skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US constitutional rights were provided and are defended by the power of the US military. In a power vacuum, they would quickly disappear.

I guess you could argue our taxes pay for that, with some paying more than others.
Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers

Or maybe not. As is often the case; statistics alone can't really tell the full story. For example:

Most driverless cars are programmed to simply hit the brakes when they can't comprehend the current situation.

When they do this for no apparent reason that surrounding human drivers can comprehend or anticipate, the result is often a rear end collision. Which of course is ruled to be the human driver's fault.

A rear end collision accounts for over 60% of self driving accidents. A side swipe accounts for another 20%. Both of these are generally blamed on surrounding human divers.

But blame aside; self driving promoters are still left with a troubling statistic --- self driving cars are involved in over twice as many of these incidents as human drivers --- about 9.1 crashes per million miles driven versus 4.1 for humans.
Yep. It's how 'you'tube became 'corp'tube. Remember when the selling point of youtube was 'you'?

> Then the advertisers, professionals, and hucksters will swoop in, do their thing, and slowly overshadow the old "normal" users.

It's more insidious than that. Corporations demand special treatment, favorable algorithms and censorship. In the past, when breaking news occurred, I checked youtube, reddit, etc to get more raw news from ordinary people. Now it's all censored on these platforms. Similar to how 'you' can't use bad words on youtube, but corporate entities can. The scales have been tipped overwhelmingly to one side. But I guess that was inevitable.
Minding the small stuff in PR reviews
In many countries I have a right to free legal representation
I don't think the following situation is uncommon:

* I'm a tourist, I need an item;

* I see there are two stores nearby, one is CVS, the other something else;

* I want to check online if they have the item, because I'd have to get out of my way a bit and checking the store website is just a click away in my map app;

* oh wait, CVS blocks roaming users;

* I guess I'll go to the other store because their website was accessible and let me know they have the item.
Ask HN: Which the Hardest Skillset to Learn?
In your occupation,what is the difficult skillet to learn. Why it is hard?
Or have a near-identical room to train on, and relatively thin walls in between, say, apartment units, to allow the signal through. This won't account for differences in furniture, but I'd imagine, over time, one could filter out and work around static objects.

America's cheap-as-hell apartments could cause even more problems beyond giving apartments a bad rap!
Thanks for posting - looks like something I've wanted to find for a while
But that's not a monoculture - those are two, very different cultures, actively competing with each other
why can't we do nuclear with plugin hybrids in urban areas. the federal government , which, as an issuer of money, can afford anything, unlike states/municipalities, should massively fund nuclear to save the environment meet energy demands. seems like such a no-brainer.
I have a few people in my killfile so that I don't see messages from them but don't get much spam in the comp.* groups that I read.

The threading and only seeing new messages is a lot better in my Usenet client than any web forum that I use, including this one.
Why would the US nuke NK?
See other discussions, supposed to be cloudflare dns. If I use my tmobile phone as a hotspot I don't have that issue. My normal internet is comcast, archive.is just loops at captcha
LLM-Powered OLAP: The Tencent Experience with Apache Doris
I am disappointed about this discontinuation. Vs for Mac was never great though it had two things that code does not have

1. Solution load. This will be in the C# DevKit though it’s in preview

2. Xamarin support. This will now be in the Maui extension for code.

The timing of this is in line with getting the bad news out of the way before November however it’s still not great since the code extensions are in preview. Microsoft has committed to supporting VS for Mac for 1 year to fill the gap. Presumably the extensions will be GA by then.
It is the last degree, after all.

Lots of people (this will seem ridiculous to anyone who’s worked with academics, but) seem to mix up PhD’s, lecturers, and don’t know about the grueling path from there to full-on tenured professor.
Gaslighting bullshit.
Two main things I use it for:

1. Keeping track of where I am in a series. Goodreads has a handy feature where you can see the list of books in a given series. I maintain a reading list with (way too many) different series and it has my next book in each one.

