skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Role of Cognitive Load in Automotive UX Design
Maybe they will just fissile out...
If you have open employment at the CIA it is a semi-public record. All of the usual things apply like employment verification and creditors or family courts tracking down paychecks for garnishments. I have no idea what the social media policy is though.
Bot doesn't even have to be at a fixed location.

Once it's digital it can be anywhere and multiple places at once with unlimited connections to unlimited people.

Order from your phone, digital panel in your car, Siri, Alexa, etc. etc.
It could mean that, as in "someone who causes trouble" or it could be a result of a bug which only affects a handful of users who suddenly "have some troubles".
The point of robots.txt is to inform well behaved scrapers about how to behave. It is not designed nor intended to prevent bad actors.

Which is good design: don't pretend to solve problems you can't.
What a creep, glad he's gone.
US developer salaries are not high because their employers want to be nice, they are high because the employees deliver work that makes/saves much more money than they cost. So in fact there is money to give remote devs in Latin America the same high salaries for the same reasons.

If they instead press salaries down, then I guess the solution is for US devs to move to Latin America and reap the increased quality of life. There is really no good reason for the typical young programmer to live in hostile environments like the US or Europe. In the long run the result is that Latin American based business might out-compete North American, since the talent is there and the customers are world-wide.
1. Bloom for existence, re-create via brute-force search (?), checkpoint hash every $N seconds(?)

2. Godbolt => "This rendered text came from these portions of the DAG/tree, press CTRL-Del to irrecoverably remove them from the DAG and/or replace them with 'REDACTED'".

#1 is "simply" related to efficiency. You can lean on probabilistic data structures to see "yeah, probably this was HERE in the history tree", and then perhaps replay the "N" seconds checkpoints with the original input data to validate or match exactly where the hash is/was.

#2 is the same problem GIT has, where you need to rewrite / filter / "detached head" in order to obliterate something from history, and is somewhat a local/remote UI issue. "A request to obliterate history is being built in parallel over here => click here to adopt it, and diff/transfer only your new work to it"

Related to #2 I've had a thought of a social network protocol, and how to "delete malicious nudes" or "oops, I accidentally published my SSN and Tax Filing *.pdf to my friends". On the "real" open internet, google or malicious actors would/could store that info forever. However, in a semi-closed group (eg: 100-1000 "friends of friends") that are "all" running participating/conforming clients, a "request-to-delete" or "request-to-disavow" is particularly valuable.

My imagined protocol is: "post001.txt" => "$GOOD_SHA", "nudes.jpg" => "$WHOOPS_SHA", "taxes.pdf" => "$YIKES_SHA", "bait.txt" => "$BAIT_SHA".

"Of course" everything is content-addressable, ie: anyone can fetch "post001.txt" from anyone as "$GOOD_SHA", however, "it would be nice" if I as a participant in the network could query "how_many( $GOOD_SHA );" and see distribution across the network participants. "disavow( $WHOOPS_SHA, $YIKES_SHA ) && how_many( $WHOOPS_SHA, $YIKES_SHA )" => ie: in a "good" network, after a "disavow(...)" then nodes should not respond with that availability. Occasionally throw in "$BAIT_SHA w/ disavow(...)" and make sure that no one is propagating it.

Similar to "key revocation lists", you could eliminate/reject any clients which do not respect requests of non-propagation for $BAIT_SHA or anything that is "disavow(...)'d". Same story with anyone hosting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_sex_tape ... I don't really want them in my network, so query for particular content, and if they respond, I can nudge/boot/disengage from users that are hosting them (same with eg: "I love my AK-47 and assault rifle" political memes, disengage / dislike / spread apart people sharing/hosting/propagating content that I don't want).

While you're still left with malicious / non-conforming nodes potentially archiving everything for all eternity, there is a relatively immediate ability to fracture / exclude (shun) nodes that are detected as non-conforming, so "your stuff" is still out there, it's just relatively inaccessible, and you have to be "careful" to have your client be up-to-date w.r.t. revocation actions otherwise you'll be excluded from networks.

