skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The special gas mix was originally created because of smog issues in places like CA but improved fuel and pollution standards in cars have rendered that larely obsolete.

That's an interesting claim. Are you claiming (1) that there are no places in California that have problematic smog levels, such that reducing smog is obsolete as a goal, or (2) that the changes you reference haven't just moved the pollution baseline down but actually changed the relevant mechanisms so that the California formulation no longer reduces emissions in the current mix of cars on the road in California?

And, for either, where is the evidence in support of the claim?

> I can only guess why (2) doesn't happen but a good educated guess is that Newsom has presidential hopes in 2028 and doesn't want to pick a fight with the environmental wing of the Democratic Party.

You leave out two important points:

(1) California is not an executive dictatorship, Newsom couldn't unilaterally mandate that no matter who he was willing to pick a fight with, but more importantly,

(2) To abandon using reformulated gasoline for a large portion (by population) of the State, who he'd need to pick a fight with is the US federal government, because the urban counties of Southern California are under an EPA mandate due to air quality:

https://www.epa.gov/gasoline-standards/reformulated-gasoline
Or it could be psyops to discredit your enemy. Or unethical newspapers looking for clicks.
Can't stand Ubiquiti myself. The web interface breaks every convention and I remember constantly running into bizarre problems like not being able to change port forwarding assignments without the devices being online or download benchmarks being exactly half as fast as they should be.
This is not about Oracle versus postgres, it's about whether or not to use hints. My position is that needing hints indicates a failure of the database optimiser. The optimiser theoretically should do a perfect job. In practice it doesn't, and never can so sometimes hints are necessary, but IME and speaking as an MSSQL guy, I very rarely need them.
That is what rumors say Windows 12 is going to be, which is another reason for those of us that got burned with the whole WinRT/UAP/UWP mismanagement, to not care about WinUI 3.0 and the team's platry resources.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-developing-chrom...
Ask HN: Over what distances are 800M runners competitive with 400M runners?
I learned that the longest time you can sprint for is ~1 minute which is why the 400M is a sprint because historically it took 60 seconds. On the other hand 800M is not a sprint, as a consequence the physiques of 400M runners are different from 800M runners...it got me thinking is there a distance over which a mixed group of 400M runners would be competitive with 800M runners? For example 600M?
It's not free, but the initial contractor CGI definitely hosed taxpayers.
Ah, I think I get it. Thanks!

I'm not going to be able to comment on that with any confidence.
It's not for everybody, but I run OpenBSD on an APU2 from PCEngines. The hardware is EOL but it's handy to be able to run my setup on virtual any modern commodity hardware, as long as I can fit a couple NICs inside.

A couple years ago my parent's DSL line was accidentally severed, but our neighbors agreed to let us bridge through their WiFi. I setup an old Pentium MMX 200MHz box with a PCI NIC and PCI wireless card and got them online again. It was more of a fun exercise and an effort to put something between our network and theirs, but it was even fast enough for Netflix.
It's mnemonic! [S]top and [Q]ontinue :o)
I would never inflict that on my kids
> The sole point of a business existing is to make a profit.

That's not the sole point, but it is important.

That said, it doesn't mean we should accept the "as much profit as possible regardless of societal cost" stance a lot of businesses take. A more sustainable, human, and less harmful thing would be to go back to the idea that businesses should make a reasonable profit, not profit at any cost.
Show HN: We built a new portfolio and dividend tracker for investors
There is many portfolio and dividend trackers out there for investors. Lots of different kinds with different features. However we felt like something is missing.
The trackers do their job yes, but not as well as they could. Most of them lack even the most basic information while still adding features that have a very little to do with actual investment tracking.

So what every engineer does at this point? Builds a new one of course!

What separates Stockle from other investment trackers? Here's a few key points.

- We don't aim to do everything. We focus on the necessary core features and we do them well, covering every little detail without missing any critical information. While you are not able to add your house or boat as an investment in Stockle, what you can analyse is your stocks, funds and ETFs.

