than Google but less accurate.
Given that you are a Google engineer, you could probably just pay the $1000/year yourself? That sounds weird at first, because why should you pay for Google's costs. But then again the reasoning is that Google should pay, because they depend on these libraries. But you depend on Google, Google depends on the libraries, so you depend on the libraries. So you not paying is pretty much the same thing as Google not paying: I can understand very well why you don't; because you don't have to.
The terms are never fully even. Even a contract with uneven yet clearly defined terms would be so much better. Most places have decent or even good policies, the problem is those policies are not enforced, or are enforced unevenly.
You aren't forced to give someone a loan at a capped price, you can simply refuse to loan out your money. The government does not compel you to loan, so it is not analogous.

I get the logic of rendering certain voluntary transactions illegal. Child labor (questionably voluntary) & minimum wage laws come to mind. This is distinct because those laws don't require companies to hire people at minimum wage.
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For those unfamiliar with the concept of the Paradox of Tolerance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

"Less well known [than other paradoxes] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."

-Karl Popper
> and requires continuous free-riding off of the US across a wide swath of sectors including healthcare and tech.

Don't forget the military as well

It baffles me why any tech business would bother expanding into the EU when other foreign markets are available elsewhere like South America. At some point cost will outweigh benefit regarding a market that's already shifting into irrelevance
My post was satire but I don't think any vetting process can effectively and economically stop fentanyl and LSD from being impregnated in paper books and making it through.
I wonder why Taiwan hasn't vetoed this?