skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we’re talking about dopamine production and that’s always what we wind up regulating

so, good observation. regulate aspects of these products like heroin
It is for the society in which these companies operate and profit to decide, not the companies themselves. And if it is indeed “too difficult”, which we all know just means it will hurt profits to a degree that is unacceptable to shareholders, too bad, they can either make less money or shut it down.

If a cop can kill a man in broad daylight for selling loose cigarettes, we should be able to kill a company like meta for breaking the law.
Carta's Employees Describe a Culture of Fealty to Erratic and Vindictive CEO
Since the civil war in 2007, it's just Hamas; the PA governs the West Bank.

Do Americans have some amount of individual culpability for the actions our government takes on our behalf? Even when that government is unpopular or not supported by those individual citizens?
Mine (Tampa Hackerspace) is alive and reasonably well.

COVID was a big drag but we clamped down on expenses and had built up a nest egg in case of emergencies so the financial hit didn't do us in. It really wiped out a lot of the social aspects of the community and we're still struggling to get those back.

Rent hurts but we were lucky to lock in a long-term contract with a fixed annual percentage increase. It's still by far our biggest expense.

My opinion and experience is that a makerspace / hackerspace can only succeed with at least one person that's nearly 100% dedicated to running it, mostly without pay. The founder(s) probably have 5-7 years before they totally burn out so unless they've found and built up some others that are just as dedicated, it's hard to sustain a space.
https://archive.ph/rEiB7
The baseline should be other engineering we trust with our lives, like planes, trains, ships, skyscrapers, and bridges. Society expects more from technology than from humans... that's why we use technology! Deaths from self-driving cars should be very minimal, every crash analyzed and understood, and findings publicly communicated and mandated.
Non sequitor. They're optimizing for money. Contrarian status: weak.
Well, half that because the instructions are 16 bit aligned. And approaching half of even that because not every decoder needs access to every offset. Decoder zero doesn't need any. Decoder one only needs two, etc.

But you need most of that anyway because you need to handle program counters that aren't 32 byte aligned, so you need to either do it before hitting the decoders, or afterwards when you're throwing the micro-ops into the issue queues (which are probably much wider and therefore more expensive).
You're correct that rural life is an exception here, but most Americans don't live in rural areas and I presume that's what the other user is talking about. In many American cities there just aren't good alternative options, you need to spend the money on a car to get around even if you live in a reasonably urban area.
Waymos do stop between fares. They've gotten grief from people who don't like them parked in front of their house.
Note to self: the market for 3rd party windows mail clients is going to grow next year.
Okay, you got a point... but also, think about the Terrorists! They could be exchanging Terrorist Secret Messages right under our noses!

Seriously, whenever anyone justifies their actions with "Think of the children" or "Think about the terrorists" single-minded emotional appeals, I can't see it as anything but cheap manipulation.

It should be required for proponents to back up their safety claims with hard numbers. They ask to give up a lot without without accountability, and I don't think the damage outweighs the benefit.

For example, the Patriot act didn't result in a wave of terrorism crackdown, au contraire, it facilitated massive human rights abuse, but the rights it took have not been given back. Same with the massive increase in airport security, I don't know how many terrorists they have caught carrying nail clippers, but it seems like less intrusive methods would deter most terrorist attempts.
It's not quite the secretary problem, but he does have the option to wait N years and see if someone else comes up with a technique, or if the technique eventually leaks.

Waiting 9 more years to unlock the drive for free versus taking 50% now is equivalent to investing at 8% annual returns.
Waymo or Cruise cars on the road today aren't talking to any city infrastructure. The companies are not talking to each other. Heck even cars from the same company aren't communicating to try and coordinate some kind of traffic pattern or share data. The entire current approach to self driving has been a dead end from the start.
They could probably add a cell phone alert to it. I wonder what color they would use?

Amber, Silver, Blue and Camo (not certain if Clear counts) are already used:

https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/intelligence-counterterror...
We don't have DRL because it has been studied and shown not to not make a difference. Other countries should catch up to us in not requiring things that don't do anything useful. (depending on the time of day, sometimes DRL helps, but sometimes it makes things worse - overall the difference works out to not significant)
Reminds me of this great scene: https://youtu.be/9hLJgoIm8qk
> It’s why we created and continue to use public utilities. Not everything needs to be a profit center.

But the market knows aAAAAaaaaAAAAAaallll.

My favorite is the segment of HN readers that think things like ISO safety for manufacturing should be repealed and let the market decide (via insurance premiums) as if the money is more important than the prevention of human suffering.
I don't think there was ever time when people didn't think it was a problem, but the focus was more on going after the people abusing children rather then the people passing around recorded evidence of the crime.
I'm very curious to hear from someone who likes DI in a non-OOP language - why? What techniques do you use to make the level of indirection feel like a help, rather than a hindrance, in your codebase?

