skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I now have 3 incoming sponsors, and 3 outgoing sponsorships on github - perfectly balanced!

There's a bit of a story behind the first sponsor, Zuplo: They wanted to sponsor one specific project of mine, express-rate-limit, and I almost just turned them down. I have a decent day job, and didn't feel like I needed it.

But, express-rate-limit had received a ton of contributions from another individual, gamemaker1, to the point that I had already given him contributor access to the repo. So, I decided to ask if he wanted it before turning Zuplo down. He persuaded me to split it with him.

Once we tried to accept, we learned that he is ineligible to sign up for most sponsorship/giving platforms because he is currently a minor. So, right now the full amount comes to me and then I transfer half from my bank account to his.

We haven't done any major functional changes to express-rate-limit since accepting sponsorship, but we have made a lot of small improvements since then and I think the sponsorship deserves some credit for encouraging that.
After RTFA, the 32M emails cost more than $40. They also cost a few hours of however much your lawyer charges for interaction with city attorneys.
I thought i just read that they were just allowed to put a lot more vehicles on the road, maybe because of a promise that they would be better but now we find that they are not?
While appalling, this seems to be because the law has been set up to incentivize that behavior, not because the drivers fail to realize they've hit someone and/or panic and freeze up after doing so. Quite the opposite.

And people getting away with it -- even with video evidence -- seems to be an indication of police corruption. Which creates further incentive to do the wrong thing here.
Uranium is illegal to possess and is a tangible object. Data is intangible and can be copied. If Matt gave into a request to search his hard drive, said search could extend into other devices, online accounts, etc. And that wouldn't even prove that he no longer possesses the data
Just after they open to public inspection all the deliberation, discussion and industry lobbying behind weakening encryption on the basis that people who have nothing to hide shouldn't care.
Probably less common, but I write a lot of JS code interfacing with devices over serial connections. This makes Buffer's convenience methods for encoding and decoding data types in both big and little endian ordering really useful to me.

It looks like I could accomplish the same thing using a DataView of an ArrayBuffer, but I don't see enough of a benefit to justify converting everything to this approach.
That seems solvable by picking things about the future that are a lot harder to influence, like the hashes of future bitcoin blocks, or the exact value of all stocks on the NYSE at a given moment in time.

... ok. stock one is probably easier to influence by suborning the exchange :) - all world exchanges?
Really? Do you agree this data should cost 30 million dollars to retrieve? Do you agree that 10tb of storage should cost 1000s of dollars? Would you be mad if someone sent you data you did not ask for and then threatened legal action if you did not grant full access to your personal data in return?

I don't agree with all his takes. It's absurd he toyed with the idea of asking to keep this data, for instance... But I think he is rightfully pissed.
That sounds really subjective
I wish I knew, lol. I've never met anyone who's paid less than $100/month for car insurance. For my brother though it's probably on account of him being 19, being at fault for an accident that totaled 2 cars, having a speeding ticket for going 25mph over the limit, a $40k+ truck, and car loans like this requiring a $500 deductible at the highest it can be set.

He's not the best candidate for an insurance policy...
Orkney is well worth a visit, the archeological sites are truly amazing and when you're done with that you can visit Highland Park and sip some world class scotch.
When I die I want to leave my kids an advantageous amount of money.

Even if I didn't, vehicles are way down the list of sources of fun I would spend money on, especially if we're talking double-digit percentages of my budget.

Presumably these are a part of the cultural difference between me and people who spend so much on vehicles.

How much "fun" do you think the subjects of the article are getting from their vehicles?
The whole point of AVs is that they are a safety layer.
Here's a fun game where you have 10 minutes to flip an unfair coin. In my experience I get the best results when I just move really fast and don't worry about matching Kelly exactly. https://elmwealth.com/coin-flip/
yes, I've watched my wife and female friends/family scroll Instagram ... every 3rd post is an example you provided. Body image/beauty issues for women were a thing before Instagram and social media so I don't think regulating the nature of advertisements would change much, at least in any measurable way. There are infinite influencers creating similar content as the advertisements.
Keeping autonomous vehicles on the road will result in thousands of edge cases, and without a clear safety benefit (as opposed to Level 1 systems) its better to stop everything and reconsider.

