skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Moral decay” doesn’t really offer much of an explanation though. That’s basically just saying “people are doing bad things more these days because people care less about doing good things these days.”
The personal attack in this post is totally unacceptable and clearly a bannable offense on HN. Moreover, this has been a problem for years (see links below).

Also, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle and that's also a line at which we ban accounts (regardless of the ideology they're battling for). Past explanation about that: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

I'm not going to ban you right now, but it's a close call; if you keep abusing HN in these ways, we're going to have to. If you'd therefore please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32146474 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15621215 (Nov 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116279 (April 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13283040 (Dec 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12537061 (Sept 2016)
Dammit, I've got a lot to migrate then. Another time-consuming project for the sake my damn'd ideals.

Authy was my escape from Google Auth.
I live in a nice condo building. Every floor has a recycling room, with a sign above the two bins that says "no bags, put recyclables directly in bins". I still see a lot of bags.

I think there just needs to be someone supervising saying "For real, seriously, no bags." I think people just don't know if it's a real rule, or an over-simplified kinda fake rule, like wear a helmet. In fact, I don't know, I just have a weird engineer mind that wants things to work right, whatever they are.

Actually I think we need people to be told, in school and at recycling points: "you don't have to pretend to be green, just throw it away if you don't care". It seems to me that recycling is one of the least controversial things, everyone knows it's good and wants to support it, just not many people evidently care that it's done in a way that actually works. Again, as an engineer, this bothers me.
As someone that got married during their PhD and is now finishing up and reflecting: it isn't worth it. Neglecting the people in your life that love you in the pursuit of "science" is no different than neglecting them because you have a drug habit or because you're an inveterate gambler or because you're chasing fame and fortune. The science will get done regardless and the only thing you accomplish is ensuring your own interests. Suffice it to say I'm taking steps make sure my next gig has more room.

The answer is simple and obvious: be alone. It wont work for everyone but it works for me. Valuing your time means having to say no to intrusions and impositions.
The impressive part is almost that the paper money managed to drift so far from inherent value as it did. Crypto brings it back to being correlated with effort.
It varies by state.

In many states you get a temporary plate from the dealer that is good for 30 days or so, and receive your permanent (or annual) plate from the state in the mail.

If you buy a used car from a private seller you have to go to the motor vehicle bureau and transfer the title and register the car yourself. If you buy from a dealer they handle that for you (and charge you a few hundred dollars as a "document processing fee").

In some cases you can transfer the plate from your old car to your new car, but that's not always possible. There doesn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason to it.
Does GIMP have a bigger market share in non-English speaking places? Because if it does, then maybe the name is to be blamed. But if usage is similar everywhere, the name does not seem to matter much, or at all, for the (lack of) success.
The Precious Plastic project shows how to recycle plastic grocery bags into a polyethylene feedstock to manufacture new objects with [1]. You can also turn grocery bags into 3D printer filament. The technology is within reach of intentional communities to maintain, so they turn what is usually a waste stream into an asset.

[1] https://community.preciousplastic.com/how-to/create-marble-f...
The greens are the easy scapegoat for conservatives in Germany for everything they don’t like.

In this case the greens are supposedly responsible for a proliferation of coal by being anti-nuclear.

The reality is that the greens fight hardest for an earlier exit from coal, not hard enough though as seen from some environmentalists. In this case the greens managed that the mine is getting closed earlier but some villages will still be destroyed for it. The way they want to replace coal is with renewables.

The other big parties, SPD (social democrats), CDU/CSU (conservatives) and FDP (mostly financial liberalism) were all more for keeping nuclear but also slowing renewables down because of coal miner unions or closeness to big electricity producers, to Putin or to the industry heavily relying on cheap Russian gas. Coal and nuclear plants were run by the same companies in Germany.

You often try to see the debate being steered towards being about coal versus nuclear while the reality is nuclear + fossil fuels versus renewables
The President writes the budget. You can find the budgets here: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/budget/2023

Congress passes nonbinding budget resolutions on themselves and binding appropriations bills on the Treasury.
Stealth is a big component. Also, Sonar is known to impact marine life

I believe there are Sonar bouys that are toed behind ships to detect submarines. These could be used, and I would guess that these are used to map the sea floor, but the sea is so flipping big that there are still unmapped areas. But I'm not an expert and would defer to an actual expert (or ChatGPT)
Seems it's less than impossible, and more of 'can happen in some rare circumstances, that we didn't account for'. It's certainly not in "type two" Kardashev scale, but rather an intriguing example of the complexities and surprises that the universe holds. These 'impossible rings' serve as a reminder that our understanding of celestial dynamics is constantly evolving, and that there is still much to discover and learn about the intricacies of our solar system and beyond.
That is not true, at least in the United States. Tobacco dust (Nicotine sulfate) may not be used on organic crops.

see https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-7/subtitle-B/chapter-I/su...
The biggest threat to Google Search is --- greed.

