skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did ditch Chrome. I also ditched Windows.

Been using Linux and Firefox as my daily driver for 5 years or so now without any problem.

Windows 10 was another nail in the coffin. Windows 11 was the final nail.

Trying really hard to figure out what I miss, probably Visual Studio IDE (not Code), but that's it.

I'm not even sure if MS even care any more. They have multi-billion dollar "pillars" of Office, XBox, Azure, etc. Windows OS could wither and die and it wouldn't make much of a difference to the bottom line.

The corporate computing future is adverts. If you want to use any significant piece of software at scale, something needs to pay for it.
Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence? Sam Harris Speaks with Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI. Previously he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies.
but they also run a first-party maps app. the price of the streetview cars, satellite data, development, and qa isn't all just for the API.

i'm not really criticizing, they can charge whatever they want if they don't want people to use their maps api. and i suspect they don't really want people to use their maps API - the pricing seems targeted to milk the orgs who can't be bothered to implement a cheaper option.
Experimental OCI Compliant Container Registry Support in OpenTF
Freedom of speech is being distorted by some actors in bad faith that want the freedom to be anti-Juche counterrevolutionary etc.
No but it's unnecessarily mean; especially considering it's written by a kid.
what is interesting in this page?
But not nearly as common in the US.
Is 700 euro really that much? Considering it is probably most used device you have, something you use daily every day. For most people it is the only device with internet connection.

If you keep it for 5 years (until warranty runs out) is it 140 euro per year, 12 euro per month.

I pay 12 euro per month for netflix and I don't even think about it being expensive. Why wouldn't I spend same amount of money on the most important device I have? Except for computer maybe.
I would suggest that you don't need to count the chickens. You could also just verify that none are left out. There are presence sensors (such as the ones that turn lights on when someone comes into a room, or off when everyone is gone). If you had one that worked on chickens pointed into their run, you could close the door when there are none left (plus a time cutoff if Henrietta really wants to keep her trist with the raccoon).
> think it should be a common-carrier system

The law in the state they operate _literally defines_ it as a common carrier system.

That's the basis of the case being argued here (that the ISPs blocking is literally unlawful due to the common carrier legislation which prevails in the state in which they're operating.)
Here is a decent summary from one of the weather modeling firms about the impact of global warming on hurricane strength -- https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/kcc-mainwebsite-dev/publi...
I've often been tempted by the "delete your flaky tests" extremist sect of that religion :)
> Honestly, I'm tired of this "oh they're totalitarian, so we cannot believe their statistics when it's good" stance. It looks so much like a comfortable self-deceit.

I’m tired of it too, but I think it’s better than “not use any data points” or “trust the super subjective data points put out by a totalitarian regime so they aren’t comparable to other countries.”

I don’t think the US is perfect, but economic indicators that they put out are probably as good as they get, all things considered.
Yes, merely a 1.75 ton brick of batteries, among other parts

Which is actually pretty inline with a typical midsize sedan. People really underestimate how much cars weigh. But EVs are indeed pushing it up even higher. A breakthrough on reducing battery weight would be enormously beneficial all around.
silver bonds and suffocates, right? this seems more like diatomaceous earth...
I'm typing this using the proprietary Nvidia drivers on FreeBSD right now.. They are SO much easier to deal with than the "native" AMD and Intel drivers that require tens of thousands of lines of linux shim code.
The ideal tax would probably be weight + miles, but good luck implementing it...
No, it would be a lot easier to modify their applications then wait for AMD to create CUDA 2.0.
Exists in Florida: https://www.flhsmv.gov/fees/
The non-free kernel modules are never included in the kernel. They are loaded by the end user, so they are not covered by GPL.

Except for the fact that the CPU is in privileged mode, there is no difference between loading a kernel module and launching a dynamically-linked user-mode executable file.

Not all non-GPL modules or executables are non-free. Many have licenses that are more permissive than GPL, e.g. BSD or MIT, but they are still affected by these anti-non-GPL measures.

If non-GPL kernel modules were not permitted, then by the same reasoning no non-GPL executable files should be permitted, so in such Linux computers absolutely all programs, libraries and modules would have to be GPL.

Perhaps there are people who dream to use such a computer. I have been using Linux for decades and I have never seen a single computer that would have remained useful for anything after the instant when all the non-GPL programs would have been deleted from it.
I don't know how true this is. My friend moved from the West to Japan and was explaining how policing works there. He said there is more crime in Japan than the statistics show. One part of favoring society over the individual is downplaying crime. He described it like how there is a perception that if no one sees the crime, then the crime did not happen so there is pressure from police not to report crimes and they prefer not to deal it. He said he once dealt with them where they increasingly became hostile towards him and bureaucratic demanding more documentation on his immigration status and banking records to the point where he dropped it. Don't get me wrong, I think Japan is still a low crime country.

