skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"While I dunno where I come down yet on this legislation, it seems truly bizarre to object to the CalCompute cluster."

The calcompute cluster is what jumped out at me.

The danger is that this will be a huge subsidy to entrenched UC/CA contractors that are in place solely to navigate - and exclude others from - state procurement mechanisms.

In fact, if you were really cynical you might think that the entire purpose of this bill is the calcompute cluster and everything else is just scaffolding to enable a boondoggle.

I am not asserting this - I am just pointing to a possible interpretation.
Finding out how great things are just before the election. Thanks!
>"what's the coolest project you've worked on?"

This is the first question I ask followed by, "What's the worst project you've worked on?" The answers are pretty insightful.
Classic online "I'm taking care to reply to make sure you know how much I don't care"
Pomodoro always felt so strange to me. If I could just "start" things on command, I wouldn't need any of these special techniques in the first place. And if I do work, I absolutely don't want to stop, and certainly not because a clock tells me so. It's like the perfect antipattern to destroy any productivity in me. Not hating, just puzzled by it.
I think this is easier said than done. You can certainly save enormously by skipping a lot of the traditional stuff (nice meal, music, cake, attire, photographer, etc.) altogether. But there's a reason those things are popular. A nice meal, music, and dancing make a great way to include multiple generations (toddlers to elderly) and people who don't necessarily know each other well (and don't share interests) but are nonetheless important to you. Throw in a photographer because these events are often a treasured (and rare) source of extended family photos and you've accounted for most of the cost of my own wedding, which was about average.

We looked for options to save by having a 20% "less nice" meal or a 40% "less good" photographer, but broadly speaking, those aren't really levers that we found. I guess you could try to lie to vendors and tell them that the music is for a retirement party and that they're going to be photographing a family reunion and hope they charge you less? I'm not sure the extra cost is as unreasonable as it sounds though. We were far from trying to "get every detail right", but we did want the stuff we paid for to show up. Just "showing up" with high probability is a substantially higher level of service than I get from most contractors/vendors/etc. that I've worked with more broadly in my life and I'm not surprised it would cost something.
Maybe we should wait for a viable alternative before sunsetting things and ushering in ages.
Oh, don't misunderstand me. I am totally in favor of obscenely rich people buying expensive gear, even if doesn't end up in the used market, they are creating jobs.
> very few companies incorporate in California

They incorporate in Deleware, where they don't locate. That's irrelevant. California's economy and business is incredible, historic.
The term "gaslighting" needs to disappear. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it correctly.
The whole reason companies like Spotify are making a fuss about this is because Apple is making better products. If it wasn't the case Spotify would dominate the market all to itself.

But Spotify has 30% market share, Apple Music 15%. And it's because for example Apple has lossless audio, Dolby Atmos etc. Not because of any unfair competition.
Your daily dose of "Everything is fine! Do not peak behind the curtain"
Maybe the reason they stopped making them is the balloon got a negative connotation and was hurting their brand. I dunno, a disgraced celebrity. Selling the machine for others to make it hurts them (even under another brand). Maybe the offer was only $100 and it’s not worth the time.
That's the one with the cute little robot, is it? I always liked that one the most :-)
Don't read too much into early Apple Vision Pro app sales
Why do you think that?

I think naming 3 of them would be better than naming 0 of them.
> There are a handful of cities having property crime epidemics due to bad local policies

That new trend seems to be the majority of news I see re: crime. That plus DAs letting repeat/serious criminals go same day. Both are often in cities with the most journalists and news too (NYC, LA) so it gets prominent coverage.

Those near daily videos of people robbing retail stores were shocking and rightfully so, I don't think I've seen anything like that in my adult life. So I don't blame people for being concerned that modern systems support that.

Regardless, as you said, doomers/media have always sold the world if going to shit narrative. I remember reading letters from 1500s where a famous English priest was saying the same stuff, which easily could have been a twitter thread in 2024. So I doubt that's very new. If anything the rhetoric has escalated.
I used to do a version of Pomodoro quite often. Now I find I get better results by turning off WiFi.
It is considered a difficult topic and people want to show they understand it.

A similar thing happens that had the word quantic or relativistic. I'm a physicist and we hardly talk about it, but here in HN we find people bringing in up every other day
I had to check the date because this debate has been going on for a while. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...

The part about paying the people who grade your work is new to me though. It's reminiscent of criticism of securities rating agencies in The Big Short.
Crime has to do with age demographics. It means the demographic pyramid is messed up.
> there is massive cost to moving for any company, especially one that is built on a highly specialized labor force that doesn't want to move.

