skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Companies are also entities subject to laws, and enforcement of laws against companies absolutely involves strong-arming them.

I'm sorry, what?
Citizens vote for politicians that support their view/positions, or what they think is best for the country. Companies are subject to these laws because it is, at some level, the will of the people. Companies are not strong-armed, they simply are not above the law or the will of the people. If we could get corporate money out of politics we'd probably see a lot of companies being held responsible for shitty decisions. If anything large companies strong-arm our government and political system in the USA and abroad. It takes an inordinate amount of vocal opposition and work from citizens to hold companies responsible for their behavior.
Hmmm, interesting.
Looks like .au does not comply and .com.au has a domain squatter.
https://bada55.cr.yp.to/bada55-20150927.pdf
> why do we trust them to turn a switch on or off?

Because many people do not want to compile a white list of allowed websites themselves. It is too much trouble. So they would rather delegate this to some organization.

> Also, I hope you can understand why I think "because parents are stupid/lazy" is the worst kind of reasoning you can give to enforce control over the entire internet.

This doesn't enforce control over Internet, this only adds a locked-down mode for children. For adults, there are no restrictions.
Its annoying how the biggest consideration in whats get OTC'd is how useless it is (only slightly above homeopathic level useless) or how painful the overdose is (more painful -> sure, knock urself out) and little recreational potential it has (see point 2 + again, knock urself out) with a few radical exception(s)

Edit: if its pharmacologically active and effective for "an" indication, its fun/euphoric, and super safe? --> illegal or controlled vs snake oil, no fun, narrow or easily surpassed and potentially catastrophic therapeutic window --> sure, knock urself out
But it’s on device. Not sending your voice to the cloud.
Sorry for the late reply. I'm a big fan of both reading and eInk so I think I'm in your target customer group, and I appreciate the response.

I would recommend you be a bit more up front about who you are on your website, and also that you try to get more in-depth statements from you early adopters. It seems like you have a good story and people who really love your product, but your website doesn't say that to me.
https://vimeo.com/347541240
Skeletons unearthed in 'incredibly rare' 5k-year-old Scottish tomb
I guess he's saying that humans existed in 2015 too when crab population spiked. in the past 10 years temperatures went up ~1 degree Celsius, not 3 and in the ocean it only went up 1.5 degrees since 1901 or 0.17 degrees every decade on average.

the researchers say the dramatic increase in population led to competition for food that resulted in the crabs starving to death because there wasn't enough food for everybody.
But if they have the active ingredient to make meth, there's no need for adderall. Meth is adderall (amphetamine) with a methyl group added to make it cross the blood brain barrier easier/faster. Once metabolised by the body it becomes the same amphetamine as your addys. There are a surprising number of people who dose meth like adderall to treat their adhd symptoms and you'd never know if they didn't tell you.

I'm not advocating anyone do meth, the above was said mainly to crack and easy joke about the pharmacy being out of legal speed but in stock on the stuff to make illegal speed
Some people marvel at these as an example of how nature regulates itself. Mate if your thermostat did that you'd be frozen with a charred crust.
Part Time Co Founder
We are a team of 3, all three technical. One individual is a psych student who is wrapping up his undergrad at a prestigious school for psychology, on the way to getting accepted into Stanford, Yale, or UW for his PhD in Clinical Psychology.

Due to us being a mental health app(prerevenue), this makes sense to me and very useful for our company. The other founder and myself both are ready to quit our jobs, and the grad student would not. I added him as a cofounder even though we would be vesting the equity for a long period of time. We have an interview coming up, curious as to everyones thoughts?
> Between 2010 and 2022, China’s GDP more than doubled, overtaking that of the U.S

I’m confused - I don’t see evidence that China’s GDP has overtaken the US’s at any point in time.
Though Waymo et al aren't really competing with unusually good drivers, more with average drivers and they are probably safer there, on the roads they have been trained for.