I've seen it also, being thrown out of a club by police over a false report by someone else as the police ignored things going on around them. My point is that it's not extremely helpful to society to behave like that.
It seems somewhat common, it's just that it's not weighted heavily enough in the the overall registration costs.
Add in the fact that many of the people using or pushing for these tools don't even respect the craft of artists they're stealing from.

Not only in terms of not being interested in understanding the effort taken to develop the craft, but also in terms of understanding aspects of the craft itself. Whenever someone brings up the idea that ML is the same as a human learning from referencing other's art, I feel they giveaway their lack of any genuine exposure to art as that's a purely technical interpretation which misses that very little of art is about pure technical skill.

In a way, I feel the AI imagery stuff has just brought enshittification to art. It's the same overall pattern where some tech"bro" comes in citing disruption, technical legality and the future without any interest in understanding what they're talking about, develops a technology that's good enough for attractive marketing but not actually sufficient for the field, but they bring in so many new people that there's no competing and combined with the shit management from the "techbro", the industry is forced to settle for a new normal that grows ever shittier until all the value has been extracted from it.

I used to be very interested in working on generative AI, it's what got me working on a PhD. But I completely lost interest the moment I saw how irresponsible everyone was with it. The tool is fine, but I am increasingly of the opinion that it's a tool we as a society are not ready to ethically wield.
Well, maybe it can fix the grammatical mistakes and inconsistencies in their stories. There still remains the fact that this person you've never met before is suggesting you send hundreds of thousands of dollars to this great investment platform you've never heard of and is very interested in you yet can't meet up despite have talked for weeks.
Unfortunately, the media demands censorship and incites people to demand it as well.

The ultimate solution if something bothers you online is to locate the power button on the device, press it, then proceed outdoors to hang out with your friends.
Psh. Microsoft will just force-upgrade those computers back to Windows 11.
> The product is shipped overland from a Chinese factory to Vietnam or Korea, then some screws are tightened, some paint is slapped on, or a label is applied, and the product is re-exported.

The whole point of this article is to rebute the point you've made. From the article:

> The Economist’s basic argument is that because many of the goods exported to the U.S. from countries like Vietnam contain a lot of parts and components made in China, “decoupling is phoney”.

Here's one of the arguments the article makes against this:

> But there are reasons to think that at least part of the drop in U.S. dependence on Chinese imports is real — at least, the recent drop in the last couple of years. First, Chinese exports overall are down substantially from 2021.

[...]

> To the extent that falling investment in China is due to corporate de-risking, it’s probably eventually going to spread all the way up the supply chain. If you’re a U.S. company that moves production from China to Vietnam because of the risk of war, and your Vietnamese factory is importing most of its parts from China, you’ll know it. And you’ll know that you’re still exposed to China risk, and you’ll look around for alternative places for your Vietnamese factory to get its parts and components. That might take time — years even, given China’s dominance of manufacturing. But as long as the risk of conflict stays high for years, companies will keep looking for ways to build entire supply chains that never run through China. And they will succeed.
This seems like a good idea. We have used gas taxes for a long time, but electric cars don't pay this tax. If we want to pay for roads based on how much people use them, we will need to switch to something other than gas taxes. Odometer readings could work, but it's not clear how to get honest readings. Weight isn't perfect, but it seems like a less-bad options than the others.
In Florida Citizens is the largest homeowners insurance company and it competes vigorously with the private market.

The issue with Citizens is that it does create a lot of financial risk for the state, especially since it doesn't buy as much reinsurance as a private company would.
I am endlessly baffled by developer's preference for lightweight text editors because they never bothered to learn how to use a debugger. The last 5+ years of my career have been mostly node and python and the state of their debuggers is abysmal and even stack traces are always useless. Want to impress me with your programming language? Don't show me code, show me a stack trace when it fails.
It seems like in 2021 Germany was the biggest exporter of Tractors in the world, with 16.2% of the total https://oec.world/en/profile/hs/tractors But maybe you have more up-to-date or different data showing India ahead.
> - it cannot know external factors like how much carbohydrates you are eating, or if you are planning to work out, etc. Like conventional pumps you have to enter it manually.

Sign up for the waitlist of https://replica.health! It is designed to make capturing those external factors as painless as possible. Depending on what setup you have, it will be available in the next month.
You forgot about egg!
Already baked into the price of gas... its actually one of the better use-taxes but not all states have success keeping it.
> a device allowing the user - the Vatican - to peer back through time

In fact they have many such devices, although the fidelity and reliability of the information they provide leaves something to be desired. They call these devices "books".
The new Mojo programming language is attempting to deal with such issues by raising the level of abstraction. The compiler and runtime environment are supposed to automatically optimize for major changes in hardware architecture. In practice through I don't know how well that could work for barrel processors.

https://www.modular.com/mojo
Freedom is certainly a tricky thing to balance, and private property rights are not absolute. But neither are freedom of speech rights.

