skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pure regulatory capture. Plain and simple.

Look at the proposals of the past few years to see it. These proposals say things like helping under served communities or combating wealth inequality, but similar to “Save the children” bills, the titles rarely have any relevance to the content. Every proposal has been about nothing other than protecting and increasing utility company profits.

From my view as a consumer and constituent, the government has failed. The simple fact that we allow for profit companies to manage and profit from essential utilities is ridiculous. That we are allowing these companies to write laws that increase their profits at the expensive of society and the environment is a tragedy.

Simply put, sdge, pge, and friends, need to be non profits run by the government. CA state should nationalize these companies and reduce profits to zero while actually promoting roof top solar.
Not remote start. Plenty of remote start units are standalone, install into the vehicle and operate offline using their own dedicated fobs.

Subaru sells first-party remote start units which operate this way. They also have a subscription service that offers remote start, but make no mistake: if your carmaker ONLY allows remote start with a subscription and won't install a standalone unit, you are being had.
Report back to this thread with a link please, when the post / v1 is ready
it's really the assumption that it adds zero or negative value or less than the employee morale is worth. I believe it adds value, but that value is very, very small.
If you're not terribly interested in the opinions of critics, then a website that attempts to aggregate critical opinions probably isn't for you.
I don't have time to watch the whole video, but can anyone confirm if 1.0 brings Windows support?
No. Please site the data where supply and demand works everywhere else but not when it comes to immigration.
TBH, I was pretty surprised too. It made me pretty skeptical of off-the-shelf AI apps in general. I now think that most actually effective AI apps will need to be developed in-house, and that “bolting on” AI to existing apps (e.g. Intercom, Salesforce, etc.) won’t work. I think there are a few reasons:

1. A lot of the useful data for answering questions is in our public docs and community forum answers, which Intercom doesn’t have access to. (And we wouldn’t feel comfortable giving them access to our internal Slack anyhow.) For example, we’ve debugged complicated OAuth issues in Slack, and there is a lot of “context” there that is helpful for answering future OAuth questions (but isn’t available to Intercom).

2. Intercom doesn’t allow you to customize prompts or customize context easily. In our case, for a highly technical product, “prompt engineering” allowed us to radically improve answer quality. We could also use chain-of-thought prompting, which Intercom didn’t support. Together these two improvements probably doubled the answer success rate.

3. We needed to integrate with our data warehouse for in-product context. For example, if a customer has an error with a particular product/feature, knowing what plan they’re on, which features they’re using, which feature flags are enabled, etc. is quite helpful.
I love it, though my only complaint is that I usually want sites in English from the US, but if I want to switch to finding sites in French in France, I have to switch regions. Google is much better at localizing me, and so I'll use !g for those.
Itty.bitty.site: Create links that contain small sites
Good. Keep it going. Let’s have more $0 for free AI models getting released since we all know it is the future and you can’t compete with free.

The AI race to zero must be accelerated with $0 free models and less control from gatekeepers such as ClosedAI
Will you indemnify those that follow your advice?

Because 'transformative' is a pretty dangerous word to use in this context.
But it's not a payment plan, it's a subscription. If you drive the car for 25 years, you're still on the hook every year if you want the seats to heat.
>Britain should scrap its Online Safety Bill

>It is both illiberal and impractical

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/26/britain-should-...

Also:

>Britain’s parallel legislative effort is shaping up to be more far-reaching. The Online Safety Bill was conceived in 2019 after the suicide of a 14-year-old who had binged on algorithmically recommended depressive material. Four prime ministers later, the text of the bill has almost doubled in length. An American tech firm dubs it “one of the most complex bills we face anywhere in the world”.

>It goes further than the EU in its loosely worded requirement for platforms to proactively screen material. The larger social networks already check videos for matches with known child-abuse content. But subtler crimes, such as incitement to violence, are harder to detect automatically. The scale of some platforms—YouTube uploads 500 hours of video per minute—means that a strict requirement to pre-screen content could throttle the amount of new material uploaded.