(one study - 100% reduction in the frequency of bodily injury claims and a 76% decrease in property damage -https://www.ktvu.com/news/waymo-says-its-driverless-cars-saf...)
I have the same sense but even in this discussion I see one angry comment about, “those companies” that doesn’t seem to distinguish among Waymo, Cruise, and (in context, I think) also Tesla.
I've heard that but I don't know if it has been borne out in any studies, so I didn't mention it in my original post.
A 20 year old person is already old enough to use Social Media, smoke and drink. By 2 years at least. Y'all insane.
Social media is also bad for adults. It's a lot harder to prevent adults from making bad choices for themselves than it is for kids.
What is your general distro of choice? I saw another comment mentioning Debian. If that, which branch?
It's worth noting that both Waymo and Cruise do report a shit load of statistics to regulatory bodies, including all incident reports. Neither company has caused a fatality to my knowledge.
Everyone wants to sell more; that's far too broad a category. Tobacco is bad because it is chemically addictive, and its delivery is paired with inhaling tar.
Yeah, this is a good point! I'd rather be protected than not, but it would be far better for Turo to offer primary instead of secondary insurance.
Yeah makes sense, thanks. I think I'm fine with a 2FA on GSuite login + CAA on subsequent SSOs but I do think it would be nice to be able to force another 2FA for sensitive stuff like AWS.

Unfortunately, GSuite seems to move very slowly :\
If you’re filthy rich and become aware that your app is causing harm, and then don’t work to address it, you’ll want to start warming up the lawyers and lobbyists, yes.
Is this from a book? If not please write it
KYC for social media
Strong disagree. Loved every comic from beginning to end and did not observe any such trend.
The lawsuit calls out infinite scroll and notifications. To be fair, I've not read the entire thing.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.41...

Whether we're regulating UI elements or a recommendation algorithm... It's one thing to say they're "encouraging addictive behaviors", but what's a rule that identifies what what part of a mobile app needs to change? It's an unproductive path.
I assume GP is talking about face-to-face private sales, which doesn’t require any background check on the federal level and in many states. In some states, you can go on Armslist and buy 20 guns without having to show an ID. And worse, running a background check isn’t even an option in most states unless you pay an FFL to intermediate the sale.
OT but replying here hoping that you see it rather than a new top-level comment on this deservedly popular article.

This is a fascinating blog and I hope you have the time to do and write more articles like this one!
I was a kid when the series finished, and got my first comic “The Indispensable Calvin & Hobbes” when I was 6. Granted I was young, but the “political” stuff was what made it funny. Young me found the storylines totally puzzling, yet hilarious. Even after I got older and started understanding the “political” comics more, it didn’t really bother me. Calvin and Hobbes explore philosophy more than politics, in my view.

The main characters are named after 17th century philosophers John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, after all
> 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.

These are the same thing.

> It would literally require starting from scratch in many places to design a city around non-car ownership.

No, it wouldn't. This is part of the common set of myths that are promulgated around car dominance in America. There are many, many things that can be done to retrofit streets to be less oriented around car dominance, many of them not terribly expensive or time consuming (though admittedly the very best options do tend to be infrastructure that's expensive and time consuming).

For example, one thing Portland has done in some of its neighborhoods is to create neighborhood greenways, with concrete structures/blockers at some intersections that force you to turn, so that cars can't use the street as a 'through street' for commuting (but it's still possible to reach everywhere with a car for residents). This is fairly cheap and easy to do, it's just a matter of political will.

Here's an example picture (though the exact type of blocking structure can vary): https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/styles/max_768w...

This is a big improvement that doesn't require redoing the whole street or anything, just a few concrete dividers and a little paint along a street maybe every four or five intersections, enough to make it impractical to use for longer-distance car commuting.

