skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much for equality under law. People spend weeks without being released on their own recognizance even for petty traffic violations.

Handcuffs, orange suits and sleeping on concrete for days for the rest of us.

Why bother to begin with?

Which in your opinion is worse? The guilty getting away with their crimes or being punished unequally with high profile defendants getting the "white glove" treatment and a joke of a sentence? Delayed justice is better than an open mockery of it like this.

If he is accused of a crime treat him like any criminal would get treated in that situation and jurisdiction(assuring his safety of course by giving him a private cell and allowing secret service). If he is guilty then his prior role as president or his wealth and age should not be a factor in sentencing.

It shouldn't matter how it appears or the riots and outrage and public opinion it might cause.
The problem with gambling isn't a lack of education. Gambling preys on people when they're vulnerable and gamifies their desperation into a death spiral of suck. I would also keep children away from it, since they're at a disadvantage even when educated as their brains are so underdeveloped.
Also bonus feature is the LEDs that light up for the same command in the same directory are also the same LEDs.

That means I can tell exactly which processes are in which status.
The school couldn't tell from looking at him that he was closer to Kindergarten-aged (5) than 4th grade (9) !?
People here saying this has been happening for the last 10 or so years are misguided. Try 30 years, at the very least. China is playing a very long and slow game of destabilizing the Western world while pretending they’re stupid and unable to control things. A lot of the mishaps are manufactured by them to make them appear that way. Every time someone makes a comment about “how could China be so stupid?” they take a step forward knowing they are underestimated, aided by an online army that serves this purpose.

People forgot all the things China did in early 2000s. Some that are posting on here weren’t even born yet.
So far it's looking like OpenAI will have a surprisingly shallow moat. Open source is already right on its heels. Midjourney is killing it in image generation with 11 employees.

Then in a few years Apple will do what it does and step in to make billions off of a nearly mature technology.
RIP. Settlers Of Catan and Uwe Rosenberg's Bohnanza were my intro to boardgames beyond Monopoly. I always hated Monopoly, and all board games by extension. Thanks to Catan and Bohnanza I discovered that board games didn't have to be bad/boring.
Realists also think of themselves as realists, so there's that.

Plus, every starry-eyed, la-la land, Polyanna thinks themselves not naive!
I wonder, is there a prompt we'll see people start using to mitigate this?

The days of it being so obvious to spot have to be short lived.. no?
Could even end up like that movie plot where the bank robbers setup a bake shop next door to drill into the vault, but the front ends up being profitable.
And it's much easier to pass off one dog for another similar-looking one. There's substantial reason to suspect this may have happened with the current record holder for world's oldest dog ("Bobi"), for example -- IIRC, some of the photos show some sudden, inexplicable changes in coat patterning...
> AI hallucinations resulting in widespread persistent errors that cause an epistemological crisis.

Are AI hallucinations just made up references? Or does that term have a more general or specific meaning?
Huh, I didn't know you even could run Win11 without MS account.
Oh absolutely
Rich people usually control their weight better because they have more money to have better food and perhaps personal cooks/access to better restaurants with better food. They act differently because they are rich. Not because of any sort of bullshit mEnTaLiTy concept.
Due Diligence, and Letter Of Intent.
Seconded. I was lucky to work with one at my first job, which helped to calibrate expectations and set standards for myself.
> What should they actually have done differently?

Credit card processor revenue reports over prior months may have shown startingly small revenue. Match that with bank statements.
There is a GitHub project that you may find valuable.

But yeah, and it make sense. I mean Microsoft doesn't want to make it easy to strip out all of the crap they add in (or really never have it in the first place).

Not that I am defending Microsoft since this is their own doing, but I can understand why LTSC is not... easy isn't the right word. Can't think of the word I am looking for.

Edit: The best part is I have not noticed any downsides. I did have to install the Windows Store for the Xbox app but that still leaves a TON of stuff that isn't there.
Settlers of Catan is the perfect "bridge game" - accessible enough to people who are used to playing Monopoly, but complicated and fun enough that it gets people interested in more involved German-style board games.

Most board game aficionados end up not playing Catan very much, but it's hard to think of a game that has introduced more people to the genre successfully.
I'd extend your analogy to AI as

"when I consume AI it is claimed that it wil poison me but I can't tell if that is true." and possibly "and I don't care."
People really need to learn to not do fraud.
You are right. Yesterday my Windows 11 'explorer patch' (ungroup taskbar) broke the UI which was flickering and not able to do much except open task manager.

Had to boot to restore menu, uninstall update, remove explorer patch, reinstall updates. Incredibly frustrating and not worth it for me.

