skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traffic tickets will need to belong to the competent supervisor of an autonomous system violating stated restrictions, even if they lack a driver's license. (The need for a driver's license will decline for FSD L4-L5, especially if the human won't be operating the vehicle anymore.)

Also, under what circumstances/edge-cases should speed limits and traffic laws should be breakable by an autonomous system?

a. If you were someone bleeding out to death and need to get to a hospital, do you honestly want it to complete to complete stop like a Canadian Mormon nerd at every stop sign rather than be the most aggressive NYC cab driver-meets-ludicrous speed safe-ish enough so you don't die?

b. Evading someone believed intending on causing great bodily harm to reach a safe place like a police station?

c. Following a vehicle containing a kidnapping or human trafficking victim?

d. Commandeering by a LEO in active pursuit of a dangerous suspect?

e. Fleeing an incoming regional disaster threat?

It is probable to likely that, by over-regulation, untold numbers of preventable deaths, injuries, suffering, and property damage will be incurred by vehicles created by corporations to always follow laws blindly rather than spend additional money to handle edge-cases or allow exceptions.
What makes this whole thing even bigger mess is that part of the city wanted to recreate Britain like Singapore or Hong Kong. A ultra-liberal(economically) trading hub operating in multiple markets, extracting as much monetary value from global economy as possible... And looting Britain to boot...
Im at a crunch point. I either leap further into IT and obviously leverage AI for work much as I do today. But I have no tickets and am a jack of all IT trades but a master of none.

In IT the competition is high and the job security is low. So I either close my company and go work for a big dog and earn less than i would driving trucks, keep operating as a one man pty ltd and push to expand or bugger it all off and go building/laboring.

Tbh bailing from IT as an industry is becoming more appealing. The industry sucks.

Vendor lock in has gotten so bad folks don't implement good infrastructure rollout because of it.
Countries are banging on NATO's door because they don't want to end up like Ichkeria, Georgia or Ukraine.
we used to call that a "linked list"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_list
Unfortunately yes, there are lots of reasons to doubt. Some UK polling firms routinely return results that are clearly impossible, are called out on it publicly, but don't investigate or fix anything. The root causes of their unreliability are known but not well understood outside the polling industry itself.

A good example of that happening recently was with a poll commissioned by the BBC from Savanta via Kings College London. Savanta is a member of the British Polling Council, and the poll supposedly canvassed people about misinformation related topics. The results claimed several things so absurd and implausible that once people noticed, Kings College London attempted to backtrack [1]. The results were very obviously indefensible garbage. Amongst other things, if you assumed the poll was representative you'd be required to believe that:

• 15% of British people get "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of their information from Truth Social.

• A quarter say COVID was a hoax.

• Around 3.7 million people in the UK had attended protests about COVID and central bank digital currencies and "15 minute cities". No protests of any such size have been seen anywhere, needless to say.

• Around 7.4 million people had heard of an obscure hobbyist conspiracy newspaper called The Light, and half of all the people who had heard of it had helped distribute it. In reality The Light has a tiny number of subscribers.

The poll itself is clearly misinformation. Ironically, it was commissioned for the BBC's "Marianna in Conspiracyland" which promoted the poll relentlessly; the BBC has never accepted that the poll's results are nonsensical and simply ignored the problems. The Guardian also jumped all over it [2] without subjecting the results to even basic reality checks.

The actual meaning of these results is that Savanta's panel has become extremely unrepresentative and the company is simply ignoring this problem. This is a problem that has been affecting all panel-polling companies and it's been getting worse with time, albeit Savanta seems to be truly hosed to an extent that maybe YouGov isn't (yet). Panels are deeply unrepresentative, in particular with time they become deeply skewed towards women and people who volunteer for things (for obvious reasons). They attempt to weight the results to make them more realistic, but the models are calibrated only for elections and other moments when they can get ground truth. Ask non-election related questions and you will routinely get absurd results that don't reflect the actual views of the population.

The polling industry is in deep trouble as panels degrade over time (the rewards for taking part are meaningless), but are currently able to ignore it because people generally accept their results as gospel. There's Advanced Math™ involved so it must be correct, right? Still, I think eventually people will get more savvy about this. I certainly wouldn't take any poll promoted by the Guardian at face value given their disinterest in checking the results.

[1] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/conspiracy-theory-research

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/13/quarter-in-u...
Here is maybe an uncomfortable truth for software engineers: it’s more efficient from a cost perspective to just something out there that is good enough, even if it makes no logical sense and is a mess.

