skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are not talking about one of the geniuses here at HN. The guy answering FOIA requests for the city is the IT equivalent of the counter person at a McDonalds. I don't think it's fair to flame them for being an idiot when it's clearly a process issue.
I think it's more due to general social media burnout and companies waking up to how much of a PR nightmare social media is, and that it might be doing more harm than good. No company wants to post online just to get relentlessly antagonized in the comments as most companies do.
Or maybe we just accept that some people in the world do bad things, and unfortunately we can't actually catch all of them. Continually eroding more and more security and privacy in our personal effects in return for less crime is not a trade off that any rational person who wants to live in a free society should make. Certainly there can be disagreement as to where the line should be drawn, but even schemes like Apple's hash matching is going too far.
Very much so! Since writing, I've since gone into freelance investigative journalism and nonprofit work focusing on gov transparency. A lot of what I learned has fortunately been applicable to a lot of investigative work. I need to write more about my own work, but time time time.

This piece heavily used email metadata requests:

https://southsideweekly.com/lightfoot-pac-paid-consultant-wh...
Just this morning on my bike ride to work, a Cruise car was sitting in the middle of a road after turning right at an intersection. It was almost blocking the road entirely. The cherry on top was the Waymo that was stuck on the other side of the intersection because of this. People were not happy and had to snake their way around the Waymo.

Having ridden in Cruise cars a couple of times, I am glad I was able to ride one while I had the chance. The novelty factor was very high, and while being hard to hail + very slow, it was a great thing to show to visitors to the city. Hopefully these safety issues can be resolved. As a biker, I feel much safer around a cruise than your average prius.
> I will say there is a difference between very impulsive attempts at ending ones own life during a dark episode and more pre-planned attempts.

I'd argue that the people who are seeking out and participating in online forums looking for tips or directions for building devices to allow them die on their own terms aren't "very impulsive attempts at ending ones own life"

Nobody should make the decision to end their life impulsively, and preventing people from being able to access information on the topic may actually cause people to act without due consideration. I'd much rather have people taking the time create accounts, reading posts from others who are struggling, and gathering information on what to do or not do then going over that information as they evaluate their options.

"keeping knowledge contained" could mean people doing whatever comes to mind the moment it enters their head.
Finding and prosecuting is the point?

What made people do it before is mental illness. What makes people do it now more and more is additionally profit. The e2e apps and crypto is what drives their profit.

But critically there are ways of keeping e2e without being complicit in crime. Things like Apple's hash matching or requiring all messaging apps to do on device scan are that.

Pretending these compromises are unacceptable because they affect your privacy is a nonce move. You routinely compromise your privacy in much bigger ways in order to live in society, every time you are searched at security or present ID for verification etc, but when it comes to doing anything to help victims who unlike you can't even stand up for themselves you are suddenly the unyielding freedom fighter.
> also some of these look like mega drive box art?

Yeah, there's some Famicom ads in there too. Still cool to see, regardless.
You are spot-on. In one of his videos, the author mentions that he used Blender's Geometry Nodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4kNHKcBGzA&t=190s
Who is "we" and how do you sleep at night?
Can already hear the wage negotiation downround that comes with it. So, shows here, that when push comes to shove, well and you already showed you are willing to sacrifice money, soon..
Factories elsewhere have been shutting down because they can't compete, which locks us in to buying from China since no-one else will have the ability to produce solar panels in meaningful quantities.
Specious and reductive. It's qualitative, not quantitative. Even though the latter is easier for people to understand. We have decades of data about human-caused accidents. We know the ceiling is relatively stable. We know an additional 20% of drivers won't wake up tomorrow incompetent or drunk. Anything above zero is bad, but we know and accept the status quo.

But every new model or software update will invalidate what we've observed and know about automated driving.

We're in an era of extreme obfuscation and enshittification by tech companies, even where safety is involved. I'd be more likely to trust self driving tech if I trusted the current form of the tech industry, and trusted that regulatory bodies had the power and ability to oversee them as effectively as when they were first regulating cars.

Of course even that wasn't perfect, but my trust that we can even do that well is nonexistent.
What was it in reference to?
Humans are weak, that's one of the reasons we have laws and torts.
What the author wants is git blame with highlights.

IntelliJ does this very good. On the margin to your left you can see the age of each line. Recent changes - the one you are reviewing - will be be bright white, while older proven code more faded. All inside the already powerful editor you need to navigate bigger pieces of code.

Except that will not show you removed lines. Forget it, just use the diff feature.
I don't like where they put the new message button (it's weirdly floating over the list of folders now, but what's the relation with that list?). There's also a mostly empty bar _above_ the menu bar (I'm old-school, I like menu bars). It wastes space, looks silly, and cannot be turned off as far as I can tell...