On the topic: i feel the same after having bought a laptop with windows 11. Usability has regressed and you get less control in terms of customization. The ads and bloatware feel so cheap as well. Thankfully i only have to run it for gaming and ubuntu for everything else
> Not sure what the attraction of downtown urban areas are anymore

I like the part where they're not the suburbs. Dreadful places those. Can you imagine living in a cookie cutter house surrounded by a useless plot of land that you aren't even allowed to use and where every other person is just a cookie cutter version of yourself? Dreadful.

Cities feel alive. It's great.
> Anyone who works at Microsoft brave enough to comment...?

What would they even say? "Yeah, we think our users are stupid and we don't respect them, so we use dark patterns to dupe the suckers into giving us PII and $$."? It's intentional deceit by Microsoft IMO.

It's the same thing with OneDrive. If you don't set up OneDrive you get nagged by the "security" center that your files are at risk because they're not "backed up". However, OneDrive isn't a backup. It's sync and, if you factor in files-on-demand, can end up being the only copy of users' files. I wouldn't consider the only copy of my files a "backup", but most users don't understand, so Microsoft is happy to stretch the truth (aka lie) to get people using OneDrive so they can convert them into subscribers.
No, but they might think it was pension fraud and be unwilling to report their neighbors (even posthumously).

That seems unlikely, but we only have the one case of someone living that old vs many cases of unreported pension fraud so if we're assigning a prior to both I would say it's reasonable to assign a probability of pension fraud to be at least as high as the probability of her being truly that age.
I'm really looking forward to the next Pikmin now.
This is really interesting, I wonder if you could class something like “Upload” on Amazon Prime as belonging to this genre or if it would be ruled out for lacking the visual aesthetic and for being too comedic.
The 286 added "in string" and "out string" instructions. It turned out that if peripherals had a small internal buffer it was more efficient to use these new instructions instead of using DMA hardware. This is why hard disk controllers for the original PC and XT used DMA but from the AT on they normally didn't.
The 8086/88 does have an effective 4MB address space since it outputs the segment register in use during bus cycles, and I believe one of the official manuals did show that possibility, but I don't know of any systems that used such a configuration.
How do you integrate software w/o API docs?
not a hacker but need to connect one software to another w/o API docs. any advise?
The Wonderful Death of a State
One hour workouts 4x a week with a personal trainer. I only started working out a year ago, but these blood tests were done after I had been working out 8-9 months, not just restarting after a rest as many have mentioned.

Here are a couple of articles:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291230/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5158103/

The tests in the articles are on people who just started weightlifting, but I did not see any testing of people used to weightlifting. From what I read, it sounds like the enzyme levels are higher because of the muscle damage caused by weightlifting. If that's the case, it doesn't make sense to me that the enzymes would become normal after weightlifting for a while, because you're still going to be damaging and repairing the muscles every week.
A lot of similar-ish underlying currents to American Midnight, a history book about America around WW1, & governmental-industrial interests aligned against the general welfare & individual liberty.
> There is no requirement to have a written contract with a tenant

Sounds horrific

> The IRS in fact never asks and does not know the identity of your tenants.

Why is that a requirement to registering a contract? You’re just registering the rent, address and length.
Ask HN: Are you the smartest person in the room?
Do you ever feel like you're the smartest person in the room at work? A colleague complained to me about the caliber of our other colleagues stating "I'm always the smartest person in the room.."

I did not tell him that I disagreed and thought that was his ego talking, but given the tech industry and everything we collectively do, it got me to thinking.

How often are you the smartest person in the room at your company?
Packaging makes a lot of sense. I've handled a 68000 in DIP64 and it's just comically huge, and trying to fit the cursed thing into a socket quickly explains why DIPs larger than 40 are ultra rare.

I'm sure there must be architectures that use a multiplexed low/high address bus, like a latch signal that says "the 16 bits on the address bus right now are the segment", then a moment later "okay here's the offset", and leave it to the decoding circuitry on the motherboard, to determine how much to overlap them, or not at all. Doing it this way, you could scale the same chip from 64kB to 4GB, and the decision would be part of the system architecture, rather than the processor. (Could even have mode bits, like the infamous A20 Gate, that would vary the offset and thus the addressable space...)

But, yeah, it was surely seen as unnecessary at the time. Nobody was expecting the x86 to spawn forty-plus years of descendants, and even though Moore's Law was over a decade old at the time, it seems like nobody was wrapping their head around its full implications.
Had many times where I saved a company months of work by forcing a meeting to lock in UX requirements. Basically go through screen to screen on a whiteboard what should happen.

This almost always leads to major changes to the whiteboard during the meeting.

Had many times were I couldn’t get company to do this exercise.
First time leadership sees UX is on completed project.