From a larger article looking at US/UK/EU legislation and politics on the issue:

https://www.economist.com/international/2023/05/29/the-speec...
> ISPs turning into jerks came on the heels of that.

> ISPs learned how to be bad from security experts explaining how much mischief a person could get up to and deciding that sounded like a swell idea

Telecommunications companies have played a central role in government surveillance schemes for at least 50 years, well before the advent of WiFi. ECHELON was fairly extensively reported on in the late 90's.

> it might have seemed like you heard about ISPs and hackers around the same time

I connected to the Internet around 1993, but my interest in computer security didn't start until around 1996. I'm not sure if that qualifies.
Recurring monthly revenue is something a business really wants. It smoothes their cash flow, so yes there is a difference.
I'm not sure I understand the complaint.

Anytime I've ever had to map extra mouse buttons I've always had to do a discovery step to figure out what "button number" any specific mouse button mapped to.
I don't want my forests and open land being used to make high density housing for more people.
The comparison was to kings, not peasants.
You are missing something. That like all neoliberal idiots who claim to use "dur markets" as a catch all solution, they are dishonest bad faith actors looking to filter money and power to their friends, not make anything better for anyone. I imagine you'd find quite easily the tax payer money is filtered to companies they own or are friends of.

This is a pretty common scam among neoliberals that I don't know how it's still a mystery to people. "Dur freedum markets good!" or whatever populist lies to get elected then crank up subsidies to your friends. A tale as old as time.

Right up there with "defund state institutions and then point to their dilapidated state as evidence of their inherent failure". Nhs in the uk for an easy example.
> Snow White, Indian Jones 5, Just about Every Marvel Movie Past infinity War, 2 of the 3 Star Wars Films in the new Trilogy, The Little Mermaid... Shall I go on?

That's a list of movies, not an identification of political content in movies.
Balloon*
HR is there purely to look after the companies interests. Exit interviews are nothing more than a show.

If you state the reason why you’re leaving is due to bad management, they will of course promise to look into the matter - but only so you leave the interview feeling that you’ve made a positive impact.

In reality they want all employees to leave with a smile so nothing negative is spread about the company.

It’s naïve to believe otherwise.
The pandemic has broken a benchmark economic survey
I wasn't in CS as an undergrad but I hung out at the computer center where they were teaching it and talked a lot to students in the courses and people who were teaching them.

Before Linux projects for the "operating systems" class were pretty limited, if you were lucky you wrote a bootloader that worked.

Once Linux came around it was night and day better as you could do just about any project that involves writing or modifying a kernel module.

So at one level Linux enabled a lot of learning and innovation in relatively small and marginal ways, but someone could say it killed off major innovations in operating systems.

On the other hand, I think the userspace is just as bad as the kernel in that respect if not worse. Suppose you believed that the ordinary kind of OS is "bloated" and wanted to try something new. Well, you need a userspace and unless you're going to write every single program you want to run on your OS fresh you're going to have to support a POSIX API and if you do that you've put all the bloat back in, even if it is a translation layer over some native API that will likely go unused because most of the software you'll want to run will be existing stuff.

If there is any real alternative to that model it is the "OO API" model seem with COM in Windows and whatever kind of serialization Android uses which is just putting the bloat train into high gear.
yes, it's known as the nerd space elevator strange attractor. It is frequently observed in nature with its related chaotic entities, the national-scale DC power grid attractor, and the singularity attractor (some argue that all these attractors are really just specific instances of the singularity attractor).
Nobody here had a Hero Jr. growing up in the 1980's?
If you're up for it... https://github.com/AndrewGuenther/fck-nat

