skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Inflation means there’s too much money in the system

No, inflation just means the prices for goods and services have increased. It can be caused by all kinds of things. Fluctuations in supply and demand are common drivers. In this case, it's largely the result of greed and price gouging. In 2021 supply was so much higher than demand that companies started to panic about the lack of available warehouse space!

There's absolutely too much money somewhere, but it's not in the hands of the average American. Household debt has been hitting record highs every year since the pandemic started while consumers struggle to meet their needs amidst soaring prices. The American people are seeing a decline in their standard of living as wages fail to keep up with price increases. Homelessness is rising. Utility disconnections are up. Americans are putting off healthcare because of inflation. Companies raising their prices are making money hand over fist and pulling in record profits year after year. It's easy to see where the problem is. Sadly you're right that they'd rather keep taking from those least able to afford it.
I’ve ordered the sand cord on three separate occasions with no issues. It’s easy to verify that they are real.
> Then browser vendors closed a number of 'security loopholes' and TW stopped working as intended.

Pardon me, but what are you talking about?

I built my ADHD wiki site on TiddlyWiki. Never knew it was not working as intended:

https://romankogan.net/adhd

TiddlyWiki is great for the reasons you mentioned.
It wasnt their account. He had his own chargepoint account. But because its a public charge station, it shows history and its current use status. She was the only one that charged at work consistently at that charger, and had a more rare bolt instead of a tesla so her charge history was showing on a public charger.

It's 'technically' anonymous, unless you have a clue about who has what car and where they charge.
Everyone I know uses the Trojan-gfw protocol. Very reliable
The transformation of OpenStreetMap features into the basemap is open source and available under a permissive license now at http://github.com/protomaps/basemaps

This is the focus of most development for the next few months - like you said, it's also a matter of aesthetics and context, like if the map is underlying another PMTiles data layer it should be lower contrast then if it's overlaid with pin markers. The end goal is to have a flexible basemap solution adaptable to most apps but you are free to roll your own proprietary style on top of the open source tiles if you'd like (there are already companies doing this)
It's often said porn drives technology.

I clicked through the links in the article, since they sounded technically interesting. They led to AI-generated porn. Those, in turn, led to pages about training SD to generate porn. Now, two disclaimers:

1) I am not interested in AI-generating porn

2) I haven't followed SD in maybe 6-9 months

With those out-of-the-way, the out-of-the-box tools for fine-tuning SD are impressive, well beyond anything I've seen in the non-porn space, and the progress seems to be entirely driven by the anime porn community:

https://aituts.com/stable-diffusion-lora

10 images is enough to fine-tune. 30-150 is preferred. This takes 15-240 minutes, depending on GPU. I do occasionally use SD for work. If this works for images other than naked and cartoon women, and for normal business graphics, this may dramatically increase the utility of SD in my workflows (at least if I get around to setting it up).

I want my images to have a consistent style. If I'm making icons, I'd like to fine-tune on my baseline icon set. If I'm making slides for a deck, I'd like those to have a consistent color scheme and visual language. Now I can.

Thanks creepy porn dudes!

The other piece: Anyone trying to keep the cat in the bag? It's too late.
Having grown up one generation previous, in the era of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” etc. there used to be a real sense of hope and optimism that we would collectively be able to put the work in to solve the issue before it became untenable. A generation later this optimism is much less common because the evidence has mounted that we are not capable of making the changes necessary.
I remember when curbside recycling was implemented in the mid 80's in the San Jose area. 3 plastic recycling stacking crates: yellow, lime, and green colored.

Recycling was, and is, a scam by the plastics industry to encourage consumption and shift the responsibility from producers and the waste stream onto consumers.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/plastics-industry...
AOC was there and did ask a question that provided the only name of a possibly involved department.

If anyone's reading this, I would recommend watching the hearings. It was very serious for everyone, on both sides of the aisle. The partisanship was left at the door, and the allegations were serious.

People probably don't believe the whistleblower, I understand. Regardless, accusations of serious government fraud from someone of his tenure should be investigated. You don't give up your whole career over a possibility of fraud or more.
With a few tries, yes. Probably will be even better with negative embedding.
Porn is legal and they still blackball it. Legalisation won't help this particular problem. The problem is having a cartel/duopoly for digital payment processing.
Yah, there are lots of good reasons to be grateful for USB (especially before the fiasco that is type C).

I'm just bitter and resentful about being forced to pay thousands of dollars for an artificially scarce number.
https://www.elastic.co/what-is/vector-search
There is actually still a barrier both militarily and commercially until. The military still has mostly no formal structure for UAP reporting. AARO is working to set that up but only has a portion of the Naval Air Force set up and not any other branch. Commercially, there is nothing. I believe congressmen are writing a law that requires the reporting of UAP by commercial airliners but that won't go into effect until at least mid next year. So while pilots may have this data, they don't have a formal way to report it other than showing it to a buddy.

