skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So drivers need more skin in the game. Perhaps amputation of a limb as a punishment for grievous injury / death of a pedestrian.
Also anyone who rents, which is most people at some point but especially students, immigrants (even richer ones), new grads, divorcees, basically anyone who can't dedicate a minimum of 5 years to an area.

I've been a victim to people thinking like that - which is why I'm currently paying £1600/month for a 500sqft 1-bed flat, shared with my girlfriend.
Which linux distro did you install and have you had any issues?
It seems the Overton window on Hacker News is pretty much the same as elsewhere. Which doesn't look like pg is controlling anything.
Well, I work for a company that processes Private Health Information, so a breach is a potential existential threat.
> Notably, some of the queries they found to be correlated were... strange... like NBA results.

Doesn't seem that strange to me.

The presence of a professional sports team in your area is correlated with an increase in flu rates. Getting an ice hockey (NHL) is pretty much the worst.

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/08/08/flu-deaths-sports...
There's always been something like the internet though. When I was growing up there was a lot of concern around video games, for example. Growing up I even knew a few guys who were arguably addicted to video games and did nothing else when they weren't in school but play video games. Video games are also designed to be addictive and can often have harmful content – this is the main reason parents wanted certain video games banned in the 90s.

Again, I'm not against sensible limits on children. I do understand that a child cannot have 100% agency over their own actions. But blanket bans on "harmful" videos games like GTA or apps like TikTok seems silly because it limits the actions of adults under the assumption that the government knows what's best for you and your family.

What the government could do is implement age restrictions and age-based content filters. Mandate that companies provide parents with the tools to restrict usage and fine companies that fail do to this. But otherwise just let people do what they want. Tiktok is a great app enjoyed by millions. I don't know why we have to ruin that because a small percentage of people can't control their usage.
You were talking about high corruption and low corruption countries in general. Did you forget your own context?

The point that I and several others have made is that what “low corruption” often corresponds to is that corruption has been legalized in various ways.

Re the amount, the fact that it’s a token is kind of the point in those cases. It’s a public display and reminder to everyone where their campaign funding is coming from. Other amounts are often donated at other times, and larger amounts may come from other companies in the same industry. They didn’t change their vote for those specific checks, it’s more like a reminder that the vote that had already been bought was coming up.

Their tactics apparently worked on you to make you inclined to ignore the exact kind of blatant corruption you had just been criticizing. It’s not “low corruption”, it’s corruption that’s apparently less easy for many people to recognize.
Stories can't be downvoted the way comments can be.

And I'm seeing plenty of negative comments.
Auto calibration- yes!
True, although it's also true that there is a set of characteristics that are dominant in SV companies.
Would love to try a typescript implementation. Any plans to do that?
HAL 9000 is already included as z/OS or z/VM.
I think proper Python macros is one thing LibreOffice could have implemented years ago, to help attract people and break MS near monopoly on spreadsheets. It exists today, but last time I tried felt very hacky. There was no proper macro editor for it, IIRC you had to extract spreadsheets as if they were zip files and save .py written elsewhere in directories inside. Very cumbersome.
That's like complaining that all books are made by Penguin Press or something, ignoring the effort individual authors make.

Most of the value of chips is in their design, which is owned by different entities. Manufacturing is important too (only TSMC can make these advanced designs at scale and at lower costs than the competition).

The question I have is if Cobalt has any innovations in its design, or if its just bog-standard ARM Neoverse cores. Its not too big of a deal to download ARM's latest designs and slap them into... erm... your designs. But hopefully Microsoft added value somewhere along the road (The Uncore remains important: cache sizes, communications, and the like).
I wonder whether this line of thought started with particular ideas of the writer that are currently taboo.

If so, given that the writer seems wealthy, influential, and connected, presumably those taboo ideas might see movement towards implementation or acceptance.
time handling is rough, but a rule of thumb is to use absolute time (e.g. UTC timestamps, datetime with tz offset) for things that represent a concrete point in time (especially if they've already happened) and use time in a timezone (not an offset) to represent future events. In this case you'd store 9AM on this date, in this timezone, then lookup the absolute offset closer to when you need it.
It's a very unique capability that only HiFi has - thanks!
> Why do people use VBA?

Good article.

What it doesn't mention is the versatility and value the combination of VBA and the various MS Office applications brings to the table for small and medium businesses.

Translation: VBA, as a tools for SMB's, can make them money.

VBA is often discusses in terms of Excel. However, it is available --and very useful-- across the entire MS Office suite.

Over the years we have used VBA for applications ranging from engineering to business. From automated code generation (generate Verilog FPGA code based on easy-to-maintain data entered into Excel) to financial analysis and projections (example, Bass Diffusion Model product evaluation).

