skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long time HN, mostly lurker but an occasional commenter. I'm a dev and SaaS founder who bought a hyperlocal news outlet earlier this year.

Lots of opportunities for tech to breathe some life into this industry if you care about local news or think it's important.

Not much money in it of course, kinda have to do it for the feels.
Key quote:

>> "And then not only are EVs more expensive, but their own salespeople are untrained. They don't even know how to answer most of the questions they get. A lot of them have 100–200 percent turnover of their sales staff in a given year," Reigersman told me.

IOW, the dealerships only want to sell what is easy. They do not want to invest in their people to learn how to sell the cars. They all grumble a bit when the manufacturers require $$Millions in capital investment to sell & service their cars, but are now balking at expense of training their people.

It is far past time to kill requirements that cars cannot be sold direct. If the dealership cannot or will not sell the EVs, then the companies should be able to route around dealers.

I'd bet we'll suddenly find that their salespeople are all trained up and selling EVs like hotcakes after that.
moving goal posts are we?
how on earth did your day lead you to deciding to slander en masse 10 000 people who had some bad luck, who you know nothing at all about including their skills?
Post-it notes and secret handshakes.
Here is one review https://youtu.be/QSw7_oSFzts?si=OC8zOLEJm7UETZQL
No. In the past I did, but I ruled it out through the best placebo control tests I could do it myself.

How could I have been in remission when I did not even know I was in a low EMF area? It was only when I looked back on my life after I discovered this possibility that I could trace my symptoms in part by how much EMF I was exposed to.

For example, my worst episode I had in years was one they installed Wi-Fi in my work building in 1999. I was at network engineer. I did not know about this effect until four years ago.

I find myself affected by both low frequency and RF radiation.

I’m not saying that is the only trigger to my illness, just one of many environmental factors. The other is air pollution.
I mean I suppose, but the iPhone remains locked to the App Store despite the SDK being public. It might be easier to find an exploit chain to allow unsigned code to run, but those tend to be quickly patched if people want to play online.
Here's St. Basil's commentary:

> ... And it seems to me that the sickness of this young man, and of those who resemble him, is much like that of a traveller, who, longing to visit some city and having just about finished his way there, lodges at an inn outside the walls, where, upon some trifling impulse, he is averted, and so both makes his previous effort useless, and deprives himself of a view of the wonders of the city. And of such a nature are those who engage to do the other commandments, then turn around for the sake of gathering wealth. I’ve seen many who will fast, pray, groan, and display every kind of pious exertion, so long as it costs them nothing, but who will not so much as toss a red cent to those who are suffering. What good do they get from their remaining virtue? For the kingdom of heaven does not admit them; for, as it says, “It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Lk 18:25). But, while this statement is so plain, and its speaker so unerring, scarcely anyone is persuaded by it. “So how are we supposed to live without possessions?” they say. “What kind of life will that be, selling everything, being dispossessed of everything?” Don’t ask me for the rationale of the Master’s commandments. He who lays down the law knows how to bring even what is incapable into accordance with the law. But as for you, your heart is tested as on a balance, to see if it shall incline towards the true life or towards immediate gratification. For it is right for those who are prudent in their reasonings to regard the use of money as a matter of stewardship, not of selfish enjoyment; and those who lay it aside ought to rejoice as though separated from things alien, not be embittered as though deprived of what is nearest and dearest.

https://bekkos.wordpress.com/st-basils-sermon-to-the-rich/
We can accept the trade offs for some surveillance while still being critical of new trends. Or maybe you're ready to have a 24/7 livestream from your toilet?
It's not sped up. I tried it locally last night and it was just as fast. Running on Windows 11 w/ a RTX 3090.
The Mysterious Norwegian Art of Painting on Dead Fish
> If free will doesn't exist, we can't not punish people. By definition.

What? You can still change your mind/update beliefs after being presented with new evidence, in fact if you're being rational, you actually have no choice but to do so. I suppose in some sense, the most 'free will' action is to choose to ignore evidence that would change your beliefs.
In my experience in academia, it isn’t a myth at all. So much brilliant scholarship in my own field has been produced by people who are infamously ornery and prickly, and who don’t fit in with the departments they are at purely due to social reasons, not scholarly ones. It’s actually a problem that the modern tenure and grant system requires people to be very socially functioning and schmoozing.
> cannot legitimately be held morally responsible

It's weasel words. Cannot legitimately be held responsible. He's saying, I accept that I/we will be held morally responsible, but in my head I'm calling shenanigans.
ads are what fund these people
There is an issue about this, basically it's not going to happen because it is editing functionality. They suggest using another solution before import (build a pipeline).
Universal Paperclips[1] - The only reason I quit after 100 times through it was a mistake at the final question.

