skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Should we ban kitchen knives because they're sharp?"

We do in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives "It’s illegal to: use any knife or weapon in a threatening way, carry most knives or any weapons in public without a ‘good reason’, sell most knives or any weapons to anyone under the age of 18." - And yes that includes kitchen knives because there's a callout - "In Scotland, you’re allowed to sell 16 and 17 year olds cutlery and kitchen knives."

> "Asphyxiation is the leading method of teen suicide. Should we stop selling plastic, rope, and anything that fits around a neck and/or head?"

We regulate them or have standards around them[3]: "The Toy Safety Directive, BS EN 71-1, raises attention to plastic bags and plastic sheets. It specifies bags larger than 380mm opening circumference and having a drawstring closure must be made of a material which is permeable to air. Except where application requires airtight sealing, all bags are to be perforated with holes of 4mm diameter minimum, spaced on 30mm grid. Bags for child appealing products and toys must have a minimum of four holes; other bags to have a minimum of two holes".

Your stance "we shouldn't have to do things about dangers" is silly, we do a lot of things to reduce risks in a lot of areas. Learning from other people's tragedies and trying to safeguard others from having to go through them is one of the long-running threads of civilised society.

Should we restrict electric wiring options in houses because electrocution and fires are a thing? Yes. Should we restrict food production options because salmonella is a thing? Yes. Should we have building codes because shoddy buildings fall down and kill people? Yes. Should we have laws about lead and carcinogens and things in products? Yes. Should cars have to meet crash test safety conditions? Yes. etc. etc.

> "Should we put inflatable balloons around people because cars and high velocity objects exist that we can collide with?"

We do; drivers are surrounded by inflatable airbags. [rant] Look at the social messaging around bike helmets. You never see people telling runners to wear a helmet in case they suddenly come upon a head injury. But take say YouTuber Tom Stanton who makes unusual engineering projects, including a flywheel bike[1] which he rode at walking pace down an empty country lane, and in his next bike video, a homemade supercapacitor bike[2] he's wearing a a helmet because of all the flack he got in the comments on the earlier one.

The point is not whether helmets prevent against brain damage in certain situations, the point is what situations are casual everyday recreational cyclists getting into where they risk brain damage? And the answer is cars. And the social messaging for helmet wearing is to shift blame from car drivers hitting cyclists to cyclists "not taking safety precautions".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gahKxbwUcYw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_f8Q2_Q_J0

[3] https://qualityinspired.co.uk/2020/03/suffocation-warning-re...
Yes, and it's already done today; for instance, in Brazil these high power transmission lines transport wind power from the northeast region (which has lots of wind due to favorable geography) to the southeast region (where most of the electricity consumption is). The total distance is on the order of 2000 km.

(A fun fact: many of these high power transmission lines were originally to send power from the hydroelectric power plants in the southeast region to the water-starved northeast region. With the rapid expansion of wind power in the northeast region, the usual direction of the flow has reversed, and it's not uncommon for that wind power to provide over a quarter of the power for the whole country.)
Please see my previous comment. Here's the part to pay attention to:

> The FISA Court that is supposed to provide critical oversight of the U.S. government's vast spying programs has limited ability to do so and it must trust the government to report when it improperly spies on Americans.

The courts are too busy and are leaving it up to the people doing the crimes to police themselves and report their crimes to the courts, on a "trust" based system.

Nobody is watching the watchers, that's why.
Because there are currently cheaper options. Those are last mile, high hanging fruit solutions.
> PGP still works

Does it?
It's a shame. Even before Omegle, I remember when ICQ had a random match text chat feature. I had some great conversations on there. Briefly used Omegle for the same, but even years back when I tried it the signal to noise was a lot lower. I'd love it if someone found a way to do it sustainably.
Very strict like 'not having a girlfriend' and 'can't get social hosing'.
At that point Canada's euthanasia laws are less strict in the world I think.

> After watching my Mum die slowly of lung cancer

Did she express desire for the euthanasia ans was denied?
It reads as "survived users".
I think they confused "hot" with "wet"
This seems like a good use case for ChatGPT. Give it your resume and the job posting, and have it spit out a generic cover letter for you.
How the hell is legislation supposed to be secret anyway? How can you even try to obey the law if you can't know what it says...
Classic. I love that line from Terminator 2 such a good film.
I bet not even 0.001% of FB's user base actually activated this feature.

The sad thing is that PGP seems to be the best open attempt to have encryption and it has failed miserably with the general public.
As I was saying, jokes are unit tests of understanding:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38058350

That "understanding" could well be coping with pain.
That's in Amsterdam, and it is one of the most stupid designs ever. Still amazes me it got approved. I can think of so many ways in which that could cause problems it is a study in irresponsible engineering.
https://1ft.io/proxy?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2023%2...
> In my area, you won't get an offer accepted if you don't waive the home inspection.