Team then spends months rewriting application. Everyone generally pissed.
Firefox also bugs you about signing in to Firefox Sync or Pocket or trying to upsell you their VPN.
I've been expecting to be replaced by a much, much cheaper developer in another country since I graduated college ... three decades ago. I'm still not 100% certain why that hasn't happened.

I suspect it has to do with the equivalent of prompt engineering: it's too difficult to cross the cultural and linguistic barriers, as well as the barrier of space that could have mitigated the other two. By the time you've directed somebody to do the work with sufficient precision, you could have just done it yourself.

And it's part of the reason we keep looking for that 10x superdeveloper. Not just that they produce more code per dollar spent, but that there is less communication overhead. The number of meetings scale with the square of the number of people involved, so getting 5 people for the same price as me doesn't actually save you time or money.

I have no idea what that means for AI coding. Thus far it looks a lot like that overseas developer who really knows their stuff and speaks perfect English, but doesn't actually know the domain and can't learn it quickly. (Not because they aren't smart, but because of the various human factors I mentioned.)

I'd be thrilled to be completely wrong about that -- in part because I've been mentally prepared for it for so long. I hope that younger developers get a chance to spin that into a whole new career, hopefully of a kind I can't even imagine.
The point of my story was that, yes, in this poor European country as recently as 1960.. people were regularly registering children weeks late, and the government would only issue birth cert where date=today. Which is why all of my aunts & uncles have a real & official birthdate which don't match.

This was happening in a place & time where there were telephones & buses.
It was simply inconvenient to get to the city immediately, so people went when they had the next opportunity, and presented opportunity to "choose a birthdate" by when they appeared.

This is only 1 particular example in 1 place of weirdness of official birth dates.

Imagine areas of the world a little further back when travel would have been by foot or horse. Given that this was happening even in a somewhat developed place & time, all sorts of stuff could be happening elsewhere for random, benign, non-pension-fraud related reasons.
Rest in Catan.
Bike riders forget that a large percentage of the population can't safely operate a bicycle in all weather conditions. We still need vehicles people can sit inside of, that can carry things, in the rain, sleet, snow. We need more micromobility options of all shapes and sizes. And we need places to put them and ride them; not just protected bike lanes, but bike and scooter racks, public chargers.

It would be much cheaper to start factories in the US to provide micromobility solutions, as compared to electric car and battery factories. We could actually create more jobs, as well as better solutions for people in cities. The results would cost less and enable more transportation.

But large corporations essentially own the government. There is an entire ecosystem of products and services surrounding cars, and they generate a tremendous amount of wealth that feeds the political machine. Low-cost small-scale electric transportation doesn't make anywhere close to as much money, so it's no wonder it's not promoted.
Hah, I may well do! I think the other thing here is me not realising I needed something till I saw it :-)
right, the transition has to span generations and in that time ebikes, escoots, wheelchairs and mobility scooters will probably converge on 20mph personal transport that can fit into public transport for longer hops
I'm annoyed that Windows named my user account hello.. because my email is hello@simse.io.
> You’d understand it if you were a C developer.

Counterpoint: I'm a C developer and a big fan of Andreas and I prefer mildly clever code over longer explicit code. But even then I was still surprised by his choice to keep this specific hack. It feels very brittle to me.
> you can go anywhere and dont need to think about parking.

I was visiting new Orleans recently, and they had signs on rod iron fences "no bike parking" as you ride into the French Quarter. Car street parking on both sides, lots of traffic and potholes, I saw one single loop bike "rack" in a mile. The city also has its own bike share, but its rules include parking in designated spots - would you believe very few in top pedestrian and tourist areas?

I see this in Atlanta too.

The scooters and lime bikes ran into this problem.. people complain of car traffic and bikes and scooters parked on sidewalks, cities even invest in a less profitable bike share program and a few racks - or temporary bike lanes, but they to have a car parking spot rather than parking for a dozen bikes in the same footprint for some reason.

It's a ux and public policy failure / money drain.
"This isn't in the code style of <Reviewer number 4>. Please redesign from first principles and rewrite your entire project to reflect the preferred coding style"
> why people go still along with it and keep using Windows

Because it's often the only option in the corporate world.
Governments are just really large corporations.

With guns. Which will get an "AI upgrade" soon.
> when people realize they can have an extra 10 grant a year post-tax by using a cargo bike instead of a car

The only people spending $10K/year on their car want to. The kind of folks who would be most swayed by a financial argument manage to spend much less. On top of that, your analysis is one-sided. What would be the going rate for additional daylight hours if I could sell them on the open market?
There's an interesting tension in between aggregate problems and what's possible for you as an individual.