- Portfolio aggregation in Stockle is actually aggregation. We don't just aggregate one chart or few numbers. If you choose to view the the aggregated total of all portfolios, we literally take every piece of data and cover every single detail similarly as in individual portfolios.

- We've put enormous effort into logic, UI/UX of Stockle. Every view, window, button and piece of information is laid out so that user understands quickly where the numbers are coming from. Single command menu handles adding transactions, dividends and portfolios and much more.
> a retired 73-year-old grandmother among the 232,000 investors who were victims of the alleged fraud.

Why/how did she come to that decision is my only question from this whole article. Perhaps I am too dumb to understand why people invest into shaky things(cryptocurrencies, MLM scams and what nots) or perhaps people just allow others to control their assets.
Yeah, OS/2 Warp was sometimes the best way to run DOS and Windows 3.1 software, but as soon as you had some good or fun Windows 95 software there was never any reason to go back to OS/2 Warp because you probably didn't own any OS/2 specific software.
How am I suggesting abandoning 1A? I'm assuming you are talking about the "speech" part of that rather than religion, press, or assembly.

Firstly, I'm specifically saying there should NOT be consequences to him from what he said to the cop. That's bogus, unprofessional, and terrible.

But that said you also have responsibility for your speech that goes along with the freedom. Do you think people should just say every single thing that comes to their minds to their peers at work?

If not, then are you (as you suggest about me) saying people should abandon their 1A rights at work?

Or would you (much more sensibly IMHO) say that if you go around being a dick to people then it's going to affect the way they treat you and the boss you keep insulting isn't going to feel full of love toward you and want to promote you.

Telling somebody to use their free speech responsibly (which is what I am doing) is not in any way the same thing as telling them to abandon their right to free speech.
I remember when Ars Technica was a forum with a token website attached.
Try building bots in codingame.com, 2 hours should be enough to build something that works :)
Can non-profits not reinvest income just as any other business?
What if I have dual US/EU citizenship?
That's pretty much why I never followed Jon Stewart outside of The Daily Show. It's not that I think he's a bad guy, but his general demeanor both on and off script tells me he's not someone I'd want to be around IRL. I first started to realize this when he was on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (holy crap, I'm realizing that was probably over 20 years ago) and his attitude was offputting. It seemed as if he found Regis to be annoying and believed that everyone else believes Regis is annoying too, except most people don't. And in other instances, he seems very self-righteous.

The one good thing I'll say about Stewart is I think he's genuine, even if I don't like that side of him. For that reason, I respect him more than Stephen Colbert whom I think is always "on" and is more of a people pleaser, even though I think he's (somewhat) funnier than Stewart and is more likeable.

EDIT: Wow, he was more insufferable on Millionaire than I remembered. I just found the episode on YouTube and he starts being a dickbag in the first few minutes. Apparently people still think he was funny here, but to me this is one of the least funny Jon Stewart moments I've ever seen. My personal taste, I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD0vcmhmaCY
I'm so annoyed at myself that I fell for the Winklevoss's unregistered security [1] Gemini Earn program. It really should have been obvious to me that the 7+% interest they were offering (while every real bank was doing like 0.5%) was unsustainable, but I kept seeing FDIC-backed flashed on their website in regards to GUSD and didn't do the ample due diligence before giving them my money.

Now I'm somewhere about $13,000 poorer, and hopefully slightly wiser. It makes me glad that these douchebags might actually have to pay consequences for their actions.

[1] Not my opinion, but the SEC's https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-7
> OS/2 PPC included a full fledged PC emulator, which supplied a virtual x86 CPU as well as common PC hardware

Was x86 emulation built into PowerPC or would this have been all software?
CTRL-whatever does something funky often enough that I only hit CTRL on purpose.
But this time you look cool while being tethered to Zuck's poison.
Turning point in what? It's a camera and a pair of speakers in ugly glasses (yes, personal opinion) with shit battery life and tied to an unethical company. That's the entire thing. They're not remotely "smart" in any way. Certainly no smarter than a pair of bluetooth earbuds.
Oh wow, yup that will do it. That was my second suggestion for what is "correct" but I never heard of your #2 suggestion, so I thought there would still be performance issues because you'd have to shift all the values above. I'm kind of annoyed now I didn't know about this before... :)

Yes, this should definitely considered to be the correct, definitive, performant solution then. Thank you!

