skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the insight. I actually know exactly how I am going to acquire those 10m users. So it's not like I am making a wild guess.

But you haven't really answered my question.
Here's one that isn't an endless CAPTCHA loop.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/XbLza
w/ 20/20 hindsight, I wish I'd made a foundational contribution to humanity as impactful as naming the image tag.
Andreessen virtue-signalling to foreign investors to help a16z recover from being so badly run, such an honourable profession.

don't worry, though, pushing all those cryptocurrency scams that cost so many other people so much money doesn't seem to have hurt Andreessen's personal wealth!
It's on a fucking beach. Every time there's wind (and the area is very windy), there's sand in the air.
A terrible picture of Andreessen accompanies the article. He looks like he's had his skull physically modified into a rocket's nose cone.

I've seen a lot of images of him with this feature, but I'm told he doesn't look that way in person.

What's up with that?
Can anyone explain how the anti-lag feature works? And why would it result in a ban?
I'm all for rehabilitation, but the serious amount of criminal energy that went into this scheme would have been better spent building something useful. A thought clearly lost on this individual. Furthermore, he used his ill-gotten IP addresses to house spammers, which was actively causing harm beyond just hoarding addresses.
> > I find it amusing how they did not interview one single person who thought he or she might just choose a different way of transportation,

> dropping speed limits doesn't do that.

Why just make shit up?

Let's look at real data.

In edinburgh, after speed limits were reduced, # of people biking increased significantly. https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/32217/evaluation...

In Belfast, after speed limits were reduced, traffic volume decreased significantly: https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/1/17
Ask HN: Is an Open-Source Payment Processor Feasible?
After reading recent posts about how Visa and Mastercard collect and potentially misuse their clients' data, I'm curious about people's thoughts on the possibility of an open-source alternative payment processor. I have no illusions about the challenges this endeavor presents (ChatGPT has made that clear), but surely there is interest and an appetite for such an alternative, isn't there?
Anyone can cherrypick what they believe - it just doesn't mean much in the real world. With respect to the lab leak hypothesis largely a US phenomenon, though.
That’s fair. Having dealt with this myself, I’m very familiar with the pain involved, as I’d imagine most developers/entrepreneurs who have had to implement billing and then iterate on pricing are. It gets messy really fast.

Perhaps they’re more targeting people like me who have experienced this issue and don’t really need it explained, but I agree going into more detail on the specific challenges is probably a good idea to appeal to a wider audience.
That happens in San Francisco too. Back in the day when someone tried to negotiate with the union, a bomb was found in the city with an implied threat.
Not if you have a snorkel on the engine.
The issue was hotlinking directly to resources, which has been a no-no on the web since day one. The fault is entirely on the side of the bad actors who misused a free resource and in so doing ruined it.
https://returnyoutubedislike.com/install
> I sincerely believe that the police officers who carry a gun must demonstrate fitness -- physical, mental, psychologically, target practice, gun safety, etc at least once a month from an independent third party.

I work for a Fire Department. Have seen first-hand the vehement push back both fire and police unions have had when departments/cities have suggested that the CPAT (candidate physical ability test) used at hiring time become an annual requirement.

I know of two firefighters who were rejected from multiple police departments, with at least one being explicitly because they failed the psych assessment...
"in a place that can be seen through a telescope" is very different from "standing in front of a window clearly visible from the street" in a way that a court would, imo, not have trouble distinguishing.
Can't wait to see the fines in a few years then.
Story time? What makes Postal Inspectors so feared.
So essentially it sounds like the court and NAR agreed that NAR is engaging in anti-competitive behavior, but NAR wanted to push for a future get-out-of-jail-free card?

