skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For corporate liability to really mean something we almost certainly need to reconsider the very foundational concept of what a corporation is. Because at it's heart, in granting the legal concept of a corporation we assume that it's a good idea to give a large group of people the ability to act with limited liability, for reasons of economic efficiency.

What you see in industries such as mining where corporate liability is technically far less forgiving is that this concept of limited liability implies that a network of corporations can play musical chairs with hard-to-predict risks - essentially abusing bankruptcy and the general difficulty in enforcing liability via the courts even in the best of times to achieve not merely limited liability, but intentionally reduced liability. Since much of this is just a bunch of man-made rules, of course we're all going to game them to find the particularly profitable loopholes; this is inevitable. If it's not pollution, it's lobbying. If it's not lobbying, it's privatizing infrastructure at exploitative cost. If it's not physical infrastructure, it's owning social infrastructure, i.e. platforms. If it's not platforms, it's an incomprehensible spaghetti designed to evade or avoid taxes.

Regarding corporations as equivalent to natural persons for many legal questions was a huge mistake, and needs to be reversed. I'm not particularly hopeful we'll get there without a literally bloody revolution, or by losing a war, or some similarly horrifying discontinuity of modern life.

Allowing people to cooperate under some legal entity is a great idea; allowing capitalist incentives to optimize those a reasonable idea with some risks (but hopefully manageable ones). But doing all of that at essentially no cost, little oversight, lots of loopholes, very little transparency, very limited liability, legally not just unrestricted but even protected "speech" and with arbitrary nesting has to be one of the most idiotic things we've come up with in centuries.
So, where's the study comparing ChatGPT to...you, know...Creative Professionals?
I think that's right. There's no indication that it's mechanically strong, so you'd have it wrapped in layers of rubber/epoxy and steel cables in order to suspend it between power poles or transmission pylons.

YBCO tape has a critical current in the 1-10 MA/cm2 range, so if the properties of this RT stuff is anywhere close, the actual superconducting element of the wire could potentially be very thin.
I find it sad that people always want to go to extremes. It doesn’t need to be the “handcrafted HTML” vs “bloated JS” sides the author describes.

For example, I dislike scroll jacking in most cases, however some level of scroll based animation or interactivity can be nice and make things feel a bit more interesting.

Humans are wired to notice and react to movement, a slightly animated button to go alongside a click is satisfying due to this.

The author rails agains the world of corporate internet only after clicks and impressions. They have done the same, except with writing pitting one side against the other ignoring that the choice isn’t binary, it is, like all things in life, a spectrum.

But that doesn’t sell as well so, good vs bad it is.
Harsh winters and humid summers are quite miserable. People are less likely to want to go out, certain businesses are closed, specific activities are not possible, etc.

The amount of “nice days” you get in CA is much greater than elsewhere in the US.
That's an interesting take but I think it's mostly reasoned from flawed first principles, as if everyone is a rational actor. For starters, some people do meth just because their friends are doing it. Some people aren't able to see the consequences clearly.

And even if you assume it's only people having a bad go at life, every life includes bad parts, despair, etc. We're all vulnerable to irrational acts in those times.

Legalizing drugs just makes access a little bit easier during those times. Once they're addicted, though, no rational amount of jail time will dissuade anybody.
This the most openly bloodthirsty and triumphant comment section I've seen in a while. Given the context and implications, the power of the consensus and emotional tone here is chilling.
I don't get it, is the M1 supposed to be some pinnacle achievement in the history of the integrated circuit lmao
That would be your fault for not writing prompts for dangerous actions in your elisp automation though.
Nothing says loyalty and patriotism more than a good old fist fight in the name of democracy
Clearly the prohibition on drugs is not preventing those people from accessing them. Obviously rehabilitation would be ideal. But all else being equal, it would be better if the drugs were cheaper and safer.
> Alliance to foster global collaboration for Universal Scene Description (USD)

UNISD? UNIversal Scene Description

At least better than Universal Scene Specific (USS)
Sorry, can you explain? My understanding is that transistors don't "dump" electrons anywhere. The gate controls the voltage, which in the `0` state forces resistance to be high enough s.t. current flow through that transistor stops.

As the Veritasium video explains [0], current flow is not a literal flow of electrons, but a state of the electromagnetic field (or something to that effect... it's been many years since my electromagnetism university courses).

