skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would punch a dolphin for an old-school taco bell chili-cheese burrito.

They bring back A chili-cheese burrito every once in a while and I don't know what they think they are doing but it's not the same, the taste is different, the quality is bad even for Taco Bell, and whoever keeps doing it the wrong way should be fired.

Preferably by a cannon.

Into the sun.
The civil war was an existential threat.

Im also curious what existential threat in say the UK shapes peoples world views today? And more specifically How it crushes optimism?
The author, with remarkable transparency, dismisses out-of-hand the idea that people ought to be free by default, treating the idea as a fringe libertarian belief, rather than one of the key foundational philosophies of the United States.

Basically, his argument boils down to "Cannabis legalization didn't have as positive an impact as promised, so it should be made illegal again". Before aggressively cherry picking sources to back his point, he even complains about the portrayal of his (minority) opinion as being held exclusively by stodgy, stuck-up old men, before going on a stodgy, old-man rant about kids these days.
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This has been done for a decade. If you regularly drive between San Diego and Seattle, say, you will eventually get pulled over for some made up infraction(i.e. parallel construction) because the DEA has informed the local/state police that you're likely a drug mule.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0127/US-car-spyin...
Show HN: Tracking Smoking Temperatures with Grillbot [video]
It is question of motivation. Motivation uses logical forebrain, best way is to take thinking out of equation.

- marshmallow test is invalid, if kids do not trust adult. It would not work on kids from rough neighbourhood, who would get second marshmallow stollen. Single marshmallow is logical choice in this case. Apply that on savings and inflation...

- if phone alarm does not wake you up, use lamp with timer. 10000 lumens works pretty well...

- phone doom scrolling can be avoided by switching phone into black and white, or inverting colors... Or disable java script everywhere... Or use very very slow proxy server...

Key is not to think about it. The moment you have to switch on your brain, to convince yourself, is the moment you lost!
I'm pretty sure the Firefox data is E2E encrypted. As in "If you forget your password, your data is gone."
Great question. I'm not aware of any concrete reasons, but I suppose issues relating to these sorts of points:

- despite the sky being generally less constrained than ground delivery there are challenging obstructions, which are potentially far more risky than for ground travel: nudge past many ground obstructions you'd be okay, do the same in the sky, your drone is toast

- liability is far greater in the sky if your drone carrying something comes down in an uncontrolled manner (on someone or something)

- obstructions are likely to be high at the very points people are willing to come meet the drone (antennas, overhead power lines, washing lines, nets, etc) and they're often hard to spot

- unattended drop off is harder for drones in the places where customers are most dense (ie cities) upping the complexity further

- potential regulatory issues (but I understand below certain heights it's generally not regulated in many countries)

- bad PR from noisy drones!

- risks from non customers interfering

- challenges with carrying what you're dropping off: if it's heavy you need bigger drones; if it's light you'd be tying up a drone with something small, unless you can figure how to drop off multiple items, or you have a mixture of drone sizes

They all seem like they could plausibly be solved but I'm no drone engineer!

Maybe it could get going with targeting particular items that are strongly appealing to customers and might narrow the complexities due to being more uniform than a random Amazon basket. I believe an early use in Bhutan was for medical deliveries. Maybe something premium like ice-cream or cocktails might appeal with the right marketing?!
Interesting that it's using a module from uBlox instead of an ESP directly
Some of the best advice I've heard from alcoholics who got sober is: if you can have two drinks and then stop, you don't have a drinking problem. Similarly for self-control: if you have enough patience to read this comment, you don't have a self-control problem. Don't get sober for fun, it's no fun.
Stopping people due to AI reports and having dogs smell them is kind of the problem everyone is concerned about.
No, it's not accurate that tinting laws are exclusively for driver safety.
Jeff Bezos, 2013: "There's no reason they can't be effectively used as delivery vehicles"

"It can't be before 2015, because that's the earliest that we can get the rules from the FAA. But it could be 4 or 5 years."

- 10 mile radius from Amazon FC

- half hour delivery

- Objects up to 5 lbs, which is 86% of items Amazon delivered at that time

Said the biggest problems were redundancy, reliability, and safety

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/amazon-ceo-unveils-drone-deliv...
I must have randomly selected the 5 least suitable parking garages downtown then.

I was happy to burn gas for another few minutes to find one that… I could actually pay for… but the consensus of my passengers was to just go home.

