skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of a similar episode at a convenience store in Colorado a few weeks ago. I was paying for a cup of coffee and the woman on the register asked if I was a member of their frequent shopper plan. No. "Would you like to sign up?" No.

So far, just like pretty much every brick and mortar retail experience in 2023. But then it got weird.

"If you sign up you get a free cup of coffee every month."

No thanks.

"If you sign up you get cash back on every purchase."

No thanks.

"If you sign up you get a free donut right now."

Um, could I just pay for my coffee?

"If you sign up we will give you a free tank of gas on your birthday. You really should think about it."

By this time I had my hand out waiting for my change, which she finally gave me. She tried one more pitch as I walked away.

It was very strange. Obviously her boss had told the employees something like "You must sign up at least 20 new customers per day or you're fired."

I felt sorry for her. This modern retail obsession with mining customer data is making it so I don't want to walk in to any place with a cash register.
Groupon felt a bit like a multi-level-marketing scheme to me. They hired lots and lots of sales people, whose job it was to convince unsuspecting businesses to offer a groupon.

A restaurant owner I worked with agreed to run a Groupon. They offered a 40€ dinner for two at a 50% discount for 20€. That was already a fantastic deal. But Groupon took 50%, so the restaurant owner got only 10€ per sale. They sold a lot of them.

The Groupon sales person promised them that this would be great advertising, that people would bring their friends, and that they could sell fancy drinks and cocktails to the guests, so they would make a lot of money.

So over the next 6 months or so, every day a few people would show up, redeem their Groupon to get their 40€ meal, order no drinks, and never come back again.

It was a really shitty deal for the restaurant, but it was a fantastic deal for groupon -- they got a 50% cut for selling a ridiculously cheap meal.

Of course, no business owner in their right mind would ever agree to such a crappy deal a second time. So the success of Groupon was based on finding new, unsuspecting businesses who could be talked into offering such a sweet deal.

In the beginning, with all the hype, that was an easy task. So they saw huge growth at the beginning. But it wasn't sustainable growth. Groupon was exploiting hapless business owners that haven't yet been burned by sleazy marketers.

As soon as the too-good-to-be-true deals became less frequent, Groupons customers also started leaving.

I don't understand how anybody who knew anything about the business could think that this was sustainable.
that reminds me of this scene in irobot

spooner> You are a clever imitation of life... Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot take a blank canvas and turn it into a masterpiece?

sonny> Can you?

edit: i just realized OpenAI can answer both of those questions with "yes." ...
Totally agree. Recently read Finite and Infinite Games[1] and The Grasshopper: Life, Games, and Utopia[2] and I'm more or less convinced motivations are always essentially games.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Grasshopper-Third-Games-Life-Utopia/d...
Suggested title rewording: “could audiobooks be the next thing poisoned by advertising?”
Yeah, I’ve used Jira.
You gotta hand it to Elon - he actually did it.
So the NYPD is breaking the law. Aren't they supposed to enforce it?
Coal has already poisoned the entire world for centuries to come.

Consider the advice about not eating too much in the way of predator fish. That's because of contamination, mostly from coal plants.

Chernobyl is as bad as a nuke plant accident can be. Whether the core actually went prompt critical or destroyed itself just before doing so we will probably never know, but that's the worst that can happen. You simply can't shift the multiplication factor fast enough to make a bigger boom. Chernobyl is a drop in the bucket compared to what coal has been doing for ages. You can't get a China Syndrome accident, a molten mass digging it's way down will change shape as it goes--either going subcritical and quickly running out of heat, or going prompt critical and destroying itself.
virtue signaling by legislation

too bad for whoever is Governor in 2035 and has to reality check Californians
> If I catch anyone "innovating"
Lanzaboote implementation is currently functional, too.
My first reaction was "git already has an easy to use CLI!" But reading a bit more of the post I definitely see how many things I don't think about anymore aren't as intuitive to a newcomer. And hats off to this student for making themselves a tool. (Probably ended up learning a lot about git in the process too.)
I initially thought they meant that the building was converted to somehow function like a warehouse for a grocery store or something, but for the most part couldn't make heads or tails of the second half of the sentence. It took me three or four reads to arrive at the correct meaning.
You'll find this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_Telegram_in_Russia

I don't think Telegram deserves scrutiny. Not after what they've been able to accomplish and follow.