[0]: https://youtu.be/bHIhgxav9LY
I hink the only feature that one has than not modern one does is that it will work for 20 years. Probably would be 0.25x the efficiency of a modern one though.
Your focus on monetary matters is well on par with how alarm-equipped hospital beds are marketed: "Consider the cost of a patient who had skin tissue compression due to wetting themselves. Use our calculator below!". Not kidding, seen almost the exact copy on a hospital bed vendor.

While the numbers may be true, it's a very inhumane way to think about people.
Investors have also been allowed to be the tail eating the head of the snake in the US. Since the earliest days of the American car industry many of the biggest, most vocal shareholders have been the car dealers. Ford v Dodge is such a fascinating tale of broken expectations: the Dodge brothers were some of the largest dealers of Ford at the time (before they founded their own car company), as well as some of the bigger shareholders in Ford, and in that court case created the modern notion of "fiduciary duty" to shareholders because they wanted higher dividends from Ford (presumably to help fund their eventual competitor).

Ford v Dodge is a key court-case that still has so many terrible repercussions in modern America, and all because the biggest shareholders in Ford had a strange conflict of interest (that has never been fixed; dealers are still some of the biggest "activist" shareholders of both GM and Ford) and won the battle in the US courts to give themselves more power over company profits (than the company's board and interests like, you know, employees or customers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
7.44% gold? That's ~$75 per oz of material. And you're talking about lead cable. Its kind of heavy, even if its thin. And it seems really easy to melt and separate. Notably, most power lines are actually aluminum, which is probably where people would really want this. Also chosen for its low weight / density, cause if you're gonna hang lines 100's of feet long, you want 2700 kg/m3, not 9000 kg/m3, and definitely not 11000 kg/m3. Although probably also significant applications in mm, um, and nm scale wiring.
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It reminds me of cost of a minor league baseball game ticket, which is several times cheaper than a major league game. Of course the major league game is "better", but is it really 500% better? The seats, the game, pitching speeds, the hot dogs, beer, etc. are all the same. California is better than most places in the US, but probably not worth the financial hardship that people need to suffer to live there.
> It also doesn't tell us how rustc behaves on code that is being modified, which will be incomplete/broken/weird.

Hmmm, good point. It also wouldn't tell you what someone did before giving up because they would never commit code.

Still, it's a useful data point. You could, say, time the build for the top 100 crates once a week, or gather metrics on language features that they use.
Pixar has been using USD for years, OpenUSD is the rebranding of it as an open format.

> Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is an extensible framework and ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds. Originally developed by Pixar Animation Studios, USD, also referred to as OpenUSD, is more than a file format. It’s an open-source 3D scene description used for 3D content creation and interchange among different tools. [1]

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/usd
99% of science journalism is repeating a press release that came out of a university's press office.

It's very hard to become a science journalist where you can pursue your own stories, because the market for this is practically zero in comparison to other parts of the media.

I always try to pay for media that publishes stories from the likes of, say, Ed Yong, and leave messages that I'm doing it for the science journalism. But I doubt it has much substantial effect on how much real science journalism happens.
Actually your wife might be happy to know that I have developed some nearly stable Emacs packages that interface with the Sabre system for airline reservations. The only drawback other than stability is that they require a SPARC workstation running a special variant of FreeBSD.

/s
No way, theocratic autocracies have “a more united look” on issues than a pluralistic democracy? That’s a feature of pluralism and a bug in theocracy — not the other way around.

Outdated as of… when?

2018 when the morally advanced civilization of Saudi Arabia decided to let women drive?

Or do you mean way back in 2023 in UAE where it’s completely legal for a husband to rape his wife and, if killed for “a good reason” (like being raped), her killer goes unpunished so long as her father acquits?

Not sure there’s much to discuss here, I think we just care about different things. You care about drug addicts not existing and you’re fine with actively “hunting” them to achieve that, I care about everyone in a society having basic legal rights and protections of law.

UAE and KSA are in fact making a lot of progress, but they are making progress against the direction you are holding on high. Even on the drug enforcement issue!
I'm saying spying doesn't really seem to prevent war in the modern era. When inconvenient, intelligence gets ignored. When it lines up with the party narrative, it gets exaggerated and used to fan the flames, then thrown back under the bus after the dust settles.

