skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supposedly, in some places, transport planners, who really should've known better, made decisions about mass transit projects on the basis that self-driving cars were coming any day now. If _they_ got it so wrong, why would investors do any better?

There was a weird period a while back where basically everyone except people who actually worked in the area seemed to believe the self-driving car was nigh.
tl;dr: After detractors suggested that Facebook have structural incentives to spread birdseed content, Facebook tried to prove them wrong — only to discover that they do, in fact, have structural incentives to spread birdseed content.

(personally, I think they're just a symptom of the underlying issue: gamification of US politics [and hence, health] has corroded any notion of centrism)
This is a great start. Anything that limits access to pornography, which abuses both the "actors" and "consumers", is always good. Some, especially on a site such as this, bring up that it can be easily bypassed or that someone can switch to different sites. This is true to an extent, but it also undeniably adds one more barrier, one more annoyance, in consumption of destructive "adult" films. Furthermore, if enacted properly, this will discourage access by young children who don't have much knowledge about computers yet.
Contrast with HN discussion of the purported breakthrough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34235350
> If I was interested in watching Law & Order I can start from Season 1, not from their knockoff version of it.

Actually you cannot. Only Law & Order SVU is available on streaming. The original series and the other spinoffs only have the most recent season available online.
The Work Number, an Equifax service that a shockingly large number of employers provide data to. If your new employer is one of these, and it probably would be unless it's a startup or a small family business, your old employer can see that you're now employed and who with.
Retro Game Collection – My Story of Hurt and Recovery (Autism,OCD,PTSD)
Just out of curiosity, what was the medication?
I suspect it's because of DRM.

Funnily enough Firefox can apparently use Google Widevine on MacOS: https://www.drm.cloud/platform-compatibility/

I am puzzled at these ridiculous restrictions but I am happy with their effect: a million papercuts driving viewers away.

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
It's a way of establishing an "intellectual property" claim inside your skull. I put that in quotes because a limited term government grant of monopoly, which is what patents and copyrights actually are, are not "property." There is no property right in that grant of a monopoly. Congress could reset the term of patents and copyrights at any moment, on any terms. That's a much weaker thing than actual property rights.
I'm from your next door neighbour, Portugal.
But I think that anyone that studies magic quickly realizes how amazing the Spanish scene is.
I think this is really the answer. We've entered into a scary scenario for the US economy: it lives and dies on cheap credit supplied by the Fed. When the Fed drops rates, people chase yield and you get stuff like NFTs and valuations that are detached from fundamentals. When interest rates go up, the market just waits for them to go down again...
Scientists Worried Mankind Will Descend into Chaos After Discovering Alien Signa
CA, ND, OK, and DC seem to be the ones of note. A slew of other states have thresholds under which non-competes are invalid, but above which they are. Washington's, as an example, are here: https://lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/workplace-policies/non-com...

Those thresholds mean most software engineers are subject to non-competes.
I don’t know if this is still true, but I believe part of the reason for it tasting so much worse is they use more vegetable oil rather than cocoa butter
Porn is not objectively bad for kids to watch? What planet are you on?
There's no problem with it: As you say, it removes one barrier people have to making their software Open Source, which leads to more Open Source software in the world, which is good. It also allows strongly curated projects like SQLite to be Open Source, which is even better. Anyone who feels strongly about contributing to such a project is free to fork it.
>Did investors really believe that?

They didn't. I don't know what OP is talking about. Uber's self-driving initiatives were always a moonshot.
I'm not suggesting we can't add more, rather, that I find it conceivable that there is a barrier of technological progress that we can approach, but never reach. So the pace of progress will slow down.

Concerning wealth inequality, I do think it is a fundamental problem of society if a fraction of a percentage controls majority of the available resources even if the lowest half has their immediate needs met, but we can disagree on that all day and arrive nowhere.
The LA state law does state that:

> Any commercial entity or third party that performs the required age verification shall not retain any identifying information of the individual after access has been granted to the material.

and

> A commercial entity that is found to have knowingly retained identifying information of the individual after access has been granted to the individual shall be liable to the individual for damages resulting from retaining the identifying information, including court costs and reasonable attorney fees as ordered by the court.

but I agree this is different from being carded at a bar where you can see that they're just checking your ID and handing it back to you. In the case of a porn site, you're left to just trust that they are deleting the records.
You know...Louisiana's state legislature probably publishes an official record of their proceedings (the Federal equivalent would be the Congressional Record). It'd be a real shame/freaking hilarious if some legislator entered thousands of pages of erotica into the record, pushing an edition of it over the 33.3% threshold.
BREIN Shuts Down 25 Private Torrent Trackers in the Netherlands
"using porn in the past month" != "addicted to porn".