Reading this article reminded me that DI has a lot of advocates, but I've never heard a compelling reason to use it in most codebases.
Please. The amount of sensationalization here is beneath HN. This is average which we all know is incredibly skewed towards high net worth individuals. The median (much more representative of the "standard" qualifier) net worth of an American household is far, far lower.
Read it as

“Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on (Windows Phone and mobile) was a mistake”
I'll believe it when I can buy an Apple OEM camera or screen on Mouser Electronics.
There is some sense to this, even if it might take decades to take effect. Educated people who have a cushy life to lose don't become suicide bombers.

However, the current attack on Gaza is guaranteeing support for Hamas for decades to come.
From High Life Hackers to National Menace: The Rise and Fall of 'ACG'
I have seen similar sentiments in every conflict. “If Putin would just leave Ukraine all would be solved.” “If Iran would just stop sponsoring Houthi rebels, all would be solved.”

First of all, hardly anything would be solved, since the word “occupation” means different things to Western Liberals vs most Palestinians and Muslims. The latter grew up with the understanding that ALL of Israel are zionist occupiers. Don’t believe me? Ask any Muslims friends around the world.

Here are man-on-the-street videos of regular everyday Palestinians: https://youtu.be/cJkxOF9QqEk?si=SbkrAWWj71L7YcJ9

Here is Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini openly stating his position on Twitter in 2019: https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/531366667377717248

Make no mistake about the goal. Yes gradually Arab leaders of Arab countries have changed their stance, since ISIS and Salafist Islam and 2014, which enabled the Abharam accords. Would not be surprised if they join France’s coalition against Isis. But Shia crescent countries (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran) remember all the meddling and invasions and bombing by USA and ravaging of their cities by hordes of Sunni extremists. They aren’t as happy as Arabs to make peace with Israel.

So no, your proposal wouldn’t lead to peace, because Hamas, Iran and many Shias will not accept Israel’s right to even exist as a state.
Do you think the patients who got incorrect blood test results from Theranos should suck it up and not complain because all progress is good progress, even if some people have to get sacrificed along the way?
there was no "internet" at that time. Corporations mainly had private phone systems, and bought computers from IBM or others.. Some network engineers in Salt Lake City Utah sold custom networking, and from Boston.. but those lines connected only to specific others.. Overall, "no"
Humans can stop dead as well, which is just as unpredictable. For example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/emma-czornobaj-loses...
I'd love the opportunity to opt-in to a severance package! Can start interviewing over the next 3 months and then have paid time off before you start your new gig.
You may want to read up about the so-called "crypto wars" of the 90's. You'll find it illuminating.
I checked recently, and Windows 11, you cannot even use it without a internet and a Microsoft account. You used to be able to use a local account. And then after that enshittified, they made it so you used to be able to disconnect from the network and use a local account. And now, there's a terminal workaround that must be used now.

I will throw shade at Ubuntu, as well. There's a ton of privacy and UX switches you need to flip just to make it your OS. And even then, it's got snap, so who needs it?
We don't know which over the other cars were also doing unsafe things that he didn't notice. He probably didn't see everyone talking on the phone, sending texts, and other unsafe things people do that are not always obvious.
About a year after being pied in the face he launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Maybe we should bring back pieing, haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK6SS8CXYZo
Since it seems people are interested. I had one situation which this sort of thing made me a bit uneasy (So one gripe actually). I was sitting back right seat. Waymo was waiting to make an unprotected left turn over two lanes. There was a vehicle waiting to also make an unprotected left in the other direction. Behind it was a truck. Waymo made that turn where I wouldn't have. I thought it through after and it had at least two advantages over a human here. 1. It knew the car situation behind truck well before a driver would have considered it. 2. It's front lidar could see around that truck earlier than a driver could. I still provided feedback that I'd have preferred it to not make that turn even if it was safe to do so. At the end of the day I'm the customer and I want to feel safe at all times not just be safe.

This was the turn - https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7337193,-122.4350752,3a,75y,...
How so? What lawyer would insist on their client getting searched via a warrant?
> I have a MacBook Pro 2017 model. They stopped supporting new updated.

That’s only partially true. It won’t get major OS updates, but it runs Ventura which will continue to receive security updates. Apple seems to be on a 3 year support cycle for major OS releases, so the 2017 machine will probably be supported through Q3 2025.

8 years of software support seems reasonable.? Or you can switch it over to Linux or Windows.
I often wonder if we’re emerging as a society that must agree on free speech but must also agree on ethical compromises. Extreme left and right wing views are both problematic and there is some validity to LE being unable to track electronic crime due to encryption.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t trust any proposed laws in their current state, but as a society we trust judges to sentence people for crimes, and referees to call foul in sport - I just wish there was the formation of a legitimate ethics committee which would act in good faith on society, because inevitably rights will erode and without one we will be left with less.