I hope this gets resolved soon, but I also hope this data doesn't become immediately classified.
Yep. Easier to publish, assuming it exist and you can find it.
Positively affirming rights are passed, and often passed regularly. But remember we monkey brains are drawn towards the negative. Positive news doesn't make it on the news that often, and even when they are, we forget them way faster than negative news.

Within the fairly recent times, people of certain races could marry. People of certain sexes could marry. Sweeping minimal standards for healthcare have been passed. If you go to the state level, Minnesota for example has been crushing it by guaranteeing abortion access, fertility treatment access, family planning, 12 weeks off for the birth of a child, universal school lunch, legalizing weed, etc.
Or more simply, cop car detectors that publicly share where all police are in a vicinity based on camera footage. Just need some enterprising anarchists to let us leverage their ring footage. Can even do it real time!
If I could pay rent and feed myself regardless, I would design this out of spite.
Legal tender for all debts public and private.
Constitutionally only states should really have the power to regulate substances. That the federal government does so is largely an overreach.
That was specifically my point. You can't quantify any value gain of good journalism. Hiring a 10% better writer doesn't earn you 10% more money. I quoted the revenue per employee numbers because they highlight the fact that hiring another engineer to build better click bait farms will earn you more than hiring another writer.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate good journalism. 90% of the world does not and they just want to be spoon fed garbage at a faster rate. Look at the most popular shows on TV for example, they aren't National Geographic documentaries, but instead trashy reality television.
I for sure generated hands better than they showed :)
`man` is "a documentation". It turns out there's more than one type of documentation, but lots of man-page writers didn't get the memo.
Looks fragile.
There's no a priori reason conservation of momentum would apply; for that matter in 0-angle-of-attack aviation it doesn't.

Maybe to put it differently, the "Newtonian" model of flight comes out of assuming CoM applies, which we know isn't universally true.

EDITING: of course it always "applies" in the sense that there is a definable system in which total momentum will be unchanged, the point being that there is no guarantee that's a system in which the plane gets lift greater than its weight
> Oh please, certain people is parents and I don't care what their views are, they are parents

No one is saying that parents shouldn’t be allowed to let innocent little Johny see two men holding hands because they are afraid it might turn him gay. The issue is giving government that power.

> And btw, I said the FTC regulates the tools, so why is the FTC allowing stuff you disagree with here?

The FTC regulates content categorization for filtering software on the internet???
Were credit cards accepted as ID? Arguably, neither are an identification method; they’re payment cards!
but not above 400 feet.
Excitement? Congress is now a needy manager who needs to be told they are doing a good job?

Also, Wikipedia has to say this about the vote[0]:

> Following debate on the House floor on December 3, a vote was scheduled for December 4,[17] when the bill passed with a 228–164 majority, mostly along party lines, marking the first time a chamber of Congress approved legislation to end federal marijuana prohibition.[18] 222 Democrats voted for the bill, while Cheri Bustos, Henry Cuellar, Conor Lamb, Dan Lipinski, Chris Pappas, and Collin Peterson were the six Democrats voting against.[19] 158 Republicans voted against the bill, while Matt Gaetz, Brian Mast, Tom McClintock, Denver Riggleman, and Don Young were the five Republicans voting in favor.[20] The sole Libertarian in the House, Justin Amash, also voted for the bill.[19]

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Opportunity_Reinvest...
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=130pounds+%2F+%281.7g%2... 0.00008mm ~= 0.000003 inches
Debit is problematic at gas stations and some stores that prompt you to select debit or credit and then lock you out if you select debit.

You don't see MasterCard threatening to cut off credit payments here. That's unequal treatment. If their issue is really with federal compliance they should cut off all payment processing. What they really want is the sweet merchant fees they lose out on when debit payment is used.
As the article and above comment allude, the states do not currently have enough authority for legalization at the state level to be meaningful in many contexts. Until the federal level restrictions are removed it doesn't matter if 100% of states legalize it for recreational use, many of the problems still exist.
Another earnest attempt to contact that was broadcast on Earth radio in 1976.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8&t=6s

God I miss her, taken so young.
So which corporation is controlling my ability to create a website and put my own content on it as long as it isn’t illegal?
Recycling is a meme created by corporations that benefit from filling the planet with junk. That little numbered recycling triangle on every plastic bottle - public relations stunt.
They even made a TV advert featuring an Italian actor as American Indian shedding a tear.

Decades ago glass bottles used to be taken back to the factory, washed and reused. These days every package is a unique shape because of marketing ensuring each package is incompatible with other brands. We need a shipping container (docker) concept for packaging. Consumers are not going to solve this problem as we're easily tricked by greenwashing produced by PR and marketing teams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g
> Currently we have corporations with total power to control content.