Some other things that are usually relatively cheap to add to existing streets:

* Automated speed cameras

* Roundabouts

* Chicanes

* Protected bike lanes, using basic dividers

* Dedicated bus lanes

* Better bus stops that at least have some kind of roof and bench

* Zoning rule changes that play well with density, like allowing light retail in currently residential-only zones, or allowing 'missing middle' housing

These are off the top of my head, but I know there are more.
You don't have easy access to the symphony, whatever museums are downtown, many restaurants, or any of the other things you could have. You have set yourself up a different life, but to get that you had to compromise something else.
God forbid the fix to 'zoom fatigue' being 'schedule fewer bloody meetings' but that's a forbidden truth as far as management is concerned.
Thank you! I tried every rack-like word I could think of.
The problem is that Buffer is just too damn convenient. I can do everything with a Uint8Array, but everything takes about 4-5x more code for no discernible benefit.
The Decline of Online Shopping
> prevented you from exceeding, say, 20% of the speed limit

I initially read this as "20% of the speed of light", and though you were being sarcastic.
Did they think the DMV wasn't going to find out? Lying by omission to a regulator is just insanely irresponsible behavior. It's not surprising at all that the DMV pulled their operating permit.
I put GPT and Llama 70B to write me comments about the Rust language source code. They are both superb at this task. I haven't used any other weaker LLMs in the same fashion, with less billions of parameters, but i can imagine many of them, in the range of 7B to 13B, will perform good enough. I will test more LLMs soon though.

Maybe code reviews on the raw source code, does not need to be confusing anymore. Code reviews on the description of the source code is better.

I tried to prompt the LLM to just summarize the code, and i didn't like the result. The description is indeed verbose and somewhat inefficient.

I tried "write some comments about the source code, in the style of codinghorror" and the results were fantastic.

I am very interested, if someone has found some other styles that work just as well.

Edit: All this to say, that in the space of LLMs and source code, there is a start-up which will be a github disruptor, and a new era of code will begin.
Exactly. The connectors are easily the biggest cost to most pcb boms
Define "acquiring."

You keep using words that inherently equivocate between transfer-of-property acts and copying-of-property acts. Choose your words more carefully, and then make the same argument.
Several comments say we should ban social media for people under 18. Such a blunt, indiscrimate, careless solution may indicate the typical ages of HN members!

What do some people under 18 think of the problem and solutions? I'm not sure how many are here, but maybe some HN members could ask their kids.
tl;dr water was too warm
Anyscale Private Endpoints and Anyscale Endpoints Fine-Tuning
Fascinating. That is not a well-known fact as my neighbors were just complaining about this a couple weeks ago. I wonder whether our local pharmacy is setup to handle those requests.
Thank you! I genuinely appreciate the kind words. I'm hopeful I'll have the next one out by the end of the year. A less successful story, but it's a good'n.
A link aggregator with a transparent algorithm that learns from your upvotes
It also makes you think twice before taking more than your fair share, which is the point.
Is this commentsry on like inflation or something?
I can not resist, what is your favorite video on YouTube?
Medicaid's Big Paperwork Problem
I highly recommend the Youtube channel 'Joe Spins The Globe', and this great video showing the observatory: https://youtu.be/gLbegYWCqkg?list=PLFWX3wT095-NndlBrzlR4muHt...
It's a simple precommitment that avoids huge classes of ways to exploit you. Probably similar to instinctively refusing to pay blackmail even when it's notionally in your interest.
That works just fine if you are the main person working on something.
Really they both estimate, but the vehicle tends to have smaller error bars on its estimates. Which still goes to your point.
None of our bought/sponsored politicians want to create laws enshrining right-to-repair and availability/access to repair and activation tools. This is political theater, in coordination with a large company. "Look we're doing right to repair, you don't need to fight for laws/rights. We're already doing that. Ignore the activation locks, pricing, and availability. Look over here, have an Ikea manual for disassembling your phone and changing the battery. Ignore that part about calling us to ask us nicely to activate your battery."
I tried to vibe with this POV. What's wrong with more content? But it really does cheapen the art/media you used to adore. Even if you try to ignore it, i.e. you don't have to watch / read all the Star Trek content that has been produced in the last 20 years, and after picard season 1 I completely checked out of all of it, but it just kind of makes everything you loved seem so empty. It was all about generating positive cash flows...the whole time.
My doc gave me a trick that prevents the rebound effect of Afrin (and other addictive vasoconstricting sprays). When you start the Afrin, or about a week before you want to stop it, start using a nasal steroid spray (nasalcort or whatever you prefer). The steroid will prevent the swelling and itself has no rebound period. After a week after stopping the Afrin, stop the steroid as well, and you will successfully be congestion free the entire time.

