skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then that is a service then which might be safe for people who's opponents are the police. But some people also worry about threats from the obscenely rich, from their own intelligence agencies, from foreign intelligence agencies, from organized crime, and/or from popular mob outrage.

Your experience doesn't indicate the safety of the service against those other threats, and not only may they not be correlated but they may be anti-correlated. E.g. I bet both CIA and mob run VPN services are really good at saying no to the police.

The fundamental thought that drives my opinion on this subject is this:

We already know for a fact that some state actors do broad scale full take surveillance of the internet. VPN services are even more attractive to monitor because the users are somewhat self-selecting as people who have something to hide, more intel bang per megabit monitored. Without surveilling VPNs these entities would have a blindspot in their expensive internet monitoring machine, so its important just for completeness sake. The VPN provider game is also a much lower barrier to entry, smaller players that don't have the power to push around AT&T can get in on it. Russia, for example, isn't in that much of a position to engage in world wide telecom monitoring (except perhaps that one fiber that goes through sibera and has really low latency between europe and china)-- but they sure can stand up some VPNs and get the worlds traffic to come to them.

Plus, if you run a VPN service people will pay you to run their secret data through you. It's a profit center even before you get to the potential revenue streams from abusing your position. Perhaps it becomes so profitable that you'd prefer to protect it and so you minimize your abuse, but the optimal amount of abuse will pretty much never be zero.

So, If you're the head of a clandestine service or serious organized crime group and you haven't launched at least one VPN service you should be immediately fired for grave incompetence.

The best reason to not run one would just be that you've already infiltrated many existing ones through operatives and backdoored hardware.

And also the heat you take running these services is much easier to deal with if you have 'connections' either of the run-by-a-TLA sort or the we-have-blackmail-material-and-can-break-your-fingers sort. And corrupt VPNs have a whole extra potential revenue/benefit source so they can afford to under-price any honest competition.

Given that, we should expect that many VPNs are honeypots. Probably not all of them, but by their very nature it should be hard to impossible to tell which.
Try to borrow without a set of parents who are easily able to cosign the loans and you'll quickly find out the amount is not, in fact, "limitless"...
I expected computer vision (such a description language sounded very interesting). For anyone who hasn't clicked it's CV as in resume.
They peak at ~245kW. Charging from a 150kW charger isn't too bad either, because they can sustain that speed most of the time (unlike cars advertising 150kW max where it is only a peak of the curve, and the average is less).

For road trips charging speed is IMHO even more important than the range. My breaks take 20-25 min typically anyway, but a 45-minute car would keep me waiting.
I don’t know how you think the courts work but your roommates looking at you does not end up convicting anybody. Used as perhaps part of justifying probable cause or convincing people to say enough to do a more thorough search, sure.
I think you are incorrect. If you build a 230-m tall pipe and fill it up with water, the water at the ground-level end of the pipe will be at the exact same pressure as the water 230 m deep in the ocean. Hydrostatic pressure only depends on the depth, not the container shape.
Administrative positions have grown faster than student bodies, from grade school to public universities. Teacher/lecturer wages have not gone up with enrollment increases or administrative overhead. That is where one needs to first look for cost savings.
That’s amazing. This means people can avoid plugging in their EVs overnight and overall be less taxing on the grid. Instead of charging every night, charge once or twice a week.

Bad news. Todays EVs are going straight to the landfill. Yet another hit for the environment. If only there was a more efficient transportation option…
> Having access to opportunity is another

This isn’t what equity means, according to this socioeconomic model. It’s equality of outcomes.
Oh, this might be just what I'm looking for. Thanks!
im pretty sure x is available to all that use it. Im seeing this as opening the door to trademarking letters. f this guy
Cool! Showers are 2gpd minimum, so if you think someone is likely to take a longer shower then you should definitely agree that 82gpd is not "wild", per the post I was replying too. Glad we're in agreement, and thanks for being so polite!
Yes, which we've done, but if I go around talking to people in Seattle about "Geistige Brandstifter" I have exactly one friend who is going to know what I'm talking about because they're German.

Language doesn't really work unless there's broad social buy-in, otherwise you're just talking to yourself.
This article suggests that LLMs should use a database as a reference for factual information. Rather than asking LLMs to provide their own answers, it is recommended that they summarize based on the facts extracted from the database. This approach reduces the likelihood of hallucinations among LLMs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daubechies_wavelet
Sometimes, less is more. This is not as bad of a scam as intrinsically-valued NFTs, but the day I can no longer put an axe through my TV is the day I've failed as a man. I'd sooner buy a TV for any addict in the family or friend group than let them suffer eyes wide open.
I've had a call center job and it sucked. It also paid twice as much as any other job I'd had to that point until I got a job in software.

