skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are countries freer than the USA where the government reserves the right to severely restrict speech and even criminalize some forms of political speech, if it serves the public interest. If you express Nazi views in Germany, for instance, you go to jail. Guess what -- Germany hasn't had to deal with a Nazi problem significant enough to turn into a real political movement in nearly 80 years. The USA, by contrast, had a near miss with Hitler 2 actually occupying the White House.

Sorry, but the first amendment, as currently formulated, really needs to go. It should be replaced with a formulation of freedom expression that better balances individual freedom with the public interest according to modern political standards.

In fact, given the problems with corruption in the American system and first-past-the-post voting leading to money-driven, rather than truly democratic, politics, the entire constitution probably needs to be rethought. No less of an American political thinker than Justice Ginsburg has opined that the US constitution is no longer, in the current era, a model for good governance. This should happen in a civilized fashion with a convention and ratification much like the current constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation, but it nonetheless needs to happen.
On the surface, yes, there are many employers. How's that going for the folks that have been recently laid off from checks notes... Amazon, Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, EA, Indeed, Yahoo, Github, Zoom, Dell, Paypal, IBM, Spotify, Goldman Sachs, Coinbase, HP, Cisco...

I'm not really sure that going from many possible employers who cannot guarantee my job to a single entity who can is a way worse deal, but ok.
No, they might start empathising with each other.
Creator here, just woken up and it’s funny to see PizzaGPT on the front page of HN.

I had the idea yesterday, when reading about ChatGPT being blocked in Italy. I’m an Italian living abroad so I still have access to it, but my parents and friends living there don’t.
I believe AI is a revolutionary tool that should be available to anyone, the same way internet has been.

The website was coded yesterday in a couple of hours, so it’s full of bugs and potential improvements. But I just wanted to ship something quickly.
For the stack I used Nuxt 3, Tailwind and DaisyUI.

Regarding the AI, it’s literally just a wrapper of OpenAI completions API (turbo-3.5 model) and a chat interface, so it should give the same answers as the free version of ChatGPT.

I am still a bit afraid of the costs if many people start using it, so I’ve added a donate button. You can donate the equivalent of a pizza (pizzaware model?) to help keep it running
Not to mention that 200k-300k is the absolute low end for a house. Around here you're lucky to get something for 5 times that.
Also, in rich countries, people have much higher standards for raising kids.

In 2023 I know a lot of bougie American parents who cannot fathom making siblings share a room. 40 years ago, bunk beds were normal. 100 years ago, all the kids would probably be in one room, possibly with their parents, grandparents, etc and that type of living is still endemic in poorer nations. But how many people can afford an American house with another additional room?
American here, in silicon valley. I'm actually a bay area native, and the only reason I'm able to stay close to my parents is that I make a "tech salary". I bought a moderately sized condo, and it was a huge stretch at the time when I bought it - now that I've advanced my career, it's not such a huge load.

But, the fact that, at $110k a year, a two bedroom (yet small) place was a huge stress. And that was not even in not one of top 3 most expensive cities in the bay area, which should say something.

I'm extremely grateful that I can live close to my parents, and will be able to help take care of them as they age.

Something is broken when it's a financial pressure for someone in the top 10% of income to live within an hour drive of where they want to be. And, that's kind of a luxury, tbh. I have extreme sympathy for the working class. There's something fundamentally broken with our housing policy.
My experience, too.

As a younger self, when I heard a C-ranked executive talk about X who's a "fantastic engineer", I assumed that I'd have to work hard to reach their level, without realizing that they may actually not have a clue.

Now, when I hear a C-ranked executive talk about X who's a "fantastic engineer", I realize it's just name-dropping.
Patents encourage publication of inventions, either as part of an application for a patent or as a defensive publication to prevent others from getting a patent. They allow (UK, not sure about other jurisdictions) research, can always be licensed. So is it just the monopoly length that is stifling?

The main alternative regime seems to be industrial secrets, are they less stifling?
It has lifted the largest amount of people from poverty in the history of the world.
> If everyone has 30k, 30k is not worth much, right?

I mean, I just made up the $30k number to get a completely different point across. I wasn't saying $30k is the magic number. The actual number will, yes, have to be larger to account for the self-induced inflation. I have no idea where the equilibrium would be. Maybe it's double that. Maybe it's location dependent, or something else. Who knows. But it will be somewhere.