[1] https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
There is no FOSS file sharing solution that gets close to being as usable, especially for sharing, as dropbox/drive.
If everything else works, or you can make it work, eventually as you scale their incompetence will show, and they will be helped into one of the roles for founders like these: CSO, CIO, CPO, etc.

It is also possible that you just don’t understand their competency or value. It isn’t a given that high skill in rational discourse is necessary for everyone.
Speaking of Roundcube: If you're hosting it without apache (as in: without htaccess support), make sure the logs directory and files aren't exposed publicly. They can contain access tokens and even encrypted passwords (encrypted with a default password unless manually changed during installation), and follow a known file structure, so it's quite common for people to get owned this way.
Can I use LLMs to make more convincing sock puppet questions?
It's good if the local market catches up in the next 3-4 years. It's catastrophic if they do not, however.
This fight is being taken up by a privacy group noyb. It is not necessarily against Meta directly, but against all websites that attempt to force consent for tracking. Noyb is looking to set a precedent. Meta is the biggest company doing this, and so a win here would send the message of 'If Meta can not defend this, then a smaller website definitely can not defend this'. Noyb has been known in the past to create mass filings against companies that have a clear, well defined breach of privacy.

As to if there are bigger fights to fight. Probably. But noyb has chosen to fight this fight, and I think that is fine. Someone else will have to pick up the other fights.
> Literal Mesopotamian tablets of laborers expressing their frustrations to their employers, debtors, etc exist.

Customers too.

https://qz.com/1364934/the-worlds-first-customer-complaint-i...
"to perform a lethal function in a weapon without human authorization or control."

In other words... Just make sure you have a confirm dialog before launching the rockets!

IMO the major cloud players have no ethical or moral controls in place that are actually practical or useful in curtailing the usage of AI methods for the purposes of war or surveillance. It's inevitable at this point. The OpenAI/Microsoft partnership will inevitably lead to contracts with NSA/CIA/DoD. AWS/Microsoft have no real ethical pushback on DoD relationships. Google at least seems to have some internal political opposition and moral compass. The future will be a weird place.
Read Frankl - I actually thought it was an important historical account of the holocaust, and for some reason it stuck with me more than "Night" by Wiesel, but I really only ended up feeling worse because I never did find a "why" that he touted so highly as to get through any "how".
Their prevalence has decreased because there are so many other engineers. For every person who was programming in the 1990s, there are at least a hundred that started in the 2010s and many of the former struck it rich and retired. Mentorship can't scale to those numbers.
> Air France seemed to manage it [on a Boeing]

Hence my "at the time" bracket. Since then, newer Boeing planes have actually removed the physical connection between the sticks! Absolutely bonkers decision given the background. (I put "at least" at the end of my bracket because I wasn't 100% sure I rememebered correctly.) But maybe there is a good reason - e.g. like a sibling comment suggested, if one gets stuck.
I've explained it already to another commenter, but your comments are uninformed and anecdotal at best. You have a pretty clear bias and I'm not going to entertain your efforts to hijack this post in service of legitimizing your supposed worldview.
The first customer complaint is almost 4k years old
Too smart for the job?
Unless you manually lock the executable in memory it will be evicted from RAM just like any other file on the filesystem. When you start up the usually-idle launcher it will load everything from disk (well load what it needs then the new process will load the rest as it starts up). I doubt the performance difference is significant unless your process does lots of work at startup and you will lose out on ASLR by always forking the same memory layout.
1. Is there a free online course you recommend/link? I got mine from chemistry professor in high school.

2. Not in school. In books on my own.
Most toolkit info was mnemonics and memory palace type things but few about brain health, focus, activity level, sleep, meditation, and such available on podcasts today.
I don't feel like I am. That said, I'm sure that's what a lot of people who are hard to work with would say.

I'm opinionated and willing to stand up for what I believe is correct, but I'm soft spoken. I think the difference between the DBA and myself is that I am very open to other people's opinions and ideas. A fair number of my coworkers followed me here from a previous job.

For a while, I was being a little harsh and short with people on code reviews. I could sense how people were reacting though and actively sought to be better. I worked with a friend who is a software mentorship advocate on how to better communicate effectively.

As much as I hate the term, I think a little emotional intelligence and self reflection goes a long way.
> No. The notion that all soldiers fighting on the Germany side in WW2 were monsters is, however. If the world subscribed to your ideology, there'd be a catacomb of millions buried under Nurnberg (there's no such thing, if you wondered).