I used to have an extension installed ("Mailbox Alert") that provides different notification sounds depending on the account receiving an email, but unfortunately that is now broken. That's a significant step back.
Okay, but if you demand a warrant to confirm you don't have uranium, you can't be surprised if they are going to treat you as hostile.
Same. I opened Thunderbird recently after probably over a year and this switch to a browser rendering engine. The entire application locked up while it was updating my list of emails. I’m glad the project is seeing some FOSS love but it also seems to have gone down the entirely wrong path in pursuit of modernization without benefit.

Sadly for Linux there aren’t really any great modern UI-style (not browser rendering modern but just the look) email clients so I’ll just keep using my browser since there is now no benefit to using Thunderbird.

Oh and this is a brand new machine I built in 2022. So it’s not the hardware.
According to Cruise's X(Twitter) account [0], the suspension seems to be related to an incident in which a human driver hit-and-run propelled a pedestrian in front of a Cruise AV and the Cruise vehicle couldn't avoid hitting the person. When that incident was first reported [1], it seemed like a situation where if it was a human driver in the Cruise vehicle, they wouldn't be found to be at any fault. However given this suspension, I wonder if there's more to it than that.

[0] https://twitter.com/Cruise/status/1716877217995894934

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woman-run-autono...
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Over the last few months Thunderbird has got noticeably slower for me. When I click on the 'sent' folder for one of my email accounts I now have to wait ~30 seconds for anything to happen. Previously it was pretty much immediate. Not sure if I can change a setting to speed it up.
> Social media companies argue that they can't monitor ever post and do appropriate age verification online because it would be "impossible to scale". Well, tough luck. Not being able to scale is YOUR problem, not MINE.

1000%. I think there are more complex problems in the world that are solved that this. If you look at youth and teenagers activities in Instagram, their photos and videos, and social graph I don't think it is so difficult to detect them, within a high percentile.
> 100% ... all the time

Because nothing meets that standard, it's not an applicable measure of quality. Also, it tends to lead to binary thinking: 100% or null.

But we live in a world of less than 100%, and there is a lot of variation: Five nines, 80%, datasets with just a few valuable records, etc. That's where the real-life questions are.
He is wrong.

Everything is tech now. And other things are the value add.

For example, if you are a law firm, or a real estate company, and if your tech is not operating then your company is not operating.

If your Internet is offline, or your local network, then your business is not running.

If your company has a security breach, then you will have massive reputation problems.

If you're a small business, you need to have an online presence with Insta, Facebook, and Google maps.

It's all 75% tech now. Get with the programme.
Why does anyone think he lost those tendencies?
Section 230 more like it
Nit: "fixed-length" is no longer true as of very recently [1].

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-resizablearraybuffer
So just run an IPTV app on an Apple TV. (There are dozens of them; amusingly, they occupy all of the top 20-or-so "top paid" slots on the Apple TV App Store charts.) Then you can trust not only that the app is sandboxed, but that it went through Apple's same paranoid App Store verification that everything else does.
Hi, our frontend logic is minimal. Most of the product is the API which can be called from anywhere.

I don't see why this may not work for your use-case too. I'm happy to chat more if you want to just talk tech here and maybe avoid engineering work for your use-case.
Nonsense. That is not how American doctors are trained. Have your ever actually talked to a medical school professor, or an attending physician in a teaching hospital?

In recent years the medical profession has been shifting from being mostly an art to mostly a science. Clinicians are supposed to follow evidence-based medicine protocols rather than making things up as they go along because those produce better outcomes on average. They should only deviate from those protocols if the patient has some sort of contraindication, experiences serious side effects, or fails to respond. Unfortunately we still lack clear protocols for many conditions including post-viral syndrome.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112311
What does it mean for a government to dictate the numbers of hours in a workweek? I truly don't understand. Certainly there are many jobs and lifestyles that don't fit that mold:

The tax accountant who works 60-hour weeks during tax season, then takes the next two months off

The travelling engineer who works long hours when away from home, so he can sooner return to his family

The tradesman who wants to work as much as possible, so he can pay off his mortgage in 5 years

The semi-retired expert for whom 10 or 20 hours a week is plenty
> Things like Apple's hash matching or requiring all messaging apps to do on device scan are that.

No thanks. It's bad enough that our devices often play fast and loose with our privacy as it is, but don't want my devices to be violating my privacy in ways where errors can have legal consequences for me.

Beyond that, these sorts of systems will always be increased in scope by people who want to abuse them for their own purposes.
Don't know if anyone at Sentry will read this, but I think the idea of the Functional Source License is pretty interesting.

But is it customizable? e.g. does the source has to be made available 1 year? How about 2? How about 1.5?

How about something like FSL-Y2-MIT for a 2-year limitation? You could still use FSL-MIT for the standard 1 year term.

