skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DA treats anything less than automobile burglary as not worth their time. The way the law is written, smashing the window of a car and taking the contents is simple vandalism and theft (not as serious as burglary) unless there's evidence the car is locked.

If the car owner testifies at trial that the car was locked, then that's evidence. But ~no one visiting SF is going to come to town to testify at a trial, especially when trial dates can move around somewhat unpredictably. So a criminal can operate with relative impunity if they only ever break into tourist cars.

So, how do they identify tourists? Apparently they look for wheels that aren't curbed properly. Curbing your wheels is one of those things most people learn for their driver's test and never think about again, but if you live in a place where you're frequently parallel parking on steep hills, it becomes second nature. (Also, it's one of the few things SFMTA will issue a parking ticket for.) So thieves target cars that are parked on a hill but don't have their wheels curbed.

I'm guessing you curb your wheels, and your friend doesn't.
After reading the article, all that can eventually be concluded is that China is establishing a tighter control over the hitherto very loose border, and that exactly where the border is remains unclear even to people living close to it.

But the narrative structure of the article - of a leaked government document (!) about Chinese buildings on Nepalese sure of the border (!!) which China denies (!!!) and Nepal sends military to investigate (!!!!) only to find there aren't any (oh) - is an insult to journalism. Maybe I'm naive but I feel BBC used to have higher standards.

As for Nepal banning TikTok, good for them!
266T is a no brainer? So how about 267T? Still a no brainer? It seems completely arbitrary yet enormous amount of money.
I'm just glad they're not going to hit any sharks.
MVC was popular before Rails. Rails certainly introduced MVC to a lot of new people, though.
Okay but the FTC isn’t solving it so you expect a company who thinks this is a problem to do nothing? Anyway how would the FTC solve it? Instead of having a contractual agreement between individual parties, you would prefer the government to ban something? This would for sure end up restricting free exchange more than one-off agreements like this.
My ZBook 15 will be 10 years old next February. It's still the machine that pays my bills because it can be upgraded and repaired.

I replaced the keyboard myself many times after the keys worn down (arrows or one on the left.) I upgraded the RAM to its max (32 GB) and replaced all its disks (HDD and DVDRW) with SSDs. It was born with 750 GB, it's 3 TB now. Furthermore its software got better along the years. It feels faster and the fan doesn't spin on much. It was born with Windows 7 which I replaced with Ubuntu 12.04 on the very first day. It's Debian 11 now.
I'm aware, but what I meant is the ironic usage - you can use scare quotes in an ironic way (i.e. you may be quoting someone or an expression or idiom but we do not know it is the boss being quoted verbatim).
I solved SAT (boolean satisfiability), what now?
Hi all, I discovered a solution to the SAT problem (boolean satisfiability) that runs in time complexity O(n*log(m)), and space O(2^n), where m is the number of inputs and n is the number of boolean operations. I have spent a few months solving various SAT problems with a program I wrote. I'm a senior in high school. What should I do? Advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I'm used to HN being sensible, and seeing your comment being downvoted makes me wonder what's happening? What's the reason for that optimism?
I'm not sure you read the article? The article states that Porsche solved this by treating the first year of ownership as a "lease" with ownership transferring to the buyer after 1 year.

Or in other words...no lawsuit...And no restrictions on resale, since leased property can't be sold by the lessee.
Well there are some recurring themes:
- both have really vivid alien races
- both explore how information shapes culture (this on in sub c, which is more interesting)

The difference is that this one takes place in a more realistic universe and has a deeper focus on the role of human culture.

Thats not to say its an entirely intellectual book, it is inface much more exciting than Fire
What's the preferred way to version web components since their name is global and you can't risk breaking old usages when you introduce a breaking change? user-avatar-v2? What's todays suggested practice?
CCA Loyal Wingmen Drones to Cost Quarter to Third of an F-35
I’m gonna be brutally honest here. I’m a very senior software engineer with lots of experience across tech stacks. I tried the YC cofounder matching system but after three bad experiences I won’t be using it again. There were too many instances of people without technical chops trying to take advantage of my skillset. Multiple cases of working on projects for the ideas we had come up with together only to be ghosted. In the final instance - what started out as a supposedly equitable split of work and equity became a written offer of 2% with dilutable shares after I had spent weeks building out the product. I immediately quit the project and the other cofounder had the balls to try to negotiate but by the point I was so insulted I quit and deleted all traces of the code.

Sickening. I won’t be working with anyone from there again. Too few people I cannot trust and frankly too many product-types that have no idea what software building entails.
Tires need regular maintenance, and wear out faster in heavier EVs. This also increases wear on the brakes.

Cars need wheel alignments.

Steering components need regular maintenance, as does the environmental system (A/C, heat, filter).