I think you'll need a full table lock in the case of a race condition trying to do a remove and add at the same time, but that's probably not usually going to be an issue?
I can explain that, because I made the website.
The project started out in Hong Kong, where we've rented out a clean room and I made the first transistors in the lab there.
Back then we got some funding from the PRC, because some folks were interested into my argument of the possibility of CIA/NSA hardware back-doors in Chinese hardware... Spying goes both ways, and you gotta pitch your projects depending on the situation. Then however, the pandemic started and folks started setting the campus on fire because of the extradition treaty protests, so we ran out of money and now I'm in Portugal.
What do you suggest, not to provide a citation for every claim?
Same. It was way less satisfying to see MM.DD.YY format instead of MM.DD.YYYY date in pi.
Legally, I think he’s right. Most of what the kid said was just harmless blowing off steam. But publicly claiming someone did something like best their wife when their is no proof is potentially defamation. The judge took the correct action.

The law should work the same for and against everyone, regardless of how much you like them.

Juries and Judges are the real wildcard. How would they interpret this?
I don't see anything wrong with taxing consumption. I've long advocated for a revenue neutral carbon tax, for example
Quantum Computers in 2023: Where They Are Now and What's Next
I believe in both cases the Turing completeness is accidental, and in the case of CSS a security concern.

(In the case of TS, see https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833)

If anyone has more historical evidence that this is so for CSS, reactions from original authors, etc, or further evidence in the case of TS, I'd be curious to see it.
I mean, that may be true, but...a lot of people really need that pointed out!

There's a large segment of the population—with decent representation right here on HN—that genuinely believes that if you're rich, then you must have gotten there by being smarter, or in some other way inherently superior, to the rest of us who aren't.
>Using CAA is a good idea in general, but would it help in this case? The attacker would just request the exact cert configuration that is permitted by CAA. Maybe this helps if you can strengthen one validation method?

Author of ACME-CAA (RFC 8657) here. ACME-CAA can mitigate this because you can put a unique identifier for your ACME account in the CAA record, so it is not possible for an attacker to do this unless they can get your ACME account private key (or coerce the ACME service). This assumes you have DNSSEC-secured nameservers, of course, otherwise DNS requests can potentially also be intercepted when queried by the CA.

See RFC 8657 for a full list of security caveats. The RFC is designed to be more readable than most.

Blogpost by me with more background: https://www.devever.net/~hl/acme-caa-live
He mentions it in section 4 of https://willcrichton.net/nota/
Linux on the Web (LOTW): OS for files that can be stored within modern browsers
The rescue proved something everyone knows: some software engineers suck; others rule.
Not sure why you chose this branch of the topic to share your declaration that the whole idea is nonsense, but ok.
That's not true, there are some very pruned (and relatively dumb) LLMs which go under a gig.
https://jaapl.org/content/38/3/376 . I also note that in your comments on this article you have asked people multiple times for sources, but don't provide anything other than your own anecdotal experience as contrary evidence.

> Can we please see some formal, peer-reviewed evidence to suggest that someone willing to commit murder is going to be deterred by a DUI-equivalent?

Others have talked about how abusers don't always intend to commit murder, but there's also something to say about enforce-ability. Suppose someone yells and screams at you and threatens to hurt you. You call the police. Unless you've got injuries or recordings, what are the police going to do? Without hard evidence it's just a he said/she said and is unlikely to even end up with charges. Even if you have recordings, unless it's a specific threat that isn't a crime. But you then go to a court for a TPO. This person shows up again, screaming and yelling and threatening you. You call the police and they show up. Now all you have to do it point to the person standing in your front yard, and point to the TPO, and that's the case.
did you know you can click the thread title to go to the original article? then learn something about these amazing creatures that are so much more important than humans, and then comment about it
And that is an excuse for spending damn near a billion for this?

