skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not particularly unhappy about getting certain drivers off the roads.

Why are you so convinced this technology will never false positive flag yourself?

I’m baffled that so many HN commenters look at a bill written by lawmakers and assume that 100% perfect, no false-positive drunk driving detection technology can be produced and shipped in a couple years and that it will never, ever trigger on themselves. Only the bad people.
Firefox/Linux/Ryzen 5 here and it runs fine. Does not even spin the fans.
I think Rails wins out in terms of simplicity, but I haven’t played enough with PHP.
This argument also extends the other direction, why not call it a day after 40 years then? You're only going to get more crochety and require more costly health interventions. And older people tend to take up more precious m2 of living space.
What are the different versions? Which do I download? I tried AD with Love 11.4 on Android 11, but it crashed. The safe version worked.
LLMs differ from human cognition because they are not embodied
>and enforce through monopoly government force!

???
All of the real ones are Just Big Enough for the observational tasks they’re actually targeted at, I believe.
Yes, for more info check the project references
If that would be the case then LLMs would know how to do math but they don't.
Well there’s the FedNow Service which will introduce instant payments. Should eliminate the need for parasitic credit card processing networks.

A good “FedNow” or instant payment provider can easily disrupt the debit and credit card processing companies. At most, businesses charged 5-10 cents per transaction.

No more dealing with credit card network fees. Chargeback fees. Exchange fees. Issuing bank fees. Premium card fees. Just a simple 5-10 cent per transaction. Only need a US bank account.
I have a similar reaction.

If you want to go all the way into the consumer value matrix - Has anyone on HN ever had much a 2nd thought about whether or not their card would 'just work' out in the world?

I used to work in the actual room where acquirer links were monitored in real time 24/7/365. At least 8 people were in that room at any given time. I've never worked in nuclear power but I imagine you could draw some parallels.

This kind of reliability is not cheap or easy to come by. There isn't a clever technical trick you can employ to realize it. The only way to achieve the kinds of reliability we have in the world today still requires lots of human involvement throughout.

Does anyone dream of having a google-style support experience next time they are standing in line at the grocery store? This is basically what you are demanding when you say you want zero % fees on all transactions.
Issues with mass immigration are not only economic. They are social and cultural especially when immigrants are from vastly different cultures and religions.

People want to maintain their own cultures and identities.
> We're so far away from AGI

Maybe we don't need a "real" or even a "soft" AGI to pose a grave risk to humanity. Not necessarily terminator style, but I can picture some slightly better, self learning form of ChatGPT being dumb, but just talented enough to cause issues in the hands of some individuals.
Planes on this map.
"Sorry! Livestream on a short pause! Already ran into some guidelines issues..."
No it doesn't. Why do people keep repeating this? That not how anything works.

The US 'chose' Ariane 5 because guess what, ESA paid for the launch. Yes ESA contribution to the James Webb project was partly the launch. And if you pay for it you get to select the rocket. And because its ESA, they selected Ariane 5.

Had ESA not paid for it, an Atlas or a Delta vehicle had all the necessary NASA certifications to launch a payload of that class.
M-Audio Delta 1010 but it could probably be anything.
Microsoft's'USB Cart of Death' used to debug Windows PCs,60 daisy-chained device
I mean we are 50 years away from a lot of existential risk and the average guy does not give a fuck.
Siri

I hope Siri does something to improve. It’s voice-to-text for me is still horrible.
Poor people aren’t necessarily scary, but scary people (meth heads and folks with untreated mental health issues) are overwhelmingly poor. People tend to paint with a broad brush, unfortunately.
Which is BS, of course. There's no way to really measure this.
Brits are bigger online spenders than the whole of Europe, based on other anecdotal evidence..
I’m not trying to relay information, rather was attempting to make a conceptual point which I’ll restate for clarity: the world is filled with shades of grey. Just as some doctors are bad, some vaccines are bad. You can redefine vaccines to be something that can never be bad, and imbue the word with an assumption of safety and efficacy which isn’t deserved. To the contrary we by default assume vaccines are not safe or effective until proven otherwise. Despite this obvious fact, large portions of society have allowed the definition to be altered to where we aren’t even talking about the same things. That includes various health professionals. I tend to group those vaccines that confer herd immunity and “others” and it seems to me that the wording used for the “others” is dynamic and ought not be the same as the word for those that are intended to confer herd immunity. If we used two words, the problem of anti vaxx would be partially ameliorated it seems. But people want little hills to die on.
I’m curious what AGI discourse looks like in Israel right now where they’re working on the same shit but actually facing an existential threat. Somehow doubt it’s that high
I totally agree. Pokémon should have stayed 2d same with Zelda. Crystal was the epitome of Pokémon but emerald was also pretty good.
I’m a Photoshop user who also runs Gimp (I typically use Linux but have a Windows partition and a Mac laptop). Gimp is totally fine for miscellaneous day-to-day basic stuff, but if I’m going to settle in and do any serious image work for more than 15m I’m switching to PS every time. There’s just enough friction in the Gimp interface that I feel more focused using Photoshop, and at this point I’m pretty confident it’s not a question of familiarity, as I’ve used both regularly for years.
I don't know if anyone can prescribe "ideal" hip/knee/lean angles for you. In general you can lay bike ergonomics out on a spectrum from sport bikes on the one end, with aggressive, crouched, forward leaning rider positioning, to cruisers on the other, with laid-back, feet-forward ergonomics that relax the hips and knees but, I would argue, make for a less active riding position. In the middle you have "naked bikes," "sport tourers," "adventure tourers," "adventure bikes" and "touring bikes" all of which feature more or less upright seating positions (or at least more upright than sport bikes and less laid back than cruisers. I prefer a sporty, active riding posture but at my age I cannot sit a sport bike for very long, so I ride a Suzuki v-strom 650 which is relaxed enough that my knees and hips can take it for a couple of hours straight.
> I think this bill is a good idea and a good safety measure