2. Remembering which books I've read. (Kind of related to #1.) More than once I've gotten more than a few pages into a book and realized, "hey I'm pretty sure I read this before".

Either of these would work in a notebook or spreadsheet but that would require changing my workflow (and "importing" a long list of books).
Isn’t that just on -current?
I came to the US on an H1B. I worked at Microsoft and Facebook. Then I started a company funded by YCombinator. It is now a unicorn and has created hundreds of jobs.

This country treats immigrants unfairly but even that poor treatment represents more opportunities for them than elsewhere. So they put up with it. But that won’t always be the case and it’s already very different than when I came here. Not sure I’d decide to immigrate to US if I were starting today, knowing what I know now.
> It's times like these I'm happy to have llama running in k8s on GPUs

I'd love to know more about this. Do you have your own hardware, or do you run it in the cloud. Did you set everything up yourself. I'm somewhat intimidated by k8s, let alone the other stuff on top, but very curious.

> has anyone noticed they're starting to have an "AI-dependence"?

Yup +1
That’s a weird way to put it. Driving a gas car doesn’t make you pro-big oil. Most of us are beholden to market pressures and have no realistic option.

Everyone still has to make their living, and they have to do it inside the elites construction of the market.
I was painting with a broad brush
> Users will flock to a platform, make it their own.

As a user (in particular as a non-paying one), you never make the platform your own. This feeling is pure entitlement.

If you want to make a platform your own, set up your own web platform.
OP already did and this is clearly a flame war.
https://archive.ph/q50gv
It's not so much that we're idiots, you see, but that we're reevaluating based on how things have been playing out the last 70 years.

For example very noticeably: the most powerfully tyrannical developments in the modern US are the retributive legal system, state violence against poor and minorities, crackdowns on sexual and reproductive healthcare, oppression of sexual minorities. And these policies are overwhelmingly supported by the same people who purport to value so highly their ability to fight tyranny with guns.

And at the same time we're seeing a growing grass-roots racial terrorism campaign, again enabled by the same people & policies. Lotta "lone wolves" out there who independently decide they need to shoot up a bunch of black or asian or jewish people.

So again it's not that we're fucking stupid. We just see that you're not willing to use that power for us, and we want your friends to stop using it to kill our folk instead.
> Can you send a write only file over the network?

Yes. NFS can do that, for example.

> UNIX socket file?

I don't know a system off the top of my head that does this, but rsync could be possibly preserving file type given some flags.

> Device file?

Not immediately, but sort of. Eg. device files under /dev are created by udev based on the information it reads from a socket. In principle, you could have the user-space side of udev running on a machine other than the one physically attached to the block device thus exposed.

Ultimately, however, you can do all of the above over the network if you use iSCSI, or have a driver (similar to Ceph, Lustre, BeeGFS etc.) that exposes filesystem over netwrok.

Most importantly, however, I don't see how your question is relevant to anything I wrote. Suppose you couldn't do any of the things you naively thought you cannot do... then what? Why is sending something over the network is an indication of anything?

> Most people are only concerned with blob attachments when they say file.

So what? Most "people" (by which, I think, you mean "programmers") are irredeemably dumb. It doesn't matter what a majority of a group of idiots think. But even if they were smart, again, who cares what the majority of smart people thinks? -- majority isn't what establishes the truth.
The sophisticated cybercriminals use VPNs, too. It's an arms race.
Just going to echo that I've JUST switched to Mint from T-Mobile. Once they removed the Apple pay discount, I realized I was paying $75/mo when I'm mostly on Wifi at home anyway. I also didn't realize that T-Mobile bought Mint so hopefully I won't have to shop around again.

FWIW I paid $20/mo for 15gb for 1 year with Mint. Over 2/3rds less than TMobile (While using the same network).

If mint ends up not working out, Verizon prepaid has the same 15gb deal but for $35/mo with auto pay.