A certain amount of advertising is acceptable --- but Google has blown way past that point. It's now hard to find the real results you came looking for due to all the ads.

Greed --- and the lack of real competition, has made them complacent and vulnerable.
It's funny and terrifying at the same time imagining our tv throwing fireballs randomly while watching it.

Thanks for the chuckle.
Socialism is popular with the young because what passes for capitalism offers a bum deal. Each generation is poorer than the last — home ownership is out of reach, college debt is high, job prospects are dim.
The Kollsman Electric Tachometer Indicator
Create a GPT4 based Chatbot (and some more) for ur website
- It bot can read screenshots developers share and respond accordingly (currently available in Discord integration).
- It employs custom agents that handle specific tasks for your support workflow, such as querying transaction status via an API.
- Optimal Retrieval: We go beyond what's generally available, i.e., similarity search. We employ an ensemble of vector retrieval methods to find the highest-quality answer to a question.
- Reference URLs in answers: To improve the credibility of the answers, Helix AI provides links to trusted external references and sources for the information.
- User feedback registration: Users can provide feedback on the answers they receive, rating them as helpful or not helpful, along with comments. This feedback is used to improve the knowledge and quality of responses continuously.
Why is he terrible?
Does "Wii" have some possibly 'offensive' meaning I'm unaware of?
Should we limit capital flows from America to China?
Just like we pay people money to sing for us, we'll pay people money to dream for us. The best dreamers and imagineers will sell their distilled thoughts for the rest of us to consume.

We'll have an indie scene. We'll share them on internet platforms. Remix them.

There's so much more good that will come from this than bad.
Yeah, that’s fair. It’s also more likely that people are, of course, doing the same old thing.
Open up their profile, open cnn.com to check their story, there's probably 1000 API calls right there.
OKTO35 3D-Printed Analog Film Movie Camera
Nine Million Have Watched Full ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Illegally Posted on Twitter
GP is arguing that it does not belong on HN.
I promise you actual scientists spend far less time thinking about the scientific method and the philosophy of science than their cheerleaders do.
Vectara is hiring a number of positions: https://jobs.lever.co/vectara

Vectara is a SaaS platform built from the ground up to support LLM-focused retrieval (think LLMs for search applications) as well as using that to surface higher-level business use cases like building chatbots, web/app/product search, and research-focused applications that are "grounded" in truth based on that retrieval. The team is fairly seasoned and comes from backgrounds like likes of Google, Elastic, and Cloudera. The product is real, and we already have paying customers, though the company is still very early. If you want to have a fiddle around with the product to see what you'd be getting yourself into (or to give us feedback so we can give a better product!), we have a pretty generous free tier at vectara.com -- no CC required.

Open positions:

In engineering: software engineer (remote OK), ML engineer (Bay area preferred), and DevOps (remote OK)

Outside of engineering: first tech writer, director/head of PMM

Compensation ranges for each position are listed in the job posting

I lead product and have the open tech writer + product marketing positions, but can connect you with the engineering team / our recruiter there if these positions seem interesting. You can reach out to me at shane[at]vectara[dot]com
In 2017, California did not have temporary plates. The dealer plate just said "Honda". To track the car, the dealer tapes a very small piece of paper to the inside of the window, so if you are pulled over an officer standing right next to your car could read that to verify your car is registered etc. But they are not going to do that unless they have some other reason to pull you over.
We might have had a better outcome if this _company_ (not government) was punished for fraud by the toothless government agencies ostensibly established to do things like protect customers from fraud.
server side rendering (that is, returning HTML) is an API, it's just that it's a hypermedia API (poor hypermedia, can't get no respect) rather than a data API, intended to be consumed by a hypermedia client (e.g. a web browser) and revealing/affording further API navigation via hypermedia controls (e.g. links)

hypermedia APIs have not proven to be good data APIs, but they have proven to be excellent at surviving change within a larger hypermedia system (like the web)

in this article I'm trying to show why, despite the promise of decoupling that comes with a generic JSON Data API, it is hypermedia APIs (with tight server/front end coupling) that survive change better, due to the uniform interface of REST
Depends where you go and where you're coming from. Just a matter of time before it's all RFID'd into the passport or access is granted to to the central db to random transit cops.
> The technical stuff we do is not interesting to the general public, but it enables other people to do more interesting stuff.

People upthread said a lot of scientific research is useless, but my understanding was that the research eventually builds on top of each other in a lot of cases?
Red light cameras are proven to reduce the most dangerous intersection crashes (T-bones) at the expense of a slight increase in rear-end collisions (which are the fault of the second driver for following too closely, and likely both drivers for speeding.)