In a Tesla (and probably other EVs), there's a coolant loop for the battery and power/control electronics. That can break and needs maintenance.

Lights burn out and need replacing.

An EV battery needs to be replaced, which is expensive. And do not let it get flooded, as a couple in Scotland recently found out.

Hertz recently said that maintaining a Tesla costs more than an ICE.
Maybe don't apply this to tomatoes. Apply this to pines and maples.
Altadena still doesn't have sidewalks. Now I know how the pattern started!
Couldn't I just create two accounts?
Human nature.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/91618-lying-to-ourselves

I know this is a rando podcast and you most likely won't listen to it. But it's totally worth it, just 10 minutes. It's about the science of how and why we lie to ourselves.
Reading is a foundational skill. (Its necessary as a precursor to pretty much everything.) Writing (as in can construct words) pretty much goes with reading. Writing (as in quality, coherent, communication) is clearly less ubiquitous.

Math is something that everyone who can do math, thinks is essential. Unlike reading though there's a continum of skills from iteracy, to arithmetic, to calculus and so on. Very few people know the square root of -1 or use it once a year.

Of course you meant "math" as in basic arithmetic. And sure life is easier with that than without it. But lots of kids go through life with very rudimentary math skills. They function just fine.

Does good reading Writing and math skills open doors? Sure it does. Does knowledge of Word or Excel or Windows or Quickbooks open doors? Sure. Does knowing how to cook a meal, feed others, open doors? Sure. There are a million ways to add value to society. Coding is immensely valuable to those who can do it well. But it's not foundational like reading or writing.
> We have enough nuclear fuel to power all of human civilization for a very long time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Peak_uranium

> Optimistic predictions

> The OECD estimates that with the world nuclear electricity generating rates of 2002, with LWR, once-through fuel cycle, there are enough conventional resources to last 85 years using known resources and 270 years using known and as yet undiscovered resources. With breeders, this is extended to 8,500 years.[
> But I still think you unnecessarily brought in a red herring by bringing up economic systems and I could have responded more appropriately.

But I didn't brought economic systems into it, others did. I was drawing on my own father's personal experience (as well my observations from the transition) in academia, which is that the metrization is not an inevitability for doing (even good) science.

Anyway, I also admitted the system's flaws. Again, I have heard the stories (BTW, the communism wasn't black and white either, different countries had different problems, even in Czechoslovakia there were about 4 different periods during 40 years of communism).

I don't know what system China uses internally to measure scientific output. Perhaps they adopted the Western system based on free market competition of scientific institutes for grants and students, and that's why they are also gaming the metrics. In that sense, their current system is based on capitalism.

Addendum: I would say since free market competition for labor is the main distinguishing feature of capitalism (together with its dual - private ownership of capital), it's not surprising that such a system is most prone to gaming this competition. It also manifests in the economy at large as "bullshit jobs". There are other parallels of current organizational problems in science with current form of neoliberal capitalism - rise of large actors (for example universities that are single-mindedly focused on publishing at the expense of everything else), abusing precarious labor (for example treatment of PHD students), etc.
> Nags and ads and withholding patches trying to goad you into buying premium.

It's free for individuals for 5 machines.
Well I thought so as well. But the problem is in order to ground yourself you have to touch a probe which is buried deep in the ground. Barely walking on grass with bare feet doesn't ground you I have heard. YMMV
I had a 2012 MacBook Pro that I used near daily as my non-work computer. Worked fine up to the Day earlier this year I dropped it onto a tile floor…
https://archive.md/yPjjj (likely won't work if you use Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS)

The subtitle | punchline here is:

$266 Trillion in Climate Spending Is a No-Brainer

Without the investment, the alternative is $2.3 quadrillion in accumulated damage by the end of the century.
They don’t ban you immediately.
We should stigmatise it was the point, I think.

At some point using non-reusable cups and similar things should be akin to smoking in a crowd. And if smoking among other people isn't frowned upon wherever you live, you should start with that first =)
Is that so? I find a lot of value in certain Fediverse instances. They don't seem contrived, just humane (I know some aren't, I don't intend to go to those).
Late Franklin Antonio just left $200M each to SETI and high school students camp
Wait what? So if you have a company, you don't need to test?