Meh. Kindof complicated, but those seem to be in the range of characteristics that you're talking about as well.
How long are people in the US going to put up with this insanity? Some we have managed to create an extremely cruel, bureaucratic, expensive and unreliable system that produces below average outcomes compared to other countries at exorbitant cost.
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Not all plans fall under this regulation.
Using reference works in the course of doing your job is not cheating.
Because it's niche and getting people into the theatre is dependent on the marketing budget behind the films themselves, and in particular, the celebrities.

There's too much noise in the world for people to realize that 'Blade Runner' is playing at some random theatre.

What could work are co-markted events, for example, playing 'Blade Runner' leading up to a new release, and, if it's promoted broadly.

Or 'film festival' type things - I'm also certain there's a market for Venice/Cannes/Oscars content even in the theatre chains but it'd require marketing coordination.

Finally - price. It's too expensive relative to the 'almost big screen' we have at home, and the shift to 'Big CGI Only' for theatres is real. This is a whole other problem.
Guess it depends what you mean by technical.

I randomly picked another, "Product fairness testing for developers". It seems to consist of two Googlers reading a codelab out loud. And I mean that literally:

https://youtu.be/RcgBNkX0RjE?t=904

She literally reads out the title, pauses, reads out the subtitle, pauses again, reads out the rest of the document word for word. WTF? Is this person a text-to-speech AI? Why did Google make a video that consists of Googlers doing a TTS-quality video of their own documentation website? I'm a developer, watched many dev oriented tech talks and I've never seen that before.

The bulk of the talk is about how important it is to be ethical and stuff. First time we see code that isn't just a snippet in some docs is at the 22 minute mark in a 34 minute talk. It appears to be little more than running some regexs over some rather incoherent LLM output. The code isn't even explained anywhere, just what it's doing. No dev is going to learn anything from this even if they're at bootcamp level.

The video has got only around 4000 views, which seems about right. I can't imagine anyone watching this and thinking, yes, awesome, let's share it around. BTW the bootcamp level of the code might be because neither of the speakers are developers. One is a product manager, the other is an analyst. Really don't think this is targeted at developers dude despite the title. It definitely wasn't written by one. So that's twice now.
These are simple explanations to a complex topic. I shared the nuance as to why you can be held hostage in a medical emergency in the United States. Please disregard my comment if you're not getting value from it.
Same here (Italy) when going to the cinema was popular, years ago.

You could maybe get some sweets or chips or peanuts or similar (small snacks) but not the giant popcorn or sandwiches/hotdogs/etc., but the general idea was to go out and have (say) a pizza and a beer and later go to the cinema or - more seldom - go to the cinema and later go to the pizzeria or restaurant.

I always thought that the eating and drinking in the cinema was a US only thing, France and Germany (AFAICR) had also none of that years ago, but that maybe has changed.

Curious if in other EU countries it has ever been a thing.
I don’t believe insurers have that kind of “dynamic pricing” where the rate you pay changes depending on who you retain and who you let go.

But my experience is with a large insurer and a school with a hundred or so employees, not something on Microsoft’s scale.
> Code quality is good and the pay should cause concern US developers.

> I look at some of the salaries for similar front-end work in SV/SF and it is so out of line compared to this I don't know what to say. "High cost of living" can be discussed all day, but then companies can just hire someone who isn't in a high cost of living area who can do the same thing. For a lot less.

The devs you hired know about this.

Now, they have experience at an American company on their resume. Making it easier for them to jump ship to these jobs in the Bay Area.
My team and I have been using Raycast for over a year and we have been delighted with the experience. I particularly enjoy the floating notes, window management, and the built-in Store for extensions.

I was also part of the Raycast AI beta, which gives me access to OpenAI's Language Model no matter what application I'm using. I use it to manipulate, generate, and explain text on a daily basis.

