skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya, foreign nationals are allowed to export their earnings. But even Chinese citizens can also pool those $50k yearly allocations, it doesn’t take a lot of friends and family to do that.

I’m not really sure what is happening among the rich, but among the middle class, it isn’t so much money laundering but having lots of savings with no good investment options, or just wanting to make money while someone else takes on the risk. They don’t have access to money that needs laundering.
Totally agree. Now that Google has been pushing forum results more recently, I find myself always clicking on Reddit threads instead of other results. It's a treasure trove of information.

It's interesting to think how temporary posts would change the content though. Like, you're probably not going to ask a question if it will get deleted in 24 hours. So it wouldn't become a corpus of information, but maybe it would have a different feeling and culture than the existing social media platforms.
True, but at least the author wouldn't be liable.
I'm not disagreeing that it's fucked up to be convicted for murder that you didn't do. But let's also not downplay crimes here. Stealing stuff from cars is actually pretty bad, and that person is not just an innocent victim who was minding his own business.
Why does it need to be fixed? What's wrong with it getting a little warmer?
The response to the first line was contained in the "What" because I was speechless
Probably referring to the fact RBC is set to acquire HSBC’s Canadian business.
Yup, running it on a pi 4. Simple to set up and use, happy with it.
I didn't know about Adguard but I don't want to try it even if it seems good.
the original commentator indicated that the reason people are against it is due to the influence of money in politics.

i feel like i provided evidence against that theory, ball is not in my court
Controversial hard drive vendor, MDD, breaks new record with cheapest HDD (2023)
We're building exactly this today, for common business contracts.

We're not building for consumers today, because I think it's vanishingly unlikely that you'll, like, pick a different car rental company once you read their contract :) but leases, employment contracts, options agreements, SaaS agreements... all common, all boilerplate with 5-10 areas to focus on, all ready for LLMs!
Theory: you just don't connect them, right. Reality: connect or it won't start. Next step: integrated sim card.
I've spoken about this previously, I write a huge number of TUI apps. I write every single app the have a nice TUI frontend for people who are less technical (like QA) that is purely the UI/UX IF you want to use it. What that does, in all of my apps, is pass the settings chosen in the TUI to some sort of separate generator file or function that can always be called by it's own on the terminal with all options/help that are used in the TUI.

So it's scriptable and useful by multiple levels of skill.
>Government-run prisons may be badly run, but at least they don't have an overt incentive to exploit the inmates as much as possible.

Everyone who benefits from the prison industrial complex has a an overt incentive to exploit the inmates as much as possible.

Only about 8% of prisoners are in private prisons:

https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/private-prisons-in...

Take for example California. There are no private prisons. Yet CA is one of the states requiring forced labor and prisoners can earn a maximum of 37 cents an hour:

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/05/12/california-is-o....

Who is part of the prison industrial complex? How about the prison guard unions who directly benefit from having more prisoners?

>...Although its membership is relatively small, representing only about one tenth the membership of the California Teachers Association, CCPOA political activity routinely exceeds that of all other labor unions in California. The union spends heavily on influencing political campaigns, and on lobbying legislators and other government officials. CCPOA also hires public relations firms and political polling firms.

>As calls for reform of the state's prison system escalated during 2006, putting pressure on former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to take a more aggressive stance on reform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_...

This prison system with no private prisons is a prison system where the medical care is so bad that the system was taken over by the federal government:

>...The state's prison medical care system has been in receivership since 2006, when a federal court ruled in Plata v. Brown that the state failed to provide a constitutional level of medical care to its prisoners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_California#:~:text=....

One should care about the lack of accountability of prison guards and the cruelty for cruelty sake that seems to permeate the prison system. When you have the people who regulate the system are the same ones who run it, though what do you expect? Take the example of Cochran prison in CA. This was a prison which shot and killed more prisoners than any prison in the country and the guards were setting up and then betting on gladiator battles.

>...Guards and inmates described macabre scenes in which prison officers gathered in control booths overlooking cramped exercise yards in advance of fights, which were sometimes delayed so that female guards and even prison secretaries could be present.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/staged-fights-betti...

After 60 minutes covered the story, the California Department of Corrections did an investigation and naturally found no "'widespread staff conspiracy' to abuse prisoners".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Prison,_Corco...

