skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > The worst part is nobody in charge really cares.
> _Much_ of government spending I've seen in recent years has been towards climate.

Much of the spending of a few western governments.

The majority of the world's governments do nothing except maybe wait for their "climate justice" handouts. And of course, as soon as the first-world nations have ended their dependence on oil and gas, both will get cheaper. So the rest of the world will "pick up the slack" and consume all the rest of the available fossil fuels, because they are getting real cheap now. Far cheaper than any renewable energy sources can ever hope to be since oil/gas-producing nations have to keep the good times (and the buck) rolling, in their own interest (or at least the interest of their ruling class).

What we do need is rather a closure of the world's oil/gas fields and coal mines, in the rather short term, by agreement of the respective governments or by changing those governments until they agree. Yes, this will be ugly.

But anything else is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Nice work. Darwin appears to be cycle capital of Australia, but still falls well short of some of the EU cities.

It could be beneficial to have the ability filter out rural councils, and focus on denser urban areas. IMO cycle paths don't make sense in vast, sparsely populated regional areas.

For more retail appeal, you could consider some quick headline numbers at the top as bullet points. For example, the most cycle-friendly council, the worst (excluding rural), the most improved.
I apologize for unknowingly dogpiling on you (there were maybe 3 replies when I made mine). I genuinely wanted to understand your POV on what man made concepts were "real" vs. "fake". I think dividing it into "settled" vs "unsettled" makes a lot more sense. We can argue which concepts are really "settled", but given IP concepts as recent as DMCA it's safe to call software IP unsettled.

>Personally, I'm quite cynical: I think the existing social power structure will win and absorb AI into its IP regime

Yes, that's my fear as well. Which is why I hope these LLVMs get reigned in before it gets out of hand, as it did with DMCA (very rarely used to make sure proper parties are compensated and used just as often to make digital creators kowtow to the whims of the elite).

In your words, I don't see a future where AI wins these cases and the little guy gets to make images of Spiderman without Sony/Marvel/whoever squashing them down. All while probably using that artist's own prompts and existing art to make Spiderman 57.
What’s wrong with interleaving?
All the reports talk about Hertz dumping EVs but all the models listed are 2022 and older, how often does Hertz cycle their vehicles? I don't recall renting a car and ever getting anything but 1-2 year old vehicles. Could this just be their normal cycling of inventory?

I could see them choosing to not buy more EVs with the inventory refresh, and that would make sense based on my experience with how they were surprising people with EVs who never asked for them. Being given an EV, especially not a Tesla, and saying "bring it back 80% full" is a horrible experience.
Their presence as a game store is irrelevant to their developer friendliness as an engine vendor
How is my real boyfriend supposed to feel about an AI boyfriend? In the not too distant future, is having relations with a possibly sentient AI considered some form of infidelity?

What if it can control a Lovense?
Tax base is based on total income, or total production (, monopolies extract economic profit (contrast, accounting profit) by artificially constraining quantity supplied such that the price is higher than the marginal cost of production. In no world does this increase production in the domestic market. If you want to price fix on only the export market, well, you can encourage cartelisation for export only, sure. Only way to turn that into revenue is to tax it, and politicians don't tend to like putting tariffs on their countries exports, I can't imagine why at all. (There are both good reasons and bad reasons).

> If you are so sure of you're reasoning, then why the rhetorical framing?

Because I'm not putting in more effort if my counterpart refuses to. I'm not going to dignify the "economically globalist society" part with a response unless I'm forced to, I'm still not sure you sincerely believe that, but I can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into.
Totally agree lol
While one could argue that a some money had to be spent in the old days to get those boxes in the shelf and off them, these days what does Apple do? Besides being one of the two players in the market?

Clearly someone is being abused. I'm aware they do bring customers, I guess. Not to _you_, specifically, to someone... Maybe you.
what is the incentive of an ev owner to use that site?
The argument is incomplete, and therefore incorrect (as the article points out).

Geodesics in spacetime address the nature of motion through space and time.
Alas the femcel, despite the “single woman” epidemic, cannot enter the convo!
FWIW Teslas don't have hand brakes.
> And I couldn't agree more. Well worth perusing if you (like me) usually only check the comments on HN.

And in classic fashion, of course the moderators locked it as "off topic".
We do that where I work and we did it at the last place.

I found it stressful to write the summary of what I did yesterday in the morning because I’d been thinking about other things in the interim. I discovered the “life hack” of filling out my report in the afternoon at quitting time which makes me, from the viewpoint of everyone else, the first to report. I find it really easy to do and when I get in the morning I have a plan in front of me which helps me carry forward my momentum from the previous day.
That’s like saying os x was just a fork of bsd
I'm always happy to give the standard "I don't like to discuss work stuff when I don't get paid for it, it's not that interesting really" answer. Sometimes followed with "I work now for company X and I write code that deals with Y" to not be seen as insufferable asshole.
COVID interrupted the supply chains for new cars, forcing people who normally wouldn't to buy used cars, which spiked the price of used cars. This is likely to be temporary because, of course, high used car prices will encourage more people to buy new cars now that they're available again, which will in turn ultimately lower the price of used cars by increasing supply. But first the new cars have to get old enough to become used cars.
Reach out to me again and I can get you a replacement.
That’s a really good question. There were multiple academic papers which asked the question if cybersex was infidelity which seems ridiculous I’m retrospect but I have a feeling this will be similar
Yea. Households are living off of 80k/y and this thread is complaining that it costs a couple million to buy a city house.

IMO move. If the life you want is more rich than your funds, congrats you’re still working - but you still have a massive bump.

So weird to me lol
This doesn't prove that whatsoever. If you believe it constitutes as proof then can you demonstrate the line of reasoning?
Top U.S. Companies, by Profit per Employee
a general rule of thumb is that if it was expensive to maintain new its expensive to maintain used
Ask HN: Do you use something like Jira to organize your personal life?
My work life feels very organized but personal life is a mess. I've been thinking that utilizing tools like JIRA and SDLC processes might help me manage the chaos.
My daughter (3) loves this book and figured out how to cover the holes for more combinations and “errors”.
Why is the OS not blocking those perms regardless of where the install comes from?

I mean knowing Apple they'd probably make it so sideloaded apps break the phone more readily on purpose cause they're assholes and petty like that, but permissions should be handled at the OS level and not the app store level.
Glish, English with Less Syllables
I wonder why boards don’t give CEO’s a contract in which their compensation can be retroactively clawed back if it is later decided that decisions the CEO made cost the company a great deal of money. Of course lawyers would likely be involved to determine this precisely.

In some ways, this would justify the outrageous compensation packages due to the risk implicitly involved. And, it seems to me it would align incentives a little bit better between CEOs and shareholders.
I can imagine not being a Consumer Reports, uh, consumer (their user-friendliness wasn’t the best last time I had a subscription), but I can’t imagine not respecting their mission. As far I can tell, their methodology is generally sound and they seem totally incorruptible.
s/used GPT/used Google

history rhymes
Yeah, this is a known issue with the light flickering on the cover page. Send me an email and I can get you a replacement.
I'd apologize to Carmack for limiting his ability to influence the direction of Quest and try to lure him to the board and away from AGI. Not that I think Carmack would go for that, but if Meta wants VR to thrive then I think elevating John to a position to orchestrate everything is the way to go.
When I was in grad school, the physics shop machinist told me: "I hate metric, too much math." This was a person who could do most arithmetic in his head, and remembered all of the numbered dimensions such as UNC and UNF screw threads. There were no calculators in the machine shop -- no need for them.

I remember metric from elementary school as well. English units were taught by: "Here's a ruler, go measure some things." Metric was taught as a bunch of conversions. The powers of ten were supposed to make it easy: "Metric is easy, it's just math."

Well, most people are repulsed by math.

My Canadian friend told me that he learned metric in school by: "Here's a ruler, go measure some things."

Today, most of US life is English, and most of industry is metric. A normal household doesn't need English wrenches, but does need metric allen wrenches if they've got bicycles.
* Simple language

* Simple games, tic-tac-toe (naughts and crosses), hangman, pong.

* Pair programming

* An activity you do together.

It’s an opportunity to be peers because neither of you has expertise or experience.

It’s an opportunity to learn together.