This was at 4pm on a Saturday though, maybe you need to get parked before noon or something.
I only mean with respect to the coordinates we use to talk about the world. It is tempting to believe you can give an objective description of the state of the universe using a 4d vector space but this isn't true - the universe fundamentally has less structure than a vector space description suggests. And in GR it has structure which the vector space simply cannot capture.
The annoying thing is when the flight crews black them out for everybody with a single central switch and you have a 14+ hour flight with the lights off and windows disabled and can't even get a dimmed view outside. Great for the flight attendants who cut down on workload by trying to get all the passengers to sleep the entire flight.
It might be dumb, but it locks you out in O(1).
For reasons I can't articulate I see LLMs as a vehicle for removing the creators from their ideas. This is very different than search engines. If a search engine generates traffic for documented ideas it creates a community. An LLM based internet seems to remove the creator and shim itself in between for the sake of business.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230717202207if_/https://twitte...
This is about exercising self-discipline, not calming yourself down?
Marijuana does not cause death. Pretty disingenuous of you to slot in numbers for tobacco smoking. It's also disingenuous to act as though the assertion that marijuana should be legalized because it is a relatively benign compound necessarily entails that other substances whose effects on the user are drastically different--and well-known to be so--must or should also be legalized.
Another unintentional benefit to clinging to Google Voice for dear life... Though I don't use WhatsApp.
Maybe like this, with HTTPie?

http --check-status GET localhost/health && https GET example.peeng.sh

The point being that your internal healthcheck endpoint isnt exposed publicly.

https://httpie.io/docs/cli
Please follow the site guidelines. I removed the rate limit from your account on the assumption of good faith (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36719915) and don't want to revert that, but if you keep posting like this we'll end up having to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Give me dedicated buttons for clicking, including middle click. God I miss the old Lenovo trackpads.
Coroutines are one thing that i'd probably prefer language support for rather than a library.

x := co func(){
var z int
for {
z++
yield z
}
}

y := x()

for y := range x {
...
}

or something to that effect. It's cool that it can be done at all in pure go, and I can see the appeal of having a standard library package for it with an optimized runtime instead of complecting the language specification. After all, if it's possible to do in pure go, then other implementations can be quickly bootstrapped.

My $0.02, as someone that uses go at $work daily: I'd be happy to have either, but I'd prefer it baked into the language. Go's concurrency primitives have always been a strength, just lean into it.
Make that two of us!

And OpenBSD support too, while at it. (Maybe just release the source code for the native blob.)
The password management was reincorporated into the Firefox app, and you can tell iOS to use Firefox as your password manager. See bottom of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-...
You can still buy battery-powered angle grinders for $130 at your local hardware store with cash.

All of these fancy AI systems rely on the sensors on the ground in your community (aka those solar panel + webcam pole combos randomly scattered about). It would take some teenagers on bikes one weekend to cripple a municipal minority report network. Sensors on major roadways are more difficult to tamper with, but not a whole lot of our land is a major roadway so that's not a huge deal.

Some even argue all of our modern infrastructure will fail on its own despite our best efforts. Complexity is a hell of a thing. A tiny bit of brute force applied might be all it takes in the end.
So I guess your point is you can buy just as much square footage in the city, provided an unlimited budget.

Nice to live in a world where a $2M house is a normal home price. I definitely don't live anywhere near that. So for me to live in that kind of an area, I'd probably need...a much smaller house and probably a shared wall.
I used to give Apple the ole' eye roll for that as well. Then I realised, as I got a MacBook myself and dove into running Machine Learning models on it, the RAM setup is pretty unique.

Essentially, the RAM is so close to the CPU and GPU that it can effectively be used as VRAM, at least for the M1 and up chipsets as far as I'm aware. That means a 32GB RAM MacBook would be able to run incredibly large (e.g. LLM) networks on-device. Nvidia GPUs with that much VRAM (although they are clearly better at GPU tasks) can cost as much as an expensive MacBook already.
If I had to pick one thing, I'd say distracting projects at Mozilla. I say this as an outside observer without much to base it on other than the products and announcements I read about.

Don't get me wrong I love the niche work that gets done on the side. What I don't think is a good idea is trying to do more than one big thing at a time, e.g. Firefox OS phone. As I say this it seems to have made its way as TV firmware, so maybe not a waste.
A GPT-4 Capability Forecasting Challenge
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35894079
> and localised voice

Do you expect everyone to speak English? Localization would be critically important, and with a global supply chain, having one SKU for each language would cause you to get laughed out of a room if proposed.
There are still pretty serious technical and engineering hurdles to overcome to make this kind of idea feasible. It was always hype without substance. But even assuming these challenges were overcome, which is inevitable eventually even if it's a century from now, I get the feeling this would largely end up getting banned in many places. I think regular people hanging out in their backyards and going for walks in the neighborhood would feel a vague persistent menace if there were constantly drones zipping around overhead. Think about the fact that you can load up a delivery truck with hundreds of packages at a time. Drones don't have that kind of cargo capacity. The fleet would need to be massive to replace truck deliveries. The sky would be full of them.
I think there is a fairly reasonable argument to be made that they are distracting because there are more pressing practical problems facing society, such as climate change, national security concerns, etc.
A model in which journalism is funded by powerful foreign firms and the government? How can journalists speak truth to power if there's a risk (perceived or actual) that doing so would bite the hand that feeds?