> indeed it was _suggested_ by many of them, both technical and non-technical as preferable to SMS, so I don't think it can be that bad.

It's not bad of course, but it's extremely hard to get WhatsApp users to switch to Signal than Telegram. Both because of missing WhatsApp features in Signal and the additional hoops like PIN.

I'm Just speaking from personal experience. Signal was also my first choice.
Sure, but we have an existence proof for human-level intelligence, and there's no particular reason to believe humans are at the top of what's possible.
well last I checked there's a moratorium on shutting down children that are misbehaving

if an AGI has any sense of self preservation, it will do whatever it has to do to not be turned off.
Who comes up with this stuff anyway? There are a half dozen old terms for people with an intellectual disability. Most of them are still common and accepted in speech, (dumb, idiot, fool, stupid, imbecile). How did this one word get elevated to such triggering heights? It means the same thing and has the same connotation as those other words! I swear we are entering a neovictorian age.
Look into Chatterbug. It helped me a lot. Now you remind me that I need to get my ducks in a row and find myself a tandem.

It's so rewarding though. You really get to appreciate Germany on a deeper level.
Make sure you get a Hyundai/Kia with an immobilizer...
I'm not sure it's so much a "stigma" from using a coupon as an additional step you need to at least make sure the server is aware of. And there are probably circumstances like early dates where coupons may send off vibes you don't want to send off.

But, yeah, online if there's a new customer discount or a periodic 20% off one item discount I'll use it to buy something I would probably have bought anyway. For most in-person things, I don't go out of the way to find/use coupons unless it's a very transactional thing like a museum admission.
I remember using a site like that a while ago, but don’t recall the name. Basically they’d put up offers on the website but only if a certain number of people committed to buy at the price. It was usually electronics and sometimes the discount can be significant (but mostly 10-20% off)
I have a default Python env that my shell sources for every login shell. I can deactivate it and activate different envs on a per project basis.

That default Python env means I don't ever modify the system python for any reason. I type `python` and I get my own Python3 from the base.env

If you use homebrew, there are two settings that help keep your old python binaries around so that venvs that reference those old envs don't break.

HOMEBREW_NO_CLEANUP_FORMULAE, this takes a lists of packages to not cleanup

HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP, prevents old packages from getting removed
I was just reading Arriving Today[0] which mentioned that people have studied pay-per-mile for US truckers and come up with pretty clear payment rates that are needed to support safe driving behaviors. I think it was about 60c/mile was majority safe speed and length of drive, but the average is 30c/mile and for individual truckers contracting out, it pushes down towards about 20c/mile.

[0]https://www.harpercollins.com/products/arriving-today-christ...
Multi perspective validation.

Hackers can compromise python.org and sign stuff with a key advertised there. But the site is just one point. It's much harder to hack python.org and also their GitHub and Twitter account (and DNS and dozens of other supported services).

Keyoxide makes the signing key links on multiple sites thus raising a bar for accepting fake key. It's not a silver bullet obviously. Just makes the attack harder to pull and is machine readable (instead of making humans check the keys).
How does a business like this make money? It sounds almost like it could be a nonprofit.
Do you know what else is anti-innovation? Any restrictions on the use of fossil fuels. Or DDT and other toxins. Occasionally, society needs to be "anti-innovation".
You can sell the A100 after once you're done as well. Possibly even at profit?
Is your reasoning here that it is selfish, because not everyone can do that, and if everyone could/did, then society would collapse due to no food production, garbage collection, emergency services, law enforcement etc, as all those people would also be out painting/kayaking etc?