> Testing was largely a manual process. Releases and deployment required lengthy overnight downtimes and often failed, required equally-lengthy rollbacks. The core data layer lacked a schema. Provisioning hosting resources was slow and not automated. Critically, there was a pervasive lack of monitoring of the site. No APM, no bog-standard metrics about CPU, memory, disk, network, etc., that could be viewed by anyone on the team.
Mentioned in passing of section 4: https://willcrichton.net/nota/
>But it won't be anyone who has dealers whose business model centers on no longer needed maintenance

Where does this come from?

According to Kelly Blue Book, a Tesla costs about $600 a year in maintenance, which is higher than many ICE cars.

So either the cars are relatively expensive to maintain, or Tesla is milking its captured customer base, which people accuse dealers of. Which is it?
Actually, now that I think about it, step 1 isn't necessary. You don't actually need to shuffle the indexes since you always choose a random one anyway. It should be enough to just do the swap on deletes in order to keep the integers contiguous.

> I think you'll need a full table lock in case you're ever trying to do a remove and add at the same time

Yeah, I think you need some sort of locking to ensure N can't be concurrently modified but I'm not a DB person, so I don't know how to go about that.
Cameras, cops and paranoia:Amazon's surveillance network alters neighborhoods
It's not entirely your fault. This is what regulators and regulation are for, which obviously should've moved much faster to avoid consumer and investor harm.

It is unreasonable to expect individuals to be sophisticated capital market participants in the face of fraudulent marketing efforts. There is a reason fiduciaries exist [1], as well as whole piles of capital market licenses [2]. This is a natural outcome of less than honest folks leveraging information asymmetry in a complex system.

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-fiduciary...

[2] https://www.finra.org/registration-exams-ce/qualification-ex...
Perhaps she was swayed by Matt Damon.
[Q]ontinue was the next best option, c is already taken up to [C]ill the current process obviously.
> You could make cryptographic protocol where all chats have an extra user in them whose key is unable to be decrypted or revealed unless there is a warrant provided.

...that's called a backdoor.
https://linuxontheweb.github.io/docs/what-it-is.html

Linux on the Web is primarily a way to allow people to use their web browsers in the same way that they used their computers before the web started becoming commonplace in the early 1990's. Computers are called "computers" precisely because they let us perform general computations. But due to the high resolutions of modern displays and infinite variety of media content, it can sometimes be difficult to perceive the possibilities that general computing machines offer us.
"everyone" championing Threads? who?

Ghost town/just reposts of other platforms.

Just face it, the social landscape is fragmented into a bunch of platforms now of varying sizes. and mastodon is just silo'd niche servers with limited network-effect/discoverability. Might as well be just a series of forums ppl happen to be posting on. The option of more open interoperability between activitypub integrations is nice and seems like a forgotten dream from the early days, but will see how far that goes with wordpress etc.
Stop/Qontinue.
Not superrelated but having a resume layout in Nota will drive adoption with high velocity
Genuinely baffling he'd write this book before the trial, with this narrative.
When it comes to the flags for traditional Chinese, that's a bug with the stylesheet... just noticed it as well...
NO ONE, except mainland China uses simplified Chinese tho, so it's pretty much, as a matter of fact, a national thing.
When it comes to traditional Chinese, it can either be Taiwan OR Hong Kong, they both are still using characters, which turn into black illegible blobs when printed with font size 12 LOL
> Perhaps biggest of all Swift doesn’t need a runtime like Obj-C

Swift most certainly has a runtime: https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/main/stdlib/public/runti... And most or all of it is written in C++, not Swift last I checked. Whenever you see a `_swift_fooBarBaz` symbol in a stack trace, that's the runtime.
What happens often is this causes the escalation. Trying to make this into a reddit issue and claiming information backing up your point is everywhere is weak and you lose credibility. Produce the studies or let your argument devolve into hearsay
Yeah, I guess you're right. The CEO has the retention/switching costs amortized in their salary unlike probably the entire rest of the company.