Given that, it seems facile for anyone else to argue that NAR isn't engaging in behavior prohibited by our antitrust laws. If/when we resume robust enforcement of our antitrust laws, NAR would appear to be a prime target. Certainly, their behavior and marketshare are at least as anticompetitive than most of the primary Big Tech targets of antitrust discussion. And NAR hits the biggest transactions most consumers ever engage in, where e.g. folks spend vastly less at Amazon.
> I guarantee almost every truck owner could have a Ford Maverick instead of a Ford F-150 and they wouldn't lose an ounce of the needed capacity for their lives. Heck, the 2024 compact pickups are larger and heavier than full-size trucks from 25 years ago.

Trucks have become pieces of consumer flair. I'll probably end up with a van at some point because of it. I won't buy an F-150 because they're comically large, but if I could get a Maverick without a back seat in the cab, I'd have bought one instantaneously.
There's no way this was caused merely by excessive rain. Water does not leak into the battery compartment without physical damage.

The linked article doesn't mention it, but there must have been some sort of physical damage at some point.
I did a similar thing almost 20 years ago. The Swedish National Pensioners' Organisation was hotlinking an image from my server. I can't really remember exactly what it was, but it was something harmless, like a picture of a cat. Teenage me thought it was super fun to change this image to something more explicit.
this is essentially the problem with the tech boom - lots of people seem to think that being good at writing C++ or telling other people what C++ to write or whatever makes them smart in some broad way, and capitalism has enable that delusion to run wild over much of the world
It doesn't have a system to correct the 'auto correction' system?
I think a TV is about the only thing there I would consider buying from them. Fitness stuff seems far better to get from the manufacturer, or a sporting goods store. Phones seem best from carrier, or Apple. Is that not the case?

Not sure on the rest of the appliances. Is an odd listing.
The issue is not the tariff rate per se, but the extremely complex and dysfunctional tax system that benefits the king's cronies.

One example I like to use is the price of dishwasher detergent. Take in account that having dishwashers is a luxury in South America.

A brand-name ~5 lb dishwasher detergent powder package retails for $ 6.50 ($ 7.10 if we consider sales tax) in the US. Last month I've been in Argentina and saw that a brand-name 5 lb package which is imported(!) retails for something like $ 7.50 w/ tax. A 6% premium considering that it could be considered a luxury product, there's also higher sales tax, but it is essentially the same price. It's a commodity after all, it's just detergent powder.

The same detergent powder that is sold in Argentina, manufactured in Brazil no less, retails for $ 32 here.

Why? There are no feasible alternatives, there is no feasible competition, and people will pay. The local companies here try to excuse themselves blaming high taxes, but this is not the full picture.

If I wanted to setup a company to benefit myself from the arbitrage, I'd be out of money just to hire a tax lawyer to understand the tax implications of importing and reselling detergent powder. What's the effective retail tax rate for detergent powder? Who knows?

Now, let's assume for our exercise the tax rate is insane and detergent powder has a 100% tax rate, I could be buying them at retail prices, selling them at half of what it is currently being sold and still make a profit.

If this detergent powder price point is just pure profit on the manufacturer/retailer part, I'd rather have low stock to not be burned when they decrease their prices to cut me, but to benefit from the true import duties that are available for businesses (yes, that 60% import duty everybody hears about is only for regular people) I'd have to spend a lot of money to structure a full sized import/export business and order a ton of detergent to dilute my fixed costs. Now the risk of loss is greater, and my small arbitrage business idea doesn't look so good.

The established companies won't have any competition as it is crazy as you see above, so they set the price point they want.

It is exactly the same story with the automotive industry, fashion and even Apple. They famously sell the most expensive iPhones in the world, but I actually got mine 2 weeks after launch from an official reseller that just charged a fair price (like 20% over US retail) on a sale.

Sorry for the long rant, the taxes are high, specially when you consider the perceived return on the tax paid, but it's not the full story.
iirc moxie built double-ratched in the same spirit as zimmerman built pgp and gave it away for free. thou he even went as far as integrating it into a mass-market product (wa) to twart the "only criminals" thing that seriously held back adoption of the latter throu export controls.

didn't help as much as they hoped, as there are no trustworthy platforms to run any of it.
Opinion wrong because of ftx? Doesn’t seem like sound reasoning.
Definitely feels like a "report this website to google" button would be fantastic, if there was a way to automate/simplify such a thing for 1-3 clicks.
I don't know that Andreessen is going to compete in building AI technology; I suspect he is looking at applying it to the military and defense industry.

Andeessen Horowitz has been noted as moving into the defense contracting arena over the last few years.

https://a16z.com/announcement/anduril/

https://a16z.com/building-american-dynamism/

https://a16z.com/how-the-u-s-can-rewire-the-pentagon-for-a-n...

Anyone looking forward to our new LLM-powered Unmanned Combat Systems era?
Repository context for LLM assisted code completion
if you filter out requests that don't have a host defined that clears up pretty much all of those requests
CAFE standards are a half way measure. What we really need are revenue neutral carbon taxes. Gas is now $7 / gallon, but everyone gets an income tax credit. Want to 'not pay taxes'? Buy a more fuel efficient vehicle. Turn down the thermostat, etc. I always thought income taxes were silly. Tax the things you want less of like pollution, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDmA2xoIoFU
> This is a Scottish person driving in conditions that would never be encountered by over 99% of the Teslas out there.

What are you basing this on? I can't draw the same conclusions, and I see no evidence for it.
As a Brazilian, I'm here to tell you: that's how it starts. If this isn't curbed, you'll have a presidential candidate thoroughly linked with them in ~20 years
Seconding ODDTAXI. I've shown it to a few people who aren't usually into anime and they all really enjoyed it. I read an interview with the director where he said he considered Satoshi Kon to be one of his primary influences, which makes a lot of sense.
Automakers blast US plan to hike fuel efficiency rules

The US is on track to completely destroy the western world's automotive industries, with a huge knock on effect in Europe. Millions of jobs will be gone forever and in the near future we will be completely reliant on areas of the world that don't care about pollution control for (probably mediocre quality) vehicles.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/automa...
Uh that recipe/article is credited to Daniel Gritzer, not Kenji. You might not agree with it, but at least blame the right chef. :)
Yep but the free spending heavily oil funded Saudi mega project doesn't necessarily go to Andreessen Horowitz.
The technology of nukes and MAD has saved many lives.
I use the microwave method for making a dark/chocolate roux. I never had the patience to practice making it on the stove, plus I don't own any teflon-coated fry pans to use as training wheels. My dad can do it in a pan, but then he learned the technique from a Cajun woman while living and working in Cajun country long ago. The nice thing about using the microwave is that setup and cleanup is easy, so even you do mess it up while learning, iterating is relatively easy, at least if you realize you messed it up before adding it to the pot.
Because land use is an externality, and plenty of people own land without generating much income as a way to store wealth and for asset speculation.
> the tube visualization

But can a tube "have zero Ricci curvature"?
and yet we continue to be dependent on both

Russian sanctions cannot last forever, they have too many resources the West needs

and as for China, tell me where your Apple products are made
Your theory is starting at a disadvantage you may as well say fuck it and not even the option of firing back?
Prime Video now only offers a lot of things on "FreeVee" their ad supported streaming service. It's technically not putting ads in prime video, but it totally is. As 2 recent examples of things I watched, Jury Duty and Detective Pikachu cannot be watched without ads unless you purchase them. If you Google for "Stream detective Pikachu" Google will say it's available on FreeVee and Prime Video, but the Prime Video link redirects you to FreeVee.
I wrote a Twitter thread to critique Marc's post as well, re:

"As an Accelerationist, I've been watching e/acc gain traction interest.
With @pmarca post, it's time to address this philosophy's shortcomings.

Namely, that it is not broad or ambitious enough to truly fulfill the role we as tech leaders have to the future and society."

https://twitter.com/NickPinkston/status/1714088788237180947
I find myself looking at the guy's picture and telling myself "of course that is what he looks like!"