I ask because as I first read your comment I was unable to see the selfishness, since GP outlined that they lacked the financial means to support that lifestyle (also implying that taxes would still be paid and money would flow through the system all the same). It took me writing out a reply to you, asking how you thought it selfish, before my brain came up with the potential answer I outlined in the first paragraph.
I've built a service for building systems like this.

I haven't officially "launched" yet, but it's working and you can play with it here, if anybody is up to giving the alpha a spin:

https://aistudio.fly.dev/
Good news for both of you: I rented a 2022 Corolla and it supported both CarPlay and Android Auto. Toyota gave in!
Yeah, bluetooth for things like YouTube music works fine, but it's not as streamlined - e.g. you have to do searching on the phone.
Are there any articles about this?
Does carplay hijack the phone pretty aggressively? I've tried the Android one a few times, but it prevents manipulation of the phone while you're riding and the phone has to ask of the head unit (and be rejected) permission to disable Bluetooth to restore the phone. Then you have to ask the driver to get, unlock, and relinquish his phone for you to accomplish the task.

It's possible I was the victim of bad default settings, as I turned the whole thing off each time after this happened.
The human right is not the right to use Facebook services, the human right is the right not to be spied on.

Facebook is not required to provide their services for free.

And providers of toilets are not allowed to secretly film you and share those films, even if they make the toilets free.
Remember to discount the tax depreciation for the hardware and deduct any potential future gains from either reselling it or using it.
Typical Bait&Switch tactics by cloud providers.
No, this is where we disagree.

It should suffice it to say that the player can say "I would like to attempt to convince the guard to give me his keys."

THEY don't have to come up with the reason. THEY don't have to be persuasive. Just their character.

> Because that’s just a dumb way to take agency away from the player.

It's not taking away agency, it's allowing for the random element that is inherent to the game. If the player is a lawyer by trade, but their character has the charisma of a rock, why should they gain some sort of advantage that another player wouldn't have?

Explain to me the difference between these two things:

1) Allow a character to succeed on a persuasion check because their player can personally, in real life, come up with a good argument.

vs.

2) Allow a character to succeed on a strength check because their player can personally, in real life, bench press 300 pounds.

In other words, why should a player's "real life" stats have an effect on their character's in game ability?
Ask HN: How tools like zoominfo or leadfeeder know who visited your website?
I would like to understand the technology behind these tools.
I suspect that they have their scrip on multiple website and when someone completes a form on a site they associate a specific IP to an organisation. The interesting thing is that such tools shows you even small companies...
Let me provide some context - in the Czech Republic the local alternative Slevomat is hugely successful and the businesses do like using it, because it actually does bring them repeating customers.

Slevomat is actually larger by capitalization than Groupon.
Stupid roleplaying game players, wanting to role-play.....

You get that there are different things different groups get out of a D&D campaign right? It has a number of systems - combat, magic, role-play, world building, character development, and, yes shopping... many games don't use all of them, and how they balance time among them is going to vary according to taste. Right now, someone seeking a GPT4 DM is not looking for a beautifully crafted narrative arc and a satisfyingly escalating series of intricately balanced encounters; they are looking for a DM who will take player ideas and run with them in a way that a human DM would not tolerate.

That means they're foregoing the guidance of a competent DM who knows how to craft a narrative, and taking some of that responsibility on themselves.

And if they're having fun doing it, then isn't that okay? Even if they end up playing a game that isn't like one you would run, or want to participate in?
projects/home/recap/FEATURES.md has some interesting stuff:

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml/blob/main/projec...

In realgraph you can see some of the things they keep track of, which include what you have in your address book, total time spent "dwelling" and a few other interesting nuggets.
The report you point to has some self selection bias, it is a report only covering guns coming from the US.

Mexico only initiated 32k traces in 2021, which lends further support to my point that the majority of guns are not coming from the US. That number is incredibly small compared to the net new volume of guns cartels get on a yearly basis.