And no, I have no idea how to fund it sustainably in the current economic system; some people think it's doable, and some don't. And other changes in how society/government/life works will almost certainly be necessary in the process. I think the point of the UBI debate isn't "the government can send everyone $30k checks tomorrow and everything will be fine", but rather, the point is to inspire people to move from "this is stupid" to "let me humor the idea and at least help spend some effort investigating to see if there's any way to make it work before we declare failure". There's no guarantee the approach would success if we try, but there is a guarantee that it would fail if nobody is willing to even consider taking it seriously.
From many cities I have visited and some I have lived
one of the major problems are sports stadium and related
are located within dense cities.

When you need to shuffle in 10.000 to 100.000 cars
(at worse, none of these have enough parking spaces for it)
you need parking spaces.

Moving these venues outside of the cites is a good solution.
It does not require forced behavioural modifications.
Then the city can arrange busses to and from the stadium
for those that need it. Or a high speed dedicated train.

Any other establishment with a huge number of visitor
should be moved out as well.

Huge hospitals are also entities that take up a huge amount
of space and can have a lot of parking.
These should be moved outside the city to lower density areas.

The space these things take up, and their huge parking lots
can then be converted into parks and green lungs within
the city.

Greed real estate developers who wish to increase density
for big profit should be barred from any activity.
The density is already far too high.

It is a win win situation all the way around.
They will be defended legally by the Attorneys General
People particularly bring the same dumb boring argument "Why do X when you can do Y ?" when India tries to accomplish something other than trying to bring it's citizens above poverty.

It's like commenting why is NASA sending a probe to outer space instead of providing free healthcare for all in USA. You don't see this comment on every NASA achievement post do you ? Why should it be any different than when ISRO achieves something.
Compilers actually have some options to enable that.

The problem is, it only works well in the simplest cases when the code will 100% exhibit UB within a single function.

In most cases, the UB would only manifest on particular input values - if you want your compiler to warn about that then it will report one "potential UB" for every 10 lines of C code, and nobody wants to use such a compiler.
Apple Silicon Has a GPU Support Problem
I have been wondering about that. I’m not entirely certain of the effects either. Being held by corporate investors should mean they would be divested in certain circumstances, though.
>> I'm in the highest percentiles of income in Sweden (public data is available) and it doesn't matter. It's basically impossible for me to afford a house / apartment for my family in the best neighborhoods.

How is that possible? I am an immigrant who moved to Sweden at age 22, and I bought an apartment in Malmo after 2 years of savings in the center of Malmo. I wasn't in the top percentile, didn't get help from anyone else. It was entirely my own savings within that 2 years.

Maybe you shouldn't aim for center of Stockholm for your first home purchase...
Eu alternative textcortex is also available from Italy
Afaik financial worries are a big reason why some women stay with abusive partners. This is gendered - many sub groups expect men to be breadwinner and women to be primary caregiver. So women are more likely to have no income for period of time or have child duties that interfere with work.

Contrary what OP wrote, typical result is that women becomes poorer after divorce and men had more money. (And no, alimony are nit given out like candies).

It is not only reason, but practically not having money and risking poverty or homelessness means you need to plan divorce very carefully.
"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”

― Oscar Wilde
Consciousness in a Cockroach
If you just use enough tape you can save money on all those pesky construction dudes.

If you just pull teeth instead of fixing them you need less dentists. Everybody wins.

Why bother with foundations if you can just tape together whatever works and call it a day? If it crashes you just add tape.
That would run the risk of unbalanced batteries. I had a small truck years ago, and everything was 24V as far as I recall.
Not to mention the skills and industrial development that comes with these mega projects. That sort of stimulation benefits other industries for generat.
Right. But then, poverty is not the only problem a government wants to address, and Technology Ministry is arguably one that will spend most of its time addressing things other than poverty, at least directly, and this does benefit from expertise.
With Wifi, there's different laws about strength of broadcasts etc. in various countries, so I can understand there being some kind of region control, but having it locked is very anti-consumer. Usually you can easily change the legislative region to bring you in line with local laws.

Gas equipment tends to be extremely controlled, so I can understand no-one wanting to connect to a different region's connector with possibly different regulatory standards.
The assumption of a benevolent government of experts and moral leaders making decisions for the greater good has killed literally millions of people stolen trillions of dollars in war since WWII, and that's just counting western liberal democracies.

If you don't implicitly trust "the market", and you shouldn't, then you can't trust the government. What's it going to take to convince you that handing over more of your rights and money won't enable the government to solve problems it previously could not have.

