skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thanking my lucky stars I don’t have to live under such a controlling regime.

I live there and it is descending into sheer horror. And all the various member state pass things into national laws then people complain: "we have no choice, it's the EU" as an excuse to make your life miserable.

It's not just about CSAM. The intrusiveness of KYC/AML for example is out of control too. So much that the EU is now apparently trying to correct their trajectory a bit: too many businesses and individuals are complaining that of all the people required to play the compliance/KYC/AML snitches for the states (notary / lawyers / bankers / insurers / accountants / etc.), a bit too many feel empowered by some ego-trip and believe they're suddenly part of the spanish inquisition bent on burning heretics.

Take just any subject: say cryptocurrencies. I know, I know: many here hate on cryptocurrencies, but bear with me... What does the EU do regarding cryptocurrencies? Quickly pass a directive mandating every VASP (Virtual Asset Service Provider) to report to the kommandantur the name/physical address/virtual address of any EU citizen owning cryptocurrencies. It doesn't only concerns exchanges/brokers like Coinbase: it also concerns companies selling hardware wallets. You may hate on cryptocurrencies: this is not about protecting the people. It's about total, complete and utter surveillance.

Because they can.

They can pass any directive they want and they do so.

At the moment the nation states in the EU still have their own fiscal rules but I'm sure this is coming to an end too.

The EU is very quickly turning into the EURSS. It's horrible to witness.

I'm ready to get the fuck out (I already moved to a less totalitarian country, sadly still inside the EU), but it's hard.
It's time to bust the 'calories in, calories out' weight-loss myth
You're just adding another layer of abstraction. Where does policy come from? It doesn't fall from the sky like some sort of cargo cult delivery. Further, your own link highlights what I'm saying here very clearly:

"Higher funding has been made possible by burgeoning state tax receipts as aggregate incomes, spending, populations and tax rates have trended upwards. However, this close link with tax receipts has made highway funding growth responsive to economic conditions and unemployment."

So.. higher incomes, more populations, more tax receipts. Specifically, highways are a function of _human demand_. There isn't some grand conspiracy to build roads just to make a handful of companies in Michigan happy.
I haven't been following crypto for a while, but I thought that there weren't really any cryptocurrencies that were profitable to mine anymore. Has something changed, or did I miss something?
In Texas up is down, right is right, and the State pays companies to use less electricity
> My home kitchen doesn't routinely serve strangers.

Most states have cottage food laws, with basic regulations for small-scale commercial production. E.g. you need to take a course on food safety, you need your water tested, and you can only sell up to $X per year, but you aren't subject to random inspections. There is no reason why the web shouldn't be regulated similarly, with different rules based on the size of the audience.
Isn't that a bit like tobacco companies "optimizing for engagement", but knowing that the same ingredients cause cancer?
It should be illegal to drive above 25mph on any street that pedestrians regularly cross (i.e. all urban non-highway roads). Your enjoyment of speeding does not supersede other people’s right to not get struck by a car going 50mph.
But when roaming around at like 10 mph average round the city, it can presumably do a full 18+ hour day on a single charge. Electric cars are super efficient in urban environments.
I would argue that it is less due to politics and "safe streets" being an extreme position and more to do with the fact that _entire metropolitan areas_ are designed around the car. It would literally require starting from scratch in many places to design a city around non-car ownership.

You can argue that it is a net negative that a lot of America, and most of the American west, was built and grew in conjunction with the car, but it is not entirely fair to say the only impediment is culture and politics.
Turning off the Dark Reader plug-in made it work for me on FF
It seems to be a common misconception that money is created out of thin air!

If it was just created as needed in an uncontrolled fashion, then we’d end up with up consequences such as runaway inflation.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/banks-do-not-create-money-out...
> Really? If they had been in a car accident caused by another driver, and took a few seconds to pull over because they were unaware they were dragging a person initially hit by the other driver, they would have been charged?

unless you believe this person stayed completely silent during this, the answer is yes. The measuring stick that the law tends to use for liability like this is the reasonable person test and no reasonable person drives 20 feet with someone screaming in pain after having HIT their car.

Are there circumstances in which someone would NOT be charged? sure, there have been cases of toddlers running out in front of cars and it was determined the driver couldn't possible have seen them due to their height.

Since you apparently misunderstood, the point about the insurance is that maybe we shouldn't allow companies to insure themselves against killing people. We as a society absolutely went after Ford for choosing not to do recalls because the estimated cost of the recall exceeded the estimated payout for the deaths and injuries. Under no circumstances should we allow companies to make decisions like this.
> Core desktop Linux devs on the other hand be like, "Whatev.. I don't use bluetooth on my 24-core BeastStation. Not my problem."