California is banking way too hard on people who want to work for companies that do not want to pay them enough to live there, do not want to pay them to work remotely, actively campaign against building more housing, and actively support immigration policies that continue to push down the wages of these individuals as well as make this "specialized" labor force less "specialized."

You would assume that there's a limit to what both the workers and the businesses are willing to put up with.
Sure. Let them deal with getting the homeless persons to sign up. Open a bank account, pay taxes, get credit cards, run payroll, process permits, etc.

I don't think you fully appreciate how tough is to run a business with someone's name on top of every document. Not to say its not possible for a determined actor, but its going to eliminate a lot of options from the get go.

Then, let a judge find out!
I live across the street from a pedway entrance, and commute to work via the Metra Electric from Millenium Station, so on rainy days, I sometimes take the extra few minutes to go through the pedway, but usually I walk the two blocks outside instead since it's substantially faster.

One time on a particularly cold day I found occasion to take the Pedway all the way to the City Clerk to pick up my daughter's birth certificate...
So when your company is going broke you don't care and are happy because in TV they said that the economy is growing? Are you a company-racist because you want your company to be healthy and non declining? Are you not trading with and appreciating other companies because you only love your own?

The same is with countries and their societies.

I will not be that defeatist to say "my country/my region/my continent can go down because there are others". And to say that is not racist.
I believe there’s supposed to be a picture at the start of “your character” so you know which one it is when there are multiple people.
Given the difference between financial data and anecdotes here, Amazon had better hope he was wrong.
We do see that hallucination varies between LLMs
https://huggingface.co/spaces/vectara/leaderboard
If you go into a trade now, within 4 months into the apprenticeship you will be making money.
the original comment explicitly said "holding developing firms ..." - so this is not about software developers, it is about corporations. The moment you start to sell stuff is the moment you become liable.
Depends on whether you are seeing a real pattern or disinformation. Trump isn't in power so the crime rate must be increasing. Facts don't matter!
Oh man and incorporate it into the halftime show. Have dancing Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, and Lincoln.
The classic example of requiring dishonesty to pass the test is one I've seen a few times:

"Is it ever ok to steal?"
If you answer anything but "NEVER, and thieves should be publicly drawn and quartered", you won't get the job, even if you have no particular foibles with e.g. inmates in death camps stealing from their captors, etc.

Either you're too stupid to recognize the difficulty in expressing complete and coherent moral directives in 10 words or less, or you're sufficiently coerced by your economic circumstances to bend some of your own ethics.

Obviously, what they want is for you to infer "is it ever ok to steal from your employer?", but again, this is complicated, because every single company that I've taken one of these tests for had robust anti-union rhetoric as part of their onboarding "training, and "be completely ready to work when you clock in", "your whole checklist must be complete before leaving" and "you must clock in and out only at the designated time" in their stated expectations for all workers. In other words, making any attempt to receive all the wages you are entitled to under the law is considered "theft" by the company, and they'll frequently have such rhetoric in the same training packet as the anti-union rhetoric.

These personality tests are perverse-incentive city, and clearly nobody requiring them has a high enough opinion of the people expected to take them to recognize that.
The title should really read: [Reported statistics indicate] Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. — even if Americans don't believe it
So it's all about you?
Reminds me of where I used to work everything was a “technique” or a “practice” or a “theorem”. Just… work.
A huge problem is the DMA falls short in addressing a significant violation of property rights concerning the hardware.

At the core of property ownership lies the right of exclusion – the ability to exclude or include something on one's personal property. This right is quite important and can even be used to derive most other property rights; please see the linked paper at the bottom. However, Apple's policies with iDevices violate this fundamental right by controlling what software can run on the device, even before someones does anything with their device they bought. They do this not via legal means but by using cryptography to reserve the right of exclusion for themselves (they claim its for your security though...). Part of the problem is when someone sells something that in most cases that means a complete transfer of all property rights to the buyer, but Apple is preventing that via extralegal means.

Consider this scenario: you purchase a new iPhone with the intention of not even using iOS and installing something like Linux. However, Apple's control over the boot-ROM prevents the hardware from booting any unsigned code without even opening the box. This gives Apple the ability to exclude or allow software to run on a device they no longer own. The thing is, Apple legally does not have the right of exclusion, but only reserves it via cryptography. This effectively restricts the exercise of your own property rights since you no longer can fully choose what to include or exclude from execution on that ARM processor you own. The fact that this control persists post-sale demonstrates a blatant infringement on individual property rights from Apple.

In summary, Apple is intruding upon individuals' personal property rights, notably the right of exclusion. Through the use of cryptography after purchase, Apple retains the right of exclusion which lets them determine which software can and can not operate on a device they no longer own.