Maintainability and readability are best solved through brute force hiring instead of better practices.
Show HN: I made a resistor calculator with TS+React
I have returned a book to Amazon. Poorly printed, blurry text, unreadable. Low quality cover print. What other choice is there but to return it? You can't let them get away with sending out rubbish.
LIPS: Scheme based Lisp interpreter in JavaScript
Whether the author gets paid is a very important issue too.

The math is simple. Books sent to customers minus books returned from customers equals royalties paid. And apparently that's not happening here.
Guardrails AI
Well, it has a runtime. Checking and updating the reference count (more so the latter) is not zero-cost. This runtime is just deterministic. Of course, then do we have the same definition of runtime (I would take it to mean any extra memory or processor overhead at runtime that is not strictly necessary)... naming and consistent naming is an extremely hard problem in computer science.

It's in the same category as Swift, yes, but much improved: Swift does not do ownership analysis to get rid of counts (though I've heard they're looking at alternative region-based approaches), and their counts across threads are always atomic (and thus slow).

Reference counting has traditionally led to worse performance than tracing. So even though I get the desire to think of it as separate because it's just transparently replacing your allocator / deallocator with one that does a little bit more instead of having a whole separate tracing collector program, I'd still probably refer to both tracing and reference counting as "garbage collection", and then refer to them + ownership systems (+ regions + everything else new) as "memory management techniques".

The overlap in implementation techniques between tracing and reference counting is interesting. You might enjoy this paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1028976.1028982
This point I thought was telling (the internet is not what it once was):-

>"...what I write in public ends up being on the very defensible end of the things I think"
I rarely buy new books anymore. I just use ThriftBooks. Haven’t had a problem with any of the books they’ve sent me.
I worked with some YAGNI zealots and this was a routine experience. I adopted the philosophy of IYHTAYPGNI, "If You Have To Ask, You're Probably Gonna Need It".
Show HN: Browser game about memorising flags of the world
Going by the bsky thread posted elsewhere, he's using Kindle Direct Publishing, so he is getting them from his publisher, Amazon. And the books he returned were author copies, sold to him at print cost.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G7BBN68RYX5UMDZF
Bribes to Democratic Party and related entities vastly outweighed those to republican.

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1741188908694864126?s=46...
Having a plan on the shelf for how to invade is different from actually intending to invade. Israel not only had a plan to preemptively attack Egypt - it was very actively training for this plan and then carried it out. In contrast, it's fairly clear now that Egypt did not plan to invade Israel in June 1967, and was not in any position to do so. Like you, I've also read Benny Morris' Righteous Victims (which only has a relatively short section on the lead-up to the 1967 war).

The two points I've been making here are:

1. The traditional narrative that Israel fought a defensive war in 1967 is highly questionable, at best. It does not seem that the Egyptians were planning to attack, the Israelis themselves had a major hand in the escalation leading up to the war, and the Israeli military was extremely confident that it would quickly defeat the Arabs (an assessment that the Americans shared) and wanted a war.

2. This narrative that Israel gained the West Bank and Gaza through a defensive war is then used to justify Israel's more than half-century military rule over the Palestinians. Even if the Israeli narrative were 100% correct, it would not justify imposing military rule over millions of people for decades, while slowly robbing those people of their land and subjecting them to regular violence and humiliation.
Making money off it doesn't just draw more attention, it also makes a fair use defense harder. Non-commercial use isn't necessary or sufficent for fair use, but it does help.
I'm laughably unqualified for anything resembling a Fellowship at a graduate writing program - which seems to be the author's top credential - but in many ways, the article reads like something out of a surreal-fringe literary magazine. Phrases such as "the facade of Western moral superiority has crumbled" make me wonder whether this guy has even heard of the Crusades, the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Northern Ireland, or Saladin. Let alone Muhammad (PBUH).

Does anyone have a better sense of the context here?
I'll bite.

When I draw someone, I don't give much thought to skin color or nationality. Someone is intentionally choosing a stereotype to signal a particular culture, region, or race.

If you asked me to draw a Chinese man, he could be in a suit or traditional or a pair of jeans and t shirt.

Which do I pick? I suppose whatever the scene or situation has called for.

Now, what about a generic "learn Spanish" sentence? What does a Chinese man in traditional wear have to do with the Spanish word for cheese?

Would I find a Chinese man in traditional Chinese clothes speaking Spanish in Mexico? No. Probably not.

What I find is that depictions of stereotypes out of context are an unnecessary distraction pushing a perspective unrelated to the task at hand.

And yes, while it may be minor in contrast to every true and serious topic, if someone introduces themselves at a party as Dr. So and So, I'm curious as to why a title was brought into a peer-to-peer conversation. At best it is a distraction that worst an unnecessary signaling of self.

Sincerely, Sir Pizza Esq., C.E.O. the Third
> Very few people are needed to run the technology elements

Right. Engineers aren't hired to run trains, but to build the train you'll need next year.