This is absolutely not how Linux development works, but okay.
I'm more surprised Sudafed was shown as an OTC. Isn't that one of the ingredients in meth? Not really the subject of the article but it struck me as odd.
Sorry, but what the actual f**?

It's the single worst decision ever made in the history of mankind? Replacing some power stations of one type with some renewables of another type, without any disruption to the functioning power grid?

World War 1. World War 2. China's Great Leap Forward. Stalin's Five Year Plan. The Vietnam war. All worse than changing the mix of the European energy grid by a few %?

I just don't get it. Please, please, someone explain this to me, why people say things like this. Is there some right wing website going endlessly on about how Germany is a doomed failed state, as some kind of way to relive glory days of the Allied victory?
I usually struggle with GUIs and I find the concept of discoverability awful. Having to randomly click through tons of menus until you discover the right place is frustrating. I use MS Word maybe twice a month, and every time I go through that ritual of clicking through several tabs just to be able to discover how to save a file. If I used it more often I certainly would remember, but then it's no longer about discovering.

Oh and if you're lucky you have the option to hover for a second to find what the icons mean through a tooltip. Having to do that with every icon until you find the right one is not pleasant.

I just find typing "help" or "man" a lot more intuitive than the random clicking on icons.

I'm sure that I'm a rare specimen and most people would prefer clicking to reading, but personally I find discoverability a bad user experience.
Thanks for doing this!

I had to convert a ReadableSteam to base64 recently, and I was shocked at how much boilerplate it required in 2023:

if (isReadableStream<Uint8Array>(value)) {
const chunks = [];

for await (const chunk of value) {
chunks.push(chunk);
}

if (chunks[0].byteLength) {
const length = chunks.reduce(
(agg, next) => agg + next.length, 0
);

// Make the same species TypedArray that ReadableStream gave us.
value = new (chunks[0].constructor as Uint8ArrayConstructor)(length);

for (let i = 0, offset = 0; i < chunks.length; i++) {
value.set(chunks[i], offset);
offset += chunks[i].length;
}
} else {
throw new Error(`Unrecognized readable stream type: ${ chunks[0].constructor.name }`);
}
}

return `data:application/octet-stream;base64,${
btoa(
(value as Uint8Array).reduce(
(result, charCode) => result + String.fromCharCode(charCode),
''
)
)
}`;

I had to learn/implement a lot of little details to simply change the encoding from binary to its most common text representation. That's a day I would have rather spent doing product work.
> no business has a right to exist independently from its standing in the system of laws and the health of its users

I don't understand what that means, and how I can know if my business in inside or outside the law.
I like the windows 95 themed sections, does someone know some already existing css for that style ?
as in a name of a version other than the well known casu martzu?
They’re both cool, they have different appeals. The Dutch bills are like an art house rendition of what hipsters would want to earn and spend, the US 10,000 is like “NYC, big buildings, big cars, capitalist empire” chic.
Addressing Data Security Concerns
Actually it's the reverse of the above nowadays, many third world countries have cheaper, faster internet than much of the US.
> What makes you an immigrant?

* I didn't speak the language when I moved here. I do now, but I still have a heavy accent that immediately tells everyone I wasn't born here.

* People still casually discriminate against me. I apply with a (fake) German name to apartments. Obviously I use my real name when I meet them and sign the documents, but it has helped me get the foot in the door many times before.

* I did go to school in Germany, and those are the the only Germans I'm friends with. I've made friends with other immigrants, but German society is much harder to break into.

* I can't vote in elections (which is fair, to be clear).

* While I understand German culture now, I don't understand it like a German does. It's kind of hard to quantify the impact of this but while I can understand what's expected of me and why people act in certain ways, it still feels like doing a dance rather than a mutual shared understanding.

All that said.. I feel pretty at place here. Living somewhere for a long time tends to do that. But you still never get over the feeling that you're some guy living in a place, rather than being of that place. It's more of a 50/50.. sometimes you feel as if you've always been there, and sometimes as if you just came that day.
I've felt the beam widen a few times on long runs: I'm seeing while not looking at anything, hearing it all while listening to none of it. It's really quite nice
Your Seattle exchange makes perfect sense when you connect the people and the tech. You're using web3 thinking to interface with people using web2 tools to manipulate web1 software reading data from web0 systems. Sending and receiving info through this system is sometimes literally a game of telephone, but the translation steps will be set in stone.

E.g. Your email sent to IT was routed, unread, to another department. That department starts their rudimentary FOIA process which includes submitting IT-Request-4 regarding your specific date and field range. IT-Request-4 does not come with context. Seattle's IT department now specs out adding fields to a production database and adding your custom export to the end-of-day batch. They spec out additional hosting costs because IT-Request-4 was designed as a way to create data pipelines.

At this point there are only three people involved and they each have a different view on what's happening due to a knowledge gap. You could eliminate this (imho) by providing motivation and context in your initial request.