This is a consequence of an extreme lack of supply in your area rather than some sort of realtor conspiracy though.
It really depends on how you define the word value.

For me personally I think this is a garbage idea and it's so similar to all of the other people who pass themselves off as content creators when in reality they are content repackagers. The internet is flooded with this trash there is so little actual new interesting information compared to the repackaged trash that is thrown out there. It used to be when people would repackage this stuff they could apply their own personalized unique perspective but now running it through chat GPT there is no personalized unique perspective to it. It's regurgitated summarized trash. Almost always I would rather see the original article if it is something interesting to me then someone's garbage summary whose only purpose is for engagement.

This was always the problem with 24-hour news channels that people complained about in the beginning. Of course only as old people can remember those days. The idea that there's not enough engaging news to fill a 24-hour channel so they have four hours of actual engaging news throughout the day and 20 hours of people talking about the actual news.

So really this is about how you personally define value. Does this provide value in the sense that it is new information or provides an interesting and unique perspective on something? That answer has to be an absolute no because it's regurgitated automated trash. Does it provide value in the sense that it drives engagements and clicks and increases your clout and perhaps monetary resources, maybe.

Once you decide what value means to you don't need the answer of hacker News.
Did google stop its book scanning? with the data they had and now with these kinds of models the ability to search by topic in those books would be amazing. You forgot the book name but remember a bit of the story explain it and it is found for you. Or better yet run in on the libgen library
Before I click the link, I'll be shocked if there's worse than a modern HP printer.

Edit: All the top answers are basically this.
This was part of the evidence used in the case. They had recordings from buyer's agents who called about non-MLS homes. The agents were on-tape saying things like, "I am going to make sure no other agent shows your house." All because the seller refused to pay a buyer's agent commission.
Exactly! The CTO of the 5th most visited website in the world locked himself in his office, behaving in a manner that caused his employees to be concerned he'd harm himself.

Happens every day!
Hey! Creator here, thanks for sharing! Let me know if anyone has questions and feel free to contribute, I've left some potential next steps in the README.
Especially in competitive markets where everyone waves inspections and stuff to even get a deal considered.

Build quality basically had no impact on housing prices because no one could do a proper inspection.
"cloud your world view"?
I don’t think it has been determined by your age. Internet freedom and its wild wild west aspect has been vanishing gradually since its creation. Everybody has witnessed it.
I hear they basically never payout in the event of a problem
Sure, corporate laptops are always a different story. Ideally it's nice to have cross compilation but that might not always be possible. I use a lot of Rust and I really like their OS compatibility out of the box.
Sort of like raise money, find bandwagon.
The original HN discussion of Omegle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539753

The site has only been featured here twice, for its birth and death.
(1) is new, will do that too going forward, makes a lot of sense.
(3) might make sense for subscriptions, doesn't work too well for transactions regretfully.
Beauty of Iterated Function Systems: A Primer
Andreesen and only Andreesen think highly of Andreesen. Consummate BS producer. BenH less so, but still not the great visionary he thinks he is either.
The one this article is about is an absolute brute.
Don't you have to sign a waver for that type of accident. Maybe that's what we are missing from the internet. But that would likely require a real proof of age to work
That is like saying “we been using crypto for years: see SSL”

Clearly the AI being compared here is the recent boom in generative AI. OCR didn’t have companies chucking billions at experiments and make chip manufacturing stocks soar.
I recently interviewed for a pretty interesting sounding organisation. They set me up with a written test and seven (7!!!) interviews with various folks. Everyone seemed to like me, I was getting great feedback. The recruiter had even asked for my earliest start date.

They set me up in the eighth and final interview with the SVP. The night before the interview I received an email saying that they loved chatting with me but were puling the job off the market, and I might hear back in March or April when they're hiring again.

I have never had my time wasted so egregiously. I have increasingly little patience for the hiring process.
So special.

But really, however you supposedly feel about it, if you haven’t understood that very many people concern themselves with this question, what even have you been doing ?
When I was looking to sell my previous house the market was in turmoil and I didn't have a good idea of what the price should be so I called an appraisal company to ask what they would appraise it for and they refused. Their job is to basically rubber stamp whatever the realtor gives them to appease the bank. At the most they'll check a couple of comps in the area to make sure it's not totally out of whack.
you can use the hydrogen an arbitrarily large number of times once you get it there, and the amount of water needed is so small that this is not a major part of the cost of a grid-scale storage system system even if you have to truck it in, which you don't because even deserts have groundwater

please do the math instead of posting random bullshit without respect to whether it's true or not

specifically hydrogen is 142 MJ/kg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
and is 1/9 of water by mass, so each kg of water you drill, truck in, or collect from cisterns can store 15.8 MJ as hydrogen. a square meter of 21% efficient pv panel produces 210 watts nameplate, or 52 watts derating for the 25% capacity factor typical for deserts. that is 4.5 MJ per day. the water needed to store the panel's daily production weighs much less than the panel itself and is therefore much cheaper to truck in

obviously it would be stupid to truck it back out again unless you decided to do your grid-scale storage somewhere else
Mmm not sure if this is a case of correlation =/= causation. Irregular sleep patterns can be medically induced.
X37-b with a smiley face.