When does innovation stop? It's not usually for lack of innovative people. Most commonly, it's when the existing architecture and workflows are constrained to the point where a significant change is not worth it.

The reasons for that are typically lost to history, so there's no negative feedback for the error.

And there's no incentive to cut or transition existing customers. So what remains is to operationalize the function: reduce it to running the old train.

Developers concerned about their careers need to realize this evolution is natural. The solution is to migrate to innovative teams before you get left with the duty of managing the winding-down.
So you’re suggesting the effect is correct but it shouldn’t be first order and some invisible free market force will actually work the way you pretend?
Maybe ... but this is almost word for word what my college counselor told me in 2001 when encouraging me not to study computer science, and I've heard some variant of it again and again ever since. What I think is that supply and demand will continue to ebb and flow, as will compensation, but that the ability to create software is a useful skill that will continue to be compensated pretty well for the foreseeable future.
That assumes that Li-Fi doesn't leak RF still.
Which ones gave back the money? This is an old source[0], but it repeatedly says "donate or return" and then has a handy filterable table at the bottom where you can discover for yourself that "donate or return" means "donate."

[0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-the-politicians-p...
jank's new persistent string is fast
Akshully.. it's my way of bookmarking/remembering this for later when I'll want it again And thought it might be useful to highlight (or discuss).
The Slow Disappearance of the Hotel Shower Door
It may be more common now, but I've had this problem with them before in the past. In one notable case I bought a new game console from Amazon.com and received a box that was so obviously used (seals broken, shrinkwrap missing, etc) that I didn't even bother opening it, I just returned it. Despite the price of the item they raised no objections, so they're probably used to this happening and just assume that most customers won't notice.
Here is something crazy:

In France the "Cookies" Wikipedia article is always ranked 1st for most months of 2023, with a ridiculous amount times more views (x10, x100,...) than the 2nd one. It doesn't really make sense.

Example: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=fr.wikipedia...
Besides what sibling said, and lack of bloatware, I find LineageOS to simply be better than original ROMs. Just using vol up/down to move the cursor is already a godsend for me.

I’ve also been using CyanogenMod/LineageOS since my first android (HTC Desire Z/T-Mobile G2, damn do I miss that full keyboard) and it’s great to be able to always use the same OS.
Blue collar workers won big in 2023, defying bleak predictions
It is lossy, but doesn't PCA function as a grouping even when forced like this?
I do not understand how we got to this point. India is not in the U.S. sphere of influence and has not even voted to condemn Russia.

It’s really a sign of how weak the U.S. government has become, which is heartbreaking. US has found it too expensive to invest in its own citizens. It’s almost a ticking time bomb.
Because nobody wants generic random pieces of copyrighted material. They want a specific piece of copyrighted material and generative ai is terrible at producing that. It's you who is being intentionally obtuse in pretending not to know the actual goal of copyright infringement.
Thanks for sharing! Looks like you got a lot of stuff done that are still a todo for me. I was wondering what security cameras you decided to use. I've been wondering the best way to avoid lockin there.
Cause behind 'beer goggles' debunked by scientists
The government takes care of that need by regulating tha labour market and shifting the burden onto the private sector, which in turn passes it over to the consumers through prices. It's a functional system more than a century old that is politically feasible today, unlike most UBI proposals. So until we can have superior alternatives in place, companies aren't really free to "disrupt" that social model.
ThriftBooks is great most of the time but the quality can be quite hit-or-miss.
I’m no lawyer but I don’t think an employee has much legal responsibility. At worst, they can get fired if they keep producing work that infringes on someone’s copyright.

Going with this line of reasoning, if a company uses ChatGPT to generate work, and it produces copyrighted work, the company can stop using ChatGPT.
In what world does maintainability and reliability increase through brute force hiring of low skilled and experienced staff?
This is bogus. Now you require that every piece of copywriter be registered and indexed in a central authority?

What if I write a story and publish it on my blog. Should I be required to submit this to openAI's copywrite model to ensure the story is never used in openAIs other models? What about the other 100 AI model companies that are going to spring up in the next year?