Don’t let it be “Once, my dad and I…”

Good luck.
North Korea is acting highly unusual, some veteran analysts fear surprise attack
I see 156 distinct 3rd parties on my side if I disable the content blocker so as to let the second-, third- and nth-waves of JavaScript execute:

https://imgur.com/a/lZbUqnQ
A good way to find out would be to let the market choose from other app stores.
'Control the narrative': an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news
New outlets are constantly trashing “Silicon Valley” for apparently providing them with a non trivial portion of their revenue stream.
Just because most consumers outside the US use android instead of apple doesn't mean we shouldn't try to help protect hundreds of millions of users. There is a large enough portion of market along with all the businesses built around catering to this market that are unfairly being taken advantage of.
> If it's theft, then your brain belongs to Disney and you need to start forking over your salary. Your connectome is littered with their platitudes.

I think it's quite telling that sooner or later, every discussion about "AI" and copyright ends up equating people to statistical models controlled by predatory megacorporations.

My connectome, in the eyes of the law, has a special legal status which is not shared by inanimate and non-sentient objects. In fact, some would argue that the entire point of the law should be to protect the special legal status of my connectome from those that would draw an equivalence between people and property.
What budget phones right now have a decent number of years for security updates and run stock Android?

I tried to get this info a couple of years ago and it took some serious digging to find when each phone was released and how long updates are meant to last as there's no central place to find this. Maybe there's a good resource for this now?

Nokia phones are meant to be nearly stock Android I think with 3 years of updates but longer would be nice.
Wasn't the idea of Android basically the acquisition of Danger Inc.
I bet you even in that “expensive city” you’re making more than twice the median compensation in that same city.
I downloaded my FB data and as I predicted, nothing I'm bothered with. It is my common behavior that is ad targeted.

Can someone please tell me what data people are so bothered with that Facebook uses to target basic ads?

That "Facebook whistleblower" said the company is "profits over people". That people were appalled by that that will always be so funny to me.
Ask HN: Is Cloudflare R2 reliable enough for production?
Was thinking of using R2 for a production SaaS app. Today, just randomly getting errors like "Bucket doesn't exist". and GET/LIST errors were not working. Than after about 1.5 hours, things seem back to normal, but who knows! There was no change in code on my part. And in fact, the Cloudflare dashboard also reported "Bucket has been deleted", which I of course did not do.

Never had problems with S3. Can you share their experience with R2. Having "random" downtime is a show-stopper.
There are absolutely antitrust issues with grocery stores - Kroger/Albertsons is being contested right now! It's a major contributor to food deserts. It's not a cartel because the main players aren't acting in concert, but they are attempting to monopolize regionally. Walmart has also concentrated way too much power, but that's the 800 lb gorilla no one wants to touch.

That said, gas stations and grocery stores deal in commodity products. The video game companies are much more integrated with many games that will only run on one system, stores will only run on one type of hardware, and games are not transferrable between competitor systems. Competition is extremely restrained because of these exclusive and limited distribution agreements. The fact that they all maintain the same line on prices is a very clear signal of cartel behavior when you take the context into account - they are using control of a distribution chokepoint to control competition and pricing power. That's the essence of why antitrust laws passed in the first place.
Isn’t that how competition works? Ideally, no company becomes so large that they don’t feel the pressure to remain competitive. Of course there’s countless examples of big players stagnating and becoming rent collectors with a captive market. But, I see that as all the more reason to have competition.

I think it’s rather optimistic to believe the Epic Games Store going to overtake Steam. If that’s the criteria for raising their cut, I wouldn’t expect it to happen anytime soon. Outside of annoying exclusive distribution rights on some games, having another store has given game developers another way to sell and players a way to purchase games cheaper. With that said, I’d guess their real gambit is to create enough pressure to drive the standard 30% down.

Maybe 30% made sense at one point. Maybe it does now. It strikes me that there have been efficiencies that haven’t been passed along to the consumer. Having a competitive market would let us find out.
And yet, desktop anti-cheat is a continual cat and mouse game more than any iOS anti-cheat conflict I've seen. One can argue that macOS, Linux and Windows are not sufficiently "well-designed" OSes for this purpose, but at that point you'd have to start distinguishing what features are missing from those OSes that would be present in this hypothetical iOS version that isn't highly dependent on the degree to which Apple tightly controls the ability to install software on your device.
GGUFs quants can punch above their weights now
Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)
If gas stations stopped working there would also be cars stuck. Yes they are more ubiquitous currently but this isn't an inherent flaw of electric vehicles.
Boeing 737 MAX 9 Part in Plane Blowout Was Made in Malaysia, Official Says
Im pretty sure thats not what boards care about.
This is an excellent reply to the tired old "But nobody can possibly live without Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp" claim people keep making. I'm sure there are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people who, apparently by some great miracle, manage to live normal, healthy lives without using these apps. If businesses want to do business with you, they will find a way to be reachable outside of Meta. If your friends are actually your friends, they will communicate with you outside of Meta. If your school has a mandate to keep in touch with parents, they will find a way.
> Sublime text runs the same stuff for me and works much faster than vscode. No excuses.