Before anyone starts bleating about companies changing cycle times: that's only happened in a few areas and most municipalities and states have caught on to the scam. It's an easy legislative fix to require light timings be based off federal standards, which they should be anyway.
back in my day you knew a man from his horse...
hypermedia apis are not good data apis, as I say in the article:

https://htmx.org/essays/two-approaches-to-decoupling/#but-th...

> Many people would object that, sure, this hypermedia API may be flexible for our web application, but it makes for a terrible general purpose API.

> This is quite true. This hypermedia API is tuned for a specific web application. It would be cumbersome and error-prone to try to download this HTML, parse it and try to extract information from it. This hypermedia API only makes sense as part of a larger hypermedia system, being consumed by a proper hypermedia client.
It is a interesting and workable definition for further discussion once it is provided. In my experience you ask 10 people what exploitation means and you get 10 different answers- everyone has their own.

That said, I like it and would be interested in exploring it more. Exploitations is a transaction that increases leverage for future transactions is one that I havent heard before.

Im also curious about the inverse.e.g. what transactions reduce leverage?
Holy shit. Thank you for bringing this up, I'd wondered for ~15 years what my uncle was reading at his desk one time when I visited, but only ever remembered the cover.
As I understand New York state requires car inspections every 12 months. Do they not fail that due to unreadable license plates? Where I am in Europe if you even have a screw in a place that could potentially confuse a camera it will fail the inspection.
The brain is heterogenous in ways that a neural network needn’t be. Certain brain regions definitely perform certain functions, certain regions are hardwired to other regions. You can chop out a chunk of a person’s brain and they’ll be completely unable to do certain things.

Afaik the properties you’re referring to on AlexNet (the network trained to perform on Image Net) have to do with the nature of repeated convolution operations which, while interesting, is not as deeply insightful as I believe the article is aiming for.
voters have apparently said enough crime prevention.
The skills gap is so big that half of workers will need to retrain this decade
Do you think there's a connection to this behaviour and the type of vehicle they drive?
With SUVs becoming super huge, maybe people feel that they don't have to stop because they won't be coming off worse in an accident?
Treat your audience like idiots who must be shouted down at and you'll lose that audience fast. And that's a shame because interspersed with all the trendy woke messaging there was actually a lot of good. My favourites were the Scott Dozier death row interview and the "One Star Reviews" series.
Good mention. Recently I was saying a gal I know's friends are "all yes men" when they discuss personal issues w/ each other. I was suggested a better term is that they are "supportive". Same thing, but yeah, they just agree with the person. Critical thinking takes a back seat to making the other person feel validated.
That seems to be an unattributed ad for Realtors.
I see no way to avoid this. There is simply too much content out there.
I have created this summarizer for myself last week and my productivity went through the roof. My Youtube Watchlist shrank from 50 videos, some of them being in there for more than a year, to zero.

In all cases, the summary that I got was perfectly fine and satisfied my curiosity about the topic.

We have to learn how to deal with this new world. People want raw information, they don't want to look at a talking heads artificially spreading out that information into 30-60 minute videos when the actual facts can be summed up and consumed in 20 seconds.
The Rocket Alignment Problem, Part 2
> Mercury rejects the Desktop Metaphor and App Ecosystems as fundamentally inhumane.

Inhumane is a strange word choice, to say the least. It’s neat to think about the possibilities of future UX, but to suggest the current system is cruel just sounds ridiculous.
Greed is ever present and even the most meditative have to continuously check himself.
Why would the mainstream media waste its and our time covering a whacko fringe movement such as "the Earth is flat" rather than things that actually affect the world or the local community in a real way.

People who think the earth is flat, or we've never landed on the moon, or that the world will end when the Mayan calendar runs out of days, just don't matter and should not be recognized as if they do.
I’m not sure I follow. What about using fire would upset organic vegetable consumers? The fact that a little bit of propane is burned in the process? Plenty of diesel and gasoline is burned by tractors and machinery on any farm, organic included. Adding a little propane to the mix seems like a good trade of to me, if the result is less chemical herbicide.
Did you run a red light?
It is “moral decay” almost by definition. But that’s pointless because it only shifts the question to what led to the “moral decay”.

Usually those crying out “moral decay” do so because they have certain pet theories, but there is no evidence for those pet theories, and more often than not there is enough evidence to disprove their pet theory.
PA. Who has the most expensive turnpike. Closed all tolls.

They implemented a shit mail system that doesn't work.

Then they suddenly had 350 million in unpaid tolls.