I prefer this to pseudoephedrine as it’s not a systemic solution to a local problem in the nasal cavity.
From Wikipedia,

>(Calvin and Hobbes) borrows several elements and themes from three major influences: Walt Kelly's Pogo, George Herriman's Krazy Kat and Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts.

Pogo ran until ten years before Calvin and Hobbes started, and had several animated adaptations, including one in 1980.

Krazy Kat had ~100 cartoons made between 1916 and 1965.

And Peanuts has been marketed to death.

I wouldn't be surprised if he read more early 20th century comics without adaptations, but that likely happened after he already had a deep interest in the medium. People that get really into comics can independently discover Calvin and Hobbes, but they're going to be a minority
As someone who drunk at 18, I think it is too young. Alcohol is a drug just like coke, cannabis etc. By holding off until 21 you can reduce the amount of long term addiction.
Hyperbolic BYU press release. Link to actual paper.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-020-01389-6
> the cultural movement of Americans these days are to hate on big tech

if only we could have such giants in Europe...
> ... they are red, like lobsters.

Disappointing statement from a "science" magazine. Lobsters are dark green until cooked.
In Soviet Russia, lawn gets you off
Safety is certainly a huge concern with this class of vehicles. But by programming these cars to drive extremely conservatively, they cause disproportionate congestion as well. This seems to be underplayed in approval discussions around these vehicles, but is a major cost.
It is not even about employee promotion.

You can't ban a communication tool. That is just absurd.
A small minority do crazy things anywhere. People exaggerate how often it happens.

Transit looks worse just because the people most likely to do that have 'mental issues' (possibly drug caused, but there are other causes) that also mean they can't keep a job and thus can't afford a car. However even then they are a small minority that you see because you are paying attention not because it is very common.
Hurricane Ian stirred up flesh-eating bacteria in Florida
Its metacritic score is "Universal Acclaim". You're welcome to your opinion, but don't share it when it's 'just not true' -- evidently?
Finally a video recorder that respects "separation of concerns" by allowing you to record the screen first, then add the audio/webcam narration! No more head-banging after the 100th take of saying the same thing over and over.
Imagine your hand was in a cast and then you were cryogenically frozen. While frozen your cast was removed. Then you were unfrozen and asked if you could move your hand.

I think you’d be able to answer the question, don’t you?
At least stop calling it a science if you can't make testable predictions. And especially stop pretending that the neoliberal policy is based on anything resembling science.

How is MMT any more bullshit than the mainstream that fails constantly?
I shall mourn the loss of Phenylephrine. It worked for me, but I only ever suffered mild congestion. Not allergy-level super congestion, which I won't contest that it was ineffective against. Where it really helped me was with my post-nasal drip.
Not fears, but actual improper usage.
There was an article here recently that claimed it was basically a confession from Waterson that he hated the job and was relieved it was over.
It is demonstrably better. They see more and react faster. They can see around obstacles that humans can't and they never get tired or distracted.
Ask HN: What is the next great online community?
Twitter and Reddit, two of the largest online communities, have fallen to poor decisions from their owners. The Fediverse is gaining momentum as a possible replacement to these platforms, but I can’t see the widespread use of the current fediverse and the dedication of people to the different fediverse communities that people had to some groups on Twitter and Reddit.