"The government should fix that" is no less ridiculous than "the free market could fix that". Which is to say it can occasionally be true with a lot of caveats, and often wrong.
I left out “design” after woodworking. I’m building an online 3D DIY design and instructional app where you can customize plans by entering dimensions in a form (https://plansformer.com/).
> Either AI has never been invented yet, in which case we will doom our galaxy. This is improbable, given our position and time in the galaxy.

Why is that improbable? We have no real idea what is the probability of life starting on a planet, much less evolving to our current level. If that probability is sufficiently low, we being the first species in our galaxy to reach that level would not be improbable at all. Since we don't know what that probability actually is, we can't know that it is improbable.
Yes, it is racist. The suggesting you said was without a backup of resources and citations to provide any chance for a writer to educate himself and as well as educating readers. What exactly are these more important problems? And what subset of these problems are we neglecting?

You think our civil service officers don't do cost benefit analysis? You think we don't have Finance commission to develop an algorithm and spread budgets accordingly?

Racism is looking at us like we are dorks by race. To think that the above commentor has posed this novel question but not Indians only to do inefficient decision is racist and ignorance!

I read Germany making a U turn with respect to Nuclear and fossil fuels. Everybody gives deep arguments as if I am sitting in the policy think tank. That is why I've come to HN.

I see Russia investing in war, everybody gives deep arguments I feel like I am in a war room. That is why I've come to HN

I read Australia investing in Hydrogen, Plutonium, Uranium, etc. I feel hope in the my children and a bit of excitement. That is why I've come to HN.

I see India investing in space, nobody writes the how and why behind their "suggestions".
Nobody quotes budget session of parliaments discussing this at length. Apparently it is enough to "suggest a country to do something" and not be called out for racism quoting nothing be it citations or build up logic behind the suggestions.

As far as my rant, you are falling for tu-Quoque fallacy. At least my censure is acting like a reminder to be civil and focused to the purpose of this site, and has only conjured in reaction rather than prophylaxis or presumptuous preemptive warning. What did the racist OP's comment serve, except for my arse to heat up?

"and yet you yourself contribute nothing but pejorative."

What? I contribute articles and comments from 2014 and this articles is also my contribution. I was hoping at least 10 people would dwell upon this.

I didn't contribute to the discussion? My bad. I apologize. But this doesn't take away my eligibility to slap idiots right on their heads when they try to contaminate a space I love. I need not get a lifetime moderator license for that, certainly not on my own contribution.

So would you mind explaining what actually you want to say?
I know about it deeply and would say you are the one that doesn't know enough about it you actually believe the propaganda I can only assume you are talking about.

US law enforcement is incredibly corrupt and the case stinks. The 'media' is full of outright sensationalised bullshit and your comment is just another example of how it poisoned the case
I have seen similar advice to men too. Dead bedroom in a long term destroys marriages ir is a sign of an issue in marriage.

Intimacy matters to people.
Housing prices are mostly a function of supply and demand, but heavily influenced by demand from investors, and the limitation that not all supply is created equal: it’s all about location, location and location.
The question is really "why wasn't it?"... XUL, conceptually speaking, had a lot of potential, largely squandered by Mozilla-the-corporation. Somewhere between the implementation based on RDF (a literal plague over web tech) and confused commercial strategies, it died a slow death.
The worst parts of the chip shortage are not affecting the newer modern lines.

It is the older lines, making voltage regulators and power management chips, making it difficult to put the whole solution together.

While some of these chips could be redesigned to use new processes, or older designs with larger format fabs brought up to accommodate demand, both of these situations are short-term and thus no one wants to invest.
Are there any technical details about this website and how it works?

I asked it to quote Marcus Aurelius, then for 5 more similar quotes - it didn't get the context that I meant from the same person and found 5x others. But otherwise it was very snappy and I've seen similar results from ChatGPT.

For "Write an openfaas function with the python3-http templates to convert from text to speech" (something I saw a community member share) - it did a much worse job (just showing how to access Amazon Polly) - it also didn't have any styling or code blocks.

I'd be interested to know more about the model that's being used here.
I'd argue that running pip or any package installation with sudo is the devs fault.
We use this for running an old version of 16-bit Protel EDA on our work computers.
(Initially, I had setup a windows XP VM for this purpose, but it turned out to be a lot of friction for users, as well as requiring an annoying amount of setup)
Generally WineVDM works very well for running Protel with a few visual bugs.
S..s..ssir yes sir!
The rules in the manifest are very much about production, and the manifest itself is very high brow in my opinion. It says things like

> The anti-bourgeois cinema itself became bourgeois, because the foundations upon which its theories were based was the bourgeois perception of art. The auteur concept was bourgeois romanticism from the very start and thereby… false!