Just like how "using alcohol in the past month" != "alcoholic".

See how ridiculous that sounds?
I suppose this is why we never see examples of criminality where the possible penalties outweigh the possible gains?

And in any case, I agree with you. I am extremely doubtful that this is what's happening, I just think "the penalties are substantial" and "they were likely manufactured in China" are not evidence it's not happening. TI components in Iran are evidence (weak, weak, completely non-actionable!) evidence that it is happening.
Unless there is some kind of clear feud or something, a company has pretty much no incentive to represent the work done by a contractor inaccurately while the contractor has a clear motive to overstate their contribution. If it's he said / she said, no one is going to believe the contractor over the company without very good reason.

At the end of the day though, whether or not someone did the work can be very easily settled - the person who did the work knows how it was done. If someone can recount the obstacles they faced and how they overcame them, then they either were actively involved in doing the work or are skilled enough that they could have been. If someone can only paint a clear picture about some part of a project, odds are that's the only part they were involved in.

Note though that what a contractor worked on and what a startup was happy with are two different things - it is entirely possible a contractor did a lot of work that the customer wound up getting redone to better fit requirements, and the contractor may not even be aware of this. I spent about a year of my life building something for Toyota which I'm incredibly proud of as a feat of engineering, but their priorities changed and they wound up not buying it, so it would be perfectly accurate for them to say nothing they ever possessed was ever built by me. Inconsistencies need to be investigated but they don't automatically mean fraud.
> Congress could reset the term of patents and copyrights at any moment, on any terms. That's not how actual property rights work.

Isn’t it?
I grew up in the 80's/90's and there was a whole trade system in school.

Swapping magazines and VHS tapes.

It's not a new thing.
>pornography is a level of sexual exploitation that no person, not even the actors involved, should be considered capable of legally consenting to partake in.

Why?
Step 1, draw a heart.
Step 2, keep tweaking...
> Somehow strange that a country that can send people to space and back is not capable of producing a single component for a military drone.

Soyuz (as in both rocket and capsule) has had multiple failures over the last decade. The most recent was the coolant leak a few weeks ago that made the capsule unusable for a safe return to Earth. Under Rogozin their space industry degraded very quickly (probably one of the reasons why Rogozin was fired last year).

It's been known for some time that Russia gets components for its hi-tech weapons via a network of proxy companies in EU.

> So the source is trustworthy and objective, not a war party telling whatever they have to tell to support their cause.

US and Israel officials are clearly taking these reports seriously
I'm hoping someday there will be an embedded Linux processor with this much cache. 128MB on-die SRAM means the PCB would no longer need separate DRAM. The complexity of the board routing would also go down. That much RAM ought to be enough for a lot of embedded applications.
The query:

Hello ! I'm going to paste below a copy of a blog post on "AGI", which I don't get at all. Could you help me understand it, and/or possibly rewrite it in a way that would make it clearer or easier to understand.

Here the copy-pasted article:

<article pasted here>

The answer:

The author of this blog post is discussing the concept of artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is often described as the hypothetical future ability of artificial intelligence (AI) to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can. The author notes that it is difficult to have a meaningful conversation about the potential for AI to perform various tasks because the definition of AI is so broad and vague, and because it is difficult to distinguish between realistic and unrealistic predictions about what AI might be able to achieve. The author suggests that the concept of "NP-hard" problems, which refers to a class of problems in computer science that are difficult to solve and may require a very long time to complete, could be a useful way to frame discussions about the limits of AI and what it might be able to achieve. The author also discusses the importance of considering the social and ethical implications of AI, and the need to be cautious about hype and over-exaggeration in discussions about the potential of AI.
I'm not trying to take any kind of side here, but I just wanted to raise this curious point: Within the span of a few years, and for well over a decade now, we've gone from porn being a few old magazines in your uncle's closet to something any anonymous person with an internet connection can binge-watch 24/7 for the rest of their life. If it has a bad impact on society, that should have been amplified by several orders of magnitude by now, and that impact should be plainly visible for anyone to see. Is it?
PH and other porn sites have pivoted to direct ACH transfers and crypto. Ironically, I can see these efforts becoming one of the biggest contributors towards evangelizing censorship-resistant forms of payments.
US Labor Data Surprise as Job Market Runs Hotter Than Forecast
FWIW, I was laid off earlier in the year, and was put on garden leave for 60 days. My vesting stopped immediately, even though I was still employed for 2 months.
> The problem is there's no end game for these companies

It's our whole economic system. Everything is set up for the expectation of endless growth. Every company is expected to increase their revenue and share price and employee compensation.

This is a bit of a problem for global tech companies because when you already have a big chunk of the world's population as your customers then growing your numbers becomes difficult. The only way to get more cash then is to extract more cash from your existing users.

Even (or especially) if you're already making vast sums of cash, the expectation is that you'll produce increasing amounts of it year on year. As a result you almost have to give your users a worse experience each year.

No one seems terribly keen on the actual effects of this, but individual decision makers' performance is generally measured on how well they impel users to give up more cash.

I don't see how this situation improves without some rethinking of our whole economic system.
So this sounds like a monarchy with extra steps.
Tesla owners didn’t buy a car: We bought a set of beliefs Elon is trashing
How ChiselStrike generates its TypeScript client API
The problem is, the courts may decide to kill it off before Congress gets out of its gridlock and approve or deny it, as many other regulations have been. Executive decrees or questionably legal actions of government agencies are fundamentally bad - but have become commonplace and a necessity of life since Congress is fundamentally broken.

And at the core, the problem is that the US' political system unlike everyone else's system does not enforce that the executive has a parliamentary backing. That provides a lot of perverse incentives that historically were only prevented by a basic code of ethics and conduct - but since the Obama days, open obstructionism has become acceptable and a target in itself in politics.
I'm not sure that would not be possible given what the article describes. This regulation would retroactively nullify them and bar companies from trying to enact anything like a non compete period
You really think candy is more destructive for a kid than pornography? One can scar them for life, the other dissolves and goes away. You are not being realistic at all
When it comes to startups, arent most noncompetes basically in the form of stock compensation? It would be hard to work for somebody while being invested in a competitor, or am I completely off base?
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/wwnUI
I cringe when I see statements like that. Apple has ZERO EXPERIENCE with automotive design, automotive manufacture, automotive distribution, automotive marketing, and automotive evolution. In other words, Apple KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ANY ASPECT of the automotive industry.

Whether Apple can make a car better than Tesla is a moot point - Tesla isn't able to make cars as well as the other global automakers. Their whole schtick was the EV drivetrain. That's what set them apart from everybody else. It was never build quality. Now that governments around the world are essentially mandating EV's the global automakers are now entering the market. They have the know-how and experience in all the other areas of automotive manufacture that Tesla does not.

Bottom line: Tesla has had to come up-to-speed with the entirety of automotive manufacture and still aren't there. The global automotive manufacturers only have to come up to speed with an EV drivetrain, a drivetrain they've been experimenting with for years. Want to bet money on who's most likely to win the market?

Apple would be fools to enter this market and their investors should howl if they were foolish enough to do so.
My conservative dad said the exact same thing—almost word for word, just reversed—about liberals and process in 2009. I'm inclined to believe that there are groups of every political persuasion who believe the end justifies the means.

EDIT: To clarify, I mean that my dad said that liberals will do anything to accomplish their goals while conservatives play nice. The same idea but in reverse. This is why I think that what is actually happening is that there's a small group of people in any movement that believe the end justifies the means, but it's hard to see the ones in your own movement because you agree with them.
> Once things are infra as a code and the happy path is defined and implemented as a process, we rarely lost time thinking about infrastructure.

> we rarely ever think of our infra unless we want to do something brand new

That just means your infra is stable. It would be exactly the same without terraform/k8s.
But for some reason, Musk would be open to buying Substack[1] (even though it's not for sale[2]).

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607936197602562050

2. https://twitter.com/hamishmckenzie/status/132311671881069363...

Just invest in the Substack competitor that your company _already has_...
A lot of bars nowadays (at least in both Seattle and Vancouver for the past decade or so) will scan your ID to verify you’re not blacklisted, and share lists around.

They are definitely keeping records on banned people and I wouldn’t be surprised if they stored all scanned records for easy blacklisting post-issue.
Tremor Video Using FeatureBase to Serve Personalized Ad Content in Real Time
@mods: the title is missing the letter "L" in the final word
> anti-free-market policy

I go back and forth on that. It seems like the free market ideal would be to allow them and if people didn't like them they wouldn't sign them. No one telling anyone what to do.

It certainly hasn't panned out that way though.
If you're talking about using a trained voice actor, yes, they will cost an hourly rate to do this, which is reflective of the care and training they put into their craft. One should also expect that they don't simply press record, and then do an entire read through. They will go back and try different takes on segments

If we're not talking about a trained voice actor, you may want to look at some thing like LibriVox, which is entirely volunteer run on public domain works, and while the efforts are appreciated, the quality is noticeably different.
What about furry porn? Does that abuse anyone? Do you find fuzzy animals having sex to be dangerous to children too?
I don't find it easy to look past their idiosyncrasies at all although they can produce impressive results with fiddling and luck.