Edit: I’m sure this will be an unpopular opinion, but I’m interested to hear contrasting thoughts, please vocialize disagreements
> A lot use it for boosted visibility forcing their comments to the top even if they're bad.

Which is why it's important not to hide it for an end user - it helps you distinguish between organic posts (non-checked) and boosted ones (blue check).

The blue check is mostly a negative signal at this point, except for the fact that people over certain follower numbers automatically are forced to have it.

It's a really bizarre system.
I think, but mostly hope, that this client side scanning initiative will fall apart. Not just because it's an obvious destruction of civil liberties for us in the EU, but also because it's doomed to fail even if implemented. The underlying concept is ineffective at dealing with CSAM, or any kind of adversarial user scenario. Unfortunately my hopes have a bad legislative record.

Clients aren't trustworthy. Ignoring the myriad services that exist, and will come to exist, which just never implement this -- there will be (somewhat) easily accessible versions of apps that remove such telemetry. E.g. VScode is to VScodium as WhatsApp is to WhatsAppium.

Imagine the spoofing opportunities. Message someone, get their client ID, report that client detected all the worst CSAM imaginable.

Think of the false positives. Think of the expense. Think of the children. Think of the children whose non-abusive parents send banal but confounding photos to each other, get hounded by CSAM allegations, and some fraction of whom get separated from their child.

Passing this will be a huge expense of time all of these legislators could use better. Implementing these directives will be a huge expense of money and knowhow to build a flawed and exploitable system. Enforcing the consequences will have untold amounts of suffering unrelated to CSAM. And likely after the first few creeps are caught, the adversarial actors will just start using other channels.

But by that point the conversation will have shifted to clientside scanning of thoughts...
It's generally illegal for public employees or officers of any kind to make more than incidental use of public resources for any personal, rather than public-business purposes (political or otherwise), and further its even more illegal for public officials to use public resources for political campaign purposes.

So, yeah, using a non-city email address as his campaign contact email seems not only legal and ethical, but probably legally and ethically mandatory.

EDIT: the applicable Washington state statute on political campaign uses of public resources is: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=42.52.180

The main body of the rule is "No state officer or state employee may use or authorize the use of facilities of an agency, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of assisting a campaign for election of a person to an office or for the promotion of or opposition to a ballot proposition. Knowing acquiescence by a person with authority to direct, control, or influence the actions of the state officer or state employee using public resources in violation of this section constitutes a violation of this section. Facilities of an agency include, but are not limited to, use of stationery, postage, machines, and equipment, use of state employees of the agency during working hours, vehicles, office space, publications of the agency, and clientele lists of persons served by the agency."

EDIT AGAIN: Looking at that again, that is specific to state officers or employees, so may not be applicable to city officials, but represents the kind of rule that is commonly in place.
That your only criteria for judging a historical figure is whether or not he's an unconditional supporter of your favorite ethnic group doesn't come off as very objective.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/can-a...
I don't remember putting anything in my web address for domain validated TLS, i could be mistaken.

I have definitely seen email as part of the verification chain and alteration of DNS records: both of which would be hard(er) than intercepting a http request on an infrastructure provider of the host providing the website.

Of course; that would mean the provider who has your DNS could do it, but those are often separate entities and they would have to collude
Just tried it, the free version is really slow (it has been going on 7 minutes now to just generate the first image and still isn't complete) compared with what I'm getting from OpenAI. I'll keep the $20/mo on that, it is worth it.
It would be interesting if some kind of active/inductive measurement could be made.

As a human driver, I'm keenly aware of the "close calls" I've had where I've narrowly avoided a probable collision through good decisions and/or reaction times. I'm probably less aware of the times when I've just gotten lucky.

No doubt self-driving companies have internally available data on this stuff. Can't wait til superior performance to human drivers is a major selling point!
How would you rank others? Tesla, ford, Mercedese, etc?
> Traffic fatalities would fall nearly to 0 if we made all speed limits 25mph.

You're saying it as if it's a bad thing. Nah, it would be great (with some exceptions that can be addressed). It would encourage ubiquitous and efficient public transport.
How do you make this designation?
Zero situational awareness. Completely unaware of the disgust being felt by his date seeing a person defecate. Completely unaware a plant has been in the room for two years. The feeling to post this on the internet with a “lessons learned” theme is kind of naively comical.
If a merchant mails something you didn't order, you are allowed to keep it.

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub300a/pub300a_v04_revi...

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Options-Do-I-Have-Regard...