For me, the $8/month for Raycast Pro is a great deal. It offers extra features and instant access to OpenAI LLMs, no matter where I'm working on my Mac. I'm hopeful that this will help me incorporate AI into my workflows faster and increase my productivity.

Congratulations to the Raycast Team for this new product offering! Keep up the good work.
Capitalism is a stateless society where individuals are free to associate how they wish. Any problems with this definition?
Show HN: Remove.bg without price gouging: 90-120% quality, 0.1-10% price, PAYGO
Hi HN, we've built yet-another image background removal service ( https://pixian.ai - introductory post 6 months ago [1], a lot has been improved since then) but with a couple of twists:

1. Quantified quality comparison (90-120% of remove.bg, depending on image category), free for you to check your own images so you can make an informed choice.

2. Customer-friendly pricing (PAYGO @ 1-10% of competitors' subscriptions) with a generous free tier (and free while in beta).

3. A novel API result format: Delta PNG [2], which offers excellent latency & bandwidth savings. Especially useful for mobile apps.

4. Operational transparency: actual volume & latency metrics public, with more coming soon (all API providers should be showing this).

Removing the background from images is a surprisingly common image processing task, and AI has made it really easy. The technology has come a long way since segment leader remove.bg launched here on hn in Dec 2018 [3]. Chasing remove.bg's success, a legion of providers have come on the market offering varying levels of quality & service.

Despite there being a large number of competing services, most still price for very high gross margins (~95%?). Furthermore, subscriptions make the effective unit price a lot higher than the list price for infrequent users, and requires effort & attention to ensure you're getting value for money. This has prevented a host of use cases (e.g. infrequent professional / hobbyist) and business models (e.g. ad-supported websites & mobile apps).

We see this as an opportunity where can jump to the market's logical conclusion to gain market share and build goodwill: cost-plus PAYGO pricing, i.e. the "S3 pricing model".

There's of course more to it than just price and we see several sources of differentiation in this market: quality, price, capability, reliability, latency, and goodwill.

As a new entrant we're looking to meet-or-beat the quality bar; beat on price, capability, reliability and latency; and to build up goodwill over time.

Our goal is to make it a no-brainer for new accounts to chose us, and to provide the tools and guidance necessary for existing accounts to make the switch with confidence.

We'd love for you to try it out and to hear your thoughts!

https://pixian.ai

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33439405
[2] https://pixian.ai/api/deltaPng
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697601
There's nothing heroic about the desire for a pay-to-play justice system. He sounds like a man who has never missed a meal.
I don't think that the response should be to lock down the interview process further but rather interview candidates for what the role entails rather than asking arbitrary leetcode questions. The screening process is broken. Make cheating irrelevant.
> or is there another instance where this situation comes up?

Yes, if you are a Byzantine general trying to coordinate an attack, and you aren't sure of your peers' true allegiance.
The first book that we are going to read is "A Philosophy of Software Design", it's a book by John Ousterhout.
Show HN: Create a talking face with AI (requires API keys)
You might've seen those animated talking faces (like the Harry Potter Balenciaga one).

This is a tool for making that a bit easier.

It does require bringing your own API keys for Eleven Labs and D-ID, and you'll need at least the lite ($6/mo plan) with D-ID, I believe you may be able to get a free trial for that.

https://create-a-talking-ai-face.claypascal.repl.co/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2022/10/17/teacher...

Teachers give higher grades to girls than to boys with the same academic ability, according to a study published today in the British Journal of Sociology of Education.
I never said we were one happy family until the Brits came along. Whatever wars we had pre-Colonization was always the internal matter of the Indian subcontinent. It did not involve outsiders who took decisions on our behalf. Even when we fought the Greeks, it still did not end up in Colonization of any kind. Only post the Portuguese, the French and then finally the British did we experience Colonization. And this Colonization was through "trade" not through "wars". It was a gradual process because even the Brits knew they could not fight militarily (Wars not battles/skirmishes) and had to adopt a "Divide and Rule" policy to subjugate India.