One of the most fun applications I remember was using VBA to create a training application for dealers and customers using PowerPoint. We created a full simulation of this device (control panel with buttons and an LCD display), using VBA to run the show. This was super easy to distribute to our dealers, required no installation and everyone could run it. Of course, today it would make more sense to build such a thing as a web app.

Still, VBA makes such things accessible to lots of people. You can use it with Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, etc. As a tool, it is useful and convenient. Most people could not care less about the, often pedantic, opinion us engineering types can have about such things.

As a software engineer I wish something like Python was a first-class citizen across the MS Office suite. I know they are slowly making this happen. I haven't looked into it for a while. It seems MS wants you to have a subscription to Office 360, which is a nonstarter as far as I am concerned. I could be wrong.
I guess this is the logical continuation of Citizens United. We should be able to put corps in the psych ward!
I’d be content with some recognition that there are multiple such figures with a plurality of opinions and impulses, and that this is the main driver behind SV’s apparent “personality disorder”. So framed, we can at least call for these shadowy figures (many of whom have names and public personas) to engage with some of the contradictions of SV and suggest ways to resolve them.
I mean the absolute. If 9:00 a.m. came up later in the daylight time every single day I would be happier
Thus the "Heh".
What's ridiculous is trusting a PR release from either of thwse companies.

Samsung locks all of their bootloaders citing as always 'security.

I own currently the Samsung s20+ and the Samsung s21 ultra and all the models of both phones have locked bootloaders and Samsung's garbage, unused Knox security. Samsung at one point had a hardware fuse that blew if you tried to bypass it.

I speak from first hand knowledge of working on hardware and rooting phones since they were introduced.

We've known for a decade or more now that was all of this was bullshit to preserve all the pre-loaded bloatware.

Google phones having unlocked bootloaders is besides the point. Google phones aren't being discussed here, Samsung are.

You simply stated my position was ridiculous without offering a single cogent counterpoint.
A lot of authors need to realize that the headline is the most important part of their article's content and not some extraneous bit information they can simply distance themselves from.
What anonymity? Social media is literally built for the oversharing of personal information.

...Though I suppose from the perspective of the MilIndustrial complex, any sort of anonymity is a threat.
fix the fucking title of this post
There is also another book in the works that has you grapple with WASM itself directly throughout by building your own compiler. It's called WASM from the Ground Up [1]. It's still in progress, but I have really found it informative so far

[1] https://wasmgroundup.com/
I would differentiate between entertainment and gambling. Sports and media get revenue from a massive audience of people who pay to watch it, and that revenue pays to promote solid talent within the field itself.

If playing sports required taking money from the losers to pay the winners, and the people who lost the most amount of money are those who end up having some kind of addiction and serious problem that the winners are exploiting, then yeah, sports would be also be quite morally questionable.

You are right that there is exploitation in sports and other forms of media, but I think most people can identify those aspects of sports and call them out.
I love the article. It’s so directly stating facts we’ve all experienced in one way or another. I just hope we have the collective maturity to evolve out of it sooner rather than later.
forced birth for white women

This in particular stood out among the rest of the hysterics. What percentage of "Silicon Valley" is anti-abortion? I'd be amazed if it was above 20%.
I don't even think "right to repair" is the right framing. It should be "right to modify and use anything" that was sold to me.
an opinion on Andrew Huberman. I'm always skeptical
about anyone on social media these days. Doesn't
seem like he's trying to sell us anything

I only recently became aware of him so I don't have a real opinion. First impression was I liked many things he said.

One thing I'd note though is that he is absolutely trying to sell something - he runs a supplement business that has attracted some controversy because IIRC he may be overstating the research behind some of his concoctions. (That said, I think they're just formulations of various common generally-recognized-as-safe supplements, and I don't think he's pushing anything fringe-y? not sure)

FWIW - selling something does not immediately disqualify him from credibility IMO. For better or worse this is capitalism. It's actually even worse when we expect to be ascetic monks with no worldly financial interests. Instead let's be realistic and transparent.
There's a difference between identifying patterns between individuals and identifying cultural (superorganismal) patterns themselves.
I like to joke that the test should simply be “can this person get their medication filled if they run into any impediment?”
Gaza's Tunnels Began as Economic Lifelines (2014)
As far as I can see, the only kind of leverage left that we have against big corporations exploiting non-tech folks is creating OS software and giving it away for free. This is what they can’t compete with.
"I think that corporates will enjoy it much more." is saying to design the product as B2B. Thus asking "Do you think it would be better to design this product as B2B?" seems like you need an answer to that specific question but can't be bothered to read the previous comment.