For a more in-depth exploration of the right of exclusion, I highly recommend reading the paper titled "Property and the Right to Exclude" [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33139498.pdf].
> There are many solid arguments for state funding of open-source programming efforts

Perhaps there are solid arguments for that if your goal is to put open-source projects under the de facto control of political institutions. But for those of us who prefer for FOSS to continue on in a decentralized, mostly autonomous fashion, rather than have it be overwhelmed by rent-seekers looking for state subsidies, or be used as a pawn to advance various factions' political agendas, those arguments don't seem quite so solid.
Crime is a matter of relative perspective.

I think what is new is that with demographic trends, crime and poverty have started to suburbanize. But to me, the places I have lived (inner cities) are generally much safer than they were in the 90s and early aughts growing up. Back then, people wouldn’t let their kids go play outside or at the local park because they might catch a stray bullet from a gang shooting; it’s not anywhere this bad yet.
"The number of murders across the country surged by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020..."

"We have data from over 200 cities showing a 12.2% decline ... in 2023 relative to 2022,...."

It's so annoying that even "good" news outlets like NPR are incompetent when it comes to showing statistical data. There is no good reason to mix city rates vs country rates or speak only in percentages instead of absolute numbers. Some quick Googling shows https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim... (switch to the homocide data) which gives 2019-2022 numbers as 5.1, 6.5, 6.8, 6.3 per capita.
Just wanted to make sure I understand this right - Since Jeff B made that one statement, anecdotes are a better measure? And the second part of it talks about measurement, not data.

People are irrational and we give in to irrational fears. If I heard about one incidence of someone who is homeless attacking a bystander, I would be afraid of all homeless people. I do not have enough data to analyze (nor do I care to analyze) how many attacks have been by homeless vs others. My gut reaction drives the anecdotes and that is not always the reality.

I will give one point to this statement though - you cannot fight an emotional reaction with logic.
"we'll hire overseas for a fraction of the cost, darn"

The ones at a fraction of the cost aren't very good. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
Two sequential 4 day work weeks is a waste though. I would much prefer to have them more evenly spread out. Summertime is great starting with Memorial Day in June, 4th of July, then Labor Day. The Spring has room for something since there's really nothing between Pres. Day and Memorial Day with a two month gap
No, that would be redundant. Moreover, it's a journalist's job to qualify their sources (in this case, official crime statistics), so implying some sort of discrepancy in that data without cause would itself be a form of gaslighting.
Which means someone will agree to trade it with your for something you want, or something you can use to trade with something you want. You can take your USD and trade it for EUR to buy a coffee in france. You can also take BTC and trade it for EUR to buy coffee in france. In both instances the person selling you the EUR beleives that they can resell what you are giving them? So I'm struggling to see how they have different underlying values.
- Public transport tends to suck unless you're lucky with the stops / lines and the rental bikes / scooters are the best way to get around. That, or walking. It's a pretty small city.

I found public transport in Brussels pretty decent. Especially the MOBIB card system just works. This is completely different where I live in Germany.

I only had difficulties on the day of my arrival on Thursday because of the farmers protests and that is where an E-Scooter saved me. That you can just pick up a scooter even when you signed up in a different country is fantastic.

Apart from that, I have the hunch that Germany is the only remaining country where people pay cash. That you can pay everything with your card is quite convenient.
So simplicity and ease-of-use. I assume you mean for builders/developers here, right?
In NYC, you can get robbed and beat up, and the NYPD will refuse to file a report.

There's your 'lack' of crime
> I feel it would be a lot more sensible and effective to legislate clear and present harms, such as holding developing firms liable for deep-fake technology if used for identity theft for the purpose of fraud.

s/deep-fake/photoshop

Deepfakes are simply more convenient photo/video/audio editing that has been around for decades[1], and we don't really need new legislation to deal with them. Fraud/defamation/etc, the actual harmful aspects of what can be accomplished with deepfakes, don't need any new updates to handle the technology. If we're going to hobble new technologies, we may as well go back and hold Adobe responsible for all the shady things people have done with Photoshop, and video/audio editing suites for all the deceptive clips people have spliced together.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La5jrfobfTM&t=1s
...and the alternative is...? Just sitting on the data for an arbitrary length of time?
Yes. I live in DC, which is a favorite punching bag for certain people and it’s eye-opening how few of the news stories mention two key details: the crime was mismanaged to the point where it lost accreditation and the prosecutors are federal appointees who don’t share priorities with or answer to the local government. There were so many doom-mongers going on about the city council, liberals, etc. without any mention of a multi-year disruption to any case requiring forensic analysis or even acknowledging that prosecutors were declining so many cases, much less discussing why.