I couldn't do it, but I can definitely see why it would have a high upside for some.
If you cared about actual efficiency, you'd be skeptical of BEVs today. There's no straightforward of powering them directly with renewable energy. You will need vast amounts of energy storage to make that work. That will not be all that efficient. And that's after you accept the huge upfront cost of the batteries and all the problems they entail.

Meanwhile, no one is looking at compromise solutions. Something like a PHEV or even a plug-in FCEV would solve a lot of these complaints right away. There are ways around these issues even in the real world.

Finally, it's not like 10 years is that long in the car industry. If FCEVs end up matching BEVs in efficiency in 10 years, that's means we're pretty much at the verge of FCEVs taking over.
You're correct on all counts.

EDIT: The rest of my comment below is (as pointed out below by gruez) incorrect. The article did say 'in 2021 dollars' in reference to one set of numbers, and it's reasonable to assume they meant that to apply to all the other numbers in the same paragraph.

It's still surprises me that The Economist would use CPI-adjusted figures, but fail to mention the adjustment. Using CPI-adjusted figures is common, but it's not the default, which is why people often add 'in real terms' or some other qualifier.
That's fine and why the article exists to push back on those businesses.
From the most recent issue of Logic magazine, talking about Charles Babbage: “Babbage’s Difference engines were designed to automate the work of the “least skilled” mathematicians…
Sometimes I’m reminded how remarkable it is that people managed to set up a system of governance in which the rulers can’t do anything they want. An imperfect system, but still worth protecting as it improves.
What's unique for Toyota is that their hybrids are sold like a pancake. Hybrids also uses batteries but it uses far less. Battery supply is the current constraint for xEV. Since they can sell many hybrids for less battery use, I understand that they don't want to "waste" batteries for BEV, but it makes bad reputation for slow BEV transition.

It's the classic innovator's dilemma, but hybrids are also great vehicle for who can't afford BEV for some reason now. Still, I think they should released moderate BEV (like Nissan Aria?) in 2021, even if they ship very limited count.
Never run IDD without also running QD, which enables a state that prevents damage or death, aka. "God Mode".
CT literally exists.
Ah, sorry for misleading.
It’s often more like “this dude is responsible for dozens of things, three of them are really serious, but this one is a really easy conviction”

Same reason why you saw organized crime figures convicted for tax evasion, that wasn’t really the big concern but it got the job done.
"big think" my white fanny.

anyone drive in India? that's what they're describing.
Indeed, but not without tradeoffs, including:

- accepting fewer students (having strict requirements).

- failing students out in early classes (fewer opportunities to retake classes).

- more professionally focused and shorter curriculum.

- less class and subject choices

- the degree commanding significantly less earnings

For whatever reason, the best students seem to end up at a few top European schools (like Oxford) or go to the US.
It's a simple extrapolation of the cost reduction in wind and solar energy. If you have an issue with that, then you are basically denying that wind and solar energy have become very cheap.
$215/year self hosted. Not bad. Thanks for the recommendation.
I'm not sure where I stand in this whole argument, but

> The "job to do" is in the eye of the beholder, not absolute.

It's definitely the case that the less sophisticated the user, the more requirements they can pack into a sentence.
In Israel, where everything is more expensive, desalination costs are ~$0.4 per cubic meter of water
Because I definitely trust the ethics of people who have to be told what things are good/bad... Rather than the ethics of people who spent time thinking about it for themselves...
> By count most of the deplorable material that shows up on platforms is not illegal or tortious.

The court case that inspired S230 was people ranting about a wall street investment firm on a Prodigy message board. Stratton Oakmont sued Prodigy for defamation and won, which was kind of the first big blow to the platform that ultimately sunk Prodigy (a really cool platform at the time, but maybe that's just rose glasses). Later the statements on the message board were pretty much shown to be factual, but the damage was done.

Imagine if dang could be personally liable for the things other people said on this message board. Imagine if Moxie Marlinspike was liable for everything anyone ever sent on Signal. Imagine you had a small blog and didn't check the comments section for a couple of days and got sued for everything you had. Sound like a good future?
It is an interesting new phenomena. I think it dilutes the original purpose of this forum and as a side topic it would be interesting to figure why it's happening more, but maybe its fair to just let things evolve to what people what them to be, even if people that used to come here for technical things mostly might stop frequenting it as much I guess - it takes time to keep hitting the hide button. It's getting like posting political commentary on a recipe site, and I do get that it's not a perfect analogy but hopefully you see what I mean....
"social democrat" - are you sure? the point remains: some services are social goods and should be treated as such, so that "nobody lacks for inability to pay". That's not literally "free" but has the same meaning in practice.
I don't know what you think you're onto but it's giving far too much credit to what is nothing more than another toothless, idiotic utterance of the absolutely depraved American bourgeoise mind mush.
> The thought of sending someone to update a BIOS in a colo facility is just... frightening.