Additional discussion on if they mis-ship things to you:

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/17533/if-a-retailer-...
Telehealth visits and expanded clinic hours make obtaining certain types of care more convenient for patients. They do nothing to address practitioner productivity and workload. It's still one practitioner working directly with one patient.

AI might eventually reduce charting workload slightly. A few vendors have launched new products in that space but they haven't had much impact yet. In the ideal case they might allow for an average doctor to squeeze in a couple more short encounters per day.
Any speculation on how big a deal this is for the prospects of Cruise as a competitor in the AV space?

As far as I can tell, they were open in 4 metro areas (SF, Austin, Houston, Phoenix). So this is their original testing zone, and 1 out of 4 of contemporary zones down.

Will this impede their ability to retain and expand existing zones?
Pilot Who Tried to Kill Flight's Engines Told Cops He'd Taken Shrooms, Feds Say
But it can't be so for the long term, can it?, if projected sea rise is like over ten meters.
Thunderbird stopped being amazing about 10 years ago. No signs of recovery in sight.

I don't know much anymore, but I used to follow the development, and sadly started noticing decisions and mistakes that brought us to this today.

Can there be an amazing product behind a non-profit group?

Firefox, at least, seems quite better than Thunderbird.
Ok. Good point. Forgot how big of asshats humans can be for a moment.
You’re saying there’s no conceivable way to discern which soccer players are better than others??

I don’t understand your position. Is it that all developers are equally productive, or that they do vary in productivity but it is immeasurable, an æther, with literally zero signals one could possibly mine to see how valuable a developer is to the team?
Python Insider: Python 3.13.0 alpha 1 is now available
What a pithy example of the human experience. I love this slice of life vignette.

I would argue, even better said than the blog post.
> the attacker obtained a valid administrative session token from _after_ any MFA would've been completed

But you can lock session tokens to specific IPs or user agents. I've implemented similar in the past for a B2B admin-panel, and whilst there were the occasional false positive with browsers updating in the middle of a session (incrementing the user agents version number) and people's IP changing if they switched networks (or in one instance, a badly configured office network that randomly routed through 2 proxy servers with different outbound IP addresses) which then made it demand MFA again, it was fairly rare and didn't attract too many complaints.
There's likely an online guide to replace your router.
A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe'en (1919)
Building Custom Middleware in FastAPI – Semaphore
Because they don't gather as much data as the other tech giants
i12n would be better. Number of letters in between, in hex! Make it even harder to understand.
> I had an epiphany about self driving recently late at night on the streets of San Francisco

So, the entire amount of VC dollars that went into Waymo is ~$5.5 billion dollars.

If you look at the entire self-driving market, it's probably less than $12 billion in total.

San Francisco's yearly budget, is $15 billion dollars. The Federal Gov spends 50 billion dollars per year on maintaining federal highways.

So yeah, you didn't have an epiphany. You just couldn't be bothered to spend 20 seconds thinking about the math.
Maybe it should just die then. Seriously.

It wasn't profitable when Elon took over. Elon made it profitable. If doing that makes it non-functional then perhaps that's because there's no actual business here.
The human driver actually fled the scene. It was a hit and run.
It's possible to be both a victim and a perpetrator, for example, if you give power to someone who uses that power to hurt you and others.
Great post, like good docs; clear, informative, and with examples.
Much easier to go with Electron. The choice is made for you. With native Windows, it's a dozen different solution and you waste timing playing future teller to imagine which one won't be abandoned in the future. At least with Electron you can reuse your skills with websites and it's pretty established now. Yes, it's not as fast but it's fast enough.
Very cool, curious if you plan to add a summarize feature along with this? I know there are other apps that do that already, but would be good to follow along inside the same single app.
Seems like good advice, but I’m not sure the police are buying illegally obtained DNA sequences from hacker groups. (But I’m sure there are nations that do)
Not available in the Canadian store.
Data Breach Litigation: J.S. vs. 23andMe, Inc [pdf]
>Parents parent their children and pay attention to what they do online instead of letting third parties decide what is or isn't appropriate for their children to see

I think both of you are making the same point. offer options not mandates. internet or device filters are options a parent can enable, not mandates in order to not have Child Protective Services at their door. if some highly religious parent wants to shut down everything except the Bible that's their choice (not one I agree with, but a choice). If a parent trusts their kid to have free reign over the internet that's also a choice (I imagine that's how many of us were raised, before such filters even existed).
Well if you're objection is that public transportation currently sucks, yes that's the problem. It doesn't have to. That's the point.

That might be the first time I've seen privacy as a main objection. Not sure how serious that should be taken considering how much privacy has willingly been given up in the last couple decades in the name of convenience. And also how few cases where it would matter. Like does it matter if a rando can see one sit on a bus? It's not going to make a difference with companies and governments since they have so much electronic location data available, not to mention license plate scanners for private cars which also have electronic location data.