If there's anyone who should /not/ be funding the press, it's these two groups. People just need to be convinced to actually pay for journalism.
> are not normally a concern

Seems like a squirrely way of saying that it might be dangerous, but nobody has been inclined to check.
I'm sure you're not the only one, but in a tiny, tiny minority. Using the phone number as the identifier was pretty much the main selling point of Whats App.
This precedent is nice. I'd prefer less blacked-out windows on the road. I often wonder why a person wants to be so obscured. Around me, the worst contenders are the lifted G-Wagons with basically black mirrors for windows. What are they hiding from?
I saw a demo recently where they had a drone flying high and it zip-lined a package down to the destination directly below it, so the drone never had to get close to the ground. I’m not sure if that’s current strategy but it seems like a cool idea to cut down on noise and proximity issues.
Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We eventually have to ban accounts that keep doing so, and we've had to warn you multiple times already (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35558518).

Your comment would be fine without that first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I had a (in hindsight) hilarious issue with this at one point.

I have a big GPU. Big GPU makes noise. That noise goes through the PCIe connector and into the motherboard. It then made it to the ethernet port. It went through my ethernet port to my ethernet switch, which then made it to the Raspberry Pi I was using for streaming, which went into my DAC, AMP and finally speakers.

It was because I was using shielded twisted pair, which connects the ground plane.

Power isolation is an insidious problem!
I generated a “hide my email” forwarding address specifically for my HN profile last weekend.

Not via a chrome extension, but it’s pretty easy to generate one on any Mac (maybe even iOS?) in system settings. You can name the forwarding address to have different ones for different uses

Edit: re-read your comment and sounds like you’re already doing this manually, like me. I agree it’s a hassle and would love to see a more native UX that doesn’t involve opening system settings
T-series Lenovo thinkpads. They perfectly fit the bill here, and have for years.
Ok. I'm a bit concerned that the ways the pendulum has historically swung back are more or less closed off because of all the ratchets in place now. You'd have to upset a very large number of applecarts to get to the point where you can reverse the swing because with these tools it is now possible to identify the agents that would cause the swing to reverse. Breaking that is very tough, essentially once power is entrenched to that level it is unassailable. The DDR comes to mind, they had an iron grip on the populace and if they had access to today's tools I have no idea how any kind of dissident could even begin to get a movement off the ground before being identified and hauled off. The same for the various underground movements during WWII, they wouldn't have stood a chance.

China may well get there first, (if they aren't there yet) and we'll get to see how doable this is, I really fear the worst.
It’ll swing, I worry about how violently it’ll swing.
The Fasces: Ancient Rome’s Most Dangerous Political Symbol
In Soviet Russia, police chase your car and has to stop traffic to get you.

In Capitalist America, traffic stop AI chase your car and has police get you.

... hmm, not quite there :-\
An actual Espressif ESP32, or the Arduino Feather variant if you want QUIK connectors for most sensors (if you can’t solder etc, or want to use plugs to make it serviceable).

Both are cheaper than this yet are the same thing.
Seems expensive compared to the nearly identical Pi Pico W.
I have a similar problem. I have a half dozen different people sending their emails to my gmail account. One of them is a woman who signed up my address for her health care provider, and they're quite liberal with what kind of detail they're willing to put in an email. I tracked her down on Facebook and mentioned it to her, and she seemed to get that it was a problem she might want to solve, but to this day I still get all those emails.

In retrospect I should have chosen g6adfs789zg2@gmail.com or something.
You might get the most fun for your buck with an ESP32 Cam or EYE. ESP32 Cam boards go for about $7-9 on Amazon if you buy 2-3 at the same time. They don't have built-in USB, so you have to use an FTDI or other UART adapter to flash programs to it (at least the first time, you can set it up for OTA updates afterward). The more expensive ESPEYE has USB built in and a more powerful processor. The Seeed Studio ESP32 units also look interesting.

Here is a tutorial about how to use TinyML to perform image detection on the device: https://dronebotworkshop.com/esp32-object-detect/
Even if a technology is _nearly_ as cheap, a company selling them might be willing to eat the initial higher prices and make a loss for a time until the learning curve puts them at a bigger advantage.