I wonder how these exchanges would look if you sent a 'pre-FOIA' heads up to specific departments in a city, introducing yourself as conducting a large-scale survey of FOIA processes and letting them know your request will revolve around a year's worth of email metadata. It feels like this could be a more collaborative process.
That comment is just based on my experience going to SF a few weeks ago.

- Every billboard on the way to the hotel from the airport was for AI (which not the case a few months ago)

- Uber driver interrogated me all the way to the hotel on the value prop of my current project at work

- Went to grab a burger and had to dodge 2 people screaming at me, walked passed a man crying because I believe a friend had just gotten hit by a car.

- almost stepped in human fecies

- On my last night, took a cruise back to my hotel (thanks to a friend). Honestly it was quite fun.

Nothing in my comment was exaggerated, just edited a bit to make it more coherent. The reality was actually more dystopian.

And I do mean that last line seriously, I had a blast!:

> SF today is so aggressively dystopian that it's sort of hard not to enjoy the experience.
“It […] is used as a pejorative” Not to nitpick, but it clearly isn’t used that way by everyone, certainly not by the person you’re replying to.
Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38004709
Sure, it's all slightly fuzzy. I don't think that detracts much from the my point though.
I don't really see how this is relevant

If we don't like how something works, we should understand the factors that shape it. If someone's internal preferences are contrary to their actions, that's worth knowing, as it says something about the strength of the incentive structures. This is true for any person of any status, not least the rich, who, ideally, should not be destructive forces in society.

Private preferences and feelings are relevant to the analysis.
> Self driving cars on the other hand can incrementally make everything better

Except for energy consumption. If we were in a world were fossil fuels were unlimited and climate change was not a thing, maybe I would agree with you.

But we are not. We need to get much more efficient with energy, and cars just can't do enough. Better accept it earlier than later and start building public transports wherever it's possible.
Those run the old soc. That is like 3 time slower than the one announced.
It seems abundantly clear that the 5th circuit is wrong. Again.
Fair enough. Not familiar with SF bus system but the bus system where I live, which is considered quite good I think, has each bus line 1/2 mile apart from each other. Almost no one lives directly along a route so there's an extra 1/8 mile average walk just to get to the route, not a stop on it. Fine by me but a lot of people don't seem capable of that for whatever reason. Combine that with the bus not actually going to where you're trying to get and I can see why people aren't huge fans.
Are You Talking or Speaking?
heh. well, could drop the leading zeros :)

But, yeah, magic powers, sure, anything goes. I was just thinking there must be something more reliable than NYT headlines.
> Yes, git underneath stores data as diffs but they are only vaguely related to logical structure of commits

And that's why we call that lower level compression trick "delta", not "diff".
It's way harder to fake physical measurements (like weather, solar activity, etc) published by international bodies, You could maybeeee influence the least significant digit but even this would be hard without cooking up experimental data.

Maybe get physical measurements, stock exchange data, newspaper headlines, and bitcoin blocks, all in 6 months in the future, and XOR all of them.
SiFive bought OpenSilicon (and Naveed moved over to SiFive) long before 2020. I'm not sure why the WikiPedia says that. The SiFive Wikipedia page says they were acquired in 2018, but I thought it was before that. I thought they had purchased OpenSilicon around the time Naveed was appointed SiFive's CEO (just before I started in 2017.)

My take on the SiFive / OpenSilicon venture was they initially thought they (SiFive) initially thought they were going to make their money with the Core Designer and they wanted customers to be able to push a button and have designs move from the core designer (Rocket++) to verilog to OpenSilicon who would do all the bits you have to do to turn a verilog design into actual chips. But when the core designer strategy was de-emphasized, OpenSilicon was an expensive investment that didn't make a lot of revenue, so they needed to get rid of it if there was any hope to be acquired.

I was just a peon and had no contact with the management team, so this is all just a guess on my part.
Most of the world doesn’t have freedom of speech. You can absolutely be arrested and jailed for speech in Europe.
Because it will not get solved unless we're willing to invest time, effort and some risk into developing AI
This is simply false.
It's trivial to see from the statistics(https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...) that the phaseout of nuclear energy was matched by an increase in renewables, whilst lignite and coal production has remained static.
LLM Comparison/Test: 39 models tested (7B-70B and ChatGPT/GPT-4)
Oops, my mistake, sorry. I still think it would seriously cut into their profits, but you’re right.
Not really. Oharmaceuticals have many different tiers of trials, but even with that, there are still new discoveries and surprises once they reach the full population. Waymo has been testing their tech for over a decade in much smaller and controlled situations. Similarly, all of these companies also have done tests with humans behind the wheel for years. To claim that they've done no testing and are going straight to public testing is just plainly false.