A company might take a 30k hit letting a 50k/yr employee walk away but they won't raise their salary to 56k to keep them from walking. But w.r.t. a CEO they will raise their salary from of 5M to 17M so that investor confidence won't tumble by them quitting.
What an excellent article. As a professional programmer without a CS background, I love articles like this that dig into the fundamental structures, even though I don't deal with them in my day to day.
Calling run-of-the-mill pump and dump schemers "smart money" offends the sensibilities. It's "smart" only in the most anti-social sense of the word, like believing it's "smart" to act in bad faith as long as you get some benefit from it.
I don't understand it myself. "I don't mind if people see X, but I'm bothered if they can prove it" is such a bizarre attitude to me.
Yeah, our project is still ongoing, I'm just too busy for updating the website regularly.
In a bit of fairness, I kind of blame the "investing media". If you watched CNBC from ~2019 until about 2022, they were listing $BTC like it was any other ticker on the stock market.

I cannot speak for this grandmother, but I cannot blame someone who doesn't really understand what cryptocurrency is for just assuming it's "some techy version of a stock", especially as more traditional brokers like Venmo and CashApp and PayPal start handling crypto as well.
It’s a bit tangential, but I find that how much I enjoy designing UIs depends a lot on the UI toolkit I’m using. With many, it’s as boring as you say, but there are a handful which have a large repertoire of capable, flexible widgets and designer program that makes the process something of a joy. AppKit on macOS is like this. Qt Widgets has a lot of the right ingredients but somehow misses the mark.
Tangentially related, but incredibly important given the footage of this interview and its importance in civilian oversight of the U.S. government: never talk to the FBI unless it’s recorded.

And they will never be recorded, which means you should never talk to the FBI.

They have a long standing policy of refusing to allow any interview to be recorded. Instead, they fill out a 302 report after the interview with a “written record” of what was said.

Unless you’re comfortable with your freedom relying on the honesty of the agent sitting across from you, an agent whose incentives are to close cases, do not talk to the FBI.
I have one of these with like 9,945 years of uptime. Rock solid piece of gear.
> not sure why you are being downvoted.

A quick graph analysis of the upvoters/downvoters on each comment and then clustering those across historical posts would probably elucidate this reason.

> No judge wants to read about somebody being killed after they denied the PO.

A judge or magistrate suffers no penalty for issuing a PPO but can suffer great ridicule when this exact situation happens: how is it not obvious that this would perversely inflate the numbers?
Yeah, juries tend towards the stupid side because competent people likely have lives that would be seriously impacted by a major trial.

As far as I'm concerned plainclothes officers should not be allowed to make arrests outside exigent circumstances. The target is likely to feel they are under criminal attack and very well might respond with lethal force.
2023 Online Authentication Barometer [pdf]
I think it deserves clarification that computer technology is the current technical enabler of complexity which is the obstacle to repairs. In other words, Big Tech is the root cause - the enabler - of multiple different problems in other industries. Even if Big Tech per se is "innocent" and problems surface in other industries, including finance and agro, the root causes still remain with Big Tech.
The article very much reminded me of Rainbow Six Siege whose defining feature is probably the destructible environment. You can shoot or blow a path through walls floors and ceilings to reach the hostages / bad guys you need to get to. It very much changes the dynamics during play because almost nowhere is safe. To balance things, defenders have the ability to erect a limited number of metal barriers but the end result is that every game feels different and creativity is very much rewarded.
I thought the article was mixing up MB and GB at first. Is that the size of the LLM with no training data? Is there any value in that?
What are the tools you mentioned here? Is there like a dominant software, similar to ArcGIS for GIS?