But see, this is exactly what I'm talking about above:

"The corporations control everything we post."

"Are you going to take away their power?"

"We're going to give them everybody's drivers license and then spy on teenagers. That will help, somehow."

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Even when you're outright stating the problem as "the companies are too big and have too much power and rival governments in their abilities to control discourse" you're still not jumping to antitrust, you're still jumping towards just giving the government power over speech. But what could possibly be a more straightforward and direct solution to "this company has too much power" than breaking up the company and just making it less powerful?

Just as a general reminder, nobody on HN owes these companies anything. We're not obligated to protect Meta's ability to own Instagram, Threads, Facebook, and a VR platform all at the same time. We're certainly not obligated to throw teenagers under the bus before we throw Facebook under the bus.

But hey, don't like antitrust? Weird, but OK that's fine. If you're extremely worried about Facebook controlling public squares online and you also don't want to break up the company, there are data-portability bills and account-migration bills and API-access bills and privacy bills that we could pass to help fix that problem and what's cool about those bills is that they don't likely violate the 1st Amendment and they don't open the doors up for the government to engage in viewpoint discrimination against marginalized groups.
Plastic recycling was campaigned hardest for by big oil. It’s greenwashing and it focused people’s attention on nitpicking their neighbors rather than the actual big pollution sources.
i am really just a beginner with smalltalk and CL. as a vim user i didn't really have a good integration of the CL repl with the editor (there were tools, but they weren't as straightforward to set up as slime would have been). and when i encountered the breakloop i didn't really know what do to and just tried to get out of it as quickly as i could. (exiting vim is easier ;-)
the thing that bothered me was that when i change code in the repl without an integrated editor, then how do i keep track of the changes and make sure i don't loose them? but then, i just never tried to set up a proper environment.

in smalltalk on the other hand you get a nice IDE with all the comforts of a GUI. you have your windows where you browse your code neatly structured in classes and methods. there is a window where you run your app and manage your tests which light up red or green if they fail or pass, another which logs error or other print messages, and if an error happens while an app is running a new window pops up, showing you a trace of what was running and a text field with the code that failed, like in a debugger, and right there you can edit the code and resume.

the code is written to your class, and when you go back to your code browser the change is reflected there, and you can commit it to a version control system. pharo btw has pretty good integration with git, and already a few years ago it almost acted like a git gui. it's probably even better now. the primary downside is that the text editor in pharo is simple, like a browser text area, and not a sophisticated editor like emacs or vim.
It probably didn't help that a bunch of key Lisp people were leaning hard into proprietary $80,000 minicomputers right around the time that commodity(ish) microcomputers were about to massively explode in popularity.
yeah, but if it wasn't assigned reading for History and African-American Studies classes, who'd be reading it?

I read Pilgrim's Progress in high school, too. That doesn't mean it's a popular book.
Reminds me of this device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phPp5oYnps0
They made a synthetic a priori prediction proven by experiment. In science, that's the strongest type of claim.
It’s okay, I meant what I said. You sound like you have some sort of medical background and I appreciate any attention to his story.

His wife is also a medical doctor. He’s had the best care possible. It sadly was not enough.
That amendment only covers medical usage, not recreational. And it only applies to the justice department’s enforcement of the laws, doesn’t actually change the law. Federal banking regulators are unaffected, for example.
The first is already possible today! Using "ContextProviders", you can specify external resources to use as context. For example, we have a GitHub Issues ContextProvider that lets you type '@issue' and then search through open issues in your repo. We haven't yet built a ContextProvider for web pages, but this is a great idea. Theoretically, just type '@<URL>', then the LLM will know about the page.

The second sounds quite interesting. I'm curious whether you envision as far as the language model stepping through a program on its own? We had considered working on this at one point in time.
> I truly believe that all UFO sightings have been terrestrial technology tests or atmospheric events.

This is basically the only available truth (if you add in people hallucinating/misremembering/etc). The problem is you can never “prove” this to someone who wants to believe otherwise.

Let’s say the government legitimately did lay bare all of its UFO related classified documents and it explained some portion of events with known military secrets. There would still be a huge contingent claiming they were holding back something. And you could never prove them wrong. There is always a deeper secret to a conspiracy theorist.

Ask yourself: why and how does only an extremely limited number of people in the US government consistently have access to what feels like a steady stream of alien crafts going back to the 1930s? Why has no one else recovered these? Why doesn’t congress know? Why didn’t Trump know (picking on him because we all know he’s not great with keeping secrets)? Why would aliens go out of their way to stay hidden? Why would they travel hundreds of light years (or more) to earth, only to immediately, and consistently, crash at a speed that leaves largely recoverable parts? I recommend researching what the aftermath of plane intercepting the ground at a comparably paltry 500mph looks like for reference.

