skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like wordpress.org has wordpress.com, they could have had this commercial domain.

soo... mastodon.social? the instance listed as first option, clearly marked as being run by the Mastodon company?
Why else do they get this source of funding that other networks don't have? (Though this is still just a theory and not reason to slap "govt-affiliated" on them. "Govt-funded" is fair.)
After decades of SUV loopholes, why would the EPA about-face now? Is there any chance this will actually happen?
>make smaller cars

I am an automotive EE that was on before 2008… there is no much irony in your post that hurt feelings by Californians be damned I’m going to explain it to you.

Thank Obama for large cars.

When he came in and you saw the “all cars will have xx MPG by 2025” or whatever year seemed like a lifetime away, the car mfgs said ”ok, but unless you reinvent the stoichiometric ratios of gasoline, this can’t be done”.

And they were right. There are some truths to ICE vehicles that until we have drastically different tires, and roads, and aluminum or composites are way cheaper (the latter not recyclable at all btw), some of these climate change proposals and dreams are just PR bullshit for the people that want to see it.

Now… what happened next was the car manufacturers explained, they came to a compromise. Between CARB and CAFE and NITSA and etc, the administration agreed that they would judge on footprint of vehicle.

Actual quote from one of these closed doors discussions: ”If you are going to grade us on footprint, we’re going to give you footprint”.

A single car going down the road today in CAFE eyes, is not one car. It might be 1.3 cars, because its footprint is 1.3x a 2008 comparable vehicle.

It’s not just footprint though! It’s drivetrain, weight, exemptions, regulation workarounds, class.

Chrysler, erm Fiat, erm Stellanis sell Jeep Wranglers 2dr electrics, so they can sell more diesel trucks. Among 20 other examples.

I don’t know the future with what is about to happen here. But I FUCKING PROMISE YOU this isn’t what it seems and the Biden Admin knows it already. If I had to guess, I would expect the mfgs to push a lot of basically disposable EVs that will last 50k miles and have batteries destined for landfills to make up for the vehicles they want to sell.

Recycling lithium is not currently cheaper than mining new, and I do not expect that to change soon. If you ask me, I would rather a steel car that lasts 300k be made over vehicles that won’t make it to 100k and are just trashed. But… I don’t get a say.

EDIT: As a nearly non-sequitur anecdote, I did cause a guy recently to have an ideological breakdown. He is a city planner complaining that a 9’x20’ parking space is killing him, and cars are only getting larger. I explained in detail the history and he had a lot of trouble coming to terms with it. He thought “his side” could do bo wrong.
“Silicon Valley is full of libertarians”

HN has become so contrarian that it’s now the establishment well rooted in postmodernism and authoritarian tendencies to ensure society agrees with them.
> The Metaverse was always such a bad direction.

The Metaverse is coming along just fine. Roblox, Fortnite, VRchat, and Second Life all work. None are ad-supported. It's not compatible with Facebook's business model.

There's no real role for "brands" in the metaverse. Or even ads.
All the successful systems charge the user, although many have a free to play tier.
As a branch of gaming, the metaverse works reasonably well, and is getting better.
Gaming itself is huge, has passed Hollywood, and is going on from there. See the current issue of The Economist.
Thanks for the feedback. The potential edge with Dolly is huge. Building a firewalled model with custom corpus is a big deal. I have been experimenting with openai and even with public data (but really limiting to the domain), yields great improvements (openai may be stale because of cut off data). I am excited to see where Dolly goes.
I highly doubt a mechanical timer would be more reliable than a micro and some buttons.

I can't think of a single mechanical device that is more reliable than an equivalent solid-state version of that same device.

Solid state relay vs electromechanical relay. Timex quartz watch vs. an automatic or manual watch.

Laundry rooms can be both hot and cold, are almost always humid, are often home to caustic chemicals, and a dryer's components are constantly exposed to dust in the form of lint: the perfect use case for solid state.

Spraying a pcb with a coating is much cheaper and more reliable than sealing a mechanical mechanism.

Instead of resisting, the smart move is to agitate for and promote secure, open, standards.
I guess there's market research for this and it's a cleaner name, but why wouldn't they just put the brands that people are paying for in the name of the service?
Cops don't solve mental illness.
I apologize for my imprecise language. The 13% I quoted includes "Federal, state and local governments". Again this is all on the web page we're all discussing, in a very easy-to-understand chart.
Yep, no plugins just yet - we just passed in tax law changes since 2021
> he may well have found that having trolls, clowns, and morons to enjoy his adolescent antics is worth $44B in pure enjoyment

This is the most disappointing part. I have a hard time imagining that any of these billionaires are "good people" in a way that I would recognize. But before this Twitter thing I felt like at least I can respect the things Musk chooses to spend his time and money on. How much would that $44B have moved the needle on on his Mars dream? Seems like a waste to me.
"Your floor is now clean!"
You're claiming that hard data from numerous sources doesn't matter because it doesn't match up with your personal experience, and then doubled down on your claim that violent crime is increasing, despite every source imaginable disagreeing with you. We apparently live in different universes.