Then you could maybe allow quarter- or half-integer values, e.g. FSL-Y1.5-MIT or FSL-Y0.25-MIT.

All of this easily represented in the name or with minimal digging.

Just wanted to throw in my share of the bike-shedding.
The thing about Kelly is that it assumes risk of ruin is zero because you never bet your entire bankroll. It assumes you can always bet a fraction of a fraction of what you have remaining.
I imagine AI could sort through various web sources and come up with a feed of relevant content to satiate your hunger that HH does not fulfill.
And the online video series (that is described in the movie) predates the name of this project by a decade.

Who gives a shit? Why do some people feel the need to correct every little thing?
> There isn't enough differentiation between their models anymore (largely because they have so many)

Yeah! They should return to Jobs' simple matrix approach (when, admittedly, he didn't have much of an alternative):

{ watch, phone, ipad, laptop, desktop} x { "classic" (SE), Mini, Air, Pro, Studio/Ultra }. Not every column needs to be filled in (e.g. don't need a watch mini or pro)
I would always wear a veil -- doesn't have to be a full suit. Heck, I'd never wear a full suit as that's a recipe for heat stroke here in Texas. But I have a very airy top-half only suit and that's OK. I also wear an ice pack vest during the hot Texas summer months.

And I would always have smoke except when there is a burn ban in effect. Smoke can make all the difference.
Definitely not just you.

Often, though I know exactly the info required to find a message, Thunderbird comes up with no results. I've found that "repairing" the containing mailbox renders the message findable.

Not sure when things got this bad, but I can well recall in the past Thunderbird's search being fast, thorough, and reliable.
At the very least we need free and unlimited access to even think about dethroning Google.
When he had enough to hire a full PR-Team to rewrite history..
yes they are but they characterize one of the aspects of a successful maker space. Focus on a particular part of making. These clubs also have all the same tools plus some specialized ones that any maker space would have.
agree, I use side-by-side diff tools and the right side is where "the code" actually is. dont really get what issue the author has with this unless it's that the highlighting distracts them.
Opera used to do this! And then when you searched in the top bar, it would also search your visited pages. It was very useful.
I find it surprising that you believe that, I'd expect the opposite

Also, I doubt that OpenBSD is the most secure (open) system out there. What about seL4, Genode and the likes?
>>Write what your heart boldly tells you to write even though your mind might be afraid.

Well, I just did that on hn. Hope you [and I] are right. :)
Do you think they faked the data? Or something else?
It passes the bloodbrain barrier.
Is it the service that we kept seeing on the news with autonomous cars blocking intersections and emergency vehicles in California ?
Finally. Pity it isn't permanent. I'm really kind of done with beta testing software in control of cars in public spaces, and that includes Tesla and any other brand that doesn't assume full liability for the aftermath of any of their software issues. Until they can pass a series of government mandated tests (like we do with people) this software should be limited to test tracks and simulations.

And there should be 100% transparency regarding accidents where they are involved.
Thank you for that. As mentioned in some other comments, I've given up continuing to use Processing as an underlying application UI framework. It's unclear how long the OpenGL dependency is going to survive on macOS, or that Processing will have the dev resources to break the hard OpenGL dependency (sad side-thread on that topic: https://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1709400641456501020)

Future version based upon lwjgl+bgfx will be more broadly available soon.

In the meantime thx for the quick fix!
Slovenia is actually west of Greece.
If you’re right, then this is probably the best proof that I’ve seen that ChatGPT isn’t even remotely conscious.
I understand why so many people hate Tesla, but they aren't allowed to drive fully automated without a human monitoring them, so not the same situation.
They don't bring lawsuits that they can't win. I can't name one case they lost.
> It's a business and they pay billions for the TV rights..I think Sky alone pays Formula 1 1B per year.

But that's the problem: people want to send a "this should cost less" signal, forcing broadcasters to make these deals for less, forcing the sports organizations to accept less. There's no cheaper alternative that people can legally buy to send that signal; so the only alternative that actually does signal price sensitivity, is pirating the thing.
It only depends on if it's a social contract, which implies some localized majority. You may believe your ideals are the best in the world, but I assure you many other people with vastly different ideals than your own believe differently with just as much, if not more, conviction.

You can't simply beat your chest and claim superiority and thus we need competition of ideas. E.g. the most prosperous happy places on earth tend to have social contracts that look out for groups such as women, homosexuals, etc.

You can't simply prove an idea is better by appealing to your own sense of morals/justice and if there's no evidence that some ideals are better than others, how would you reach consensus anyways?

In order to make everyone share the same social contract you either have evidence based progress or authoritarianism and historically the evidence suggests authoritarianism doesn't pan out all that great.
The problems related to first nations people, the reserves, the government, treaties and history are so vast and wide, I don't think they're tractable.
Good, Tesla should also have its FSD disabled even if a driver has to be present.
Thanks. I tried the game in a webbrowser and Euclidea only seems to support native mobile. So there must be another version out there.
> The modern youth mental health "crisis" is fundamentally caused by a willingness to believe that an instagram avitar is "real life".