Okay but this discussion is about electron apps. Sublime isn't.
Couldn't have said it better! Don't forget they're moving for the Roblox market now, getting that child labour content bling!
Sounds like a feature to me.
Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year
https://archive.vn/JiQDK
I mean, there's only two possibilities:

1) There's a grand conspiracy between all the dealerships in the country where they've all secretly formed a cartel together and have all agreed to all abide by the same artificially high prices.

or

2) There's legitimate economic reasons for prices to be high. If there wasn't, then any single dealership could simply lower their artificially high prices and then make more profit by stealing all the customers away from their competitors and increasing their sales.
Private equity and hedge funds should not be allowed to own public goods like hospitals or housing.
Yes. Which the judge explicitly said they'd be entitled to do:

> As discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.

> In such a hypothetical world, developers could potentially avoid the commission while benefitting from Apple's innovation and intellectual property free of charge. The Court presumes that in such circumstances that Apple may rely on imposing and utilizing a contractual right to audit developers annual accounting to ensure compliance with its commissions, among other methods. Of course, any alternatives to IAP (including the foregoing) would seemingly impose both increased monetary and time costs to both Apple and the developers.

https://casetext.com/case/epic-games-inc-v-apple-inc-2
This is gonna be the equivalent for my generation as the previous generation's hangup on being gay.

edit: as a parent
Google was like this before they identified the ad firehose. Facebook didn’t find its own profits until way after IPO. Thats not the correct answer. It was that they were instantly truly successful without being blatantly exploitative (which Uber et al were). And the investors trusted that they will find their profits somewhere. That environment doesn’t exist anymore. Except maybe in OpenAI.
20% was very real, I saw it many times

Googles main successful product was amazing infrastructure. Lots of real innovation. It enabled massive scale of everything else, including acquisitions. YouTube was about to hit the wall when they got acquired.
Most cars last 200,000 miles with maintenance.
I can pretty much read latex like the guys in the Matrix read the code to see the video. No real need to compile. So for me any plain text editor is good enough for latex.

Emacs is better cuz of the nice ways of moving around.
I use Samsung note because majority of my notes are Screen Of Memos. I just don't like how they bring features and deprecate them or hide them somewhere undiscoverable. In the most recent instance of UX bug, the convert to text option for handwritten notes is gone!
WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
Normies live for drugs and alcohol and social interactions while the non-normies live for train simulators, coexistence is an eternal struggle.
How is a phone that I pay for at all analagous to Walmart?
There's nothing stopping a company from making such a phone. The pixel phones from google can probably already boot a regular linux kernel for example if you unlock the bootloader. Then we'd need documentation to be able to actually write drivers. Another part of the problem is how fast the tech is moving outside of the iphones, which makes it harder for anybody to focus on specific hardware.
Women don’t have nearly as much trouble finding real boyfriends as men have finding real girlfriends.
If I were Zuck with Zuck's goals or Zuck with my goals?
Thank you for this!

I think the information architecture is going to easily be the hardest part of this project.

This really gives me some food for thought

... Or I guess I could throw some LLM RAG nonsense on it and see what happens
Damn that’s legit. Anyone know if I can just tip the artist and print it myself?
https://www.38north.org/2024/01/is-kim-jong-un-preparing-for...

38North is pretty legit so this is an interesting take.
Do we have a better source than the tweet of a screenshot? :)
A program written in Unix dc(1) would look as weird as that.
For Android, keep it in battery saver mode full time and minimize the screen idle time. This extends charge intervals leading to longer battery life.
> sometimes he just says and does things to see what kind of reaction it gets from people

pours cereal box out onto the floor

"Some have called me a cereal instigator."
> I think it would be better if you just red my comment more carefully.

> Nowhere I called them "hunter-gatherers". That's something YOU wrote. You took words "hunter" and "gathered" and created in your mind "hunter-gatherer" which is completely different because it has a specific meaning.
30 days for Level 1
60 days for Level 3