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-crime-Che...

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/crime...
that drug is already so badly prescribed that most bacterias already have evolved around it.

This smell as a last ditch effort when the industry paid someone to pass this recommendation so that they can cash on the last days as an expensive antibiotic by being abused as over the counter remedy. ...before it fades out of existence thanks to the previous cash out tactics they employed.
Tesla could make a moderately stupid amount of money by selling a supercharger-to-other EV adapter system and subscription.
While it may not be completely satisfactory, you can just click "hide" next to the stories.
> Intel doesn't think it can keep its fabs busy/profitable with just its own designs anymore

Intel has been saying so for the last 2-3 years.
> Async code is the wrong fit for Java

Yes, async is a bad fit for Java. That's a problem with Java, not a problem with my statement.

> There also is no reason to believe async code should consume any less (or more, for that matter) memory than Loom-style concurrency.

I'm not familiar with Loom. I was referring to async vs. threaded. Async code does make the programmer make state explicit in objects rather than partially implicit as local variable values on the stack, and this is more compact than smearing part of the state on the stack.
Ask HN: Should VCs be held accountable for enabling fraudsters? If so, how?
Money can be easily tracked. Editorial independence cannot be.

I actually think NPR has been captured by their audience in the same way MSNBC and Fox News has been. They know member donations are their biggest funding source, so they largely tell their audience what they want to hear.

Put another way, I don't think perfect editorial independence exists. Everyone knows where their bread is being buttered. Having a badge on Twitter saying you're independent would be entirely a judgement call.
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more ontopic, I think its indicative of a general exodus of brands in general as well. nobody wants to pay for the checkmark, nobody wants to have their brand identity or message challenged or negated by fly-by-night impostors, and most people have lost tolerance for the abdication of moderation and safe space for a modern brand in general. The time to close your account was arguably last November when leadership fired all the employees and locked themselves out of the headquarters.

thats not to say theyre evacuating to another platform, just that 'no platform' is a safer option than twitter platform.
There is a lot of other stuff happening right now that may or may not have a massive impact. Dominating the front page like this is just tilting the attention economy too much for everybody who hasn't bought into the hype bubble.
Wasn't spaceX partly funded by the CIA's investment capital arm?
(linux user): isn't Powershell that new slow as hell command prompt based on some .NET? No, thanks. It's just terrible as everything made of .NET.
> Where can I get one

Yeah, people usually have the opposite problem. You just search for power-only cable.

> how can I verify

Plug it into your phone and your computer. None should see the other, but the phone should charge.

And then tag it, because having all kinds of cables exactly alike is the worst decision the USB designers ever made.
Had you read my comment, you would know that my point still stands unrefuted.
They also neglected Point-E, for 3D object creation.
There are some people who legitimately love VR games like VRChat. I am not one of them, but I have talked to a few. At the time that Facebook made it's initial investments into that space starting in 2014 there was at least some possibility that those people were the early adopters of a technology that would disrupt the social media and entertainment industries. Of course that turned out to be wrong (or at least too early) but at the time it wasn't completely implausible. Large enterprises sometimes have to invest in long shots as a risk mitigation strategy.
I have considered that I don't fit most molds, but I am very observant.
> it's probably worth it to bring in the repair tech who does it day in, day out and can get it done a lot faster than me.

Indeed, and that is cheaper than keeping a guy on staff that can fix your equipment.

The biggest farmers I know keep someone on staff. The next tier down use outside repair services. And the smallest guys (I am a small time farmer, emphasis on small) repair their own stuff.

So in the context of myself and my own needs right to repair is crucial. But I can argue for the right to repair in general as well: Flexibility is key, in light of creaky supply chains.
Also a "decentralized" social media network is something an engineer thinks is great, but no user does.
That seems like a contradiction.
Fair point, then I guess I'd adjust my comment to say "in ADDITION to the server issue....".

The reality is even once you're connected, it can be a rough place to explore for newcomers.
I'm sure we'll see this by the end of the day or two.
> security, performance, scaling, testing, all of which are secondary in most startup environments

I've done quite a few startups by now and I can say that in all of them the initial quick-n-dirty MVP codebase lasted well into the era where things like "security, performance, scaling, testing" became a priority.

Unless you are absolutely committed to throwing away the MVP (and I don't see how you could because as soon as sales team sees it they start selling it and you won't have time to throw it away), your best early move is to use technologies that will take you to the long haul because you will be stuck with that initial code for a very long time.