If you're clever enough to know that many languages, you should be able to interpret what transformi is saying as they think it would be better to design the product as B2B.
Theory: people at companies who are allowed to work remotely feel they are trusted and treated like adults. Meanwhile people who work for companies forcing RTO feel like they being treated like children and lied to, and therefore less likely to be invested.
nvidia is a $1.2 trillion dollar company (the 6th largest company by cap), and at this point AI is a huge component of that wealth. It has appreciated by 3.3x since just the beginning of this year.

If any of these companies truly made competitive silicon they absolutely would commercialize it.

I suspect they aren't as competitive as the press releases hold them to be, and this Microsoft entrant is likely to follow the same path. Like Google, Tesla, Amazon and others it seems mostly an initiative to negotiate discounts from nvidia.

It would be great if there were really competition. When Google was hyped about their Tensor chips they did have a period where they were looking to commercialize it, and there are some pretty crappy USB products they sell.
Technically, it is (it’s gpt-4-gizmo). There’s a chance that had some fine-tuning for understanding the presence of the just-in-time function calls for actions.

(Names for Actions in Custom GPTs are tagged with “jit”)
>Would FISA courts and secret warrants have prevented 9/11, who knows.

We already could have prevented 9/11 with the intelligence that we had at the time. Al-Qaeda was already known to be targeting US assets since the USS Cole bombing, every branch of the intelligence agency was already trying to spy on al-Qaeda[0], and the FBI specifically were already aware of the hijackers[1]. We even had multiple warnings from foreign governments about al-Qaeda[2].

The problem was a matter of correlating all that intelligence into some kind of actionable intervention. All the things I mentioned needed to be put together into a comprehensive list of people to arrest and where to find the evidence necessary to keep them behind bars for a decade. Anything less renders the whole effort futile - if you miss some hijackers, the attacks still happen; if you fail to make the charges stick, then the attacks happen later. More SIGINT doesn't always help: if anything, it means more information overload and more potentially missed threats.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tenet#Al-Qaeda_and_the_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks_advance-k...
Higher rates mean more stable or possibly even lower house prices. This is good for cash buyers, at least.

For those of us here, that’s probably well within reason in most of the country where you can buy a house for <$600k
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DEI is newspeak for "we're not actually going to change anything, but we'll talk a whole lot about diversity while we're in the process of not changing anything".
Depends on details of how autonomous weapons show up in the national medias.

It's political capital and the game is border security. Russia is moving to a position where they can bluff again. It's not a simple matter of true or false because it's a constant race condition.
It seems like bodycams for guards is an appropriate direction to go. People in positions of power should not be able to abuse those in their charge with no repercussions.
Sure; the author fell victim to a classic blunder: The Hasty Generalization Fallacy - attributing characteristics of many, from the characteristics of a few. Silicon Valley is a 3 million person population with varying degrees of ideology, belief, merit, purpose and/or goals, and so much more. This article is generalization upon generalization; and uninspired, jaded ones at that.

Contrarian-speak to any group's status quo is a dime-a-dozen, let's do it without hasty generalization on wide bodies.
I stopped reading here: "Far right white supremacism; libertarianism for white men, forced birth for white women. Eugenics for everyone else."

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (which I did look for in the body of the article; didn't find). Without supporting sweeping statements like this with actual, verifiable evidence, this is simply not a serious article meant to be read seriously by serious people.
This might not be the appropriate thread to ask this, but I feel that if I create an Ask HN with just this, nobody will see it and I won't get any responses.

I've been running a website for over 15 years, something popular, on a specific topic. It has no ads; I only have Patrons who give me between 100 and 200 dollars per month. I don't get many visits (between 800 and 1200 per day, except on special days with some news where I can get many more).

I grew up in the era of web rings and old websites, and aside from being very nostalgic, I would love to go back to that. And I know that if I don't start, others won't either. But I have this constant debate about whether I should do it and follow my desires or what the audience wants. I feel that if I do that, people will stop taking the website seriously. Unfortunately, visitors come to my website, and if they don't see something modern and well-done, they won't take it seriously.

So I'm between a rock and a hard place: do I follow my desires and do what I like, knowing that it may cost me an audience? Or do I adapt to trends to try to get more visits and new readers?

I don't know if anyone has the answer, but I would like to hear your opinions (any type of opinion is welcome).
> But there's still no solution for safely storing or disposing of nuclear waste, so all those power plants currently have a stockpile of spent fuel rods, which is a huge risk imo

It isn't a huge risk. The really hot stuff decays quickly and that can happen next to the power plants no problem. What you end up left with is far less energetic and is self-contained – look up dry casks. You can stand next to them no problem and they are incredibly sturdy.

That's ignoring reprocessing. If it is radioactive enough to cause serious harm long term, it is radioactive enough to still use as fuel. There are reactor designs that can re-use them.