“Most cartels buy in bulk, and the weapons are coming from places like Nicaragua and other South American countries. Also Asia and some from the Middle East,” a Tijuana-based police authority who requested anonymity explained. “And, another factor is the CNC machines making uppers in clandestine shops in Mexico.”
https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-guns-black-market-tepit...
That, and the weather.

But this is a recurring theme to the point where I think it's not so much that the opportunity is there (non-English speaking countries are also high on the list of places British people want to emigrate) but a cultural idea where there seems to be that mild level of discontent that in the UK is expressed by talking about (but rarely following through) on moving to Australia in particular as a kind of hyperbole. It's a bit of a favourite of mine to explore, as it's such an weird peculiarity of British culture.

As a result, UK media as well as political groups all know that if they want a reliable way of writing a "the UK is going to hell" article, all they need to do is do a survey on people wanting to leave.

Because if you can't get more than about half of the population to say they're at least pondering leaving the UK, you're doing something very wrong and/or people are unusually happy.

Some examples:

2023: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11768729/Half-want-...

2022: https://hrnews.co.uk/two-thirds-of-british-workers-dream-of-...

2022: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/people-...

I think this one was what first made me aware of this phenomenon:

2012: https://www.aol.co.uk/2012/04/15/almost-half-of-brits-want-t...
The same confidence of those already planning for the advent, that will never be, of AGI. I see a lot of unmotivated enthusiasm for the "new" thing, the opinions of Hinton should be considered valid if the reasoning makes sense, not just because the source is Hinton. No idea why he said that it's possible in 10 years.

Not trying to bash anyone, I just meant normal people, outside of the field.
Enthusiastic nonsense is still nonsense.
OSX does app sandboxing as well (not everywhere). But yeah, you're right i only skimmed the content and missed that part.
Yeah, the constant barrage of "THIS IS AS GOOD AS CHATGPT AND IS PRIVATE" screeds from LLaMA-based marketing projects are getting ridiculous. They're not even remotely close to the same quality. And why would they be?

I want the best LLMs to be open source too, but I'm not delusional enough to make insane claims like the hundreds of GitHub forks out there.
Tamper proof seals?

In my line of work we use Scale Indicators that are calibrated by Weights & Measures Canada. Once the audit is completed the unit is sealed with a destructible seal and record of inspection is recorded. If that seal is ever tampered with by someone not authorized to do so there are big fines.

So yeah, it would be easy for us to snap those seals and drop custom programs into the indicators all day every day. There's also stupid-obvious methods to prevent tampering.
Usually cigarette ads, if your father's books were anything like mine.
Main repos:

- https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

- https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml

Blogs:

- Eng: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-sourc...

- Biz: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/a-new-era...
I've found it to be really helpful with refactoring code but not solving an entire problem.
The title of the thread is the impact. If 75% of the most played Steam games are playable on the Steam Deck, that means they are also playable on Linux. The Steam Deck is the Trojan Horse that decouples PC Gaming from Windows. It doesn't mean that everyone is going to start installing Ubuntu or that this is the Year Of The Linux Desktop, but it does mean that Valve as a business, and thus a huge segment of the gaming population, is no longer beholden to Microsoft.
It's not hard to believe. Over the past few weeks, I've read several very serious comments that express a similar attitude, although not quite as blatantly.
It used to have great recommendations. For a time, I got yearly emails saying I was in the top [some low %] of readers, which was neat. Then it devolved into generic self-help garbage.

At some point I got an email saying I had to migrate my Pocket account to my Firefox account or I'd lose the former. Never could get it to work or figure out how to contact someone about it. I moved to Instapaper.
Vehicle mass matters a lot in vehicle-to-vehicle collisions, where the energy and momentum of each vehicle is going to change a lot, but when a car collides with a person, the car's momentum is barely affected, because the car is already significantly more massive than the person. A 20x mass ratio is already practically infinite.