https://www.bing.com/images/create/x37-b-with-a-smiley-face/...
A manufacturer of office gear in the Netherlands had one that would 'every now and then' come down randomly. It turned out to be a relay in an ancient AC unit that generated so much interference that it triggered the control of the press. Super dangerous, and very hard to trouble shoot what the cause was.
Good job.

Now do the Collective Refusal to Deal commited by the Texas Apartment Association. They require every apartment complex in Texas to use the same contract. That's a criminal violation of Texas' anti-trust laws, specifically it's a Collective Refusal to Deal.
I don't think this is really true. NodeJS has quite a similar problem.
Nuclear tech hasn't had a luxury of having renewables-like subsidies though.

Who knows what the prices could have been had nuclear got the same level of subsidies.

Nuclear energy (especially fast neutron tech that can use the abundant U-238 and nuclear waste from existing NPPs) isn't getting attention it deserves. Only Russia, China and India are investing in it, but it's neglected in the West because there is no immediate profit to gain from this.
@dang: Not sure what guideline I broke with my previous comment that was flagged, but I would love to learn so I don't repeat offend.
In my experience, it has a near-zero false positive rate though.
It's not popular because you're mostly hearing from the science community who want more features in their array (vector/matrix/tensors).

Why would you want to use C-like arrays in Python anyways?
Still doesn't explain or justify why you're paying for the realtor on the other side.
Even though I did miss older stuff in the web 2.0 days, I had a positive outlook (and good reason to have it) for the things that would come next.

Not anymore.
As someone who predicted the fall of cryptocurrencies early on, I would say no. But there is a certain class of scammy hype-driven individuals (overlap with the crypto-bro-crowd is not unvommon) that have the potential to turn everything into a hollow and meaningless hype.

This is problematic, when the nature of the hyped thing is distorted. Cryptoassets for example were useful mostly for high risk speculation, shady money transfers and for pyramid schemes. As a currency these things totally sucked, but that was the promise: "Soon money is going to be replaced by this thing". Additionally they hyped the underlying technology ("everything must be on the blockchain!") and some idiots went along and made it part of their tech stack without any rational reason to do so.

Machine learning is different in that it already showed some incredible value. That value comes with potentially huge societal impacts as it will destroy entire classes of jobs and distort the concept of truth even further. But having a thing that does what it does is genuinely useful, outside of get-rich-quick schemes and speculation.

Now machine learning is in danger of being overhyped into something it is not. As impressive as some of the results are, this is not artificial intelligence in the traditional "artifical consciousness" sense of the word. It is a way to come up with plausible outputs to a given input.
I'm surprised anyone is still using FB. Where I live it's mostly seniors posting good morning memes.
We're not actually so sure that it isn't like other virii, post viral syndrome is common but the actual causes are largely unknown. It could well be that everything we're discovering about covid is actually extremely common in other viral infections, just to a lesser extent.
I have edited to mean uninhabitable.

e.g. places like outback Australia where it reaches 50C and is a long distance from water.
This whole thing is pretty damn well-argued, paints a compelling picture. I see myself in it, but it could be in a horoscope / med student way.

Humour is definitely a way to de-fang the world, and smooth over difficult situations. The "making other people" laugh bit is interesting, considering the smile / bared teeth dichotomy.
The job of the appraiser is to demonstrate to the bank signing a mortgage that the deal isn't a scam.

If a house would reasonably be sold for $250k, but the buyer is buying at $2 million, there's probably some very good questions that need to be asked about where the money is going.

On the other hand, if an appraiser can demonstrate that:

- properties with similar features have been sold in a similar price range in somewhat recent time frame
- if no close match exists, then identifying the price differential from past sales might justify a good guess

Generally speaking, if someone is making an offer, then they are participating in the market and setting the fair market value of the home. IME yes, appraisers DO know the offer that is being made, and they'll come up with a similar number if they don't have reason to believe that the buyer and seller are doing something shady.
I agree, and I think we're a year or two away from a full end-to-end trained screen reader. The ground truth from existing systems would provide great training material.

As a technical blind person, my only concern is the inherent loss of privacy while sharing stuff with the big models.
If I were looking for a 100 year language, I think I might go a little higher level and target Lua (say 5.1 so you could plug in LuaJIT and/or NeoVim plugins). As a dead release, it is already at a situation of no feature churn. The VM is minimal and there are implementations in many other languages.
> Closing fees plus realtor fees are a big reason why it takes so long for a home to break even for most people - something like 7 years in NYC. And one reason why there's so much pressure for home prices to keep going up. The cost of selling a home and buying another one also makes the labor market less dynamic - people find it harder to move to where there's better opportunities.

I 1000% agree with this. I finally bought a house just under a month ago, but I would have done this years ago if the transaction costs weren't so stupid high (because I was never 100% sure I would be staying in the same area for a while).
How many of those issues are created by a poor system, perpetuated by realtors though?
> What if energy use came down to acceptable levels? What if there were no pre-mines? What if we can have decentralized low friction, low cost micro payments?

Wouldn't a more interesting question be something like, what if it solved a problem that wasn't already solved in a better way by much older technology?
Always has been. It's a distractionary boogeyman.
At my work there are a large contingent of people who essentially do manual data copying between legacy programs (govt), because the tech debt is so large that we can't figure out a way to plug these things together. Excited for tools like this to eventually act as a layer that can run over these sort of problems, as bizarre a solution as it is from a compute perspective
Nick Mullen comes to mind
> I was given around 40 minutes today to solve three questions about two CSV data sets...Couldn't do it in the allotted time

You need to fix this. Is it fair? Probably not, but it's what it is. If you fail the coding test, no one will pass you to the next phase.
Yes. Pretty much all of them. Most jobs are more about the realistic situation on the ground. Very little of which is "platonic ideal"? Even if or when you get to have a whole team of assistants to do the menial stuff you don't consider part of your "platonic ideal", you'll find yourself in the management and coordination business. A good manager will shield you from some of this but most of the job IS this. People tend to talk about the fun stuff but the good news is, you are reading HN so you also hear plenty about the not fun stuff.
I find throwing an error that says "not implemented" to be a good solution. Or at least logging a warning.
> I am absolutely certain people die hitting their head while at paid ice skating rinks.

And they are regularly sued for injuries (even short of death), and sometimes lose.

Picking one case out of many because it was a ice rink on a cruise ship:

https://www.mariettainjurylawyer.com/federal-court-holds-roy...
Securing HTML fragments returned by API endpoints
Pretty sure not everyone knows what "relax" means. People who overthink, people who go to therapy, people who have mental problems. Do you just tell them "come on, you KNOW what relax means!"

Even if you had a "natural convo" with them, you'll never know if they were STRUGGLING to have this "natural convo" with you.

I assume you work in software since this is HN.
Never assume you know about your users. Please.
Suburbs are not perfectly walkable. As a.crow flies there are things in range ,but often there are fences in the way so you can't get there. Even if you can, the door face the road and so you spend most of acceptable walking distance just getting around the building. And there are no or poor sidewalks on the trip so you end up mixing with cars too much.

I bike to the.grocery store, it isn't too far, but the trip is not pleasant because everything is setup or driving.
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The sad thing is, aside from the feature bloat, Edge is actually very good in terms of performance. And it has genuinely useful features like vertical tabs, workspaces, etc.
Technically no. But it's an uphill battle. Technically you can sell your own house without an agent.
Leveraging OpenAI GPT-4 Vision API for SwiftUI App Generation
This blog post reveals an innovative experiment using OpenAI's GPT-4 Vision API for generating SwiftUI apps. By leveraging LLMs like GPT-4 Vision, the post details creating a SwiftUI-based property listing app from a UI image. It features a live demo, real-time data integration, and insights on crafting maintainable code with AI assistance. A must-read for developers interested in the future of AI in app creation.
Very cool use for Vimium, I like the approach!
Friday the 13th would always come on a Saturday, is all.
Looks extremely cool. Trying to run it though, I get stuck at "Getting actions for the given objective..." (using the example on the repo)
So disable the lining rule with a comment? That way you don't accidentally commit it.
It's also a question of what we call "magical"

The 90s were special in a certain way that is very different from how the Internet was in 2010.

I enjoyed both. I could call both of them "magical periods". Just different.

One could look at the current AI innovation as a different magical period.
Sunsetting OSlash
I did real estate photography for a bit. It wasn’t worth it because realtors are terrible penny pinchers.

I did quite a few homes directly for sellers because their realtor’s photos were absolutely terrible. It looked like they took 2 minutes to zoom around the house, only putting their arm through doorways, taking everything vertically and tilted.

For what it’s worth at least at the time the MLS had a pretty low max resolution.
Is it this one instance, or is it the fact that it can connect children to adults? Or general moderation problems that include that? Or maybe attacks as in lawyers?