So far I have not noticed any difference when switching from T Mobile to Mint besides having to reconfigure IMessage due to the new eSim. EZ Mode.
It's not men with unreasonable vehicles who are shamed by being compared to men with Micropenis. It's men with Micropenis that are shamed through comparison to men who destroy our climate and risk our children's life.

Notice that if two people didn't denounce you, you wouldn't have denied making the implication that you seemingly made, and the stereotype being made would appear to be tacitly accepted as the truth. I'm not denouncing you to attack you, I'm denouncing you to protect men who are in pain from at least the pain of arbitrary societal stigma.

Saying that men with large cars are bad because they destroy our climate and risk our children's life is a wholesome and agreeable notion. It shames people for their actions regardless of what bodies they have. Nothing wrong with that notion.
The more I think the more I realise that some of those people's hearts are in the right place. And the amusing part is that I am starting to realise that a lot of the surveillance tech was developed under either left and right governments and politicians. Thus we can find common ground. The enemy of enemy and all that :-)
If your memory of start up times is based on .NET Framework or Mono, then things have come a very long way since .NET Core onwards.

I’ve never experienced any startup time delays at all with recent .NET development, even when running on underpowered cloud VMs. Nothing that would have any tangible real world effect anyway.

There are also lots of optimisations available now and much more work is being done to reduce binary sizes, AOT etc
Of all the things that actually need a subscription, video chat and cloud storage of data seems like the one because it uses bandwidth on Microsoft’s end. Charging a subscription for all of the other Office apps has always been a cash grab.
So, I've never actually been able to determine what kind of tax deduction[0] or credit would apply to a TV show that loses money. There's rules for how you account for copyrights and patents in tax law, and what kind of business losses you can and can't claim as a deduction or credit.

My uneducated guess is that there is no specific law that requires you to mothball a show that's been counted as a loss, but the streaming services do this anyway as a show of good faith. i.e. if the IRS were to audit you, you'd be able to show "see, it really was a loss, we made zero dollars off it!"

Morally, your argument sounds correct. Removing shows that have already been made because the owners didn't get enough profit breaks the copyright bargain. Congress should consider penalizing the deliberate destruction of American culture in this way. I doubt a judge would unilaterally decide to impose a "writ of outlawry[1] for copyright", though.

[0] Translator's note: "write-off" means deduction

[1] A 'writ of outlawry' is an old legal instrument that allowed courts to withdraw the protection of the law to criminals it could not bring to justice. Murdering them would be legally equivalent to killing a wild (non-endangered) animal. As you might imagine from a legal concept that is effectively The Purge IRL, it is not used anymore.
How do you see electricity getting 10x cheaper in 20 years? It sounds like people saying fission electricity would be too cheap to meter, and yet its some of the most expensive electricity we have in the US.
I disagree with the metaphor. In the past freedom of speech meant absolute free speech with a small blacklist of specific situations in which it would cause immediate, physical, danger to others. Everything else was okay, even if it hurts other peoples' feelings. It is an extremely GOOD thing to have for society, it is the main tool that the left used to gain the power that it has today. It is the main tool by which good people can overcome bad people in power.

The newer generation seems to be okay with moving from a blacklist -> whitelist approach where the range of acceptable opinions and topics are set by the group and things outside of that range are labeled offensive, bigoted, racist, something-phobic, or harmful in some other way and banned.

Responding specifically to your point about trans educational material, free speech absolutists are 100% okay with allowing trans educational material that says anything at all. I'm not kidding, think of whatever offensive thing you want to say about cis people, free speech absolutists are okay with you saying it.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is something I, and other free speech absolutists, truly believe.
just started watching the linked vid and I noticed that your button icons are a bit low res.
I have seen a vid a long time ago, where one indie dev, created a whole pack of icons for exactly this use, covers all systems / PC /consoles. It was so long ago, i cannot remember or find the video, however, I did a quick seach and found this, looks simlar, but i havent verified it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/14n1si8/i_mad...