It sold a ton of ad impressions, I’m sure, but had no value for improving the situation.
> I have some TP-link press-switches (so no on-off, just press to invert state), and they work amazing.

I just bought a 2 plug smart plug and this was a major selling feature.

What happens if I'm standing there and I don't have a device on me? I just press the button like I would anyway.
Just have all of the rap artists make it rain, then you'll have plenty of the dead presidents covered.
By the author of "Guns, Germs and Steel"!

This is sort of eurocentric though -- what about successful Native American agriculture?
The Gauntlet readers unite!
Election Day holiday wouldn't change that. Poor people work on holidays. Making election day a holiday would change little. Longer voting periods, absentee ballots for everyone like in COVID, these are things that would help.
Thanks for the advice. I agree with you about the value of a technical co-founder. My preference would be to have a technical co-founder. However, I've personally experienced that its 'easy' to find a technical co-founder, but its incredibly difficult to be 100% compatible and you only find that you are not compatible by 'dating'. And you do need to be very compatible for the partnership to benefit the start-up and not jeopardize the start-up either directly or by being a distraction if it starts to go sour. The 'dating' aspect wouldn't be an issue except for the fact that I'm under some element of time pressure, and 'serial dating' can be a death sentence. Perhaps there are some approaches along the spectrum of co-founder - hiring contractor that i'm should be exploring. Thanks again for your thoughts
As I said down-thread a bit... the issue with your car analogy is that we force everyone to get a license and register their car before they can drive around. Do you want to have to get a license and register your AI model before you're allowed to start generating images or text? If so, maybe that is a solution. But I doubt anyone would accept that sort of system. So, saying "you can't sue Honda if someone drives into you," while true, doesn't really get us anywhere in addressing the issues with AI.
Being close to a or being a domain expert yourself isn't enough. Most domain experts don't know the domain well enough to automate solutions for it, you need a much better understanding to program than to do it yourself. So most domain experts will come up with very bad rules for the programmers to implement, and those rules are buggy even when implemented correctly since the domain experts didn't think of everything.
A flaw in this theory is that poor people who have jobs often times still have to go to work on federal holidays because of where they work - retail and service jobs for example.
My wife spent 35 years of her life never wanting kids, and suddenly was 51% for trying to see if we could have a kid, with much trepidation.

It worked out, and almost every day, certainly every week, she says she's so thankful she changed her mind just enough that she could be a mom. It is nothing like she envisioned it.

We also have friends who didn't want kids and then regretted it, and my wife sees her self in those people. If circumstances were different, she feels like she would have missed out on one of the best things that ever happened to her.

So I think that's why some people are so enthusiastic.
> These are apple's customers they have given you access to.

Insane take imo. I'm baffled how people can write this out with a straight face.

Just one counter example to the relationship you described: In Europe, if my app does not deliver as advertised, it is the customer that can sue me. Directly. They don't sue Apple because my app is in their app store, they obviously sue me, because I am the service provider.

> Also, I do wonder if EU flies a little close to the sun with this stuff. You can't legislate that someone lose more money than they gain with access to your market.

Watch us and learn.

Apart from that, I think this is blowing things out of proportion: Apple hasn't offered any calculation at how they arrive at the 0.50c installation fee, but I'm sure were going to get some insight once the first lawsuits at the CJEU roll in.
If you can't figure out someone is a dud in 60 minutes you are doing it wrong. If you can't figure out someone is a dud in 60 minutes, 360 minutes isn't going to make a difference. Why waste the extra 300 minutes?
This is exactly how I feel about it. I'm sure there are some tasks it works really well for, but I have yet to encounter one.
Thanks to the Steam Deck, more and more games are being ported for Linux compatibility by default.

Maybe some Microsoft owned games makers will never make the shift, but if the majority of others do then that's the death knell.
When did this change happen? Is there some evidence that it would be the cause?
Too dangerous why?
So a Gallup poll that doesn't ask about violent crime is used as evidence that people are misguided about violent crime? How does that work?
I don't think you are arguing in good faith.

OK fine want an ongoing patient fee ? Make it $9.99 per year just like a registrar, who gives you convenient ways to renew and pay fees from a working, modern site, and allow migration , with a few clicks.

Is that going to prevent trolls ? Unequivocally, no.

Parent was arguing for some ridiculous, unnecessary , tax. Then cited registrars as an example.

My point, 1 gives a service, one does not. If you want to charge for a service, then make it transparent and make the fee reflect the service, not argue "hey we already charge for registrars" to make his/her point about a new, unecessary tax.