The examples I was thinking of with this particular metric were Ambris liquid metal cells: https://ambri.com/solution/ and iron-air batteries: https://formenergy.com/technology/battery-technology/

Both of these technologies have additional advantages on top of cost that I didn't bother going into: namely they degrade less with use and both have no risk of thermal runaway.
The statute is written in terms of visible light transmittance, so this ruling isn't going to help people with dark tinted windows.
It’s more geared for Apple users. I for one am really happy!!
In 2017 I led a (painful) project to migrate from RHEL5 to Ubuntu 16. Since then, it has been pretty easy to go to 18 then 20, soon 22. The previous migration was in 2010 and was from RedHat 6 (not RHEL) to RHEL5. These projects were for projects that are "ghost deprecated" in that not much time is spent in talking about them but they are critically important to the business, as profit centers and cost drivers, but not the new flashy stuff. So we saved $10s of millions of dollars in hardware savings mostly due to the improved schedulers in 4.0.x series of kernels compared to 2.6.28 kernel. The same image became the basis of the containerized version that was rolled out a bit later.
Interesting, so we chuck in exabytes and more of data generated each day and then what?
you don't need to trust Firefox, it's open source software, and your user data is encrypted, they don't have anything to hand out.

In 50 years they really need to do a case study on what on earth Apple poured into the drinking water to provoke these kind of comparisons.
depends on how much you believe apple marketing. but you're right, theyre all advertising companies anyway
It would be interesting to redo the calculation based on the weight change in electronic storage media when data is written versus being zeroed out:

https://langa.com/index.php/2019/08/29/yes-your-hdds-and-ssd...
> People are of course entitled to show their opposition to policies peacefully and lawfully

The law was and is violently imposed on people in an escalating fashion usually by the police but sometimes by the security services, there is no evidence anyone has agreed to the law, there is no contract that anyone has signed, its not even taught in schools. And the useful idiots most notably Americans keep espousing they live a life of freedom...

The law is a con trick by people who can organise themselves, so politicians like Theresa May argue about the spirit of the law, just what is she pontificating? These blade runners are following the spirit of the law, they are taking a leaf out of the law abiding book, by taking matters into their own hands like Peelers did centuries ago, and maybe might resort to violence if they choose to organise themselves more, perhaps even with uniforms that might include a high vis jacket and sign written van to subconsciously command obedience to authority from unsuspecting members of the public who have psychology resigned themselves to the warfare called law imposed on people, who know what is what but dont know what is what, they just strut.
What's the alternative, each news event is first to publish exclusivity regardless of quality? No synthesizing multiple stories into a linked narrative?
It is as bad in medicine, if not worse. Recently a very influential paper about alzheimer was pulled[1] because of almost everything you said, but for biology instead: data fabrication, overestimating numbers, etc.

There's also a case related with cloning (which includes stem cell research) and massive fraud in South Korea 20 or so years ago.[2]

It's a complicated matter: research is a beacon of light on top of a mountain of failed experiments. And not even the government will fund a mountain of failures if your shining discovery at the end can't bring returns to society (or shareholders) in greater value than what you took.

And the pharmaceutical industry never settled for small results. And, unlike ML, it's much harder to test things as an outsider (you can hate the hype, but openAI, hugging face and all these "open" language models makes it much easier to learn, test, tweak and improve things without a master's degree in data engineering.).

It's a grimy area to research even as a pastime. There's a lot of recorded practices both in research and production that makes you question how low can a person go for money

1: https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...

2: https://youtu.be/ett_8wLJ87U
This is the biggest thing that scares me as a manager. KISS protocol rules.
Sorry for the late reply. I've never heard of the Al Roth book, but seems interesting. I'll check it out. I mostly became familiar with Mechanism Design when I took the first year microeconomics sequence in graduate school (basically one of the few departments this stuff is covered academically is in Economics). So my best reference that I can vouch for is, unfortunately, probably this: https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/microeconomic-theory-978...

There's also Matthew Jackson's book which might be better. I've read his class notes for other topics and I think he does a good job explaining: https://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/mechtheo.pdf
Recent and related:

Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic – and the end of an era - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36760469 - July 2023 (74 comments)

Studio Ghibli to release Miyazaki’s final film with no trailers or promotion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36314647 - June 2023 (12 comments)
I’m going to say that people buying this product from Arduino for ostensibly using with the Arduino IDE is not going to care much about using a pre-RISC-V chip.
It should be noted that “神” can probably better be translated as “spirit” in many contexts, and denotes a wide variety of supernatural beings, which actually makes “spirited away” an interesting choice.
i blame the marketing. i dont want to talk about the historically unencrypted backups nulling so much of what people thought from the ads, it might awaken sneak
I seen some drones in Africa delivering small packages into remote villages, mostly medication. It is small RC airplane (not quad copter), dropping parashutes on an airfield. It replaced much bigger Cesnas.

And drone delivery is quite successful at Ukraine...
The issue there is that the battery tech to support long distance delivery drones does not exist yet.
Geometric models – minimal surfaces as soap films
Would this not lead back to "losing your phone = can't log in anymore = buy a yubikey"?