This isn't to say that CA prisons are the worst in the country - likely other state's prisons are just as bad as CA. When you have the people regulating a system be the same people who are running the system, you have an overt incentive to exploit the inmates as much as possible.
Isn't the point of this to show that the subjects look like they all differ in their ability to taste, and any single individual's ability (or even an average) wouldn't generalize very well?
At least PowerShell gives you access to the entirety of .NET, even if syntax is not ideal for non-interactive use in many cases.
Traces uploaded to OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces can be downloaded on https://planet.openstreetmap.org/gps/ The page hasn't been updated since 2013 but still, it's gigabytes of data.

(Update: 848,000 files based on the annoucement https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/04/12/bulk-gpx-track-dat...)

https://community.openstreetmap.org/ is the forum to ask where newer data is. I remember a technical discussion by the system administrators about backup page for traces so the full data must be available somewhere.
The ideal situation is that BlueSky and Matrix (/Element, let's be real) are giving hoards of money and are dancing around each other in a daring game of adversarial interop.

I want a Cold War-scale federation competition, dammit! :)
In my original post, I wrote:

"'Climate change' was a step forward in terminology from 'global warming,' but we need about five more steps before it's something people care about."

Yes, words do matter, and "climate change" is a huge step forward from "global warming" in terms of convincing people and affecting change.
It's simple: I want cheap houses, food, goods and child care built, picked, manufactured and done with expensive domestic labor, and I want home prices to be low but home values to increase without bound forever. I don't understand what's so hard about this. /s
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This is a really interesting use case for me. I've been envisioning a specially trained LLM that can give useful advice or insights that your average PCP might gloss over or not have the time to investigate.

Did you do anything special to achieve this? What were the results like?
Is it really experimentation or just slapping a higher price tag onto a device for added wifi connectivity.

How do we sell our product X for more? Just add wifi and AI. You can do it with almost anything.
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Small tool https://feedahead.com, I built for myself and have been using for a while to gather anonymous feedback on topics. You can gather and provide the feedback with someone's email address only. tldr: Its hard to get folks to speak up openly and every feedback tool out there has tracking which scares the folks to a large extent from being targeted. Personally it has helped me to cover my blind spots as a technology manager, hopefully its useful for other folks too. Would appreciate any feedback to make it more useful.
The real issue is Canada's demographic decline. Immigrants were brought in to fill that gap and pay for pensions and other goodies that expect a growing base of tax paying productive workers. We're not getting rid of these people, they will become citizens if they choose to. Personally, I doubt that any announcement by the government will be anything but a temporary hold, to be returned to high levels post-Liberal election victory. All of these people have already been educated (to varying levels of quality) so on paper, they fill out the population pyramid.

The problem is the policy driving it is bad. Rather than high-skilled workers, we're letting in low-to-mid-skilled young people. On paper, this plugs the demographic hole. But a lack of planning on infrastructure (housing, etc.) means that prices of those assets has gone through the roof. This has created poor economic incentives to invest in labour intensive industries and housing rather than the innovative, productive part of the economy. What happens when you want to open a software company but can't find workers? Maybe you open a house painting company instead, if the money on offer is high enough.

We shouldn't blame the immigrant -- they are trying to improve their lives. But you definitely can blame poor policy.
> stdout should be the useful output

To add a small tweak to this rule... "stdout should be what you ask for".
If I ask for --help, that should go to stdout. If I ask for logs, they should go to stdout. If I don't ask for it, stderr.
It's the same reason that YouTube VR videos aren't supported.

From what I've gathered, it's basically that they're mostly too low quality, compared to the AVP's resolution.

Apple wants to limit video to only a super premium experience, which they seem to be working on but it hasn't been launched yet.

In other words, they don't want the VR video experience to be the same as 4K or 8K SBS on a Quest 3, because then you'll just buy a Quest instead.

I'm not defending this, but I am saying there's a logic to it. The AVP isn't anti-porn (I'm sure you can watch the regular 2D kind on the web just fine, Apple isn't limiting your content there), nor is it anti-competitive. It's just not implementing a feature.
Currently running this as a Home Assistant addon is
A lot of people look for jobs that seem like jobs their friends are going to go "Wow, cool!" In practice those are mostly orthogonal with fairly reliable jobs that pay fairly well and reliably.
Small plug for my startup (hope that's ok!) -

If you're looking to sync roles from a SCIM directory (like Okta or Azure AD) this is super easy to do with WorkOS. Already being used by Vercel, Planetscale, Loom, and others.

https://workos.com/directory-sync
I'll chime in because I've been using cannabis for over 50 years. First off, I've never suffered with anxiety. if anything, THC has been a great help in relieving that for me.