You can argue about how much non-public testing is enough, but any roadmap for AV will eventually at some point have to include public testing.
I cringe a little every time I click a Twitter/X (identity crisis) link. Ars is a solid resource.
Billionaire Who Pioneered Remote Work Plans to Turn His Workers into Algorithms
So it sounds like you have a UI for building a training set and also a model trainer, right?
It's a capacity issue. You just can't transport as many people with cars.

In a completely empty city, the first car handily beats transit. Of course.

In a traffic-laden city, separated PT tends to determine how long it takes to travel instead. 12AM it takes me 25min to get into the centre of the city - at peak hour it's more than an hour. Curiously, the train also happens to take approximately an hour to get into the city.

If public transit exists, it becomes the upper-bound for traffic travel time as if it takes longer than that people start to take the constant-time PT trip instead of the variable car trip.

In a software sense you can usually view decent PT (ie. not busses stuck in traffic) as having a high but constant time cost, whereas cars have a low but increasing cost corresponding to the traffic load (with non-separated transit incurring the same costs but being worse due to traffic stops :()
I think they got the two backwards.
Does downvoting posts serve a purpose in setting their ranking? Shorting stock has the same effect for price.
Not real Sudafed. Real Sudafed isn’t OTC because it is pseudoephedrine—in fact that’s where Sudafed got its name.
You should read some of the discussion on this here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37958473

This is largely being pushed by people related to an organisation called "Thorn".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37958473#37962743

Thorn seems to be related to US tech companies. Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Palantir, are all mentioned on the wayback machine version of their website as "tech taskforce" mebers. My interpretation would be that US tech is pushing this law because they know there is money to be made here (providing the scanning systems and collecting as much data as they can).
Having a car is always more freedom than not having a car.

Where I live I sometimes walk, sometimes bike, sometimes take the subway, sometimes use my car, and sometimes use my truck.

I'm nowhere near rich enough, but having your own private jet would also give you a lot of extra freedom.

However I don't consider these self driving taxis to give you much freedom (because you don't own them).
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
In a few years all CSAM will be AI generated; if they don't hurry up, they'll be left only with fighting terrorism as an excuse for draconian laws.
It’s profitable when the state subsidizes your electricity.
yep, this is why I said it should be an existential crisis. mistakes happen, but if your mistakes can potentially cause bodily harm you better be damned well prepared to show how it was not negligence in any way or you should get a fine that scares the shit out of you.

But that's the idealist side of me talking, the realist understands that will never happen.
1. Install a GPS tracker on your car

2. Rent it out on turo

3. Track it down, bust out the windows

4. Explain the deal to a body shop, get kickbacks. Turo takes 20% off the top, it's a win/win/win.
What's behind the Japanese stock rally when the economy itself is as moribund as ever? People piling into assets that offer at least a hope of returns, instead of a guaranteed loss if they stick to fixed deposits etc in an era of high inflation?
We have not trained AIs to deduce trails from grass.

AIs need training before they can do things.*

*They just might be learning to do things without being trained based on the emergency behavior I see in LLMs.
How exactly they cared about surface? It was a premium toy that was never perfected for pros (these huge displays they discontinued) or e-waste (all 4gb go models). It cost twice for any minimal reasonable hardware configuration. It had insanely impractical weird IO (minidp from 10s in 20s) and fabric palm rest.
It was targeted to push in enterprises where their sales noses are so deep they sometimes don’t even need to bribe CEOs to push their sales initiatives. Even corp drones refused to use it and returned to HP. Who even need this stand contraption for work? Who need touch on Windows? May be people just buy macbook AND ipad for the same price?
They cancelled RT hardware without any delay while windows 10 mobile can run fine. What they did with surface phone? Right, dropped android support like a cheap chinese factory. Do you want to fix your out of warranty 3 yo surface? No sane technician will take it, even if you told him how MS is in (love) with right to repair. Surface is a joke. Well may be .NET developers can use it because how easy it is to develop LOBs with new .NET tools and how productive you feel all the time working with new cool features of C#.
> But back on topic. I base my interviews on behavioral traits that for framing, can be sussed out by asking “tell me about a time when” type questions.

> It doesn’t matter if you can reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard if I’m looking for someone who “takes ownership”, “digs deep”, and has shown the ability to deal at the level of “scope” that I’m looking for an knows how to “deal with ambiguity”

That definitely sounds like something that would filter more for "went to the right schools" (or, more generically, "mingled with the right people", but schools are the easy way). I could certainly believe it's as effective as "reverse a binary tree", but I very much doubt it's fairer.
I made my own animations once upon a time using manim, not as shiny but might be helpful too

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/cnn-cheatsheet/
Xero is a small business accounting SaaS app that has pretty nice recon. (Disclaimer I used to work there 10 years ago).
seems to work for twitter's CEO - though he does sometimes ignore what the survey says