Again, sticking to the analogy of a family, there is never a "happy family" anywhere in the World. Every family has its warts. I bet you have plenty of fights within your family. But still you stick together despite the fights. But all it takes is one outsider to undo it all. And that "undoing" cannot be reversed. Colonization is what happens when you let outsiders into your family and take decisions on behalf of your family.

> If anything the Brits were suppressing this conflict which is why it re-emerged literally the very same day they left

The Brits weren't "suppressing this conflict" by any stretch of imagination. They actually were fomenting it even more. It only turned against them in the 1857 First War of Independence when both Hindus and Muslims united. The reason for that is simple. Brits used cow and pig fat to grease gunpowder cartridges which required one to tear it open with his teeth. This insulted both Hindus and Muslims for obvious reasons. That was the trigger for both communities to unite and fight the Brits. But that still did not stop the Brits from exploiting the division based on religious lines.

> The Mughals were taxing non-Muslims just for being infidels in the 1600s and that led to the Maratha empire which then proceeded to conquer parts of the Mughal empire, often inflicting retribution in return.

And that won't stop even now. We still have groups like ISIS, Al-Qaeda etc which still wreck havoc in all parts of the World. I bet your Country is no different either and I am pretty sure your Country has been at the receiving end of Terrorism since you are unwilling to divulge which Country you belong to. Makes it all the more obvious since you are willing to pontificate to Indians about how we should let all enmity be set aside and live like one happy family while not saying anything about your own Country.

> Name your Country and I'll give you at least 3 examples of this.

Asking you again.
The larger company's involvement feels closer to nepotism.

If Helion actually pulls off productive fusion, Microsoft will buy the power regardless. Same with Boom, if their jet really is efficient, United would buy one no matter what because it makes business sense. Signaling like this feels more like a marketing campaign to investors rather than a signal of potential.
I think the most absurd case of this was getting an insurance claim denied for relatively boring treatment. I had some wounds cleaned after an accident. I call and talk to the insurance representative. I am informed that they'll resubmit it and it will be approved. No additional information needed, no evidence, etc. They literally just deny most claims outright because most individuals are not going to call them about it.
Even the State Department warnings are localized to certain areas.

And as a rule, the State Department’s advisories tend to be incredibly conservative. Nobody wants to get hauled in front of Congress because something bad happened to a tourist in an area the State Department said was okay.

People who actually do business in Mexico have access to much more detailed and nuanced security advice.
One of the aspects I find tremendously exciting about Wasm is not just the portability, security, performance, etc. but the fact that you can do this with your language of choice. Lowering the barrier to adoption without hindering some of the advanced use cases tends to work well to get developers onboard ...
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Ask for the cash price at any place and you’ll often have a huge discount.

I was getting a weekly shot. Payed 40 dollar co-pay. Couple hundred billed to insurance. Asked about cash price. $15 dollars.

MRI. I can pay 1500 dollar to vendor and balance to insurance. Or 700 cash.

Insurance is causing prices to be drastically higher than they need to be.
The best thing about us Samsung fans is that we get to give our personal data to both Samsung and Google!
Vast says it will launch its first space station in 2025 on a Falcon 9
And those defaults must be changed. GDPR rightly forces businesses to reconsider hoarding data because it “might be useful sometime in the future”.
I believe agreements like this typically have the power go to the grid. The electricity they consume still comes from the grid wherever their needs are, and the electricity being produced by Helion would go to wherever the grid needs it. They would be paying extra for the production of the energy, and then count it as offsetting their consumption.

I am not totally fond of how that seems to work out, as they are offsetting production elsewhere, and the grid there could already be cleaner than where they are consuming. But perhaps somewhere along the way things like that are accounted for?
Amazing insight, thanks for sharing. I had a micron of an idea how it worked, but of course when you look into a specific process, it's clear it's never as simple as it appears
> to clarify, is that 2hrs daily, or 2hrs 3-4 times a week (i.e. every 2 days, or avg 1hr per day)?