Honestly, I would rather have some dry casks stored at Yucca Mountain than breathing coal dust (that's often radioactive).
I read a ludicrous amount of books as a kid. Stuff like The Wheel of Time, 1000+ page books.

Now I just buy books and don't read them. I'll also buy audiobooks and bounce between them not really remembering much of the plots until I fall asleep.

I think the instant gratification of refreshing reddit/digg(rip)/instagram and having completely new things to see/read has destroyed my long term attention span.

I don't really like watching TV or playing consoles without having my laptop on my lap so that I can multitask and if I get bored for a minute refresh and see new things. It's bad. I'm single right now so I haven't actually used my living room TV in months. I do everything on my computer.

I feel claustrophobic if I can't multitask.
I mean, I'm not disagreeing.

Just saying that it's not hard to do. That's all.
Layout analysis is the key.
Quite a bit of work has been going on recently in this area.

Some papers of relevance:

- Xu Zhong, Jianbin Tang, Antonio Jimeno Yepes. "PubLayNet: largest dataset ever for document layout analysis," Aug 2019. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07836 Code/Data: https://github.com/ibm-aur-nlp/PubLayNet

- B. Pfitzmann, C. Auer, M. Dolfi, A. S. Nassar and P. Staar, "DocLayNet: a large human-annotated dataset for document-layout analysis," 13 August 2022. [Online]. Available: https://developer.ibm.com/exchanges/data/all/doclaynet/.

- S. Appalaraju, B. Jasani, B. U. Kota, Y. Xie and R. Manmatha, "Docformer: End-to-end transformer for document understanding.," in The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021), 2021.

The first one is for publications. From the abstract: "...the PubLayNet dataset for document layout analysis by automatically matching the XML representations and the content of over 1 million PDF articles that are publicly available on PubMed Central. The size of the dataset is comparable to established computer vision datasets, containing over 360 thousand document images, where typical document layout elements are annotated".

The second is for documents. It contains 80K manually annotated pages from diverse data sources to represent a wide variability in layouts. For each PDF page, the layout annotations provide labelled bounding-boxes with a choice of 11 distinct classes. DocLayNet also provides a subset of double- and triple-annotated pages to determine the inter-annotator agreement.
Let's Reinvent the Wheel
That was the goal of both Korea and China, both of them early on appeared to reach this goal. That goal is not nefarious, but choosing the Chinese model when we watched it fail in Italy does appear to be gross incompetence since we did know without question that the Chinese model would have drastic consequences whether it succeeded or not.
The 10-Year "Overnight" Success Story of Casetext
The problem is that there were lots of folks hired with the explicit promise that remote was here to stay. This is at best a rug-pull; IMO it's like your salary suddenly being slashed by 20% a few months after you started with no explanation. It's not technically illegal in most places, but it certainly feels really bad and makes me sure I never want to work there.
> Germany is building about 1.5GW a month of solar and wind

I root for them to succeed. I do love renewables. But I know that in my country at least the waiting time today for panel purchase, installation and grid connection is over a year. However they are subsidized by the state so that adds time and bureaucracy.

The rest… I have my doubts: it’s all ideas but little reality. We’ll see in about 5 years time, I guess.
Some good points but lots of sweeping generalizations. I think the issue is everyone reads this, agrees with some, but then everyone in SV believes it is referring to someone else or other companies.

Specific examples are much more useful.
"Disruption is something that is done to us. It is not something open to us to do."
I think that generally, people coming into Starship threads are more interested in what a spacecraft with that kind of capability could enable and how it would pressure the industry as a whole to move forward than they are specifically about specific company or the individuals behind it. Threads about similarly promising space companies and projects associated with less controversial figures receive traffic from approximately the same group.
True, but that's kind of like Twitter having to go back and rewrite their Ruby services in Scala down the line.

Getting a viable Minimum Viable Product is all important. If a non-developer can hack that together in Excel + VBA, more power to them.

Going back and rewriting it in a Proper Programming Language after the fact is an acceptable cost, once you have something solving an actual business need.
> that doesn't need special (management, management's management, adding to a registrar of projects, budgeting or project manager assigned, etc)

Not entirely correct

https://www.encomputers.com/2018/05/disable-macros-in-micros...
For myself, I find I mostly can't maintain relationships with other people who don't have ADHD.

It sounds stupid, but I will forget to talk for months and people just drift off, not interested in reconnecting.

But other people with ADHD will reconnect after months as if we'd just been talking yesterday, no bad feelings of being ignored at all.
> Its both a bug and a feature

I think it's just a bug. It's hard to think of any genuine upside to sociopathy.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We want thoughtful, respectful, curious conversation, so if you'd please make your substantive points in that style instead, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html