Compare this to the alternative explanations, all of which are completely plausible. Nothing about it being aliens makes any goddamn sense. The only thing that makes sense is it’s bipartisan, because no politician in their right mind would be against this, if only because that would make you look suspicious/untrustworthy.
It absolutely takes just a few minutes. I did it today on my work laptop, installed Firefox, import from chrome, and I was back to work in less than 5
Credit cards aren’t legal tender either.

And making cards legal tender would be quite absurd, since it would require anyone being owed any money to get a terminal and card acceptance contract in case their debtor decides to collect some credit card points.
> especially if like you alluded to, weighting by voter participation.

I don't think this is nearly as bad as everyone internalizes. Voting by age (with weed positions at the side by full/med only/illegal) is

- 51% for 18-24 (72/20/7 age 18-29)

- 63% for 25-44 (62/26/10 age 30-49)

- 71% for 45-64 (54/34/11 age 50-64)

- 76% for 65-74 (53/34/10)

- 72% for 75+ (30/51/16)

There is a correlation, but literally only one group has a <50%, and it is still 81% for medical. There's still a HUGE disalignment no mater what age demographic we're discussing. It's not old people, it is old people who are in politics.

Edit: forgot to cite the census other numbers are from the same pew above

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/2020-pre...
Apparently the proposal is working its way through the W3C, so they'll have to take official and public positions on it eventually.
This is fair feedback. We will move to packaging it with our extension to avoid running arbitrary code.
Human civilization made it all the way to 1990’s without commercial internet. Maybe keeping children off the internet would make them better prepared for society.
make up your mind

"There was never a promise"
“Marine World’s old home is now the international headquarters of tech titan Oracle.”

Well up until Dec 2020. Oracle moved headquarters to Austin, TX that month. There is still a Redwood City presence of course.
The thing that made me think of it was that several years ago I went on vacation to a different state and when I got there the rental car company turned me away because my license had expired a couple of days prior. I hopped in a cab, went to the local DMV, and got a new license. When I returned to my home state I renewed my license there, and all was good, until a couple of years later I went to add an endorsement or something and mentioned that I had a backup driver's license from that other state that was still valid. Nope, they said, that's illegal because it means we can't revoke your driving privileges if we need to, and they made me destroy it. So why would they prevent me from having two forms of Real ID, like a driver's license from one state and an ID card from another state? Presumably each one is vetted to the point that there's no question about its authenticity.
> Boeing withdrawing and NASA restarting the bidding process for that contract might benefit everyone.

Who besides Spacex or ULA can reasonably bid for it? Or are you also looking at foreign options?

It might not be Starliner but it seems like it'd be good to keep ULA in the game, just to make sure that Spacex is not the only option.
> Debit is problematic at gas stations and some stores that prompt you to select debit or credit and then lock you out if you select debit.

Merchants aren’t required to let you make that choice, so this is probably a misconfigured terminal.

And if a debit card works when you press “credit”, what’s the issue? There is almost never a benefit to you for making that (quite technical) choice yourself.
The issue isn't the states though, it's the fact that it's still scheduled (and thus completely illegal) at the federal level. So those states that have legalized it are in a bit of a gray area: the past few presidents have basically said they won't enforce anything, but that's not exactly the most stable legal foundation on which to build. Especially if you're, say, a multi-billion dollar payment processor.

If the popular consensus is that this is something that should be left up to the states, then federal legislation to that effect should be passed. The status quo is clearly farcical.

That said, my state has technically issued licenses for exactly two (2) dispensaries, and yet there's one on every corner. All of which accept card. So I have my doubts as to whether this is anything other than CYA by Mastercard.
I'm in favor of mandating disclosure. I wish they hadn't limited it to the vague 'has material impact' definition.

Under that rule if a company is being DDOSed constantly but their network is successfully mitigated against it presumably they wouldn't need to disclose it.

But it would be in the general good of the public to be able to track these events, what their source is, etc.

At least this is a step in the right direction.
Yes and to make my vision a reality we need community ownership of the means of production, which would 100% mean access to these tools. With appropriate access to tools, bored engineers under such a system can get a LOT of shit done.
There is an academic literature in game theory dealing with this topic, the key text is called "Repeated Games and Reputation." The difference from your example and the OP is that OP's experience isn't a repeated purchase (to my understanding). For Van Halen and brown M&Ms, there are elements of leverage in negotiation and other elements of reputation.
I'm not going to disagree with your main point but the legal status does jeopardize any payment processing system. So it's at least a part of the issue that has to be resolved before we can talk about yours.