Edit: wow, that's how I'm reading it too. If you have a DUNS number, this will presumably not apply to you. So this isn't about quality, it's an anti-spam measure. Crazy.
'Hybrid Warfare' as an Academic Fashion
To be fair, castles and the pyramids were also government projects.
Not sure we know that, last I heard they were still trying to get the data from the people who wanted them to calculate the odds of that.
One thing you notice about the literary agent world is: there are a lot of them. How can they all be making money? I think the answer is that they're not. There's a severe power law distribution, similar to acting, where a few agents like Wylie make really big bucks, and the rest... well, I did a little research:

ZipRecruiter says her salary (they're almost all female), if she’s average, is $58,585. Salary.com puts it at $70,187. Indeed says $88,363. This survey gives a range in NYC of $52,925 to $90,024, but also says that most of their compensation comes from selling books. Agents at large agencies may receive a small salary, but they’re expected to make most of their money from sales, similar to most salespeople.

Whatever figure you settle on, this is not a lot of money for an expensive place like NYC.

By way of job comparison, Salary.com says the median salary for various occupations in New York is

barista: $29,028

municipal bus driver: $44,502

automotive mechanic I: $57,607

literary agent: $70,187

police officer: $74,400

secondary school teacher: $76,212

librarian: $82,215
Even Facebook has that vertical short video shit now spread among the other content.
Reading the article I wanted to understand why it is possibly the best timed shot in TV history but it didn’t seem to provide the answer? What am I missing? Can somebody explain?
Publish high impact papers or develop a social circle of influential folks and impress them
That a question is not interesting does not rule out the justifiability of the answer, which you seemed to assert.

> Historians have access to more than just texts about the past. They have access to physical evidence. Radiometric dating, artifacts, geographic data about where things were found.

Correct. That's still all indirect, "third-party" evidence. Does that make answers based on it impossible to justify?

To make this analogy even closer to LLMs, let's take historian scholars (linguists? undergrads?) who have nothing to study but books. No experiments, no carbon dating, just texts. Is their entire knowledge about the past impossible to justify?
Those posts will just end up getting all the sneakerheads buying Lenovo laptops to flip them
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This should always return true.
Why should I care about strong passwords? I am not interesting?
Yeah, I'm saying - it could be now, or it could be soon. Math and reading weren't always foundational, it's a pretty recent thing.
Yeah, and now Mandrake is gone, while Slackware still goes on, the world of endless Linux distributions.

Yes, it was my favourite one during the Mandrake days, mostly because of KDE and being compiled for i586.

Nowadays I just stick with Ubuntu on VMs, and whatever is the default install on cloud.
I guess, you cant substitute experience by technical description (quite obviously).
I live in Altadena and I see those homes. They don't seem all that bad. By the way, Altadena has nice mountain cold air at night, accompanied by the sound of owls hooting. The night time views of Downtown LA are awesome. So, Altadena gives you country living, and within a 20-minute drive, you can be in Silver Lake, DTLA, or Los Feliz to check out a band or a dinner.
Their current Prime Minister is from the Communist Party.

It used to be a Hindu monarchy but one of the princes did a murder suicide with the whole royal family around 2002 or so.
That's a fantastic shot, to be sure. But for my money, Tiger Woods at the 2005 Masters did the most theatrical thing on live TV ever, and the cameraman couldn't possibly have captured the movie-climax moment better if it'd been filmed on a set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJEysanOT7w
> How many people have you interviewed with that brainteaser

Zero, I just wanted to push the limits of the question in this thread to see what GPT did.

But you seem to not be enjoying that so let's call this quits.
For the shot to work he had to point towards the rocket exactly as it ignited, meaning he had to deliver the whole line at just the right pacing to punctuate it with the rocket igniting. Today he'd just be standing on a green screen and they would add the rocket in post, but this is "doin' it live"
I am not seeing people that were put out of job due to factory robots enjoying their work as hobby.
Having accidentally visited IKnowWhatYouDownload, I was surprised to discover that tons of porn, pirate games, movies and other garbage were allegedly downloaded from my IP every day. The hair stands on end. I have had a static IP always, I never don’t download torrents on this IP. But here is a WireMin messenger node running here that uses BT technology. Therefore, IKnowWhatYouDownload site generates false information, makes it possible to blackmail anyone with fake data, creates an atmosphere of fear around the BT technology.

IKnowWhatYouDownload has been operating for 7 years. Who's funding this shit, who makes a profit from the scam site? I think that maintaining its work requires some of money.
There is a cut a few seconds before the launch, so they didn't have to time 1 minute exactly, "just" ~20 seconds.
Was 2004 the peak of the blogger wave?
Also, be born with an extremely IQ.
https://www.getac.com/us/
Definitly, this is what many seem to be missing, today LLM might help write the code, tomorrow they will compile the whole application themselves, they won't need the babysitter developer any longer.
or even to just research what are non lethal doses, and set it free
Any for elixir?
> They are not specifically aware that any particular new listing is fraudulent until after the fact.

> However, putting the item in a warehouse does nothing to authenticate it.