Here's a way to cut the Gordian knot: publicly-owned services and utilities. E.g. NPR as a way to check distortions which privately-owned news organizations would otherwise be subject to. We could have a national public twitter, a national public chatGTP, etc.

So those of you who are now thinking of all the drawbacks typically associated with publicly-owned companies (real or imagined), well, the more you let the government regulate the private companies, the more the private companies will behave like public companies anyways.

Instead of getting the best of both worlds, you'll get the worst of both worlds: heavily-regulated, inefficient companies which still control the public discourse, which deliver profits not to the public but to private interests.
This hypocrisy is why BRICS is so inviting to those countries that have suffered from the status quo for a long time.
Thanks, I found out Pecona does this. I'll check out CockroachDB and Yugabyte.
Russian propaganda is surprisingly effective and hard to pin down. Like I was puzzled the whole way through why Tucker Carlson was basically pushing Kremlin propaganda and only recently discovered that his dad is getting paid by Orban's lot to lobby for Hungary in DC and Orban is basically controlled by Putin. And you can't prove a lot of stuff but it seems fairly evident it is going on.
My understanding — which mostly comes from reading about the "scam centers" operating in the Laos "golden triangle" autonomous region specifically — is that everything happening there is either "legal" or "unprosecutable" due to jurisdictional problems. If a Chinese-owned-and-operated company has a bunch of illegal immigrants from Myanmar and Thailand and Cambodia (but no Laotians!) locked up in a "scam center" in a Laotian AR... then which police force has both the motivation and the right to come knocking, without that being an international incident and potential incitement to another territorial war in the region that nobody wants?

Laotian police have been quoted as saying that they have full authority to come into the autonomous region to investigate a crime, given irrefutable evidence of a crime — but that they can't come in without such evidence; and that it's very hard for them to get such evidence.

I'm guessing that by "crime", here, they probably mean "a felony" (or whatever the Laotian equivalent is) — which is likely the blocker for them, and probably the basis for the very thin line that these criminal gangs are treading.

I believe that "an escapee who can show that their organs had been harvested" would be irrefutable evidence, enough for a police raid; while "an escapee who told a story about being held captive for years" would not.

(And re: the other part, of some of the things happening there being "legal" — a large part of how these companies work is by indentured servitude, in the literal sense: they get people coming there to sign contracts for provision of services and equipment, that create a debt owed by the worker to the service/equipment-provider; and then they don't let them leave until they work it off. These contracts seem to have a lot of power for the gangs; they don't bother to chase escapees who haven't signed them, while considering people who have signed them to be "theirs to keep." Presumably, they've tested these contracts with local law-in-practice, and found that they actually work as a shield for what they're doing.)
I pronounce it a bit like "cor-relation", in IPA like /kor.re'lei.ʃən/ but also perhaps like /ko:.re'lei.ʃən/ ("coh-relation"), and almost never like /ko.re'lei.ʃən/ (~="co-relation"), or never like /ko:r.re'lei.ʃən/ (~"core-relation").
That’s the thing though, it can be convinced to make a statement with conviction but that might not be based on fact. I just got ChatGPT4 to say that there might have been a few hundred mint green Kia Cherokees sold in 1997.
Yes, other robots in a fight. And once the robots/factories are out of the way, any human resistance. Armies work to destroy/incapacitate the opposing army, after which they use the threat of destruction to impose their will on the noncombatant populace, same as today.
Sure, the US has a weird problem that the article talks about.

I'm disagreeing with the "(ew)" aimed at the Yaris in the article. It's no worse than the Honda Jazz, Ford Fiesta, VW Polo, etc.
I think the argument could be made that giving an addict more money means giving them more money for their self destructive addictions, which is ultimately counter productive.

On the flip side, giving them more money could reduce the likelihood they turn to crime to fund their addictions.
Not only that, but the US made a trap for themselves: Theres no know how and capable people to replicate the tech. This take decades, 2 or even 3 to build.

I have the impression that the China today is the result of the planning made in the 90s, implemented in the 00s. What planning the west did last 20 years? I think the west already lost and this is the tantrum. :(
+1 for metal roofs -- I run an insurance company that specializes in high risk areas. Metal roofs are a superior technology to shingles and tiles.
Thanks for the suggestion! She's 20 and living at school so I have limited influence over her diet. She's pretty much raising a middle finger at her diagnosis right now out of spite and frustration so it's a tricky situation. I've asked her to try to find a community that caters to diabetics at school (i know one exists but i tell her to join it it will not work) to feel less alone about the whole thing.