Talk about putting a stick in your wheel

So the legislature changed the law - don't pay to play on the quasi private road, and your registration will get suspended

I see a lot more cars with bike racks on 476 now.
I don’t believe the problem can be solved, at least in full, but instead we have to pick our poison. We must either choose the current dystopian solution, or instead criminalize / institutionalize these people against their will.

One hurts the full population. Is the liberal
solution honestly any better for the addicts?
There’s absolutely a transition occurring from a country that is still mostly high trust to one that is low trust.

See: the sizable contingent in SF who believes that open air drug markets and rampant violent crime are simply the price one must pay to live in cities.

It doesn’t have to be this way.
I think it's going to be hard to get people to care about this until you can point to a concrete attack.

Like you said, Google and Bing have running high visibility widely used services that are vulnerable to this problem for awhile now. What attacks have there been in that time?
I found Elon’s reaction interesting when a reporter asked about SpaceX being critical path. It’s almost as if Elon sputtered as he stumbled over his usual false starts to answer - no, we will not be the ones delaying Artemis.
Dan, from a purely realpolitik standpoint, these companies don't even want to be implicated as having control of their own software now. Any attempt to do so would hinder the mission. The question is... is it even their mission anymore? From a certain perspective, they might already be buying up hardware for an AI who is essentially demanding it from them. In that case the takeoff is happening right now. Dismissing basic security protocols should be totally anathema to devs in the 2020s. That's not "moving fast and breaking things"... a slightly paranoid mind could see it as something else.

I think that they (OpenAI, Alphabet) think that the ladder can be climbed by leveraging GPT and LLMs until they have AGI. I think they think whoever gets AGI first takes all the chips off the table and rules the world forever forward. While these endless, idiotic debates happen as to whether GPT is or ever could be "alive" or whatever, they're actively employing it to build the one ring that'll rule them all. And I think the LLM model structure is capable of at least multiplying human intelligence enough to accomplish that over a couple more iterations, if not capable of conceiving the exact problems for itself yet.

There's also no real economic incentive to develop AGI that benefits everyone... Sam Altman's strangely evasive remarks to the contrary. There is every incentive to develop one for dominance. The most powerful extant tool to develop AGI right now is GPT-4.
This is 90% just a marketing campaign.
I'm arguing GP personally dislikes the story despite its merits - it very clearly is related to tech - even though it doesn't need to[0]. Evidently, GP is wrong about it belonging to HN. Flagging a link that doesn't break HN guidelines, only because it offends your sensibilities is abusing flagging rights, IMO.

0. HN links only have to be interesting, to belong. They don't have to be tech-related, despite this being a widely-held belief.
MaxMind, Inc | Remote Canada | Full - Time | https://www.maxmind.com/en/company/working-at-maxmind
MaxMind protects thousands of companies worldwide from fraud, screening over a billion online transactions each year, and we provide IP intelligence data to thousands more.

We are hiring for four roles. You can view the jobs, our hiring process, more about our company culture, benefits, compensation and apply via the below links.

Senior Software Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/maxmind/3952c88d-f96c-469e-a920-600adf...

Senior Web Developer / Software Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/maxmind/5c945d6e-a940-417d-a15e-6060ce...

Site Reliability Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/maxmind/57c9e8e7-a687-4fb9-9770-d992d7...

Software Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/maxmind/946f7adf-869b-43bf-8132-d3a44e...
Hi, I'm Frank.
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes, open to hybrid as well.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Technologies/Skills: Full-stack web development, Node.js, C/C++, Python, React/Angular, NoSQL, SQL, CI/CD, DevOps, SDLC

Email: frank at frankdye.com

Résumé/CV: Available upon request.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/frankdye

Just coming off a successful acquisition where I served as Head of Engineering for a Series A cybersecurity startup. I'm a seasoned software engineer and leader with a strong background in product strategy, implementation, team management, and cybersecurity. I excel at driving software development and shaping architecture to enhance engineering culture, attract top talent, and ensure corporate compliance.

Throughout my career, I've led diverse engineering teams and launched successful products, setting the stage for innovation and impact. I'm excited to bring my expertise to a company that aligns with my passion for driving innovation and creating groundbreaking technology solutions that drive results, with a particular focus on cybersecurity. Let's chat if you're looking for someone who can build, lead, and inspire teams to make a difference.
Except that giant aluminum smelting is going to happen regardless to make drink cans, MacBooks, and Teslas, among other things. Wouldn't you rather it be powered by renewables than coal?
It could be the "broken windows" theory. As more people do it, more people think it's acceptable or just how things are, and so do it themselves, further exacerbating the problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
I am absolutely not a fan of fixed or hidden speed cameras, but red light cameras are legitimately good because you have zero reason or excuse to go through a red or speed through an intersection.