I’m curious: Do you also think that automakers can produce good drunk driver detection and ship it in a couple years?

Are you willing to have a car that some times false positive flags you as drunk and shuts down?

Or are you assuming the technology is so perfect that it can’t possibly ever apply to you?
Why AI Is Not Like Human Intelligence
We should decriminalize the sex worker so they can report abuse and seek medical attention without fear of imprisonment. It's hard to say it should be completely legal because that does seem to incentivize some trafficking that might not otherwise happen. Maybe I should see some statistics instead of blindly guessing what the situation is.

I think we somewhat agree. But what I am going for is: we still want to be prosecuting the sale of drugs while decriminalizing drug use. Society doesn't benefit if heroin is readily available, but it does benefit if heroin users are able to get help. I don't know the analogous situation with sex work. Even taking part may be harming a third party.
Great, so it only works in a single country. Stripe supports much more countries and payment rails than just US credit cards.
At least for cloud deployments you don't need a full blown OS when all you want to do is run apps like NGINX or Redis. If you use a unikernel instead, then you severely (orders of magnitude) reduce cold boot times, memory consumption, server density (thousands on hw-isolated instances on a single server) and TCB.
If you want something like Shoes, perhaps try PySimpleGUI or Redlang's "view" dialect.

If you want a drag-and-drop visual builder like HyperCard, you might like Decker: https://beyondloom.com/decker/
I'm not sure how believable are those numbers. Businesses having their best day ever on stripe being exactly 9001 (It's over 9000!) for quite some time now seems rather suspicious.
Well you dismissed the idea of defining it before the commenter had a chance, so are you really making an honest argument here? If a policymaker wanted to ban “unnecessary consumption” they would come up with a list of what that is and whether your purchase would be banned or not would depend on whether you’re buying something from that list, which they can also incrementally grow over time.
> For a franchise to retain relevance for as long as Pokémon, it must evolve

But why? You could literally show reruns of the same late-90s anime to kids and generate the same hype. They have no idea that the episodes are almost as old as their parents. You could probably even give them Pokemon Red / Blue and they would probably enjoy it as-is, even if the graphics aren’t up to par with modern games.
Automobile as a Service - what a dream for the industry and government it would be. Pay every month and be a good citizen, or else your car will stop running.
I think that is a choice because privacy is more established in constitutional law than autonomy. Note that privacy was the mechanism for Wade v Roe.
I encourage someone to try it to speed run their political career to provide us the natural experiment we can observe.

Constituents will accept taxes and other disincentives (see alcohol), they will not tolerate some political rep telling them what is unnecessary consumption and banning their desired products (broadly speaking, there are always exceptions and nuance).

Walk the pavement like you would for a day running for office, ask your potential voters if they would like this policy. I’ve canvassed multiple times for US political reps, so I have an idea what this looks like.

A small amount of fiat to offset harm is far more palatable. Look at this dashboard spin. Don’t yell at humanity, provide it better options.
No worries. I picked up some nvme to make a low power frigate box when I saw the USB is often unobtainium. Figuring out the whole m.2 keying scheme vs the ports I have took the longest of it.

I found that one key type is for wifi daughter cards so I was able to save a pcie slot or nvme slot using that in the small form factor host.
I'm not understanding your point. The 1% chance means that you are uncertain whether or not you are going to be in that 1%. Otherwise, some people would have 100% chance of sustaining $1MM in damages and others would have zero% - that's predictability.

Similarly, insurance companies frown on people getting insurance when the person knows that they have a claim to make - when there is certainty, then insurance is the wrong product and may be considered insurance fraud.