I also say that over those years there have been long spells of time when I couldn't get any weed, and again, never had issues with that either. No "withdrawal" issues or anxiety issues at all.

The only weed induced anxiety I've ever experienced was caused by knowing I could get arrested for possession, but that's never happened, and where I live now it's legal, so I don't have to worry about that anymore.

Personally, I think that the social stigma associated with "refer madness" may be related to weed induce anxiety.

But there are studies that indicate THC does affect people differently and that genetics may have something to do with that. For example, those who suffer with psychoses may have issues with weed triggering psychotic episodes, but I recently read that CBD may reduce those events.

I think it would be interesting to hear from those dealing with anxiety if CBD relieves that.
Yeah, we got it Daniel:

Apple's Proposed Changes Reject the Goals of the DMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39148422

Spotify attacks Apple's 'outrageous' 27% commission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042094

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says Apple's new App Store changes are a 'new low'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39170822
Possibly someone has just got ahold of internal poll figs and are making moves (inter alia the said generalized comments against foreign labor) to appease swing voters
There are more sources of carbon than oil.

Now do coal. Consumption is down 50% from peak, and back to 1970's levels.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44155

Why beat around the bush when we can just look at actual US CO2 emissions which are down 20% since 2005 (see figure 5).

https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/

Edit: I always find it fascinating how negatively people respond to any mention of progress.
First they came for *The Onion*
And I did not speak out
For I was not an Onion writer

Then they came for *Black Mirror*
And I did not speak out
For I was not a Mirror writer

Then they came for Horselover Fat...

The sanity is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
The quality of MV-HVEC (the spatial video format used by Vision Pro) is much better than 180º dual-eye video used widely in porn (and not natively supported by VisionOS). The history of porn indicates they will adopt MV-HVEC faster than anyone else, though it seems Disney and the NBA want to try to move fast too!
It seems like a waste of limited government ability to act to try to deny this when it's quite simple for an interested foreign investor to form or invest in a domestic corporation that buys housing it doesn't live in, or find a domestic partner to make straw purchases of housing the partner doesn't live in.
What's wrong with "the brush stores the data on itself"? Plenty of consumer products do that.
Weirdly HN is full of anti AI people who just refuses to discuss the point that is being discussed and goes into all the same argument of wrong answer that they got some time. And then they present anecdotal evidence as truth, while there is no clear evidence if AI lawyer has more or less chance to be wrong than human. Surely AI could remember more and has been shown to clear bar examination.
If only there was a kind of toothbrush which doesn't use the internet. Seems like an opportunity.
> If $10m was just spent building a repository of well reviewed contracts

What's your objection to Nolo Press? They seem to have already done that.
"The country?"
I'm building https://www.getmosaic.io that helps GTM teams enrich lead data and power personalization at scale, by integrating 30+ data providers and web scraping.

I've built this by using AI as the foundation for everything. I am using LLMs to classify information and extract structured data points for any webpage, or RAG for finding data.

Tech stack:
- Mistral 8x7b and Perplexity API for data processing and GPT-4 input
- GPT-4 for content output
- pgvector in Supabase
- LangChain for the pipeline and RAG stuff
It's called malpractice
Much of the land is not commercially profitable to log due to competition with much larger, less steep, and more uniform forests. Also, there would be significant externalities to those living there (you can argue with them, but there are millions), including wildlife disruption/movement, surface water contamination/flooding/landslide, road obstruction/damage.

Once you allow a significant number of people to live there, the easiest political thing is just to make the costs of insurance/rebuilding/maintenance so high that people move out.
I would consider a phone as damgerous as a scooter, if not more - considering the amount of private information in it and the access to bank accounts it grants. The damage that can be incurred by malware in a phone can ne greater than a medium speed accident on a scooter.

(At least me, personally, I’d prefer to hit a wall with my car at 60-70kmph than to have a malware on my phone. And I said that after being in more than one serious car accident)
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shouldn't Metcalfe's law apply here?
Prove that it actually a problem. In the 70's it was global cooling and a new ice age that we were to live on fear of. Do we really expect the climate to remain stable? Something that has never actually happened?