Happens a lot more than you’d think.. and for more than just servers (switch gear, routers, appliances etc..)
Tell you half brained friends who think they can fire their call support staff. Literally no one in the management world has gotten the memo because it is becoming harder to get a problem solved with a human when a google search or reading through docs won't suffice.
Now, if you have a transcript, you'll want our other program. We also provide a program for large-text resumes or business cards.
> that same thing happens in the US and would happen more in the US if we owned the means of manufacture

I doubt that very much.
> CA's population has tripled in 60 years

and so has the tax base and # of teachers. This is a non-issue. Society scales.

> and high school graduation rates have risen signifigantly (which is of course good).

Not necessarily : see my comment below.
Yes, but is either going to save you from building the wrong features?

Paraphrasing Ed Catmull in his book Creativity Inc, the cost of preventing errors is usually much higher than the cost of fixing them.
I think that there's a fairly standard distinction, that doesn't require any consideration of psychological mechanisms. Homosexuality can be practised consensually and nobody else needs to care, because nobody is harmed. Paedophilia can't be practised consensually because children are below the age of consent, and can be harmed.

Hence, paedophilia is classified as a mental illness, but homosexuality no longer is (in most Western countries, at least, I believe).
The fact that an executable needs to explicitly specify the "interpreter", instead of that being something under control of the OS loader, doesn't seem like a good way of doing it; and then the implementation of ldd discussed here just takes it in an even weirder direction.
RV64GC is mentioned here: https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V#Hardware_baseline_and_ABI_cho...
He did contact HN, a premier provider of support. /s
Are you saying that under current law the loans should be forgiven, or that we should have laws under which those loans are forgiven?

I believe it's possible to have loans forgiven if you work in certain industries (like public school teaching) for enough years, but it's not a few years — more like a decade or two.

If you think someone who gets a masters shouldn't have to pay back their loans, I'd counter that such a policy would be a wealth transfer from taxpayers to universities. Masters degrees are almost always a negative ROI endeavor, once opportunity cost is factored in. We shouldn't be subsidizing them even further, which will lead people to get even more of them, given how little they add to future earnings.
Bunch of high level politicians were flying to Epstein’s island raping underage girls. Only person convicted is a woman.

Amazing how there is a protected class of wealthy.
For non-US residents (digital nomads), besides Stripe and PayPal, other payment companies have strict KYC requirements. Most payment companies require local residency and SSN. Why should Stripe be avoided? Is it difficult to pass their underwriting policy?
In my experience they just stop attending, not hit a class they can't pass. There is no standard of achievement required to graduate high school besides participation.
CPI just makes prices from different years comparable. If you want to compare numbers, they need to be comparable.

If you want to weigh in changes in wages, taxes, etc, that can be very relevant, but ignoring inflation is not a good way to do that.
here you go https://khymos.org/2012/01/04/mineral-waters-a-la-carte/
That sounds difficult to use.
Of course you're not "required to monitor", you're just also required not to be "deliberately blind". The combination of these is that you are required to maintain the capability to surveil users upon request (ie, no scary encryption) - and once that capability is in place, the next step is pseudo KYC and SAR functionality.
Anchor Brewing says it's open to buyout from employees to avoid closure
If the callcenter operators thought they were bullshit jobs, they would not be hiring people to work them. Callcenters make money, so on some sense they are not bullshit jobs.

A bullshit job is more of a corporate office job that looks legitimate on the surface but the person does nothing of any value and the job really only exists because some manager didn't want to reduce his number of direct reports.
> Normal English: “You have to mow the lawn”

Death Metal English: “BRING DOWN THE SCYTHE OF GODS UPON THE NECKS OF THE GREEN-RIBBED LEGIONS AND SWEEP AWAY THEIR WRETCHED BODIES; THOU ART IMPLORED BY ME”

I'd listen to an album of that--while mowing!
Yea take a look at Thousand Currents Programme, now called the National Front Work Programme and you will see the villainy that China undertakes at the govts behest.
No worries, I just wanted to see whether you wanted to take a subtle swing at medieval power structures.
Adam, congrats on your book, but please stop spamming this message board with your AI Generated garbage
Weirdly enough approximately 100% of the DEA's budget goes towards restricting the supply side, so this would be quite the realization for them to undertake.
Not true, see https://www.ownit.nyc/
> But this time is in fact different.

Said by people throughout history.
The entire field of Psychometrics is suspect and is a pseudoscience. It came into existence in the early days when ideas from Social Darwinism, Racism and Eugenics were mainstream in the Western world. People ascribed an importance factor to traits which they considered successful in their culture/society/environment and then started making universal and general inferences from it without regard to its validity. These were then codified as tests, published and propagated to the detriment of all.