I think you're mixing up predictable events with probabilistic events. Just because you know the average likelihood of an event occurring does not mean that it is predictable. (e.g. the chance of getting red or black on a roulette table has known odds, but you're only going to be able to win if you can predict the outcome)
Nerds vs. Salesmen (2018)
That arkward moment when sarcasm doesn't convey...
Sorry, I am British.
> The ability for the state to remotely kill your means of transportation, thus remotely controlling our freedom of movement, is a new dystopian level of government control.

Indeed, this is the reason they are forcing EVs onto us.
For a language-agnostic unikernel project you can also check out www.unikraft.org (OSS/Linux Foundation, actively maintained).
Photos of a different version of the icon activated on the hardware https://macgui.com/news/article.php?t=514
How to get funding and hosting upgrade for Hacker News?
This website is giving sorry messages. I'd like to take action and upgrade what is necessary to make it work? Who to contact here? I can put certain funding myself until it scales.
Passing on the Olympics to Go to Space
Very interesting, thanks for sharing the link!
New ultrasonic technique can destroy toxic "forever chemicals"
California workers died of a preventable disease. The threat was known earlier
You are misunderstanding. Ofc everyone does it, you'd be stupid not to. But it is most definitely not allowed, as it is illegal to download papers from there. Nobody ever gets busted, but its bull to put that on a list of things you are allowed to do.
I expect this to have shit ton of false positives. A new failure mode will appear, 'My car will not start because broken sensor is thinking that I'm always drunk'. :)

To all the people who support this, how the hell do you you even start implementing this? Unless you detect only extremely obvious signs, simple manevrouing around shittier roads could trigger this.
Human sleep patterns appear to change with the seasons
Very interesting, would it be (is it?) possible to output the subtitle in a different language? For example English to Icelandic?
Yeah it's great that it still works, and should!

That's not to say PHP isn't been overcomplicating itself & hasn't fully embraced why it's so succesfull and improved that part: it's easy & practical.

How can it be even easier? For instance even simpler hosting? With things like vercel, and app engine PHP isn't necessarily the simplest choice in hosting sites anymore.

A Vercel for PHP would be awesome.
maybe this is the point. the user is so friendly that op remember him.
The old version of this was even worse for performance.

Stripe has had an internal dashboard like this, open to anyone on the VPN, for at least 15 years: Started on a hackathon IIRC. One, serious view had a month-long by-the-minute chart, letting people see the growth. A typical first-of-the-month tradition was to try to predict where the total volume was going to end up, and celebrating when the daily processing record was beaten.

But the real problem wasn't that one, but a far more expensive variation that instead of giving you a number, represented the processing volume with little characters that would dance around the screen: The higher the volume, the more characters would come in. The problem was that this was created when Stripe's total volume was quite small, and Stripe was growing exceptionally well. So if you opened the dashboard on black friday (Or even worse, ten years ago, when black friday was on December 1st, and therefore also got many customer's subscription volume), then the number of flying Totoros would just overwhelm anything and everything any laptop would throw at it.

While the totoro-based performance was not up to Stripe standards (we should have gone in and added an extra zero or two to the threshold for every character), letting the entire company see that side of the financials live was a great move. So many startups out there just aren't candid with their employees regarding the economic state of affairs, while early Stripe let everyone see the processing volume, and thus whether growth was accelerating or slowing down.

It's also what is surprising of seeing this visible outside: At the same time that finances were very open internally, Stripe was very secretive of the data for the outside. Every time a major business news outlet made an estimate of the real processing volume, they were hilariously off, and that's because there were very few leaks, even after launching a new round where investors definitely were handed the real numbers. Based on this data alone, I'd expect people with some practice would be able to get a reasonably close estimate of what Stripe processed this year.
Pokemon Arceus was very nice, actually.

I agree with all the games coming out in the "classic" line of Pokemon though.
> Other languages like Go do not necessarily have enums, but you can represent enums by using something like this (in Go):

This misses the important point that Go lacks pattern matching -- one uses a switch statement instead -- and the Go compiler lacks the ability to check that all branches have been handled in a switch statement.

Go's concurrency stuff is beautiful. If Go had sum types / Rust-style enums with pattern matching and handled errors as a Result sum type, then it would be a much nicer language.
Planing poker is the one ceremony that I find consistently helpful. Listening to different devs discuss why they think something is 13 points or 3 points is helpful to the whole team. You could change the names of all the parts of the meeting, but having the discussion about differing opinions on complexity is so helpful.
I think it’s a matter of execution, not format.
Why would there be a difference at all here? Finding food and avoiding being eaten requires a great deal of intelligence, is surely the basis of human logic, and is the foundation for language. It’s all one interconnect network and every bit of it is a piece of the greater intelligence.
Modern chemical and pharmaceutical companies largely came out of WW1 and WW2 weapons manufacturing and research (including human trials).