But on the flip side, we all know it is a bad idea to judge a book by its cover. How many times can we all recall doing this and feeling bad when our snap judgement was incorrect?

But look at the guy! What is it we are all picking up on in these comments. I am not the only one. Is there something about how he is positioning himself that warrants this? Or do we need to be more aware of our own biases?
ROCm is already supported by Pytorch apparently.
> Biased messenger, but correct message. CAFE and crash standards are the example to teach "bad knock-on effect". Make strict efficiency requirements, but exempt huge trucks? Everyone makes huge trucks!

I agree, Tesla is clearly self-interested here but I'll take any ally in this fight I can find. Just like it's notable (but unsurprising) that all of the big manufacturers of ICE vehicles are opposed to this change.

There's going to be a place for ICE vehicles on our roads for quite a while longer yet, but in this transitional phase there's absolutely no reason that we should be incentivizing manufacturers to create larger / less efficient vehicles, which is what our existing regulatory framework has inadvertently done for decades now.
Is this an ask for resources or an ask for people to join.

If the former, I recommend jeff Erickson's freely available Algorithms textbook
As a marketing pitch it is too poorly structured.
When I was at AWS, we used the same technique and I highly recommend it. No coupling to mainline, reviews made in parallel. For us one thing was super important: the commit cannot break the build, because it messes up with automated bisection, which was (is?) quite critical.
Yes, that's a drawback. If I want this, then I'll consider 1Password (or Bitwarden when they support passkeys).

I'm also not entirely comfortable with trusting Apple with this, considering the track record of some big tech with arbitrary blocking accounts, but assuming they block my account, then I would lose the cloud services (used for and syncing and backing up my passkeys), but I should still be able to use my passkeys locally on my Mac and iPhone. For that reason, I'm not sure what is the problem you're describing. It's not really different from 1Password arbitrarily terminating my account, or going out of business.
Thanks very much for your reply.

What Cloud would you build such a service on? AWS, GCP? Another? Any particular product you can think of?

Most of my experience is in Flask. I have used Django, Express, Phoenix & Actix for simple exercises but not for something real in the wild.

I will be serving static HTML pages with very little write operations. Most of the operations will be reads from the hosted database.
They’re remaking the newton AND the IIc. With science!
> Is there some scifi solution to step outside of the game?

Of course there is, of course they already use it, and of course the people who think banning research is the peak of enlightenment aren't remotely interested in making this kind of distinction.
I think the current hypothesis is that it was a migration from central or eastern India
It's not wrong to have those animalistic instincts, it's how you act on them and treat/speak to your sexual counterparts that is important.
Same here. Sometime it was working nicely, sometime not. I came to the conclusion that I was not sharpening often enough (maybe 1x/month) to be able to hone my skill properly and get the muscle required muscle memory. I finally got one of the sharpening stand contraption that hold the angle for you and it’s been a game changer. It is still very rewarding but without the frustration.
moxie tried, but there are no trustworthy ends for the encryption. hence privacy is still mostly for criminals.
Industry trends suggest that there isn’t much of a need for capacity in the first place

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/pickup-trucks-f150-size-wei...
OP implements their own RLE-based compression scheme. I bet you'd get better results from emitting an uncompressed binary format, and then passing the whole thing through a general-purpose compressor like zstd.

I'd also be interested to see what zstd (or even just gzip) would make of their original un-optimised format - I bet you'd get most of the way there "for free".
Per https://stacking.dev/, tools like sapling, spr, graphite.dev, ghstack all exist to handle the pain points you're mentioning. Agreed it's hard with vanilla git and github, but with extra tooling you can get it to work well.

Also, totally agree on the "smaller the better" - https://graphite.dev/blog/the-ideal-pr-is-50-lines-long
> Which raises the question why the US doesn't arm its EMT and firefighters.