Today we know better; Humans are highly adaptable and everything only exists in the context of a specific environmental/cultural/social context. Genetics vs. Epigenetics, Nature vs. Nurture, Nutrition, Economic strata etc. are all inputs when it comes to our "fitness" for a particular task. We play "roles" which are context-dependent from which you cannot generalize to the "whole person".

Psychometrics has been called a "Pathological Science" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_science

This article named The Myth of Measurement brings a bunch of research together to show why - https://paulenglert.com/the-myth-of-measurement/
I’ve heard worse to my face and I’ve shrugged it off. And not across countries mind you, in my home country itself.
Why call C++ standard but not C?
I'm expecting the site to be buggy [more than normal] for at least a week after the domain change, as they will keep discovering all kinds of outdated CSP, CORS, certificates, and domain allowlists across their codebase.
Isn't the absolute entire point of AI to remove jobs, I mean why on earth would we create AI otherwise ? It's the other half of the industrial revolution ?
It's weird how the US went from the "fuck it, let's visit the Moon" country to the "electricity stuff is too hard, wah" country. Snap out of it!
I am not sure how the transport layer affects the DNS that is used, but I think you are mistaken. If you require an off-site DNS ad blocking solution compatible with DoH, try NextDNS.
It’s always fun, watching small hawks and falcons, trying to fly off with their kills.

It’s a series of “hops.”

As for nasty small critters, look at pretty much anything in the mustelid (weasel) family. Pound for pound, the nastiest critters on Earth.

Wolverines have been known to hunt caribou.

And, of course, we have the honey badger: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
This hasn't exactly been my experience, Python isn't easier to learn than e.g. Java because of the lack of static typing, it's easier because the language is more expressive.

I actually think there is literally no downside to making typing opt out rather than opt in - beginners benefit from the compiler saying they accidentally swapped two arguments around - how could they not?

I have helped beginners with untyped Python codebases and it's a lot harder to tell what function parameters are supposed to be than in Java or C++, leaving aside any other considerations.
> Not every problem has a quick solution. Many are thorny and include lots of variables and long time spans.

Well-implemented AI ought to eliminate a lot of those long time spans, though. No more escalation or transfers required, no time spent looking things up - you've got a call center agent who isn't accessing the relevant internal systems, they're integrated with them (as well as all other call center agents).
Didn’t know we were beyond the current big threat
Did you join HN just to comment on my comment? That's funny.
different water brands has different taste. there is water that I can drink, and there is water that I can't. you just need to find those that you like. just get 20 different bottles and taste till you find one that is tasteless for you.
1) they cherry pick the timeframe for historical comparison and conclude college has gotten cheaper (a more honest analysis for that period is that it stayed flat). What about 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago? The silence sure is loud.

2) Good for them using inflation-adjusted prices. Too bad incomes haven’t kept up with inflation. If we’re going to discuss “affordability” we probably need to include the income side, hmm?

3) I’d hoped that my initial comment was worded closely enough to the headline for the tongue-in-cheek to be more blatantly obvious. Alas.
The result of that is either that they wouldn't show snippets or that they would pass the cost on to you. And do you think they profit from showing the snippets of results that are not the result you want to click on?
I try to use people's names directly but sometimes I forget and sometimes it just reads weirdly. On HN I'd use "parent", "grandparent", etc. anyways because it's a fun little quirk here. I don't like using "they" to refer to an individual either.
I gave chatGPT4 the "common traits of Death Metal English" and then asked it to translate "Commuting to work" into death metal English. The response:

In the parlance of Death Metal English, "Commuting to work" might be translated as "Transversing the Dreaded Pathway to the Monolith of Enslavement."

That's pretty metal...
> that both are ok right up until the tipping point where they very much aren't.

I think this part is right, and that Nassim Taleb has correct take on it - you can never predict ahead of time when that tipping point will occur, you can only fortify yourself against the possibility (become less fragile to it).

But people tend to make the mistake of looking back at past tipping points that caused systemic harm and arguing they were foreseeable based on what we know now after it occurred, not what we knew and perceived then before it occurred. Any analysis or consideration of pending systemic risk must take steps to avoid this mistake.
Ah, thanks for that! I wonder how they plan to support future extensions like RV64GCV which seems to be gaining traction…
From the virtualbox forum:

>Something is amiss. It's been reported, should be fixed soon. Meanwhile user "marmel" has noticed that the downloads are still available on https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=538844#p538844
he paid billions just to destroy the liberal social network. what a loser
Given Seniors are habituated to TV watching, I can see a cottage industry of hand crocheted Doilies,

much like the Doilies used to cover the flashing unset clocks in VCR's;)

Also the inbuilt Camera is mentioned, but no information on the inbuilt Microphone?
Yea… my opinion on this is that startups are attempting to force a market for chat bots, instead of accepting that LLM embeddings are best utilized as a search feature, not new product surface area