It may be hard to directly peg weapons manufacturers with genocide though Nazi-era chemical research absolutely played a role in the Holocaust.

For a more recent example, there are companies that play the role of mercenary armies. They have committed various atrocities, war crimes, and at least played a role in genocide.
We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now.

You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here.

This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like you might see fireworks when a store has their first ever sale, and there are lots of fun city stats which are part generated by GPT4. On desktop you can also open the nerd menu and play around with the settings and share the link to your creation.
> However, I've long thought that motor vehicles should have some kind of black box that monitors various driving metrics such as how "smooth" the driving is. This could provide valuable data to insurance companies and they should provide a sizable discount for drivers who agree to provide that data and have good driving scores.

This has been available for years from some insurance companies.

There’s no reason it needs to be built into the car or to automatically report it against the driver’s will. It’s an opt-in thing.

My coworker got it when they first came out because she thought she was a safe driver and wanted a discount. She got a monthly report of how many sudden stops it recorded and the number was much higher than she would have guessed. She never could figure out what was triggering it, but began to suspect it was the stop signs between her house and the office. So instead of coming to a complete stop she started slowing down and then rolling through (which isn’t legal in our state). Unintended consequences strike again.
craftsperson or artisan both work, but no one cares if you use craftsman
The second wave is coming :) . At www.unikraft.org we're hard at work providing a Linux-API compatible unikernel (run unmodified apps/langs) and combining it with tooling like docker and k8s.
The politician’s career is irrelevant. We’re just talking about whether it is possible to define and you’ve been given a rational response suggesting it might be. Heck, it might be possible to ask AI to generate a list of items or criteria.
Same. Felt like an app version of stumble upon.
> That was the free movement agrement within the EU which the UK agreed to when it joined the EU

> The UK still had sovereignty to kick out all illegal people which had no right to enter the UK

I promise I'm not trying to misrepresent you here so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is your argument is as follows:

The UK agreed to join the EU which as a requirement of it's membership means all EU citizens the right to live and work in the UK – we agree on this.

But next I start to lose you. I think what you're saying is because we choose to join the EU and accept free move, we could therefore always choose to leave. So really we always had power to control our borders because we could always choose to leave the EU and not allow free movement?

But the issue I'm having is that you also think it's silly to vote to leave the EU to control our borders?

Additionally you added:

> The UK still had sovereignty to kick out all illegal people which had no right to enter the UK.

But what's your point here? EU citizens had the legal right to enter the UK as you noted above?

Sorry if I'm being dense here lol.
Stunning! I wonder how they did the globe animation with real time data.
it s a model of neurons, not of intelligence
You can't. It's hosted on a single machine and most of the code is single-threaded. It's maintained by a small group of people with limited time and resources, and as far as I know there is no way to get access to the codebase.

HN is funded by Y-Combinator, who I'm certain would be happy to take your money but I'm not confident it would get put towards improving this site.
Agree, it would be much better to have Sam Altman develop it in the interest of private parties. Pure capitalism is best system of governance.
Governments are reasonably good at controlling humans.
Losers who need to be business people have an uncanny knack for ignoring the existence of victims in the capitalism system. "Victimless crime" my ass.
There’s nothing fundamentally about EVs that make them more conducive to government control. In fact, EVs can be charged from any AC power source, and it’s trivial to make electric yourself these days but nearly impossible to make gasoline in your backyard.
I understand that Xcode should handle this better (and SPM doesn't require a restart when installing packages) but the complaint was basically "IDE crashes when I do thing I'm specifically told not to do".
I once thought I saw a kid abusing a small cat. He picked it up and threw it across his front lawn, quite far. I started running over to stop him ... and then saw the cat run back to the kid, who did it again. They did it a few more times by the time I walked by. They were playing fetch with the whole cat. What's the evolutionary explanation for that?
... and this is why it is disconcerting that anyone else has any amount of influence in your life under a democracy. Half of everyone has a below average IQ, and many of those on the other side of the curve are just awful.
A few things I don't understand...

* What languages are supported? Is there a list?

* What does 'subtitle' do, which 'whisper' doesn't?

* How do I install this system-wide on an apt-based system (in which pip install --system doesn't work)?
> (5) to ensure the prevention of alcohol-impaired driving
> fatalities, advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention
> technology must be standard equipment in all new passenger motor
> vehicles.

first of all, whoever proposed this should be fired or in jail

second, who even writes like this? did they consult software and electronic engineers? as a software engineer i have the expertise and experience to know this is a bad idea and will be ridden with false positives and cant be implemented in a secure manner anyway.
Then the first thing the AGI will do is figure out ultra-high throughput analog computing for LLMs
Roll your own memory profiling: it's not hard