Honestly, I don't think this tech will be able to ever be fully automated without controlling the environment as well (dedicated lanes). There's just too many variables you can't account for, and too much risk.
You're talking to someone who has published well over a thousand packages, many of them tiny.

I suspect your philosophies are irreconcilable.
Solo mined 100BTC on CPU back in 2009 or 2010. It wasn’t even worth a dollar. I formatted the drive that had them on it (I had forgotten about them) and probably threw it away a good few years before it even spiked the first time to like $4.

I don’t waste much time thinking about it, I know I would have sold at $4, or $8, or $1000 and then just been kicking myself as it hit new highs. Better to have just lost it completely and have the story to tell.
He’s not arguing for less tech, just that big tech shouldn’t monopolize AI. Are you saying they should?
...Alongside the giant human-controlled robots piloted by random people who presumably passed some kind of half-hour driving test at some point in the past, somewhere in the world.

We know full well that those drivers are one of the leading causes of death in the country, but we shrug it off.

With the press watching self-driving companies like hawks waiting to freak out over any mistake (OMG, self-driving cars caused a traffic jam in SF! Better tell everybody in the world!) I feel okay about having them on the road.
How is that hostile? To be aware of your rights and state they can’t do an illegal search?

Demanding a warrant to be searched is not hostile it’s the equivalent of saying no thank you. Hostile is when they have a warrant and you still refuse.
Aside from the measurable harmful effects, these companies have simply accrued too much political power.

Being able to manipulate what 100s of millions or billions of people see every day on their screens is an unprecedented amount of power.

Democratic nations are not going to tolerate these companies much longer.
Courts have bailiffs, judicial marshals, and security officers. They should have no problem transferring convicted criminals to jail. Police aren't required at all.
I don't think it's fair to expect that level of quality... yet. You've named 3 companies that have been making related devices for literally decades. Valve... hasn't :P
The platform itself had a higher degree of quality, because the authenticity of a brand was verified and impersonation was less possible.
I always find it enormously frustrating when stories like this only include one picture, like this one does. Pictures would really help in understanding what the overall shape looks like, and surely they exist.

Either way, while frustratedly seeing if I could find more (and only turning up the same picture in cribbed news articles on other sites) I found the 3D modelling profile of the lead researcher, with some 3D models of archaeological sites in Orkney, as well as others, and thought other readers here might be interested: https://sketchfab.com/hugoandersonwhymark
Ah, I missed that we were talking about super computers. I thought we were talking about consumer gear
I think there is also a consideration that should be made for traffic flow. Every time I see a report on these cars it's because they are clogging up a street or stopped dead in traffic. Of course no one reports when they are behaving well but at least if some asshole door dasher double parks and fouls traffic flow you can through persuasion or violence resolve the situation.
Alaska Airlines pilot: "I thought I was dreaming and I just wanna wake up."
One of the most important reasons companies are no longer engaging via X is that their tools don’t work anymore:

> Another change is that it is no longer always possible for companies to load questions asked via DM on the platform into their customer service systems.

This is related to API access for the tools in question, I’d guess. So many businesses and ideas grew up around Twitter’s flexibility and relative openness. Many of those ideas don’t work at all in a monetized model.

We’ve known this as a culture for a long time. It’s why we created and continue to use public utilities. Not everything needs to be a profit center.
Yes I've had various flavors of ACA insurance for the last 9 years. Family of 4. Most of the time you can get cost reductions via tax credits, unless your income is quite high. However you may live in a state which is hostile to the ACA. I suppose that does matter. In NY, OR, and VT it has been solid for us.
Hector Martin of Asahi Linux bemoans the state of Linux Kernel code reviews
I've put up a better copy from _Kiss Kiss_: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1960-dahl-will...
(Taking the claim at face value) Okay, then nothing is safe regardless of platform; apps on every platform can just demand permissions and be given them, and PureOS is no better because "we demand that you disable technical measures that would protect you" is effective on all OSs.

This still leaves the Librem 5 no better than anything else.
This flirts with the is/ought fallacy. The way you wrote, it sounds like you’re saying that in our current legal system they can be found “found at fault” in a legal sense.

But I believe what you meant is that under a different/hypothetical legal system, one which you believe to be closer to optimal, they should be found at fault.
EA's reasons not to have kids
I'm not honestly.

Cruise was pushing too hard and fast for where their stack is at and they seem to have some severe safety related bugs.

Ex [1]: The car randomly starts swerving rapidly across traffic lanes towards an occupied sidewalk.

Ex [2] (@1:31): The car doesn't stop for someone already in the crosswalk and nearly hits them.

[1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12640657/self-drivi...

[2]: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/video/driving-taxis-hittin...
Can the Qi process bootstrap if the receiving device has no power to begin with? My limited understanding of the process is that there's a communication step between the sending device (a phone in this case) and the recipient before the source begins transmitting.

edit: A quick skim of the massive Qi specs makes it seem like maybe it can boot strap but I'll be honest I don't have the time to really dig in super deep into it. Bing Chat also seems to think it can but its sourcing is a bit spotty and the link it provided for that isn't actually saying anything about unpowered bootstrapping on the Power Receiver side.
The Interface of an Interface
Is there a way to measure the (potential) safety benefits without putting these vehicles on the road?

I'm not saying that means we should just put them on the road, consequences be damned, but I'm curious if there are alternative ways to prove them without risking bystanders' lives.
I use Kagi. Probably not better than Google, but often with less junk. It's much better than DDG. The extra features are nice, as are the customizations (boost specific domains, etc.) I thought I'd be !g-ing to find things on Google, but I rarely do, and I'm constantly researching niche stuff. When I do try !g, I generally find that Google doesn't have the results, either. Kagi also seems to do better with really old results that Google has memory holded.
I'll say it: NestJS is pure evil. It pushes OOP beyond its absolute limits. Not that I would consider OOP a good way to do things in general. Beyond misleading autocompletions that look helpful at first glance, it's usually somewhat counterproductive in any language and with any framework I have ever encountered. But NestJS manages to make it pure pain and sadness. It's like a framework that spins around its own "architecture" making it nearly impossible to get stuff actually done.

Pro tip: If you find a paragraph celebrating "SOLID principles" at the beginning of the documentation of something, run.
They are theoretically a safety layer when we have proven they work. If they do not work well, then they aren't actually safer.
My wife was telling me a new Prius she was driving freaks out and audio alerts if she looks away from the road. That sounded irritating but that car didn't claim to be self driving.
I like that threshold--the best driver in 20.

If we can achieve that, the best in 100 or best in 1000 may not be far off.
It has always existed. The final release from years ago still works, and whoever owns it now has been updating it under version 5.9 fairly recently. There is a "Winamp 6" on the way supposedly...
> This isn't an invading army, it's a group of desperate people lashing out at their condition. And we're not talking about supporting an entire huge nation here, it's just a few million people.

Welcome to the perpetual Israel-Palestine conflict.

A point of contention to what you’re saying is: there is a group of terrorists, and there is the Gaza population, and they’re not disjunct.

You can’t pay Hamas to stop, and you can’t pay Gaza without paying Hamas.
If Europeans are going to voluntarily allow their government to continuously scan all of their private data 24/7, can the rest of the world stop wasting time caring about GDPR please?

Moving every cloud service to be EU-hosted is going to look really stupid once it means you’ve just centralized all worlds data under a 24/7 foreign surveillance & espionage dragnet.

If I had to guess, I’d say the amount of money spent globally on lawyers re: GDPR must exceed the gross national product of Greece. For it to all backfire in this way would be quite humorous.
Yes it's this belief that employed=free healthcare which holds back a lot of progress.
The main issue I have with Supernova is when I move into the Sent folder its focus is on the middle of the stack instead of the last e-mail I've sent. I just don't understand how something that essential slipped in the final version. The whole UI seems like it's half baked.
The Computing Pioneer Helping AI See
I think GP is referencing the substitution effect in media [1], albeit incompletely; it's hard to discuss the ways in which social media may be "purchased" with attention in substitution to real life interaction without having a broader conversation about conventional media. I also think it's not so easy to discuss what a true control is -- how often are people aware of the fact they are consuming a fantasy, and at what point does the line between reality and fantasy blur? Are we really so sure that the youth cannot distinguish between someone's online persona and real life persona and which parts are scripted?

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B97804...
It makes sense to go where your customers are.

If I have a question about a product and I see that the company selling it is on Twitter, I'll tag them and ask them. It takes less than a minute and I'll get feedback in an app that I already use. Strangers can also chime on and help me out.

Compare this with having to look up their website on Google, then having to track down where their customer service is. Ask a question there, then either have to wait for an email (annoying, often ends up in spam), or I have to keep a tab open just for their customer service chat.
They are still here beyond the peak to remind us that the vaccine has a 100% mortality rate, lockdowns (and the elderly) are worthless, and also that coronavirus is a "gain of function" bioweapon funded directly by Dr. Fauci.
Crowdsourced Science Pulls Off a Daring WWII Data Rescue
"Video from Cruise reviewed by the Chronicle showed the woman was in the middle of the crosswalk and that both the Cruise taxi and the other car had a green light. The Cruise applied its brakes and attempted to “minimize the impact,” a spokesperson said, but it was unable to avoid rolling over the victim."

So a pedestrian was crossing a crosswalk when they didn't have the green light. It doesn't really make sense why neither the human driver nor Cruise car slowed down in that case and kept driving normally. Both should have stopped despite having the green light.
Bro doesn't know the difference between goods and services.
The DMV press release specifically cites safety-related misrepresentation as part of the basis for the suspension.

It may not be the performance of the vehicle in the incident that led to the suspensions so much as Cruise's performance in the investigation of the incident (or information about Cruise's prior behavior on safety info that came to light through the investigation.)
Right. Like now I'm wondering if I should edit my statement description in Stripe to be adversarial to AI reconcilers; just for giggles.
I changed to Betterbird, because Betterbird added back features that Thunderbird removed.
Lululemon's Founder Is Racing to Cure the Rare Disease Destroying His Muscles
I think if you've known anyone who was an alcoholic, a tobacco smoker, or even someone who had to taper off prescription benzos or SSRIs you'd know that cannabis withdrawal symptoms are relatively benign. Caffeine withdrawal is significantly worse.
Vercel Deployments Are Blocked
There appears to be an issue with Vercel assigning domains to new deployments, which is blocking. No communication from Vercel yet and the status page still reads "All Systems Operational" [1]

[1] https://www.vercel-status.com/
McKinsey's product is McKinsey services.

Imagine all the effort that goes into marketing, networking, and greasing the wheels of business that goes into selling this and you'll more readily appreciate why McKinsey keeps appearing in spots they have no business being involved in. Their product isn't a good or sound outcome, it's paying the fee to be able to append "McKinsey said..." onto a decision.
Some interesting commentary on that yesterday also in the WSJ:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/another-black-monday-may-be-aro...
Big Bonuses Are Back at UK Banks
This is very timely for me. Only two weeks ago, I learned that the bouncycastle Java FTP client library refuses to talk to servers that run with custom dh_params and I was wondering why because my intuition told me that custom parameters should be better than parameters shared between everyone.

And now only two weeks later, I get a very good explanation as to why, like often in crypto, intuition was wrong
> The title says 'HH-like forum' so I came here to understand what 'HH' stands for. Seems a typo?

Same here.

Not sure why OP thinks HN is full of politics and business (whatever that means) content.
https://archive.ph/AjjBV
But that requires it to be present before the build is signed, ergo, early in the supply chain. Otherwise, the signature breaks and the build isn’t trusted for the rest of it.
You're right, my wording was imprecise. My point was that he could have continued to delve into the information without anyone hassling him, unless the city independently discovered their mistake. But you are right to point out that he still would have been somewhat limited in what he could do with the data without arousing suspicion.
Yes, there are several doctors in my family. They are great at treating acute problems and absolutely clueless about managing chronic health conditions unless there is a drug for it.
Conversations.im shows a login failure in this case. See: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111285494250772742
Thunderbird also lost the ability to have threads auto collapse for a while there (it seems to be back now?). So any long threads were auto expanded. Felt kinda like supernova was so heavily focused on "the redesign" that it failed to consider basic usablilty
If people voted for them and they do this then that is the system working as it should be. Society isn't run by an elite group of the learned.
People were on Craigslist, until they weren't. Twitter's downfall will be like that, gradual and with different replacements for different use cases. It won't be fast and one-to-one like MySpace to Facebook.
I don't think this includes any of the Chinese brands. They obviously have a cheaper cost base, arguably lower quality, and the government is keen to get more global market penetration so they're going to be a lot more competitive.
This person is doing the dirty ground work of protecting our rights, and incurring legal fees because of it.

The entitled prima donnas are the public employees of Seattle that seem to have the attitude that they shouldn't be bothered to do their jobs properly.
Are there any projects that enable local AIs (like ollama) to fetch/process information from the web?
You still need to be in the car and in the driving seat ? Unlike cruize which does not require anyone in the car

Which would make the driver responsible not the the company for incidents especially ones which explicitly circumvented controls.

The scenario with cruize is different because the company is responsible for everything
Let's not forget that the companies that develop and lobby for self driving cars do it for profit. Whatever safety qualities they may or may not have are there to deliver and maximize profit. At this point in time.

Public transport is a safer alternative but not as profitable
IBM Debuts Brain-Inspired Chip
92% with 4 perfect cuts (messed up badly on the easy 12-sided shape). Don't know why, but it was a strangely fun exercise. "Brilliant" ad too (pun intended :D)
I agree with much of what was said. My point was that they didn’t stick the landing. They overshot the mark. They did specifically use the word “incidental” so I don’t see how I could be misrepresenting anything.
Normally the bees in the hives used to pollinate blueberries don’t give a damn about me while I’m out doing my agronomy job.

However I’ve found that when there are moving clouds that cause conditions to suddenly shift from shaded to full sun, the abrupt temperature/light increase seems to cause what I presume are guard bees to become upset, resulting in me suddenly getting stung. If the full sun condition is constant then no issues.

I definitely prefer the alfalfa leafcutting bee “hives”, used on alfalfa, they are so much more chill. Technically they are “solitary bees” but are gregarious and happy enough to form a sort of colony close together to others, which allows for having boxes of them. They lack both nest guarding instincts and a venomous stinger. Special bees are used for alfalfa because they don’t mind the alfalfa flowers mechanically slapping them with pollen in their face when opening the flowers. Regular honeybees don’t like that and will learn to chew through the base of the flower to get the nectar.
> The objectively best used car to buy is a single owner 5 year old Toyota Corolla with 60,000 miles.

Depends if they did all the 60k service stuff or not. That's the first major service interval that could easily run you $2000 (brakes, battery, all liquid changes, belts, etc.)
94%, 4 perfect. I feel like the score should also be timed... In hindsight I should have spent more time on some of these!
The Postgres Renaissance: A Modern Reawakening
Doctors aren't mechanics. They are the engineers. Nurses are the mechanics.