As an example, in the aggregate people with non-CS or math backgrounds are very unlikely to make $400k+ a year as a software developer. On an individual level, I have repeatedly been able to get others to that level inside 5 years if those people are willing to do straightforward but difficult work. However, this is only possible because so many people won't do the work, if everyone was aware of the opportunity and had the gumption to pursue it diligently the opportunity would quickly be exhausted.

This same pattern of "plenty of opportunity for individuals, but not enough for the group" seems common in many other ventures. Talking to very successful people it seems to be one of the reasons so many people who make it view lack of success as a failing, they've acquired the skillset to see these opportunities and wonder why no one is taking them (but often fail to notice there aren't enough for everyone).
It means being confidently wrong. Like I asked facebook's llama the other day which dog was best, and it said golden retrievers because they are eager to please and don't shed (which makes them suitable for people with dog allergies). It was quite confident-sounding, but, uh..... no.
Location: Southern California, US

Remote: Yes, Occasional in-person in California OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, iOS, Haxe, Typescript, Java, CLIPS rules

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/nickmain/nickmain.github.io/blob/primary/...

Email: icons.comedic0@icloud.com

I've been developing in Swift on iOS/macOS/tvOS since it launched and I switched from back-end Java.
Currently deep into SwiftUI and exploring DSL/API design with ResultBuilders.

Building tools and bridging technologies are my passion.

Anyone want to leverage Omnigraffle as a programming tool? Reverse engineering the file format and writing plugins are a current project.
Blue cities in red states have high crime—St. Louis, Atlanta, New Orleans, etc. Red state suburbs and rural areas are safe.
This is unbelievable! I think Type will truly empower its users to write stunning prose with minimal effort. It's rare that something comes along that generates value for the VCs while also making the world a better place. The SFBA is very special -- no place else in the world could such great ideas come together with flawless execution. The creators of GPT missed the boat here; competing tech is really catching up.
National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) | Software, MachineLearning, Computer Vision, Simulation, IT | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Full Time | ONSITE, Hybrid | H1-B VISA

Featured Openings:

User Interface Software Engineer (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/software-engineer.html)

FPGA Hardware Engineer (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/hardware-engineer.html)

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/senior-ml-engineer.html)

Software Team Lead (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/software-team-lead.html)

DevOps Engineer (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/devops-engineer.html)

Explore All Current Positions: https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/index.html

NREC, a robotics research and development powerhouse, is looking for experienced developers, especially in embedded systems, robotics, perception, deep learning, data science, and AI. For more than 25 years NREC has brought together a critical mass of software and hardware engineers to take technology from the laboratory to the real world. NREC maintains a diverse portfolio of projects, from Augmented Reality driver assistance to full off-road autonomy and from advanced teleoperation to full autonomous manipulation. We are part of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, focused on commercialization of robotic technologies, and employ 160 people in our off-campus facility.

Questions about NREC? Interested in a position? Contact one of our recruiters Nuvia Nishad (nnishad@nrec.ri.cmu.edu) or Christine DeCarolis (cdecarolis@nrec.ri.cmu.edu) and please mention Hacker News.
Mine also was not a return to weightlifting. I had been doing it for 8-9 months when I took the first blood test with the elevated levels.
-10x software engineer is someone who refuses to recognize and learn from their mistakes and also refuses to learn anything new or different.
I don't think that's the case for most of the substantial software projects. The plan for the Linux kernel doesn't change each week (do they have "PMs"?).

15% seems very excessive. Almost a whole day a week and two days lost of deep work. Try to aim for 1.5%. Do as much of the planning as possible without a meeting.
No. Of course that's not the reason. Please don't take your biases and make those sorts of statements about what you believe is in somebody else's thoughts.

The reason was what I stated, which has nothing to do with the provenance or capabilities of that person.
If there's going to be tabs/filters, having something to filter out general news and politics would be a much higher priority to me.

We've survived for years without that, therefore I think HN can survive without filters for AI/ChatGPT.
I'm one of the creators behind Totem -- that was actually the original idea that started it all, seeing the difficulty in assembling electronics boards in our own projects made us think if there could be a better way around it. We chose 10mm as a basis for our H-shaped beams and boards, and designed adjustable metal brackets to have an easy way to join them together with M3 bolts. My personal favourite feature is that the holes in beams are just slightly concave shape, so it provides enough friction to hold brackets in place while putting in bolts. We also provide STL, STEP and SketchUp files of our parts here https://totemmaker.net/wiki/parts-library/ for those who want to include it in their designs or 3d print it themselves.
There are alternative models and with something like langchain you could swap them or run multiple in parallel.
Chile communities defy the desert by capturing increasingly scarce water
The day Steve Jobs passed away there was a moment in which the front page was just that. I believe I saved it, but can't find it right now.