It just sucks all around.
They identify as indigenous because it's an advantage to them
It sounds like your integration architecture is a mash-up. It is indeed quite difficult to handle external systems that are so tightly coupled to your own.

For standard server-server integrations, where the coupling is limited to an (hopefully eventually) well-documented API surface, it's much more straightforward to replace an external service with an internal mock.

For CI purposes, we eventually develop a more-or-less complete internal version of every external service, quirks and all. It's fun to see their bugfixes show up in our git history in behavioral mocks.

We don't put much emphasis into automating integration testing. We've found that with all the vagarities of flaky external services, it's usually necessary to have a human in the loop somewhere for integration tests.
> One direction the company may take is to build smaller, lighter cars, with longevity on a full charge similar to EVs at present.

I'm still angry at discontinuation of the Honda Fit in the USA.

It's not just Honda of course, the subcompact hatchback is largely gone from the US market. Cars are more efficient such that larger heavier 2023 cars are nearly as fuel efficient as (eg) a 2013 Fit... but obviously a 2023 Fit would be even more efficient (and _is_ in other markets, where it's sold as a jazz). In the US we take advantage of greater efficiency to make bigger and heavier cars with the same mileage, instead of actually more efficient cars.

This is not news, but whatever USA regulation and legislation is trying to do encourage actual increases in fuel efficiency aren't working.
Ask HN: Does async/await exist for transient processes?
I enjoy coding async/await style code, but I wonder, has this been extended to work for systems that run essentially "Out Of Core."

For instance, if I had a bunch of back-end servers that stored state in a DB... And as long as the back-end servers were all running the same version of my code... I could write async/await code... And all of my state could be stored in the DB... And when input came in from the user, whichever server the event got load-balanced to, could just continue processing.

I could imagine doing this with a Virtual Machine. Where I potentially store the full stack and heap into a chunk of data somewhere on disk or in a DB.

But I could also imagine that a programming language could be modified to allow me to just type async/await code, and have the state survive restarts, reboots, migrating to another server, etc. As long as I don't modify the code in the callstack of the async/await while it's in the middle of executing.

Does such a thing exist?
> But often, the one providing the infrastructure on which they do it is making money via some mechanism.

I count those as being commercial in nature. The specific creator might not be, but the platform itself is, so it counts anyway.

I'm talking more about those people who actually put stuff up with no commercial intent and who don't monetize in any way. In my view, they're "the heart of the web". The monetizing sites are just the things we have to put up with.
I wonder how it must feel to be on a team at Microsoft working on actually useful features like WSL and then having all your work be thrown away by shit like this driving users off your platform anyway.
EVs weigh more on average than ICs and don't use gas...
In theory it can be done by creating a new currency, with no capital controls.
That's the one she had. It's been a few years, maybe they have fixed it.
To me, the North American passenger car manufacturers' changeover from ladder-frame to unibody construction was the death knell for the kind of station wagon you've described, with four-pillar proportions and normal car handling and styling. With the 1970s fuel price crisis, those giant dinosaurs were terribly impractical, but a full sized mid-1970s ladder-framed station wagon could pull a large trailer without being twisted into a pretzel from the forces at play. Nowadays a full-sized pickup truck or SUV with proper towing ratings is needed for the same.

Station wagons in North America were hit with a stigma about carbon monoxide poisoning in the rear seats. The term ''Station Wagon Effect'' is still used in relation to industrial and residential ventilation systems as well as in boating and of course the automobile industry. When mini-vans surged in popularity starting in the 1980s they had better ventilation at the rear, and today any wagon would need to stringently protect against CO inhalation. Still, the stigma remains.
You have to do your own chores and pay that much? A resounding fuck that lol.
The local files I have to care about are my photo, video, and music libraries, which sit inside Photos and Music on my Mac. Photo/video gets auto synced from my iPhone when I connect it. Code and work documents are on Github and Google Docs respectively, but if they weren't, they'd just have a folder. Photo lib is stored on a secondary SSD because my boot disk isn't that big.

Time Machine backs everything up to a local pair of HDDs. I also periodically create a read-only, encrypted disk image containing my libraries and upload that to Google Drive because I happen to have a lot of free storage there. Before I had any cloud stuff, I used to put one of the backup disks in the bank then later swap it with my other one. My wife also copies some extra special things like wedding photos to her laptop and other disks.

Lastly, some big files I care less about are basically in unorganized places, but not very many. They're either in my downloads folder or on one of the HDDs. I've got another laptop I don't use as much anymore, and my policy is that everything on there is temporary.
Denmark used to have that until 1997, when it was replaced by a tax based on km/l (not 100 l/km).

Not sure how it works for electric cars, come to think of it.
Basically Haml then.