This is known as "the clean Wehrmacht myth", a belief that somehow, somewhere in the German military, there were units that did not have the blood of innocents on their hands. At least in Germany, that myth was shattered by an influential exhibition in the 1990s that showcased photos explicitly selected to display atrocities that were not committed by special squads in death camps hidden away in the woods, but out in the public, by regular units, on the streets and roads of cities and villages across Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht

And despite that, there indeed is no catacomb beneath Nürnberg. Virtually all German war criminals received no punishment whatsoever. Out of millions of people involved in the extermination of Jews and other crimes against peoples on occupied territories, only 6656 were ever convicted in Germany, and the vast majority received a sentence of 2 years of imprisonment or less. Only 164 were convicted of murder, yet millions had died. https://www.timesofisrael.com/historian-examines-germanys-mi...
Singapore is a tiny city-state and its model can't scale for large nations.
That was... a journey.
From the physiology, the biggest are how sleep and stress affect learning, memory, and attention. Seems obvious but I’ve yet to find a school district that starts even there.
Hybrid sales are way up, that’s where the growth is going to be the next couple of years. The strategy that everyone was calling Toyota insane or even evil for is starting to make a lot more sense looking at market trends.
you can drop infCloud on top of any caldav/cardav to get a UI. I've been using it with radical for a while.
This is patently absurd. If I did this, I would not be exercising free will but follow your instructions. Guess what, I'm choosing not to do that.
What Sapolsky promotes here is a useful philosophy for those who've tied their career prospects and financial futures to authoritarian systems of control that are also deeply corrupt.

Case examples of individuals whose consciences could be eased by adopting this philosophy could include an aspiring junior scientist working under Trofim Lysenko in the USSR, an accountant who answered to Adolf Eichmann in Nazi Germany, and perhaps also an ambitious tenure-seeking academic in today's highly corporatized American academia environment.

If the cognitive dissonance gets too high, well that's what the alcohol and antidepressants are for.
It's ok to bury dead pigs, and not live pigs. So the morality of an act is dependent on vitality.
> One of the sneakily genius things Apple seems to be doing is, it goes to developers of some of the most "popular" apps and works with them to make their apps work well.

Genuine question, what app is able to utilize ANE? It seems like it's been there for multiple generations and yet nothing makes use of it.
Definitely. If you help people learn how to do <thing that you sell something for> that helps you, even if they don't buy your product. Why?

* halo effect

* expands the market
their worries about not being much good at their job? the one time i tried to get one to look at our database design, the response was "it looks complicated". when compared with the back end for the trading system they were supposed to be supporting (but didn't), it was really simple.
Yup, I'm pretty sure that Linux will swap out tmpfs if the files are not used. RAM is just a big disk cache if you have swap.
Low resolution take. Not bad, nothing new, genuinely I think you're missing so many facets of the human experience.

People commit the worst atrocities and embody a dog eat dog mentality, all 'for their lineage' or 'family'. Borges said that procreation is a mirror, I agree. To me, it only serves to multiply and if you're not careful, ie, you think you'll finally have 'meaning', you'll probably be eaten alive.

But of course, if you aren't thinking about it, and those questions are never broached and the 'genie' isn't out of the bottle. Well, I wish I was like you then haha
Well, physical actions come in many different flavors. One of those flavors is beliefs, i.e. a particular neural configuration with a certain semantic relationship within its host and the outside world. E.g. one that disposes further relevant neural configurations and relevant behaviors. I don't see the problem.
IMO Italy has lots of high value origin stuff because they value and care about tradition and realness and so on.

Go to Italy and you'll see real stonework. If you want to find a micrometer layer of gold on top of plastic, or not much more marble on top of concrete, then go do Saudi or UAE. Not Italy. The stone you find there is real, and so's the porchetta. So they get PDO designation for the stuff they care about, and abhor makebelieve alternatives for the same reason that they value the real porchetta.
The post I was replying to specifically cited a Spanish AI CSAM ring that did, in fact, involve real child victims: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66877718
You can be highly intelligent but also lack the social awareness / emotional intelligence, take Aspergers Syndrome for example.
why use the phoronix link when the original source has much more info? https://nextcloud.com/blog/open-source-email-pioneer-roundcu...
This works if it happens naturally. If it’s forced, it can come across as insincere or manipulative and make things worse.
> the same way a lot of people are still bothered by checked baggage fees on airlines because checked baggage had been included for decades.

no, it's because of the predatory manner in which these fees are presented. they hook you on the cheap price of the ticket, and then whack you in the head with the fees so that the actual cost of the trip is no where near the advertised ticket price. much like ticketmaster, airbnb, resorts, and any other industry with these additional charges
does the developer dying inside a little bit while making it count?
This content is paywalled. Web archives don't seem to bypass it. You have to delete the popup and move the content out of the scroll-locked body.
This is interesting not only because there was a product decision to sort the seasons of Black Mirror so that S4e1 would show up instead of S1e1 to avoid showing the pig f--er episode in people's home page, but also because the lengths to which the tangled mess of microservices had to be wrangled to make this happen - 4 months of work!
Lol, how do you teach neurobiology to 5th graders? The answer is you teach it at a conceptual level they can understand, generally focusing on outcomes or other observable results. I remember being taught the basics of chemical dependence, how it changes your thought patterns, how it affect your brain, etc, in DARE around that level.