(This doesn't mean architecting the whole system for scale you won't hit in years, mind you. Just to use technologies that will make the transition to a mature engineering team easier. Such as Java, given the topic of this conversation.)
They don’t produce news so maybe no?
According to https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affilia...
'state-affiliated media' and 'government-funded media' are two distinct labels on Twitter.
Strict weight limits would be hugely beneficial for addressing environmental, safety, and infrastructure cost concerns.

A related--albeit more "out-there"--idea is to impose momentum limits in addition to speed limits based on vehicle weight classes. We have a crude version of this on highways, where speed limits for trucks are often lower than the limits for cars (e.g., 70mph for cars, 65mph for trucks).

But I really like the idea of setting different speed limits for different weight classes of vehicles. Driving a Toyota Corolla? Let's call it a Class A vehicle (2,000-2,999 lbs), with a highway speed limit of 70mph. Driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee? That would be Class C (4,000-4,999 lbs), with a speed limit of 50mph.

This would make roads a lot safer, and add an additional, non-monetary, tax on heavier vehicles.

Another big benefit of imposing weight limits on consumer vehicles is that the United States would have a fighting chance of becoming energy independent, even before accounting for the shift to renewables. So we can add improved national security to the list of reasons to pursue this common-sense policy.
I think people should be slower to act.

Around the time they left, the label had already been improved to mention funding instead of affiliation.

If they could just be a bit chill about it, is quite possible within a month it might have been replaced with a approximate-percentage-funding label, which should not be particularly offensive.

Would be really slick to see all media accounts have company ownership / funding listed.
Can you name any media company being truly independent? Or is any owner excluded from the potential list of dependencies?
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It's always a bit strange when someone says they're not a fan of Elon and then proceed to give him an absurd level of benefit of the doubt by just eliding all the obvious facts that what he's doing is ridiculous and bad.

Government-sponsored was not a US propaganda badge, it was a response to a serious concern about adversarial governments influencing US debate through 3rd party cut outs. It's a difficult problem to solve but the previous employees made a good faith effort to come up with a definition and then enforce it. Musk, however, didn't do that. He took an official label with a definition that Twitter publicly discloses and applied it to a news organization he personally doesn't like despite it being completely inaccurate.

If what you're arguing, is that the label was bad, and badly or unevenly enforced what Musk has done is made it worse - not better. There's now no consistent definition, all the old organisations that were tagged are still tagged, and he's driven a bus through twitter's credibility.

Even if you accept that there was a genuine problem with the way the previous system was designed, there's simply no way to argue that Musk has improved it. And to be clear - the previous system was exactly what Musk claimed he wanted for twitter - a clear open definition you could point to, and labelling accounts rather than banning them in order to maximize free speech, if this system weren't in place before it is almost certain Musk would've loved it if a right wing bigot twitter user suggested it.

What you actually seem to be arguing is "Something should have been done, this was a thing, therefore this was the right thing to do".
The morale crisis should have come when they understood that their work directly and negatively impacts on our younger generation’s mental health.
Um, ever heard of email?
As much as I wish this were to true, it’s objectively false. Digital advertising is a healthy industry that powers many profitable companies. Substack is not profitable and torching money even with a 10% claim on wroters’ subscription revenue
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Wow, another thing Stanislaw Lem beat the scientists to.

In "Imaginary Magnitude", the "Golem XIV" chapter, Lem has his superintelligences disappear up their own metaphorical navels, for their own incomprehensible-to-humans reasons. Of course, you can read between the lines about why the Golems disappeared, but "Do Nothing, Eventually" sounds like a good description.
Placebos can also work in reverse - if you strongly believe a medication or procedure is harmful then you will be harmed by it.

That's why it's entirely unethical to force a medical product on a population.

Take for example the mRNA covid vaccine. Let's say it did what they claimed at the start and stopped transmission 100% without ever causing a side effect. Even then, the emotional distress and reverse placebo effect of coercing people to take a vaccine if they don't want it still outweighs any benefit.

People who believe a vaccine is dangerous but take it to save their job will get harmed whether it caused a side effect or not. The emotional distress alone can be debilitating. If the mind is so powerful it can strongly affect health outcomes, how could anyone think it's ethical to punish someone for making their own medical decision?
> are wrecklessly pushing us toward immediate societal collapse.

I would characterize this as just adding more and more landmines to an already crowded space of potential collapse-inducing events through which have to try to navigate society. Oh, and adding glitzy blinkenlights to attract people towards those landmines. "Let the marketplace decide if landmines are fun to step on."
should you not have disclosed that you're a Hex employee in the blogpost?
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Well they also have success in WiFi & Cellular, ironically two markets that Intel also participated in and never succeeded in doing anything, ever. Truly an astonishingly mismanaged company.
If your car makes a bigger environmental footprint. Why should you not pay for it?