Meanwhile all that capability gets turned against us, surveilling US citizens instead.
I gave up on gpt months ago, cancelled my sub. The quality went down so dramatically I considered trying to recover my money under bait and switch fraud laws.
I agree with this. I use Alpine to diagnose mail issues via panix.com.
Redefining state-of-the-art graphics editing
I don't interpret neither OP nor the first comment this way. What is brought up is the hypocrisy of talking down on any cannabis user while being drunk at work yourself, and positive drug tests that are not related to actual intoxication at work (since cannabis can be detected for a while after coming down).
I know that they go on missions. My question was regarding the "Mormon-American" framing which suggests that Mormonism exists in other countries, which I was not aware of.
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Ever? Like they go on vacation to visit their families, and they shouldn't be allowed to drink or smoke?

I could maybe see this for the highest leadership--the President, 4-star generals, people who are politically or functionally on-call 24/7. But for everyone else, the rule should be, don't show up to work impaired, either drunk or stoned or hungover. (Though I'm not sure how to deal with chronic pain conditions in that case).
If you care about your health, you wouldn’t use a cast iron. Normally seasoned with unsaturated vegetable fats which produce polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at high heat which is required for the seasoning process. These compounds are carcinogenic.
> Several states have legalized marijuana, and surprise, marijuana usage is at an all-time high

That may be a result of measurement. People that used prior to legalization kept it secret. The stereotypical "stoners" are a fraction of cannabis users. After legalization people tend to be more open about their cannabis use.

If the measurement is based on surveys there will be an obvious increase after legalization as the legal consequences of admitting use have been removed.

If the measurement is based on sales there will also be an obvious increase after legalization as the majority of sales are recorded. Prior to legalization the majority of sales were illegal and the only sampling of the actual market size is from police seizures.

Yes, there will be a growth in the market when the legality is changed and stigma is reduced over time. That is people finding cannabis useful for themselves and no fear of being judged for that choice (same as alcohol is for many people).

There will always be a portion of the population that use drugs in excess to the detriment of their health or will compromise their morals to use. There is also a larger portion of the population that uses drugs regardless of legality and participates in society. You would never know the second cohort.

The problem with the first cohort is breaking other laws to satisfy their desire to use. Their drug use isn't the problem. Drugs didn't make them do anything. They should be punished for their other behavior not their consumption habits.
The below is obviously my subjective opinion.

Operating systems:
I mostly use Arch Linux personally. For work, though, I think it's hard to beat everyone in the organization being on macOS.

Databases:
IMO, never use anything except for Postgres for OLTP needs. Also, you don't need a document store - you need Postgres (JSONB works well if you really need to store unstructured JSON). If you need to search, Elasticsearch/Opensearch just...works well. Never use MongoDB, ever. Even if it was reliable, easy to maintain and reason about, why do you need it?
If you need a lightweight local database with OLTP capabilities for managing application state, use sqlite3.
K/V store? Redis. Never had a problem using Redis at massive scale, just be smart about what you're putting there. Also works well as a message queue and pub/sub (Postgres actually works well here too). I've used Celery, ZeroMQ, and Kafka - they all work well too, no strong opinions about which one.

ETL/Data Processing/Workflow management:
Lots of hate for airflow in this thread. I don't think it's as bad as people are saying it is, but I moved to Dagster and am definitely never going back to Airflow. Dagster takes a few hours to grok, but then it just makes sense, and is a lot easier to reason about.
General data processing - a combination of polars, pyarrow, and ray. Store streamable source data in parquet, stream it to arrow while doing initial conversions. Memory map the files, process them in polars - distributed amongst ray workers, ideally abstracted through Dagster. Sometimes you have an existing data pipeline with some steps in spark. That's fine - orchestrate those tasks in dagster!

IDEs:
I've tried them all. Nothing beats the JetBrains stack with the IdeaVim plugin - I end up using almost all the tools - PyCharm, IntelliJ, GoLand, CLion, DataGrip, WebStorm, and a few times I've even used PHPStorm and MPS as well. I keep VSCode around for...text editing mostly. Most of my bash scripts and config management is done through vim (vim is also the only good Haskell IDE I've found).
How is that more robust? It seems to me it would be more robust to have it be on AI-generated content, where it can be done automatically. Also, there are fewer AI generators than there are people, so the total effort would be lower.