You aren't teaching kids PhD level neurobiology. You're teaching them the applied concepts.

Even in high school when you're learning about dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, etc, it's not at a PhD level, but focuses on how those changes impact different systems, especially any observable behavioral changes.

So please don't tell me what I did or didn't learn. Please realize that neurobiology is not only available as PhD level content, but rather, like all other subjects, has content for lower education levels as well.
The entire revolt against globalism shows that just lowering price isn’t enough when you no longer have a job, or the job you have pays you very little.

It’s not smart for a country to let all of their industrial engine be replaced just because it’s cheaper. It’s more expensive in the long run.
I'm so glad this is now available for free and not needing to ask or being charged extra by an artist for different concepts.

The barrier is really being lowered and this is beautiful.

What a great time to be alive.
> ~~If you're hosting it without apache (as in: without htaccess support),~~ make sure the logs directory and files aren't exposed publicly.

Never expose any logs to strangers for anything anywhere
Yeah because only complex websites and apps deliver any value lol. I think you're really just admitting to having very poor creativity. I use LLM's everyday in systems that replace manual business processes. They're delivering clear value in a Multi-Billion dollar company. So again, skill issue.
Just make it easy: there is an obvious market gap. It should be highly profitable: the market segment is rich old gullible Christians.

I can see 3 levels:

1: camel slurry as a service. An Australian company (you get paid to cull feral camels there - extra profit) - paid for at a dedicated website - with a personalized certificate mailed for completion. Easy.

2: personalized. You travel to the machine in a suitable country and do your own camel. Bring your own needle.

3: home service - for the ultra-wealthy. Harder to do due to animal product export/import laws. Pesky laws - rich people don't need to bother about those or can find the loopholes.

You mention the theoretical tragedy of the commons problem (do you need to do your own camel, or does one machine cover all mankind?). So perhaps your buyer is an evangelical church (or believers that the bible is literal truth?). Or set up a charity.

Personally, I think if you are going to sell something as intangible as salvation, it is only ethical to sell it as many times as possible to as many people as possible! After all a salvated person has no more use for their money.
Hard to pinpoint a year. It's nearly impossible to figure the economic conditions in 2027 and determine if demand for new cars will be high or if there will be heavy (and high profile) investment in charging infrastructure.
Simply because something has been responsible for bad things does not make it worthy of doing away with motivated reasoning. Also, sometimes bad actors deserve cruelty.
For whatever reason, UG's omnipresent video of a guy supposedly playing the song of the currently viewed tab always grates me more than it should. Probably because it's always an acoustic regardless of song.

But also the fact it is pinned to a spot on the viewport and always moving out of the corner of my eye.
> I wonder what causes this high a suicide rate among men 75+. Loneliness?

Not 75, but old enough to have my share of chronic pain that just randomly comes with aging. Based on my subjective experience to date and extrapolating forward a bit, it's not hard for me to imagine a 75 year old being in enough pain to where that would be a major factor.

Also, I'd guess that cognitive decline is a factor. Speaking for myself, while my body doesn't work as well as it used to in some ways, my mind (so far as I can tell) still does. And the idea of starting to lose my mental faculties fucking terrifies me. And while I currently have zero plans to commit suicide now, or ever, I can take a step back and look at things and say that if/when the day comes that I feel like I'm starting to fade mentally, that might push me to the place where I could consider something like that.
I found it interesting that even in Norway, the total share of EV is just below 25%. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23939076/norway-electric-...
Singapore overlooks the strait of Malacca, the key gateway by sea between India and China. It has been a strategic trading port for centuries. The cost of shipping goods there is correspondingly low — ships go there anyway. Consequently, it has always had a culture and economy that was prepared to take advantage of our high-trade global economy. Being the Switzerland of Asia doesn't hurt either.

Panama is the logical point of comparison — its governance has been consistently atrocious (cf. Noriega), but it nonetheless remains among the front of the pack in Latin America economically.
Speaking of overkill, you might reconsider the Ring cams to be replaced with something more local. Public-facing Amazon data ingestion isn't the most polite home decor.
The n'th digit of pi is also opaque to me without running a program.
Oh no I had no idea Parsec was bought by Unity.

The software saved me during the pandemic and it remains the absolute best remote software I’ve ever used.
Is there DIY guide to build similar robot?

$19k - https://hello-robot.com/ is a bit steep.
DuneSQL – A query engine for blockchain data
Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume
I’m adding a tangent to a tangent, but “POS terminals” has to be one of the greatest naming decisions in history.
> upgrades are a breeze

upgrades are a breeze even without docker... the self updating function of nextcloud works very well.
USearch Molecules: Searchable Dataset of 28B Chemical Embeddings on AWS