It should be on the curators of the training set to ensure all material inside is fair for them to use.
Germany's inefficient love affair with open windows (2021)
It is true now, and has always been true, that parts of the company are healthy places to work and parts are not. Despite the 'all bad' narrative you see around here. Not to defend Amazon, I mean, they ought to just get it to all be good and of course they won't. But it's annoying having to argue about this all the time instead of everyone just understanding that it's a mixed bag and which org you end up in counts for everything.
Well, another option is it’s true and it’s monotonically getting worse. From my time at aws, it appears to be that’s the case. It was better X years ago, and it will be worse at X+n years for all values of n and X.
Yes, XNU is missing a lot of stuff. But it's not (L)GPL, so it's not really required for them to provide that code.
> Also, Amazon has its problems (mostly cultural, as of the last few years), but it also has a lot of upsides and fantastic people.

yep, working at Amazon (AWS specifically) is like playing for the 2000/10s Patriots. Belicheck will work you to the bone and indoctrinate you into the AWS Leadership Princip... er, I mean the "Patriot Way", and your SVP Tom Brady will chew you out in the "correction of error" process. But if you want to be at a place where people want to win at all costs--with all of the pros and cons that entails--there's no better place to be.

Amazon hate comes from people who don't see a problem with getting the Washington Commanders giving you a $100 million contract to put in the bare minimum effort. To some people that's a dream deal, but not for everyone. To each their own.
> Too bad we can't import doctors.

?

My current two doctors appear to be native speakers of English, but the previous four or five were all clearly from the Subcontinent or East Asia.

Note that I'm not criticizing them in any way... they were all perfectly fine doctors. I'm just wondering where OP is from that there aren't tons of imported doctors on staff.
"I wish I knew of a vastly superior option (ie, safer option) for buying kids or baby clothes."

Just buy the long underwear and "base layer" items from either REI or Patagonia.

Very versatile and utilitarian, last forever, and you can buy them directly from the source - either online or at an actual retail store.

We had patagonia base layer onesies and long underwear, etc., that were handed down across three children.
Mostly because those buildings are not yet financially distressed enough to get new owners that would consider conversion.
Working graveyard and renting, I learned aluminum foil is perfect.
cheap, trivial to install and remove. and perfectly opaque.
Brexit doesn't prevent people from Europe immigrating to the UK, and was never pitched as doing that, so you might not have been representing it correctly to your in-laws unless you had no skills and were not in education when you immigrated.
Sellafield also handles all waste from UK's nuclear plants. A site like that is needed whenever you have nuclear plants, bombs or not. In the US, the defence budget covers the storage of waste.

In Sweden the nuclear fund currently holds 7 billion and the estimated costs for storage are already at 12 billion euros and growing. Future taxpayers will pay the missing 5+ billion, but they will get no electricity from the plants that have been closed already.

France's EDF was recently nationalized for over 60 billion euros, which is also paid by taxpayers, not electricity bills.

Germanys taxpayers had to pay for the Asse II mine, long after the plants that produced the electricity that generated the waste were closed.

So as I said, best case you leave a large cost to future generations. We haven't seen a worst case yet but the fact that Saami people in Lapland had to feed their animals special food because 30 years after Chernobyl gives a hint about what a worst case could mean.

There are cheaper, safer, quicker and more stable options than nuclear, especially in Spain.
> George Lucas didn’t have billions of merchandising revenue in mind...

Doesn't copyright stop other people from making billions in merchandising revenue off of George Lucas' ideas without his consent?

> We don’t really need Nth Star Wars sequel powered by those extra profits.

Without a copyrighted C3PO, he could start turning up in just about anyone's derivative works. There could be horrible Star wars sequels forever, or TV ads with C3PO selling household cleaning products.
I'm interested in what people think of the approach to teaching C++ used here. Any particular drawbacks?

I'm a very experienced Python programmer with some C, C++ and CUDA doing application level research in HPC environments (ML/DL). I'd really like to level up my C++ skills and looking through book 3 it seems aimed exactly at the right level for me - doesn't move too slowly and teaches best practices (per the author) rather than trying to be comprehensive.
Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
The guy you're replying to leads one of the projects which you dismissed very lazily, and he was looking for some elaboration.
I know that if you have a PhD it's way easier to get permanent immigration status than it is with a MS or BS.

I'd be surprised if the same weren't true for MDs.

Edit: it's an O-1 visa. To get one you need to show "special skills" in your area. For an academic (and I presume for physicians) that would be things like good research publications and so on. You have to be above the norm in some way.

The advantage of this visa class is apparently that it feeds directly into the green card system.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CONS...

Important bits (10c and around):

* Libraries/non-end products are fine, unless monetized.

* Employee contributions seem to be fine.

* Foundations seem to be fine.

* Non-core developers are fine

Seems like significantly better version.
It sounds like he wasn't paid for the initial buy either.
Yeah, I was gonna plug it since it’s great, but didn’t have it on my phone (it’s iPad only, which makes sense) and forgot the name.

Looks like it’s Chunky:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chunky-comic-reader/id66356762...
The Radarsoft one? There was a much slower free version around on BBSs/viditel as well.
Looking at the author's resume, they've only been at AWS since 2020. It's unlikely they have a very good understanding of how the culture has changed over time.