Even has ha mode.
BMW drops plan to charge a monthly fee for heated seats
yeah although there might be easy things like correspondence on a bug report embargo
Regarding the money aspects of the high cost of entry - you can source cheap hardware from secondary markets. I just helped a friend setup a cheap selfhosting/homelab for his home. He bought couple of HP EliteDesk 800 G4 minis for $99/each with i5-8500T CPUs. Each came with 16gb ram. Both units had NVMe drives. So we just had to add couple of 2.5 SSDs 2tb ($50/each) for media storage. Running Ubuntu server with CasaOS ontop with handful of containers for media consumption (e.g Jellyfin) on one unit. The i5-8500T is new enough and supports Intel quicksync. So no GPU needed for transcoding. The second unit is running cloudflare tunnel daemon for things like his MicroBin(like pastebin), Wireguard VPN and NextCloud for external access. He still has plenty of room to add more applications to both servers.
If you mean on, say, YouTube, that's something the FTC requires content creators to do, not YouTube. YouTube requires content creators to disclose to them for a separate reason: their advertising guarantees to advertisers include things like ad exclusion, so if your video includes a paid sponsorship from Pepsi, Coca-Cola can automatically not waste money injecting an ad into the middle of that video (they consider that impression run directly next to their competition while the competition is being actively painted in a good light to be a waste).

I only know about YouTube's policies, but I do wonder if the story at other social networks for paid-sponsorship disclosure is similar, since they all have an advertising component.
I had a relative reveal that the DNA proves God the creator because the four letters used in DNA coding (ACTG) somehow transform into YHWH or something like that.

I wasn't convinced...
I don't think limiting to existing "ancestry" category does the issue justice. Subtly being asked family surnames, dietary choices, etc might not be seen under current laws as the beginning stages of discrimination. Caste needs to be called out plain and simple as an unwelcome cultural practice in California (and eventually American) culture and one that is illegal to make any workplace decisions on. This makes California an increasingly attractive place to work and live and serves as a beacon for other countries around the world to implement the same policies.

It'd be nice if a nonprofit would take on the education piece, though.
Maybe try Nebula? https://github.com/slackhq/nebula
Or Defined Networks: https://www.defined.net/
Regarding the last question - yes. If you sell the car the add-on stays there for the next buyer. If the car lasts longer than 10 years you pay less overall. If some online validation thing stops working you don't lose access to the feature. Prices can't and don't need to be changed afterwards, not even if e.g. taxes, card fees or similar change. Etc.

Opinions my own. EDIT: typo.
On the other hand, put enough incremental improvements together and you've got a revolution.
Honest question, what would you achieve with that?
I'm keeping an eye on https://bun.sh/blog for the update
It could force changes to Bun _internals_, which doesn't really affect users if the Bun team does not want to break API.
No because I don't have that much money, but it looks like Microsoft will. They likely wouldn't if their lawyers did not think there was a reasonable chance that they'd win the lawsuits, likely from, again, generative AI being deemed fair use.
I have a small mini-rant about copy/paste in modern software.

copy/paste was a solved problem 20 years ago, yet nowadays it's always a crapshot as to whether or not you copied what you think you did, etc.

I've had websites insert non-printing characters into text and it will take forever to find it.
On the other hand, put enough incremental improvements together and you've got a revolution. Seen that way, even OpenAI got where it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
This seems like a disproportionately mocking tone for the original comment made.
german avm coporation has the "fritzbox" router lineup which can do ipsec and wireguard with normie gui.

openwrt surely will do the job on many aio or a old laptop.
"people on this site" includes the people I'm talking about, as well.

are you saying that I should name them specifically? or is "people" too general?
Wouldn't landlords simply pass on any tax on the land to their tenants?
DB is better only because many of people who think about their investments are falling for a scam.
I see it as a commitment to keep the public API stable.
Can you be concrete?

I would never want to be in a business partnership with Microsoft (as you are as a developer). I wouldn't want to be a competitor. I wouldn't want to be a lot of things.