Listening to these samples, they're still robotic sounding to me just listening for 10 seconds. I can't imagine wanting to listen to a whole book like this given the option of listening to an even modestly-competent voice actor.
The servers are in China, the certificates are controlled by China, and the murder vans that will be used on the sources will also be Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_van
Connect – A Better gRPC
Netflix broke everything by producing own content, essentially ending their neutrality.
Pretty sure the Gigafactory in NV has LG staff inside them making the Cells, or rather running the machines that makes the cells. While it is under one roof I think there are 2 businesses inside, one LG and 1 Telsa
A cargo ebike is a game changer for all of this. I can bring 2 kids to school and do a full grocery trip without even breaking a sweat. I do 6 miles each way and since I avoid traffic it's just as fast as driving.

Plenty of people bike all 4 seasons, the Netherlands is the go-to example... it rains a lot there. Driving to work under-dressed in a heated box is a luxury that's kind of harmed a lot of people's ability to know how to dress for the weather. It's not particularly difficult.
You can’t expect parents in this day and age to have the ability to protect their children from this material where smartphones are owned by almost everyone with unlimited internet access. When something becomes a wide societal problem then using the arm of the state can become a valid option to mitigate the issue. This is not about parenting grown-ups, this is about helping parents fix something that they can’t fix themselves at an individual level.

If a grown-up really wants to watch porn, they can use a VPN. It’s not hard, no ID is needed. By adding a hurdle for children to access this material we can protect them from getting harmed by it at a young age. I think setting up a VPN is a small price to pay for if it means increasing the average age of exposure to porn.
Is it too late to escape and help the war with money instead of sacrificing your body/life/mind?
Earlier comment thread on Schneier's post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34235350

I find this an interesting case because most of us probably can't rely on very much of our own reasoning to evaluate, and rely on beliefs about Schneier or Aaronson or other posters here.

At least I noticed I was less skeptical than I otherwise would be due to the earlier post coming from Schneier, despite some very critical comments of the paper here, and then also noticed this slight hesitation to be skeptical went away completely with Scott's post.
Those aren't remotely the same as what we're talking about. "Think of the children" is a logical fallacy and a tremendously weak argument. Unless you are a fool you know this has nothing to do with children and everything to do with moral policing by a right wing extremist state government.
Not typically, but that is how the LastPass breach occurred.
> I’m going to be honest and say that I believe pornography is a level of sexual exploitation that no person, not even the actors involved, should be considered capable of legally consenting to partake in.

Exploitation by whom?
You need to take into account that nobody can perfectly read a book first time. I've done a reasonable amount of short-fiction narration for audio magazines, and even with many hours worth of script reading under my belt I still fumble every third or forth sentence. So I need to re-read those, and then I (or somebody else) needs to find those errors and edit them out, replacing with the fixed audio. Then people need to listen to the entire file at least once to ensure the whole thing makes sense and I didn't leave out a sentence somewhere or something.

Audiobook narration is one of those things that is remarkably labour intensive, certainly much more than I'd have guessed before getting into it.
With that logic you could also argue that much more will be needed for trucks and heavy equipment. I don’t know if it averages out, but I don’t think you can assume that less is needed not more, or the same as the article.
Yep, and buying even 10.000 voltage regulators is a very common thing, so much, that they even have a reduced price for >10k orders already listed on many sites. Even if you tried to regulate it, someone could just go on farnell/digikey/..., order 10k pieces put them in a pocket and carry them over the border.
"3D" means that components are physically stacked more than one layer thick, right? Is there any public info about how heat dissipation is handled?
Should be reciprocal if it exists. I.e. if the employee leaves, the company would be barred from hiring anyone else for any remotely similar tasks. Make them taste their own medicine and decide if it's worth it.
Ask HN: Writing Jobs in InfoSec?
Hello HN,

so 9 months ago I stumbled upon a "learn how to hack" video on YT. I was like: "Wait, what? You can do that?" and I've been drinking cybersecurity related info from a waterhose since then (and doing the occasional CTF). I think it's fascinating and I'm working on a beginner certification right now. However, I could never work in the field. I'm super, super sensitive and can't handle pressure _at all_.

However, in my mother-tongue I'm a bit of a writer and I've been thinking about leveraging that. Is there demand in IT for people who know the tech and are creative writers? For B2B ads or just boring technical writing in-house?

I assume there has to be, but I'm wondering about it being a smart move for me to try. I'm only able to work from home and in my mid-thirties.

Any tips or thoughts you guys have on this?

Cheers.
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