Cheers
You’re asking the right question here. We need to hear more about that.
Why is this news now as opposed to several years ago, when it was conspiracy theories?
We live in an age of government driven perception management at scale. From all over the world there are efforts online trying to erode free speech by either making things bad enough to convince others action against fundamental rights is needed, or by other more subtle means of manipulation. Do the people polled understand the current and historical significance of freedom of speech or have they been attacked into submission from division manufactured by sources that want the repeal of common freedoms?
> we blame ourselves

So I buy shrimp that was grown locally.

Then I read up that shrimps were transported to the other side of the world, peeled there, and shipped back, travelled 20,000 miles, before landong on my plate.

I buy canned pairs, and turns out the same story. What am I suppose to do, starve?

The capitalist machine prioritises fictitious resource of money, over real resource of oil. It wastes huge amount of enegy just to take advantage of a poor country's low wages.

I drive an ebike to work.
You can go vegan, quit heating your house, take cold showers, none of it will make any difference if the industry does not change it's practices.
We need a new cultural touchpoint to supplement 1984. Not that state propaganda isn’t a thing but outside of countries like China IMO one of the biggest information crises we face today is anonymous non-state actors pushing disinformation and having it spread virally until no one even knows what’s true any more. Same end result as 1984 I suppose but the means and power structure are very different.
Yes, thanks HVAC and all of the energy sources that produce the equipment and then power it.
Yes, I already know about the increased use of facial recognition. But you said that we're doing a bad job of telling people how to prepare for it.

I don't know how to prepare for it, though. What should I be doing, and what should I be telling others to do?
I've seen a lot about OpenTF and I applaud the (very large) effort to get a viable alternative in place in short order. Is anyone aware of corresponding projects for other tools in the HashiCorp suite?
Some modern pickup trucks are so huge that I think practical considerations have been abandoned some time ago.
I logged in for the first time in years hoping to get some real-time information on nearby forest fires. Wow. What a dumpster fire the platform has become.

I would have taken your comment as hyperbole had I not just signed into their platform.

Searching for information the top 3 of 4 posts were all right wing conspiracy theories. Switching to ‘latest’ there still wasn’t anything recent and I was getting days old posts reiterating the conspiracy theories.
> Even if it was, that isn't a critique of the comment's argument.

Yes, it is.

The core of their comment is "oh noes western values will be lost!" (Or as they put it: "the global West has values worth preserving for the future").

My point is, no, they won't, because fertility is dropping everywhere. We're not that special. And that this purported fear is simply rooted in age-old racist tropes of a loss of cultural identity to scary foreigners, nothing more.
This is burying the lede. I see only one concrete policy change:

>Building on our commitment to free expression, we are also going to allow political advertising.

The rest is generic discussion of their Very Important Values.
I’ve been very happy on the Fediverse (mastodon) since I took the plunge a few months ago. This is what the “early” internet at its best must have felt like. Real humans, technical discussions, random finds (painting!), sorted by created at desc.
People determined enough to commit fraud, test their security suite, DDoS the website, or try a credit card, will know how to use a VPN.

> What are they protecting?

Nothing. They've simply listened to a "security consultant" parrot a few points about foreign traffic being mostly fraud/DDoS/... but behold! they have a shiny WAF to sell.
When facebook became Meta it sounded really stupid to me and I had a hard time referring to them as such. Now I actually think it's a better name. I don't know if that will happen with twitter but I expect well get used to it. After a brief peak in attention it's relevance is quickly waning anyway, so more likely we just won't care.
I think it depends. I like coding interviews cause it can reveal a bit about what it would be like to work with the person. I have to chuckle 'cause MSFT's coding interviews are either "guess what I'm thinking" or impossible problems. I was supposed to code a calculator for one guy and I asked if I could do an RPN calculator, so I did it and after I was finished he asked what the he'll I had done and I said "an RPN calculator" and only then did he ask "what the he'll is RPN?"