As a firefighter, please, no. And as someone who educates future EMTs and paramedics, I've taken to telling students that if you think you need to be armed to do this job or to "deal" with some of your patients, it may be a clue that you may be dealing with compassion fatigue, burnout or PTSD. Certainly not the only reason, to be clear - we are often in less than ideal situations with less than ideal patients, but that's what you sign up for.

In our county (not known for high crime) we are issued ballistic vests but they're not worn on every call (and when we expect to have to wear them for a call, there's additional resources sent), and there are other "rules" - we have to wear our bunker (structural firefighting) pants, and our helmets, and our vests have "FIRE" printed in large white letters, because our management is adamant about doing everything possible from differentiating Fire/EMS on a scene like that from being confused with LE, for all manner of reasons.
> What used to be a common journalistic intent of "let's find out who else this might have happened to" is completely gone, replaced by sensational clickbait titles.

> > A similar incident occurred last year when a Canadian Tesla owner was told it would cost $26,000 to get a replacement battery for his vehicle, Fox Business reported.
I Don't Have to Post About My Outrage. Neither Do You
Oh it's a fabrication of a mind, just not yours.
And they tried to paint removing it as a "feature" too.

I love my Tesla but I will jump as soon as another car gets functional autopilot and compatibility with the Supercharger network.
I once committed mail fraud when I was 17 years old. I had been using the return address as a destination address on envelopes to send mail to places for free without stamps. Finally got caught one day at the local branch. Postal Inspectors said I could face 20 to 30 years in federal prison.
It's not? You can artificially limit the speed of typing
Should there be some recycle drive for the devices, so as to reduce e-waste. if a company acknowledges they are dropping device support for end of life, Id think recovery of obsolete devices for waste disposal is a reasonable ask.
I've been reading the Elon Musk book, I'm about halfway through. Some of the things in there, I'm surprised Musk was happy to admit to — they're intentionally cutting corners to reach self-imposed "milestones" on number of cars shipped in a given year, or reducing how waterproof their Solarlink roofs are in order to get more installed.

This is the kind of thing that belongs in a damning exposé on a shoddy company, not a book promoted by the CEO.
Did anyone else experience the demos getting sluggish the lower I scrolled? It was pretty fast at the start but as the CRDT got more optimised, the demos started showing more lag.
Thanks, this sounds great.
I remember this case. I also remember that he appealed and won: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna36239042
It would be lovely if the article actually included some basic facts about the situation. Such as:

- How many inches of water is a Tesla rated to be left standing in, before major damage could occur?

- Are there locations in the chassis and bodywork that you can inspect after flooding may have occurred, to see whether the water got that deep?

- In heavy rain, can the various drainage paths on the exterior be overwhelmed (especially if there are some leaf litter and/or spiderwebs in the wrong spots), resulting in water draining into places where it can cause serious damage?*

*If this sounds impossible to you, ask a few older VW owners.
I totally agree with you, and there are definitely more whimsical ways to go about it than goatse. Even if I personally can find whimsy in getting randomly goatse'd I'm not gonna say that someone who finds it really disturbing deserves what's coming to them just because they are insufficiently chill.
Us can certainly afford to support both Israel and Ukraine says Janet Yellen
> but AMD wanted to have "works in every game!" as a selling point.

you make it sound like this is a bad thing?
>Other herbicides are even more dangerous, and not using herbicide will cause food prices to go up ... This research brought to you by Mansanto :D
My line of thought is that while I can look at Glassdoor or whatever so can they. But they can also get a department to do what I'll be doing 40hrs/week. Maybe I can ask a friend at that company but there's nothing really stopping my interviewer from asking his friend at my (ex)company the same thing.
It's an implementation detail of popular architectures nowadays. It doesn't have to be like this.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_architecture
you might be thinking of Elon’s claim that the CyberTruck would be semi-amphibious