But as a customer? Can you name specific issues you've seen which impact corporate customers?
I suspect the negative reviewers got what they wanted: they feel better because they 'helped' in damaging someone they hate in some small way and anyone who just glances at it would pass on the film.

One feature that would be nice would be a filter to filter out reviewers based on certain criteria

-only one review

-only has reviews on certain films

-account life is less than specific threshold

That DB query is probably too expensive to run on a free site though. An app that scrapes the RT reviews and filters out based on this criteria has been on my list of things to build.
I’ll bite. Then what are the inventions worthy of the term “scientific breakthrough” that Silicon Valley had, but not anymore?

Does the freakin first mass produced EV in the world count? Engineering and manufacturing.

Crypto is also an example of a much more globally distributed phenomena. Vitalik in Singapore, tether founders in Italy?, Binance god knows where, FTX in Bahamas, etc. None of the major tech co’s in the Bay were doing much of anything with crypto. Oh except for Coinbase, you know the YC darling of whom Sam is affiliated?
Throwing this out there:

- I’ve used nonlocal 0 times ever.

- I get that people miss them, but you can define nested functions if you want. Nameless functions are nifty, but I’ve never lost sleep over putting `def foo` in front of what would’ve been a lambda in other languages.

- I kinda like the Python ternaries.

Preferences are A-OK, and I’m not saying you’re wrong. Just chiming in that the things you mention aren’t universally disliked.
To be honest, I would expect the robot to have more accidents than a human. However, the consequences of a robot being crushed under a steel beam are acceptable. Not so much the death of a human being. There is a reason that robots are surrounded by cages to prevent humans from entering the area around them.
Unless you’ve signed up, how can you sign in?
Its not just your router, also intermediate hops. I saw this same thing back when 1gbps was first being rolled out 20 years ago. My downloads would hard lock at 100mbps from a lot of sites while other locations would pull at the full gbps speed. Turns out some router in the middle would max out at a much lower limit. OPs test is showing the same thing. FWIW, Steam and Battle.net use P2P to distribute data so you get multiple streams using different routes. But GitHub, as example, has a single route between their datacenter and you and goes through a bunch of routing shenanigans once you hit their POP.

Get ready for a whirlwind of delayed network improvements from your favorite transit provider for the next 3-5 years just as we saw in the early 2000s!
It's absolute psychosis.

They talk about protecting adolescents when it is the same adolescents that will be the ones having their rights violated and investigated for sharing pictures with each other.
Incredible username
I hope someone archives the site, because fan sites with this kind of history get butchered when a commercial interest has a change of mgmt, and companies have a shorter lifespan than the fan interest. Good on the site operating turning it into some income though.
In my opinion, the "standup" is a cargo-cult imitation of what effective teams do informally. Effective, small teams all know what the other team members are working on because they tell each other throughout the day and at the bar after work.

Once you add a formal "standup" and make rules about how it's supposed to proceed, you inevitably introduce a point of inefficiency. The people who already talk to each other are wasting their time listening to stuff they don't care about or already know about. The people who don't already talk to each other are having a "character flaw" compensated for by bureaucracy.

It's similar to what happens in school. The smart kids are slowed down, and the stupid kids are improperly carried forward by the system without being allowed to fail naturally.
The only meat worth eating is pork and ikejime fish. Most people of a western diet are just stuffing themselves with inflammatory CAFO junk and it's disgusting. Vegetables are infinitely better in every regard.
>> What is the financial upside Microsoft is seeing to this that no one else seems to see?

Many businesses have not adopted Copilot because of potential legal issues.

If any of the generated code / content is copyrighted, it could result in negative impacts to the business.

For example, if Copilot generated code that is identical to code that it was trained on that was licensed under the GPL and a company included the generated code in a proprietary commercial product, then the company's product could be subject to the terms of the GPL and the company sued in court.