It is not "government telling you what to do", it is you paying for your sh*t.
Twitter has always been a cesspool. You're fighting not only other people but also the algorithm / popularity contest. I actually hate it and never want to go back, but for some it's engaging. People probably don't use Mastodon just cause nobody they care about is on it and the whole multi-instance thing is weird.
Yes, Revelation Space had alphas (which were illegal if I remember correctly) and betas (which were less capable but legal)
It would be more noteworthy if their reporters left Twitter.
My bike cost more than my car. I have a $7,500 bike, a $3,000 bike and two $400 bikes... my car was $5,000 and I put more miles on my bikes than any car...

Bikes suck for a few things - weather and only one person and no storage.

I am a pro-dealer of Fox Shocks products and am looking to becoming an Orbea dealer - potentially opening my own shop.

Also, I am designing 3D printable components based on my being a daily biker for two decades.

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Also - you can go to importYeti.com and look up bike suppliers supply chains, shipments and native chinese/taiwanese manufacturers (Taiwan produces a F-ton of bike frames....

You will see differences in pricing >$1,000 just based on the quality of components.

Some modern bikes have apps to tune their performance, blue-tooth wireless shifters, brakes etc.

I love bikes - but they arent as cheap as one may think (if their looking for performance on top of convenience...

Then just look at the prices of spandex biking clothes.
did you read the release? How is jail not an option?

>Shah was convicted of five counts of mail fraud, 10 counts of wire fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and two counts of money laundering. Agarwal was convicted of five counts of mail fraud, eight counts of wire fraud, and two counts of bank fraud. Purdy was convicted on five counts of mail fraud, five counts of wire fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of false statements to a financial institution. The defendants face a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison for each count of bank fraud and 20 years in prison for each count of wire fraud and mail fraud. Purdy faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison for the count of false statements to a financial institution. Shah faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for each count of money laundering. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a date to be determined. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
> Irrational fear of Oracle is actually a perfectly valid factor in my opinion.

Fear of Oracle is rational though, unlike fear of Java.
It seems like you get all the versions you've paid for.

"You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for."

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
In general, I think it's very hard for a "product expert" to obtain or hold leadership of a company once it gets large. The "bureaucracy experts" have a huge advantage in that realm.

And that's not inherently a bad thing. Despite his often shrill detractors, Tim Cook, who's definitely a "bureaucracy expert" more than he is a "product expert", has done a darn good job leading Apple since Steve Jobs' untimely death. The thing is, he knows to listen to the product experts, and to put the really good ones in positions of some power within the hierarchy.

The problem comes when your "bureaucracy experts" only value what they understand: Bureaucracy. Numbers. Finances, especially in the short-term sense.

Now, I honestly don't think this is precisely Zuckerberg's problem. From what I've seen, I don't think he's necessarily a "bureaucracy expert" himself—but nor is he a "product expert" in the same sense as someone like Jobs or Ive; he helped to create the original Facebook, but I don't believe he's ever come up with any other products that have seen any real success (though correct me if I'm wrong). He's more of a founder who rode a wave of money to where he is, and bought into the idea that that meant he was somehow smarter than everyone else.
This is not FUD. Liberal DAs are extremely intense against potential gun crimes. Any concealed carry class will explain that being arrested for a gun crimes in a blue city is almost always going to get you in far more trouble than in a red locality. This is a highly politicized group of crimes, with political decisions made by elected judges on ones fate.

Again, you don't need to be convicted for your chance of going to jail that night approaching 100%, particularly if the gun discharges, regardless of justification.
That could apply to a huge portion of all businesses on Twitter. How many of the F500 have benefitted from a gov't bailout or some other taxpayer subsidy. No one is really squeaky clean on this front.
As AI takes over, it is going to get worse.
Not the person you replied to, but I mentioned earlier that I love my LAMY Safari. It's inexpensive as far as nice fountain pens go, but the quality-per-dollar value is immense. I'd recommend it to anyone who's considering trying fountain pens, doesn't want to break the bank on an experiment, and still wants to have a nice experience.
> But how?

Ask that your average parent using an Android 6 from a decade ago, not being able to update because the manufacturer decided to not support their devices anymore after a year.

There is no such thing as an updateable Android, because something will always be outdated. Even lineageOS builds are using decades old kernels and kernel mods that have never been backported or upstreamed.

Android has a huge update problem. I'd probably bet that stagefright or, say, the pegasus zeroday for whatsapp works still on a large percentage of devices even though it was leaked more than 5 years ago.