Sorry for being ambiguous. No, I didn't mean 2 hours daily (heavens forbid! :-)), nor was I talking about training time per week[1].

I meant 2 hours as max time in one go—i.e. training for distances of roughly 22-25 KM (13-15 miles) or 2 hours is the sweet spot, I feel (maybe I'm biased). One of the main goals for me here is to reduce the likelihood of getting injured over long-term by not over-training.

[1] FWIW, I did note my rough training plan per week here in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33607869
An issue in C++ is that it only supports atomic changes to the builtin types. For example, you can only CAS a 64-bit value if your largest integer/pointer type is 64-bits.

Good lock free algorithms use double-width instructions like cmpxchg16b which compare 64-bits but swap 128-bits. You can then use the compared 64-bits as a kind of version number to prevent the a-b-a problem.

Using only the built-in atomics is working with a hand tied behind your back. With the wider version, it's trivial to write multi-producer multi-consumer stacks with no limits to the number of objects stored. It's also pretty easy (if you copy the published algorithm) to do the same with queues.
Helion plans to build a factory churning out twenty 50MW reactors per day, capable of producing dispatchable electricity for about $0.01/kWh. If they achieve that then revenue won't be a problem.
Eh, I never had much success with at least corporate whois email addresses even before they started being effectively removed (by registrars masking them, years before GDPR). Even addresses like postmaster@ which are mandated by the SMTP spec (RFC 5321 §4.5.1 and other places) don’t tend to work.
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This is when I wish HN had the ability to inline images. Great shots and sounds like an epic adventure.
Agree, this is why I simply offer a refund option, but not directly opening for everyone. Maybe, I can create a video to show what you will get inside the community, so it will allow people to get a sneak preview.
What about another word for the amount of money that you collected this year and get to use next year? Budget?
Thanks for the additional info. I feel like I need to read up on this some more to make more sense of all the conflicting bits I have accumulated.
> Anecdotally, when I ask people why they got into CS a surprising number now say something along the lines of "because it pays well."

Yeah, I've noticed that too. It's utterly depressing.
I don't really understand how you got there, but sorry to disappoint - my experience was 10+ years ago and they're thriving.
>I suppose that’s a personal design and a trade off that you and others need to make.

And that was effectively my point. The comment I replied to stated their opinion that it is universally bad to make this decision on a personal level. My counter did not say it was universally bad for people who belong to any of those groups to live in a red state. I said many people in those groups would feel that the local government and community are hostile to them. That isn't disproven when some members of those groups, such as yourself, don't feel the same way.

OP was applying how they feel to everyone likely because they don't need to worry about any of these concerns. I was reminding everyone that many people don't feel like they have the choice to ignore politics. And yes, if we want to be pedantic everyone technically does have that choice. We have the personal freedom to live our lives as the "this is fine" dog if we want (not saying that is you in this instance, I'm just speaking generally).
It's not actually contradictory at all when you consider the root of the issue is about power asymmetry between individual creators and the corporations. Copyright terms were lobbied for, and primarily benefit the large corporations. They're symbolic of corporate overreach, that's why they're unpopular.

Meanwhile, now that the laws are inconvenient for them, tech companies are straight up ignoring labeling their training data to respect IP law. Labeling the data would be expensive, thereby eroding profits. The loss of usable data would also harm the efficacy of their models, and the time spent classifying the data will hamper their iteration time.

The ideas are only dissonant if you are looking at the trees (copyright term, DMCA, right to repair, etc.) and not the forest: which is a class struggle between a few thousand billionaires versus the rest of humanity.
> What was once a mix of modest, low-slung ranch-style houses

And when those ranch-style houses were new, architecture snobs were decrying them as as soulless cookie-cutter crap.

Here's a novel idea: if you don't want to live in a "McMansion", don't buy one.