That was all your fault as well. "The Climate Change Saga unfolds as we visit 1978 and Leonard Nimoy explains how the human population is causing The Earth to Freeze".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ZDnSbNIYs
Man, there are so many dots along the pathway between spreadheets and netbox. You make it sounds as if it's the only DCIM ever made.
I'm not so sure that truth and trustability is something we can just hand-wave away as something they'll sort out in just a few more years. I don't think a complex concept like whether or not something is actually true can be just tacked onto models whose core function is to generate what they think the next word of a body of text is most likely to be.
I think it's become inherent to Internet platforms. The playbook is too well-known for founders to ignore.
See, this is why I said that nobody reads Kant!

No genius ever understands what they are doing. They create objects which take on a life of their own, and we are left infinitely mystified by them.
It feels like selling the next generations future for cash now.
Porn can be an understandable concern because of the amount of chargebacks it can create for processors, though the excessive chargebacks should be the rule not the porn. Hate speech they never tried to explain afaik. FWIW repealing fair banking[1] was immediate priority for Biden up there with fortifying elections[2].

1: https://reason.com/2021/02/11/biden-administration-suspends-...

2: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1
There was a moment slightly after mobile F2P took off where the games and tech industries started making out with each other. investors started confusing the two. Money was spent.

Truth is that games will always be guesswork and investing in games should be a portfolio business, not a VC driven exit style thing. Games got too bloated and reality has returned. Now we are back to where we were, almost. Many jobs came and went in this process.
Automated theorem proving will only ever be an arrow in the quiver, because even in theory, the space of useful computer programs is a vast superset of those which may have all their properties formally verified. In practice, it's a much larger superset than theory allows. Growing the space of formally verifiable subprograms is a worthy endeavor, sure, but so is good old-fashioned engineering.
Why would Chinese intelligence (or any intelligence agency) care if the vulnerability is an accident or intentional? I imagine they prefer the former, because it reveals less about their techniques, methods, etc.
I think that's what a lot of people here are not realising (or perhaps they haven't read the article). In this case the main victim is HSBC if these loans were made to individuals who are speculating on foreign real estate without the income to cover the loan. This doesn't look like originate and distribute, i.e. HSBC shareholders will bear the losses.
I don't think that logic quite works. YC funds quite a few amazing repeat founders.

Having been around a lot of the batches, I don't think the majority prioritize "looking impressive". It's true that such types exist, and that they try to get into YC, but YC's application and interview process is designed to filter them out. If they get in anyhow, that's considered a failure on YC's part.

But you're right in the sense that some first-time founders who want to build a great product can be lacking in confidence, or aren't clear on some of the steps they need to take, and those are areas where YC can help a lot. For seasoned repeat founders, those presumably aren't the urgent issue anymore.
Can we update the title to read "Digital Markets Act" instead of "DMA"? On first read, I thought the title was about Direct Memory Access, and what restrictions Apple places on different applications using DMA.
You probably want the kind of private equity funds that do succession transactions.

Small slow growing businesses tend not to actually need capital very often, so there isn't exactly a huge market for investing in them.

On the other hand, you get a lot of businesses whose owners are getting old / sick of the business. They need somebody to buy them out and install a new management structure.

There are a bunch of funds who do things like that. Look for "Private Equity" as a more broad category rather than just "Venture Capital".
If only plumbers could charge to keep a toilet in your house...
Not the OP, but I read most of Das Capital...

1. He is not. The companies that employs those workers are the ones that are exploiting.

2. I'm not sure that it is the case here, but a person can be paid more than her labor by several reasons, including luck in the market. Of course, in a large volume of exchanges, good luck and bad luck cancel each other out, therefore to explain a stable surplus value accumulation, you need another explanation. Marx explains this as a non-paid value taken from the workers. If he do not employ anyone, he is not exploiting anyone according with Marx.

Anyway, even though he was exploiting, any Marxist would condemn your moralistic view of the situation. Marx's critique is not a moral one. Friedrich Engels, who helped Marx to develop his theories was a capitalist who owned factories.

You have all right to do not like Marx or his theories. However, I think that any criticism should be valid (99% of what you find in the Internet is propaganda, not serious criticism), otherwise it is the critic who would be the pseudocientific/religious ideologue.
Microcontrollers are totally other beasts, and for current China semiconductors level, I think they could use just one simplest case, like 8048 and other cases something like simplified x86, like Intel Atom (ARM have simplified MICRO-architecture, and Risc-V also have).

So, architecture could be one, but few MICRO-architectures, like IBM 7xx series was extremely wide (could talk about 360 series if you want), but mostly hardware differences hidden under software abstractions.
In other words, LLM’s are great examples of the 80/20 rule.

They’re going to be great for a lot of stuff. But when it comes to things like the law the other 20% is not optional.
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