Those are both Amazon's problems and not customers' or the law's problems. Here's an idea: if you are constantly ingesting fraudulent products in your warehouses and shopping site, maybe do something about it?
> Render your react components on the server and send them over the wire as plain html. no client side javascript required — full stop.

Doesn't this then require the server to be written in Javascript as well?
They won't need human help when the time comes.
> I mostly agree but Web Components is a web standards as is templates/custom elements now.

People keep repeating this mantra as if this alone makes web components good

> Those frameworks have incentive to lock you in while standards are lock-in at a lower level.

Or: these frameworks have the incentive to solve problems that web standards have been unwilling to solve for decades, and won't solve for another few decades.

> I like platforms that make web standards the core aim not the platform lock in.

Then you should use literally anything else but web components. Because web components don't make standards their core, are broken on multiple levels, and will require 20 more new standards to fix things that are not broken in literally anything else: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1717580502280867847

> Lit is just a lighter weight version of that and closer to web standards

The only thing that is standard in Lit is that it compiles to web components by default.
If your better is still bad, you're not good
I used to vehemently defend this idea. Had my solid group of 10 friends from college (still do) and hated being forced into becoming “friends” with work mates.

Then as life went on and many things changed, I entered the “it’s okay to make friends at work even though most of my friends are outside it” phase.

I guess in a way that’s where I’m still at. I understand why some people make friends at work and accept that. I also encourage it in terms of company culture without ever imposing it (I hope?)

Anyway, my current partner of ~1 year (for lack of a more precise term) is from work. And my best friend is on his way to joining us again. While in theory I would completely advise against this mix of business and pleasure, in practice it’s been working great for us, and we all work great together this way. Of course, sometimes it muddles decisions, especially when there are hierarchy differences, which there are.

In conclusion:

You shouldn’t generalize, and that’s about it. Live your life as you want — just be self-aware and think things through _just_ enough.
Possible but unlikely. I mean programming in the "code" sense.

We all "program" computers every day (when you turn on a microwave, when you talk to Alexa, when you do a budget in Excel, or write a Doc in Word.)

Coding is not an essential skill. It's clearly a useful skill, but pretty much no-one in my
and the exact time of launch is known beforehand, so it's not like he was guessing and happening to get lucky with it lining up.
Well the FTS failed on the first launch, so if there was a guidance malfunction it could have probably hit something outside of the designated safe area. Fixing it was a prerequisite for the second launch so I assume it's not going to happen again.
LG Gram is also quite unique in that there's 16 inch variant with only 1.15kg. Right, a 16 inch laptop weight less than a Macbook Air.
Imo for your usecase you can get a desktop+macbook. Use desktop when home, use macbook+some remote control when traveling.
I say programming is more about thought than typing and I stand by it.
The thing is, the level of typing you need to achieve to get to the point where typing is no longer the bottleneck in your flow is such a low bar. I have not worked with a single developer in my career where their ability to type has been a bottleneck for their work. I know anecdotes aren’t evidence.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe being a strong typist has a ton of benefits for a developer. It just seems like a baseline skill at a certain point for anyone in a software related field.
I think this is longer off than you might expect. LLMs work because the “answer” (and the prompt) is fuzzy and inexact. Proving an exact answer is a whole different and significantly more difficult problem, and it’s not clear the LLM approach will scale up to that problem.
They introduced this recently. They do it just like TikTok.
I assume the downvotes are because that phrasing is dog whistling for “I am homo/transphobic”.

Consider other variations along the same lines: “gender equality ideology” or “race equality ideology”.

The inference is “I am opposed to this thing existing”. Generally people who bring up this topic, or bring it up in this way have no problem with the topics at hand if they don’t disagree with their world view.

For example none of the “lgbt books are sexual and children need to be protected from them” have any problem with straight relationships in children’s books, yet an non-straight relationship is presented as if it were inherently pornographic.
I refuse to believe anything in LA is within a 20 minute drive unless you’re going at 4am.

That place has the wildest traffic!
I'll be worth it to scammers. As so often with misguided policies, only the honest are punished.
Regardless of the quality of work done by an LLM, all of this AI hype has done an absolutely stellar job of clearly dividing the world of software development into two cohorts: those who care (to literally any degree, about process or product), and those who are only involved in it because it makes money. I have never quite liked the latter, because they are often difficult to work with, tend to lack any motivation to develop an in-depth understanding of certain concepts or problems.
Did you read the same article?

> The report also concluded that China had been limiting grazing by Nepalese farmers.

> In the same area, it found China was building a fence around a border pillar, and attempting to construct a canal and a road on the Nepalese side of the border.

Buildings were on Chinese side true, but Chinese roads and canals and fences were on the Nepalese side.

> where the border is remains unclear even to people living close to it.

Thats almost every border in this region.