How can we make a platform that can be resilient to the flaws of Reddit and Twitter yet still have the same level and strength of communities that Reddit and Twitter once harbored?

(I know Twitter and Reddit are still around, but IMO the genuineness of these platforms are so low it’s not worth using them.)
Artisans Cooperative - a member-owned Etsy competitor
I'm mid 20's and it's obvious what to do. Universal child care, housing, healthcare, etc, and parents would have more time to parent their kids instead of slaving away to make someone else enough money to buy their fifth yacht or passing their childcare off to an ipad. We have worse than gilded age inequality, 9 people own more wealth than 3.6 BILLION combined. Maybe address that first??? I'd wager we'd find 99% of problems are downstream of poverty and inequality.
Wyoming Could Still Meet Deadline to Issue Digital Stable Token by End of Year
Personally I find the films far more approachable than the books. There's too much goddamned singing in LOTR and the prose doesn't feel nearly as dark and serious as the films
I mean we can see a demonstrable and quantifiable MASSIVE decrease in meth usage and overdose circa 2005 when the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act went into effect.

Also, it's still available without a prescription, last I checked, it was just behind the counter/required an ID to track if you're grabbing a pack from every Walgreens in a 50 mile radius in a single night
Why not just use the steroid spray, then?

Cool hack to get off it, but I would still be wary of being on it too long.
Tesla just lies about what constitutes self-driving, totally different
heat waves are pretty common in the oceans.

from NOAA website

The current Gulf of Mexico marine heat wave has been present for several months, beginning in February/March of 2023. NOAA’s experimental marine heat wave forecasts indicate a 70-100% chance that extreme ocean temperatures will persist in the southern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. [...] The ocean absorbs 90% of the excess heat associated with global warming. As a result, we know that marine heat waves all over the planet are becoming warmer over time. The absolute temperature of the current event is warmer because of climate change, but it would have likely still occurred without climate change
That's because they are not allowed to raise rates willy nilly. They have to have justification, so if they can find it, they will use it.
Minor nit, but when Facebook was limited to college domain emails it didn’t have an algorithmic feed.
You're glossing over a big part of the story.

It is hard, really, really hard, to convince game developers and publishers to make games that require an optional accessory. It's been tried again and again and it is never more than a mild success and usually an abject failure. They want to target the base platform, which will always have a dramatically larger install base.

Thr original Kinect was just such an optional accessory, and yeah, didn't have much in the way of third party support.

The XB1 could have, and would have, encouraged more devs to use and experiment with the Kinect because devs could be assured that every single user would have one hooked up.

Except that Microsoft chickened out instead of sticking to their guns. As usual.
Observe how the top comments in here leave a climate-change shaped hole in the discourse. Sigh.
I've worked in product at a few startups and have "inherited" a few products. Having a "solution in search of a problem" is something I NEVER want to repeat again.

Customer: "Why should we use your product?"

Startup: "Errr, we were hoping you could tell us."
Is there a way to make sure you can automate shutdown of your Mac where its like non-negotiable and doesnt matter if its closed and theres no stupid menu that can screw it up? Like not sleep or hibernate but just shut down?
That's true and a part of history everyone should learn more about. But also, unrelated to the current discussion.

The insurance companies dismantling a good public system was a pretty recent action, mostly in the 90s although the damage has taken a while to propagate.
> I would assume that an accurate model would be beneficial for everyone?

Beneficial to everyone except for those that print it, which is why is intentionally and needlessly over complex and laden with deceptive jargon.
I've always heard "scarcity breeds innovation" but nothing embodies it like making Z80 games. Everything before gameboy is far before my time, but I have dipped into gameboy rom hacks briefly and it is a real trip. The tiling techniques talked about here feel so elegant even though I'm sure they felt like necessary hacks at the time.
> until the government decided to control access to it because of fears of meth.

Passed as part of the Patriot Act re-authorization bill in 2005, because everybody knows terrorists and pseudoephedrine go hand in hand.