I'm not familiar with this argument, as I've never heard it. Could you provide some examples or a study or similar showing this is widespread?
What we know about aliens so far
If Garry Tan posted on HN, he'd be flagged. Every single tweet.
> So thanks to LLM tech it will generate thousands of written report per second? Who is supposed to read those?

I don't think it will send out thousands of reports a second. From watching a video linked in this post, it seems like multiple issues can be linked to a single incident and the entire incident can be summarized.

If you have 100k employees all being attacked, you'll likely get a single report that shows a large-scale attack.
Doing home chores does not make you employed. You can't get a mortgage with that. You don't get a pension or anything really.
Each of the individual complaints ended up being nonsense when you dig into it, but I guess when you throw enough of them at the wall, you get the impression something sticks.

Kudos to Cruise for getting anything done in CA ever, look forward to riding these autotaxis in Dallas.
That might work for clearing a single word before the cursor (ctrl+w) or clearing from cursor to the end of the line (ctrl+k) etc
Oh, ok yeah 400k of debt seems relatively modest for a medical degree. I didn't pick up on your intent to make it a metaphor.
You can get sued and then you can get reimbursed by suing the third party provider. You can't very well get reimbursed by a former employee.
I guess we can put that on list of all those other crimes that never got prosecuted in Den Hague. Remind me so, who did ratify that court and refuses that their milotary falls under its jurisdiction?
Define "taking."
I had almost the same idea some days ago. Just syntax which I like more:

```
fd, .. := os.Open(filename)
``
I'm gonna sound like a huge downer, but I actually like MOSAIC.

Couple observations though:

Overall thought: UAS BVR flight is now officially MORE regulated than light sport. Interesting.

The aviation consumer doesn't "pay for safety". They pay for the experience of safety, because they can't possibly make informed decisions about almost anything they're buying. Can they look up the maintenance inspection history of their aircraft? Can they google the bio of their pilot? Of course not. It's why regulations exist, Ayn. We can't all be Russian Superwomen with completely perfect comprehension and knowledge of the world around us, and we don't want to be executed if we're not.

The big, enormous, really huge contribution of distributed propulsion is not redundancy or noise but in lift assist. A fan in front of the airframe is not the optimal place to stick thrust for winged flight. You can do insane stuff putting thrust in weird places, and tiny little fans make that easy.

§ 22.180 is bananas without something like a SDER (software designated engineering rep) or SOMETHING to quantify what the FMU's electronic brain thinks is good control input. I guess that's part of the cert path.

§ 22.185 oh boy more government specs that send you to another spec you have to pay some rando third party to look at. YAAAAAAAAYYYYY
From the press release: "The DMV has provided Cruise with the steps needed to apply to reinstate its suspended permits, which the DMV will not approve until the company has fulfilled the requirements to the department’s satisfaction."

I'd be very curious to see the terms of reinstatement; we've all seen the viral clickbait taxis stopping traffic in SF, but I have no idea of the actual stats as to safety.
Qi wireless charging isn't by default bidirectional but yes more things are moving that way so you could, on supporting devices, in theory have them powered by a Qi pad only for the duration of the refresh.

The only issues I can think of there are I'm not sure if the Qi process can start up without power on the receiving end, the source device isn't always broadcasting power afaik so I don't know what the trigger is and if it requires some communication with the receiver device. The last is the NFC has a pitiful data rate of ~424 kbits/s but if we're powering it through Qi we can use more power hungry transfer methods to speed it up.
That's a funny argument.

It's a lot like saying, "if it's on Github, I can ignore your LICENSE file" or "if it's on DA I can ignore your CC-NC license." Both of these seem technically enforceable (if not expensive) so I'm not quite understanding what OpenAI is grounding their justification in.

It seems much more likely that OpenAI stands to make a lot of money by arguing that it's fair use and then back filling in an argument rather than making one from first principles.
Where do you find the complaints?
Will modern clients warn loudly if a server suddenly stops offering channel binding? Otherwise it is trivial to downgrade.
I wouldn’t classify cloudflare as being “sleazy”, but as far as I know, they’re only doing domain registration as an avenue to cross-sell. They might be one of the “good ones” now, but do they have incentive to remain that way?
I think it should be allowed that, for people with illnesses that end up inevitably fatal in a high percent range, they be allowed to get early access to experimental medication once it's passed some sort of verification.

Right now, only those very rich have that chance, they pay the pharma companies (and a host of outright quacks)... I'd love to see cancer medication being accessible for everyone, no matter the amount of money on their bank account.