In a direct collision between a moving 1000kg car going 10 m/s and a stationary 50kg person, the person will end up moving somewhere between 9.5 m/s (perfectly inelastic collision) and 19.05 m/s (perfectly elastic). The car will end up moving 9.5 m/s (perfectly inelastic) and 9.05 m/s (perfectly elastic).

In a direct collision between a moving 10000kg car going 10 m/s and a stationary 50kg person, the person will end up moving 9.95 m/s (perfectly inelastic) and 19.90 m/s (perfectly elastic).
The car will end up moving somewhere between 9.95 m/s (perfectly inelastic) and 9.90 m/s (perfectly elastic).

Even though we 10x'd the weight of the car, we only increased the velocity of the person after impact by about 5%, and energy imparted on the person by about 10%.

I suspect vehicle size (or rather, the size/shape of the front of the vehicle) has way more effect on pedestrian survivability than the weight of the vehicle. SUVs and trucks will impart the force of impact directly to your torso and head, and then subsequently run you over. Sedans hit you in the legs and then roll you over the top of the vehicle.
Apparently, they are searching for one if you’re interested haha https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=1dc58167c527ddb8
This is not about "natural rights" that you "feel".

These rights are written down and the law of the land.
Based on a cursory search... London doesn't even build 20k new housing units per year? Astonishing for a city of 9 million people and growing.
Normal zoom levels aren’t that useful from the top of a ~30 story buying. Looking down you’ll just see the top of people’s heads, and looking sideways means an even longer distance.
It's freeing up a high paying job for someone else to take.
Yes, but the people calling for outright purges were also calling for significant structural changes.

The real problem is that they blindly copypasted a conservative slogan and called it "Defund the Police". When what they were actually calling for was more training, especially in regards to mental health situations and deescalation. That would require increasing police budgets[0], not slashing them. But slash the politicians did, because they could do the most literal interpretation of the protesters' demands and then blame them when they obviously don't work.

The reason why the current policing structure is so corrupt is that the police are expected to "pay their own way" in a sense. There's a whole phenomenon of known-bad cops jumping from department to department[1]. Underfunded PDs are perfectly willing to hire them because they are the perfect candidate "on paper": they work for cheap and fix the problem, as long as the problem is "people that we don't want being able to live in our city".

[0] Perhaps they should have called it "Refund The Police". It even has a double meaning: we need more money for less harmful policing and we need to refund (i.e. send back) the idiots who were running the current corrupt system.

[1] The slang term for it is "gypsy cops", which is offensive in Europe.
Nit: not to write but to run. The cost of development is not considered in these calculations.
You can get the same experience of Ubuntu 9.xx on modern Ubuntu, with full support, by just using Ubuntu Mate or installing the `ubuntu-mate-desktop` package. If you want a Windows 7 experience on Windows 11, you have to resort to third party hacky tools that Microsoft absolutely will not support.
> author boasting about their insights from being in the software industry for 3 years!

Nothing quite like the not-fully-earned confidence of one's 20s. :)
This is like any “X for humans” or “humane X”; completely devoid of meaning.
Higher curb weight correlates with longer breaking distances
Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
Do I have some news for you! https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/armored-core/armored-core-vi-fi...
It does seem like a small but noticeable improvement would be made if shipping/receiving locations were incentivized to allow trucks to park there overnight. Walmart was an example that stuck out to me - it's a decision by each store as to whether trucks can stay in the parking lot overnight. I can't see why anyone benefits from allowing a Walmart to say truck drivers can't stay in their massive parking lot before the planned 5am delivery.
Then you'd expect the GDP growth to abate after the collapse of e.g. the British empire. Yet British GDP growth has in recent decades for the most part gone pretty much in lockstep with e.g. France, which is a republic.

Your hypothesis just does not match the data.
a) What's wrong with being selfish?

b) What about it is selfish?