It's AI that's presenting the problem here, why burden uninvolved others to provide a solution?
This is an interesting point. In Arroyo [0] (the streaming engine I work on) we also use a simple TCP-based backpressure mechanism: we have NxM TCP connections between each operator subtask, behind small in-memory queues. This essentially is relying on the kernel's flow control and backpressure mechanisms instead of building a custom network stack like Flink does.

This has worked well in practice, but I think does leave some performance on the table and likely incurrs higher resource utilization. Flink for example uses a system of "floating" buffers that can be moved between streams as needed to minimize the total number of buffers needed.

However it may be that Linux's network stack has gotten good enough at this point that it makes sense to just rely on it directly.

I wish there was more research out there on how these sorts of network stacks should be built on modern hardware and OSes.

(semi-relatedly, was checking out your CV; a bunch of great looking papers there that I'll definitely be checking out!)

[0] https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/arroyo
> What privacy concerns?

Most HN people are anti-telemetry and tracking. I've never actually seen these privacy concerns being fleshed out with specific details of how logs could be abused but it really doesn't matter if a real mechanism for abuse exists. What matters is people fear that it may exist and stop using the tool as a result.

I suggest taking a look at the thread suggesting telemetry in the Go toolchain (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707583). You can judge for yourself if there's legitimate concerns being surfaced, but there's no doubt that there's significant opposition to such the proposal.

Rust is getting ahead of this discussion by making it clear that their log collection won't phone home and it won't be automated.
Whoa, can you please make your substantive points without breaking the site guidelines? You broke these:

"Converse curiously; don't cross-examine."

"Assume good faith."

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to those rules, we'd be grateful. I took a quick look at your previous comments and didn't see any pattern of guideline breakage (thank you!), so this should be easy to fix.
That sounds dangerous as hell. No one should live that way.

If you aren't allowed to question leadership and are instead expected to do "what you are told", then all the experiments and horrors studies on group think are a reality at a dangerous level [1][2][3] What if you think an order is dangerous and have good reasons why?

Good leadership needs to know what the ground-level knows, they need good input and questioning. Stalin killed anyone who opposed or questioned him, so all of the input and feedback was only positive feedback/intel to avoid being killed. Even when they were setting up one of the worst famines in recorded history [4].

Healthy societies aren't cults, and that is definitely a description of a cult.

I hate a Godwin-Law argument, but the damn Nazi's "did what they were told" [5], and those 'hard-working'-don't-question-leadership lemmings had a blind-eye to/assisted and/or murdered millions of people because they didn't have to deal with the burden of questioning and thinking for themselves. Fuck that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

[2] https://www.prisonexp.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%93...

[5] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-the-nazis-defense-o...
> Dont. Emacs is there to be tinkered with, and your cat will break it by simply looking at your keyboard.

Then you simply roll back to the working git commit of your emacs configuration or NixOS generation!
I've played with Sudowrite, it's a really excellent product! Since you're also an author, I'm curious what your thesis is on the publishing industry? Do the big players get more entrenched as consumers (readers) seek out known names that are vetted as there's a flood of AI generated content? If you were going to break Amazon's stranglehold on the e-book market, what would you do?
Something I've always wondered about: All of these alliances for this and that format/standard/whatever - do they end up hiring some secretarial staff in some office for several decades?

There should be several hundreds active corporate alliances now.
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Sure if you have a huge drive to work on science directly.

But the fact of that matter is that many people would rather work on something they find interesting enough, while also being able to comfortably afford a good life for themselves and their family.
No, it is unclear because this definition insufficiently distinguishes a cluster of related, and ill-defined concepts.

Consider a video camera. It seems like it is a consuming a "stream of experiences". But most people wouldn't consider it it conscious. Why not under your definition? It works when on, and is stops when turned off. Black and white. But clearly we are missing some nuance in the details. Maybe we also require some interpretation of the experiences? I can spin a convolutional neural net that identify objects within a video: interpretation. Does that make it conscious? No? Then we need something else to define it. Maybe response to stimuli? We can program machines for that, but then also things like fire respond to environment interactions too. And so on. It really isn't black and white after all.
Postulation :

Can someone please take layers of graphene and pure gold leaf and tell me what that may result in, aside from beautiful "damascus"?
Their _demand_ for dignity also fights against normalizing this behavior even for those who don't have the privilege to make such demands.