I decided I didn't want that job if that's the kind of people I would be working with.

I think my point is coding interviews work both ways and you can tell a lot about a team by how they conduct them.

[edit - it's okay if you don't know what RPN is, the problem is they interviewer committed to a course of action he completely didn't understand instead of asking clarifying questions.]
> Many state laws are massive fourteenth amendment violations

Because the application of the 14th amendment is newer and less familiar.

The 14th Amendment's passage is the first time the Constitution and Bill of Rights applied to the states at all. The Federal Government was really this smaller separate thing back then, before a few key events where it essentually subjugated all states. The rationale of extending the 14th amendment to all states was clarified decades later, and in fact is still being clarified in different contexts.

So yes, there are still outstanding 14th amendment violations.

You suggest the Supreme Court is a problem. Outside of 1 or 2 medical procedures it actually isn't that divided on most things if you go and look. Majority opinions are mostly bipartisan, or the whole court agrees. But you can use this less obvious understanding to your advantage over the next decade or two.
Oh, MSEE would, I guess, finally solve the awkward question of “what do you use as a title if you have a masters degree,” haha.
Recreating a 2000-Year-Old Curry: A Gastronomic Adventure into Oc Eo's Heritage
Theoretically yes that is true, however in practice it has been shown time and time again that if you have less than a 5.1.2 setup Atmos is at best worthless and not actually getting you a benefit and at worse giving you a negative experience due to loosing the ability to properly balance.

Atmos was shoved into setups that it does not belong.
wavelength is just a requirement for an antenna which doesn't need to be shielded. i wasn't specifically saying use COTS phone chipsets, but the fact that the miniaturization is now possible. however, the little helicopter on Mars running Snapdragon chip (irc?) shows that COTS is possible
You just can't parse the output of ls and every bash guide will tell you that.

This means that ls has no place in shell scripts unfortunately
It's so depressing to watch things like this happen. We've voted on this topic twice in California, but all of the statistics suggest that the State University system is largely doing whatever it wants. The SAT tests have their problems but it seems like the universities want to replace them with solutions that are much worse.
Wanting to raise children requires a giving mindset. In US, at least, we have a very self-focused culture. From a perspective of self-actualization, children don't make sense. Unless it turns out that nurturing and developing others is part of what it means to be human...
Good and useful idea, I added DMS input now.
South Korea extends natural population fall as fertility rate falls to 0.7
Yeah, modern half-tons have gotten ridiculously tall. You have to be a giant to actually use the bed for loading things, since the floor of the bed is up to your chest these days.

An actual work truck would look like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/00_hyund...
I actually block all social media besides youtube on my pi-hole, and I unblock it manually for 5 minutes when I want to consume some hn/twitter.
Are they? The Falcon is great, but I'm not quite as convinced about Starship.
> Kiwifarms, now banned, official twitter page said their goal was “exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes”. ( Source: https://archive.is/jYp5p ).

I made the mistake of visiting the (archived) page linked to by the second Tweet from that (archived) feed announcing the conviction of someone of interest to them on several criminal counts, and what I read there was nightmare fuel potent enough that if these are the kind of people the site "stalks," I can't say I'm sympathetic. (Seriously, don't read it.)
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/childfree-study-confirmed...

Apparently it's very normal. On top of that “abnormal” does not mean “unhealthy”, but then again, that's something psychologists very often don't understand either.

Having an I.Q. above 145 is certainly not “normal”, but not a cause for concern either.
You need a large population to support big industries and it helps tech innovation as well.
I’m having trouble finding the repo for this project. Can you link it?
Tell them what is possible
It's going to be extremely funny to see what happens to Community Notes on political advertising. Although this is very much "after the lie has got halfway round the world, we're going to help truth get its boots on".