(From a translation published in a Danish university magazine: https://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_10/section_1/artc1A.html)

“Alien props” simply refers to things you bring yourself. It’s not things that would have been out of place in such a scene.

Again, the rules are very production focused.

When you talk about a QC team you are shooting way above what they are talking about. Take Festen.

Basically they tell all the actors “we’ve rented a retreat where a well-off man could reasonably invite his family for his 60th birthday. Here’s the script and this is your character. Pack your suitcase with your own stuff as if you were going to a weekend retreat for you dad/brother/uncles 60th birthday. Production team will bring 1 camera and 1 microphone.” (They did break the rules about lighting for this movie)
> the problem is not tall structures

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/countries

The data shows that the USA has way more tall buildings than most of Europe, by more than an order of magnitude.

Disclaimer: I don’t agree they’re a leading cause, rather an accessory to a suicide premeditated by various health/societal factors.
There is definitely some opinion-making happening by news agencies, to crash the housing market.
I've had several opportunities to found/join very early stage startups. I've taken three of them, including a weird hybrid nonprofit startup.

* The nonprofit was a nice experience but burnt me out more than once. At some point, you need to have some time off. Being in an early stage startup discourages you from ever taking a break. Being in a nonprofit discourages you from ever taking a break. Being in both... well, eventually, I had to leave to preserve my sanity.

* One startup turned out to largely be a con against VCs and one of the founders pulled the rug, vanishing on his cofounder and all the employees. Needless to say... that was a disappointment.

* The last one burnt me out pretty deeply. 15 years later, I still can't use the technology stack we were using at the time, despite the fact that I was one of the most notable names in that community.

Since then, I've said no to such offers. That is, I'm happy to join a startup, but I will not be a very early employee. I will keep myself in a position where I can afford to take a break if I feel a burnout coming, something I could not do as a cofounder.

So yeah, I very much understand why not everybody creates a startup. That and the fact that once you have created the startup, you need to work on so many things that are not what you wanted to do in the first place, from gathering fundings to paying taxes to securing parking spaces for your employees.

YMMV
This is so true. We moved to another country and changing everything from my location in the google play store (requires a form of payment from the new country) to opening a second PayPal account with another email was painful. I still think the change of cell phone numbers was the worst. It seems the assumption with all applications is that we will be born and die with the same number now. I will have to memorialize my cell number on my tombstone.
Moving online webserver using public transport (2011) [video]
Same for me.
I worked with managers who mostly tried to do a decent job, some failed some succeeded, some were incapable others were good even when working at 50% of their capacity.

I've only had to deal with one bullshit machine and he quickly moved to another location, my guess is he is moving every time his bullshit has grown to difficult to keep up.
Roth IRA != Global Tax Evasion
By the up-thread quotation "existing companies" leading to googling the global software development workforce.
External incentives to have larger families don't work.
Hungary tried giving approx. 30k EUR (a very large sum, locally) to every family who have 3 kids plus other significant tax incentives like 0% income tax rate for life for mums of 3, and afaik these programmes are still on but looking at birth rates it resulted in a 0.8% blip and is still in a sharp downtrend.
I mean they are successful and it's clear from a short interaction with them why that's the case. And I'm referring to the PG quote above about his impression of Sam Altman.
See The Chinese Room Argument for more information.
Most 14 year olds simply don't spend most of their free time learning how to hack things. Only some do.
I'm not familiar with this program. Could you give me a few keywords to search for, so I can learn about it?

> using taxes

Is it a tax credit? The key is allowing tenants to invest and get dividends from the portfolio, which they can then use to pay for rent (or whatever they like).
Usually, I just dive in, and seek out information as I need it with google, etc.

I've repaired Cesium Beam Atomic clocks, 1940 vintage transmitters, 1960s vintage industrial motor controllers (480v, 200A, 3 phase), computers, etc. I've built things from scratch.

I've asked for help here a few times when I got stumped.

Filtering out bad advice is easy, it fails to yield positive results.
Hard to believe Tesla would use JIRA
“The shadow of the moon” ChatGPT created fiction novel
Any constraint, including the ones you have no control over, are opportunities for creative solutions you wouldn’t have otherwise tried. It is massively relevant to the consumer, because the result of that situation is what they see.

Read the story of the best-selling jazz solo album; there were so many unforeseen constraints it almost didn’t happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert