skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are homeless people "exercis[ing] unauthorized control over the
property of a retail merchant with the intent to directly or
indirectly distribute the property for resale" (quoting the Indiana law)? If you're stealing something and then giving it away for money, we're pretty far from "stealing food to eat" territory. I don't think it's homeless people walking off with power tools.
Hence the boom mic.
This comment makes a lot of sense if you're a time traveler from several decades ago, but a lot has changed since the 1960s. There are plenty of very diverse suburbs in any sense of the word and suburbs now also run the gamut across all levels of income and affordability from the top to the bottom. If you wish to live in a suburb in America, you can, regardless of income level and regardless of what you look like and whether you want to live around people who look like you.

If there is a particular area you're thinking of where this isn't the case, it's probably an outlier -- you'll want to explore the US a bit more. Houston, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Las Vegas etc are all examples of "second tier" cities (not the new yorks, LAs, SFs of the world) that while less attractive to the wealthy who can live anywhere, have plenty of room for regular working families of all sorts.

Then there's the third rate smaller cities and large towns, where you'll also find both plenty diverse places and plenty not so diverse, and you'll find even more affordability -- but possibly not as good a job market.

I think living in a "second rate" US metro area is the sweet spot for raising a family on working incomes -- jobs are available, unlike lesser areas, but housing is affordable, unlike fancier areas.
Tangential, but Keybase (and later Keyoxide [1]) with their “social proof” mechanics are a more human-friendly way to verify the encryption keys. I kinda wish Matrix had that integrated, too.

[1]: Here's my Keyoxide page for example: https://keyoxide.org/alexander@notpushk.in
TFA is clear that string pinsetters have been common in Europe for a long time and even quotes a German manufacturer of the equipment.

Perhaps the title should read "String pinsetters are upending American bowling" to ensure the international audience moves on to something they find more relevant.
I would argue that they used to be. Back in the 70s a Rolex was seen and marketed as more of a “tool watch” than a luxury item.
Not unique to the U.S., and also is called corruption or cronyism in general terms when money mostly enables one to “effect systemic change”. The U.S. civil rights protests stand in stark contrast as one example, at least.
CVS leadership are influenced by BS assertions of data scientists. Ground truth doesn’t matter to upper management living across the globe from the problem.

Onsite management is handed a recipe to implement, told someone is showing up to install locks in everything to, not because a specific store might need it but to normalize business operations with their paranoia.
Making synthesizers emulate the sound of real instruments was once a major goal of synthesis, but that has mostly faded outside of the rarefied world of physical modeling. Electronic musicians remain interested in sounding "warm" and "organic" (or the opposite), but it's rare to find someone who is really interested in making a synthesizer sound exactly like a guitar or a clarinet.

But when I was learning FM synthesis (one of the harder ones), I found it incredibly useful to go through the exercise of trying to make a synthesizer sound like a convincing gong, or reed instrument, or guitar string. In fact, I don't think FM really clicked until I did that.
Little unfair to those into horology. Rolex makes quality watches and their history is rich.
Because there are dumb regional/store managers who took these now retracted statistics at face value?
Cancelling microphone, not cancelling headphones. The mic boom has two microphones, one pointing at your mouth, and one pointing out, and by combining the two external noise can be cancelled.
You think CVS doesnt have granular numbers on shoplifting? What planet are you living on. Whether they report those publicly is another story
Some of my best and most rewarding long term adult friendships have come as the result of working with people in various office configurations. I'm astonished at the strong desire for physical isolation that so many people here are ever on about. But, not my business, you do you. One by one. Alone :) oh, and on top of that, there is a heavy overlap here with people who wish to flee any city, it's an interesting correlation. I love cities, for the daily variety they offer on so many dimensions. But this is not why I'm writing.

I just wanted to share a "home office arrangement" that I invented which I like quite a bit. It's probably more for a bachelor situation than couple, depends on your other, and not for the smallest of spaces, but it's a way to make a space like a living room do double duty. I've done it in several houses/apartments I've lived in and I won't go back.

The trick is this: if your couch has its back to a wall, move the couch out from the wall, and hide a desk and chair behind it, facing in the same direction as the couch. You can still use your living room as a living room, and if you're pounding a keyboard all day, a living room is a nice place to sit; I don not like staring at walls, I like depth. moderate clutter will remain mostly hidden, and you can also see the TV if you want to watch youtubes while you're on your keyboard.
If a contributor comes to my project with a pull request that an AI wrote using copyrighted, unknown licensed-and-attributed code it sucked off of GitHub, that PR is rejected immediately and I would strongly consider banning the "contributor" as well. A lot of OSS maintainers are tuning into this new reality so I would advise caution to contributors looking to have tools write their code for them.
As a child of two architects, I have to know... How did this house end up designed such that half the house is only accessible from the other half by passing through someone's bedroom?
I saw that expressed something like a protest in the street with people chanting "What do we want? Slightly cheaper butter! When do we want it? Phased in over 3 to 5 years!"
"Because some people abuse money, all people who need help should get food stamps not money" argument.
Comsat Legacy
I liked your post, btw. I just think a pricey headset would have freed some money to attempt a proper ventilation.

CO2 levels num your mind. I have a bigger walk-in and sometimes I take calls there. After 15 min. I cant stand the air quality.
Grub 2.12 Bootloader Brings SDL2 Support, Boot Loader Interface
which is curious because an AI won't request a patent, so what benefit does he expect for applying on it's behalf? some infinite lifetime patent?
it's a combination of finding it challenging to look at a screen when it's really bright around (contrast loss) as well as I find the view distracting. I've already had multiple million-dollar views of the Golden Gate Bridge, etc, now I just want to concentrate on my screen.
But you're not arguing against any particular idea. You're arguing against ideas based on how they change people's minds. But, a person's mind is changed by idea dependent of their personality and on the contents of their mind when they hear that idea, so in principle any idea can change a person's mind in any direction. Some people hear "vaccines cause autism" and conclude "I should not vaccinate my children", while others conclude "this country needs better education". Some people reach "I should not vaccinate my children" after hearing some other idea. Some people see The Terminator and think "I should work to prevent the advancement of AI", while others think "I should go into AI to prevent this from happening", and yet others think "ha, what a silly movie". Some people will reach "I should work to prevent the advancement of AI". So, like I said, you argument is one against culture as a whole. If the fact that hearing an idea will convince people of X opinion is a good reason to stop the spread of that idea, then it's also a good reason to stop the spread of all ideas.
Prompting for "A robot arm" turns up a blank design ;(
Are you sure? I was a tourist in the US in 2021 and were really surprised by even inexpensive non-prescription products being locked down behind plexiglass at stores like Walgreens or Walmart, things priced below $25.

Either the retailers are being brain-dead by discouraging purchases or theft is a massive real problem.
Sorry, not STL, I meant the standard C++ library.

Edit: send an email to news@ycombinator.com
The store managers can’t compare how much inventory they ordered with got much of it was sold?
For some guys it's cars, for some it's watches. It's kinda weird seeing the men of my generation run around trying to find their "X" for "Yeah, I'm the <X> guy. Impressed?"
Likewise. Damn. I guess I’ll stay stuck in here for a while longer.
I write software for web browsers for a living and I shudder at the thought of having all of my apps trapped in some bloaty, slow sandbox that's different enough from all the other bloaty and slow sandboxes to not actually support all the software it needs to run.

If I have to live on your world, I'll probably just chuck it all in and work with my hands for a living instead.
> the gear broke ... bad quality wood ... material was MDF

Try something better?

> It's vital to use good plywood for the gears. Ordinary spruce or fir plywood has layers that are too coarse, and the wood is not strong enough. But the Baltic birch plywood, with thin birch layers throughout, makes for an excellent material

https://woodgears.ca/gear/howto.html
VS Code devcontainers have been working fine for me with rootless podman in Fedora for over a year now. The one adjustment I had to make was manually provide args to podman to mount the workspace volume:

"runArgs": [
"--userns=keep-id",
"--volume=${localWorkspaceFolder}:/workspaces/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}:Z"
],

I'm not sure if this is still necessary, or if it's necessary on all platforms.
being high on their own supply isn't a different story
Doesn’t really follow instructions too well, if you ask it to list 10 songs on or 5 things it’s give you way more. I’m not sure why some models do it well like Mistral instruct v1, ChatGPT 3.5/4 but here it extremely verbose and it outputs like a short circuited robot
Metabolic thrift and the genetic basis of human obesity
Noise-cancelling boom mics are great in my experience. Even loud external noise just disappears. I did experiments with office noise, planes, trucks, weedeaters, doors slamming, etc., and only the door slams got picked up.
That's fascinating, thanks for the link. But I'm coding in Go, and it looks like (from skimming the docs) that MirageOS only works with OCaml. I'll have to look further.
Yup. If your father dies, and leaves you a Rolex, but does make a way to give you access to the keys to the nft, would the Rolex stop being authentic?

When we are talking about digital proof of ownership of physical goods, any solution that can fail synchronization of the record due to entirely foreseeable events like death, ownership disputes, etc is a failed solution.
How could anyone tell, objectively without being under an NDA to X, because the api access to information is neither cheap nor ubiquitous.

Sampling error is huge in this.

Surveys of newspaper editorial policy are notoriously subjective, the Glasgow media group got pasted for an overt Marxist analysis during the thatcher years, ignoring what ground truths it exposed because of perceptions of bias in their intent and they were quite rigorous and peer reviewed.
The article doesn't say what the Virginia law is, but the ones they do saw, I don't see any issue with them.

> At least one state — Texas — enacted two laws, one creating a task force and the other allowing potential thieves to avoid prosecution if they agree to an education course designed to steer them away from breaking the law.

> Republican state Sen. Aaron Freeman authored the law in Indiana, which makes the organized retail theft of firearms or at least $50,000 in merchandise a Level 5 felony, which carries a penalty of up to six years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.

> Prosecutors and authorities also describe a menacing picture in Alabama, which this year enacted a law that allows law enforcement and prosecutors to cross jurisdictional lines to pursue bands of thieves who hit retailers in multiple cities.

These aren't laws hurting the average person or even people doing petty theft, they target organized crime. Now it seems the organized crime isn't as common as the stores claim, but the laws are fine; the main issue I see is a waste of time and resources, but I don't even think that is happening with these laws.
> also suspect they’ve infiltrated or outright own the major VPNs
ExpressVPN, PIA, Cyberghost, Zenmate, Intigo, and other major VPN providers are owned by ex-undercover commando in Israeli military Teddy Sagi of Kape Technologies.

It is safe to assume Israel and US are actively using them as honeypots, especially they were mostly acquired - not built - by Kape.
I thought I was a veteran of the early internet/Usenet enough to know most of the ins and outs but this DVB-S Usenet is new to me.

That sounds like a pretty unique approach to Usenet content delivery. I wonder if anything else/similar has existed/exists (unlikely in Usenet and I can't think of something quite as useful).
Most people move to Atlanta for the burbs! They move away from dense cities like Manhattan to have a yard and some space, without having to pay a lot of money for it, but still be close enough to the city.

But the jobs are all in the city, and they all want to drive in, which is why traffic sucks and midtown/downtown is one big parking lot.
You shouldn't be able to transfer the NFT yourself. Each transfer should be attested by an official dealer (for a transfer fee).
I guess this is also the reason for the dangerously strong forces involved: lots of outputs (surfaces that move pins) powered from few big motors because there's hardly any control besides synchronisation through gears. If the market was big enough to support the adoption of robots arms to the pin setting use case there would be neither strings nor danger from old string-less machines.
FWIW there are ~9 superchargers along Highway 95 between Reno and Vegas, and it's a 400 mile trip. You would probably only need to stop and charge once.
Are we talking about Phoenix?
I thought it would be higher actually given all the retirement savings, years of compounding, and also real estate, but a surprisingly large percentage of boomers are poor/poverty line . A lot of rich younger people with start-ups, tech jobs, investing, white collar work etc. too.
Well, distribution of wealth is still more or less the same; the gap is even wider and wider now.

Additionally, money can only move one just a little bit higher in social hierarchy. Those influencers influence young minds to consume more and more stuff, get money from the brands they are advertising, spend on expensive things - which are produced and sold by rich people. Direction of flow is always the same, rich gets richer, poor stays poor, so called "no-name kids" continue driving people to consume (mostly) useless things.
Doesn’t matter. They want to normalize employee and customer experience. Think I’ll go with the anecdotes of my friends who managed retail locations for big box stores rather than an HN rando with a confrontational rhetorical style, as if projection is correctness

Your experience is a reflection of their desire to normalize rather than customize

Data is only useful to a point. Generate all the stats you want. Millions of other stats attenuate the usefulness of any given stat, except for those of broad application. Getting super granular is programming equivalent of bike shedding and yak shaving.
I honestly would love to full time focus on making high performance tools for ml / applied math, but its a hard area to break into, or at least I’ve been going about it wrong.
If that's true why would Visa/mastercard push so hard to get into so low tx ( <$1 each) processing? What are they paying/losing money for?

It's data. For some reason they're willing to pay to get a transit data for as much as possible people in several countries.
You can use Chicago95 or the B00merang Win-classic theme to achieve a similar look on GTK+-based Linux desktops. It even works seamlessly with responsive/mobile-friendly GTK+4 apps, they show the same clear and simple widget design.
Nope. No separate AC and DC conductors for CCS2.
From wikipedia [1], the DC cable has: PE, CP & PP (comms), fat DC+ and fat DC-. That's it. In the AC portion of CCS2 there are connectors for Neutral and up to three lines (for three phase charging), but these are not present for a DC cable.

I have to admit I haven't used Tesla plugs, but there is already a slight difference between the cable from a 50kW charger and a 350kW charger.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System
I think code / coding is overrated. Coding is debt.

If we look at math / category theory we have functorial semantics, which means semantics (code) is auto-generated from syntax (design): https://www.algebraicjulia.org/assets/slides/nist-workshop-2...

If we look in another direction we see LLMs which (will one day) generate code from design.

If I look back those years in my career, I was always paid to write the same code all over again (lists, trees, tables, menus, user profiles, shopping carts, dashboards, heroes, apis, databases...), each time in a different context (given by the company) ... Such a waste of my time, and my employers money.

Today at least in the MVP / startup scene coding is debt / obsolete. Startups all should go no-code.

Later, after the startup phase, companies should focus _only_ on provably-correct, likely-correct understanding of their problem domain, on a design specific to their audience, and rapid iteration. The rest, coding, should be not no-code, but fully automatic yet provably correct (in the sense of total and partial correctness)

I hope, and I wish coding will be eliminated. It's a big fun writing machine code in Assembly, algorithms in C/C++, full-stack web apps in Ruby on Rails, and user interfaces in React.

But after a while it's not sustainable neither emotionally nor economically.
Show HN: Code interpreter with mixtral-8x7B-instruct
I am not the OP, but I also skipped on trying the demo, because I didn't want log with my real email into a random website (a few too many times it led to unwanted interactions), and I didn't bother to create a temp account.

It's just easier to wait another few months until somebody does it in the open.
I don't think that will satisfy "the market" for this material. I've spent time as a forum moderator before and have seen perhaps a dozen pieces of genuine CSAM. There's something about the proportions that makes it instantly stomach-turning. The attempts I've seen by AI porn "artists" just look like small women with somewhat large heads and don't have any of that soul-searing effect. If that's what the "customers" are after I think the training set would have to have a significant amount of the real stuff to replicate it accurately.
dont be a rolex dealer then..pound sand..they should be able to control their brands exclusivity.
they are, rolexes are engineered well and most recognizable.

there is more niche affinity to certain brands and aesthetics that are seen as far more coveted than rolex, from the people that matter. as in, there are absolutely some circles of people that will lend you respect for the curated taste and often have access to resources reserved for people that prove it with these material things, whereas rolex will be a neutral to negative signal.

no different than wearing a suit in a professional setting, to one thats fitted, or cufflinks, there are just levels to it that continue with accessories.

aside from that, one benefit is that thieves typically don't recognize other brands. they recognize rolexes and a couple others though.
Earth does not have nearly enough available carbon to start a greenhouse feedback loop. It won’t be at risk of Venusification for about a billion years until the Sun gets a lot hotter.
Then it would have been infinitely more helpful for you to actually say that it's a progressive tax. We have brackets in the US. I just assumed bands were the same thing.
I've often thought about renting a private office "downtown." Think along the lines of Sam Spade or such film noir where there are small private offices along a central hallway (complete with frosted door glass and my name stenciled on the glass.

https://twitter.com/NoirAlley/status/836699700266995713
Apparently the answer to escaping from a shipping container is...

You don't, they cannot be opened from inside once locked. Also they're airtight, so bang on the walls and hope help arrives before you suffocate.

That's more nightmare inducing than I was hoping.
Yeah! What should be said is “all things considered, the simplest explanation is best.” As we all know with reality, all things are not considered. There is always something we do not know, this while the point of “undeceiving the self” remains. Be prudent with your ignorance before declaring simplicity the substitution of Truth.
can we all agree 4Gand5G are good enough and focus on other technology improvements?
That's pretty cool actually, and very similar to the J1772 Nissan Leaf charger that I have, thanks for the heads up! I've been looking at the dedicated chargers which are more like $500+. Here's what I have, and some alternatives:

https://audiovideo2go.com/nissan-leaf-charger/ $385 since discontinued, used to be ~$200

https://www.vevor.com/portable-ev-charger-c_11497 $115 and up

My point though was that EVs should come with cords like every other appliance. Ideally the car itself would be able to take up to 480V AC/DC and "just work", no charging standard needed. But external power supplies like these have the advantage of being easily replaced.

Another gripe I forgot to mention is that pretty much no EV can charge while driving, which prevents putting solar panels on the roof. There's no engineering reason for this, so I think it's another plot to slow the inevitable designs which Aptera and Lightyear are pursuing. Thankfully there's an adapter to make it work:

https://us.ecoflow.com/products/portable-power-station-groun...

Unfortunately it only works with EcoFlow's power stations, and they're one of the companies trying to get people to buy two at 2x cost to reach 240V.
Good remark. I think it is simpler to just use a public blockchain that having Rolex properly build "open" cloud services to do that and maintain it themselves over the long run.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Rolex transformed into Veblen goods around the time Gshocks were invented
If you're really worried about this kind of thing, would you not take precautions to protect against it?
Good take, I think that’s accurate. Part of me still wants to believe that Tesla as a company also just wants to help speed up the global transition to EVs (more than they already have). Maybe that’s naive though.
> All i know is that when I walk into a CVS/Duane Reade in NYC, everything is locked up. Even the candy.

Who do you think the NRF consists of?

The fact that Duane Reade locks everything up now isn't evidence of anything; the people making those decisions are by definition the same ones influencing the NRF.
Most programming language source is just text, how often does GitHub Copilot get things wrong when generating code fragments?

There is an ISO directive to not use any of their standards when training an LLM, would be interested to know what this group has done.