Assuming liability for the generated code means that Microsoft is making Copilot more attractive for businesses to adopt. More Copilot adoption means more profits for Microsoft.
“The average Mountain View home value is $1,779,174”

While most of the current gen doesn’t know it, the reason they all came to SF originally was because there was zero housing in coolville valley.

Of course nobody blames those cities, there’s just an expectation SF is obligated.
OG Cat 5 (non-e) I take it? That is such a pain to redo, I rewired some of that myself and it was a drag. If my job weren't being the literal network guy I probably would have stuck with just using Wi-Fi too!
Square’s KDS (Kitchen Display System) is down at our coffee shop.
Thanks. I had never heard of this and I'm surprised its not widely available in America. How does the actual process of creating a new virtual credit card every time work?

Ex: I go to Ebay / Amazon / Alibaba / Walmart / Etsy / Newegg / NoNameSpecialtySite on my phone/desktop/both and make an order. Lets say I make two in a day. One from phone while at work and one from desktop at home. How does that actually occur, and does, Amazon for example, then show me as using a long list of defunct cards? If I make 30 purchases a month, do I have 30 defunct cards on file? Do they freak out about the "we see you're using a new card" all the time, or "you look like a card thief to our algorithm"?
It's not a terrible result tbqh.

99.999% of airport wifi users don't know that their traffic is bridged. So unless WIFI-6 introduced some network segmentation features that I'm not aware of, it's still a good idea for Grandma and Grandpa Jo.

The reason it's ubiquitous on YouTube is because they are gouging the hell out of consumers. Honestly it should be provided by your ISP as a bundled service. Although then it's just Comcast gouging you instead...
How about you refocus on making cars mate.
Servo Browser Engine: What's on your mind for its use?
For the Servo web browser engine(https://servo.org/), I can see people wanting to use it for building browsers, for games, as an alternative to Electron, and more.

These all appear to be substantial endeavors, which also implies significant efforts. What are some small, medium, or even large-sized projects for which you would like to use the Servo web browser engine?
I'm not sure why it's insane. It makes it more like a loan than a risky investment, and with 3.2% return one must be crazy to take the deal without some kind of guarantees. I mean if you are promised a 3.2% APY investment and then told "but we can actually decide at any time to mess with your income or do anything that breaks it completely, and you'd have to trust us not to do that for 75 years" would you take that? Would you buy an annuity which pays less than a savings account, but the holder can at any time restructure it in ways that makes it return even less? No sane investor would do that. At least not with 3.2% APY - that'd require much higher income, commensurate with the risk.
I concede about multi line lambdas but far too many languages take a “syntax is bikeshedding and unimportant” approach to language design. New languages are still using “&&” and “||” as if it’s 1975 and syntax highlighting doesn’t exist. Looking at C++, Rust and even Zig code is unnecessarily complicated for someone who isn’t intimately familiar with the syntax meanwhile for the most part anyone can understand Python syntax (well, at least Python syntax that doesn’t abuse decorators and obscure dunder overloads)
I think that you are underestimating how much software engineering work is easy CRUD web development.

For stuff like that, a lot of code can be automated. Sure it may not work right out of the box. But doing a prompt for generally what you want can speed up the process significantly.

Even beyond just generating code, there are a lot of general things that AI helps with.

Things like how if you code runs into an error, you can just ask AI what the error means as well as a possible fix. Or other questions like "What does this code do" or "where in the code case is code that manages this concept".

I've replaced most of my coding with AI, using a new IDE called Cursor AI, and I don't think I could ever go back. Mere github co-pilot is actually the old tech from 2 years ago. The new stuff is way better.
Chicago is free to do whatever they want. Their only obligation is to make CPM whole, i.e. pay the interest on their $1.16 billion loan. That's the deal - either allow CPM to earn the interest on the loan, or pay them the interest outright. That's completely reasonable.

Blaming CPM for Chicago's inability to manage their finances is unreasonable, and no, I'm not a CPM investor.