skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do business in the US you're subject to jurisdiction. If you're a foreign bank, to transact with anyone in the US you have to do business in the US. The court orders the bank to fork over somebody's cash, they do because they have to and the alternative is disconnecting themselves from the rest of the financial system. Several Swiss banks got the death penalty because they failed to be quite as isolated and secretive as advertised (i.e. they had agents in the US doing business)

To seize somebody's gold you'd have to go physically get it. To seize their dollars you just go say hi to their bank. Unless you're an "enemy combatant" the US isn't going to go do extraordinary rendition on your assets, so you're pile of foreign gold is safe.

The reach of the American legal system is long, you don't have to do much as a foreign entity to put you under our umbrella.
I usually have a good experience, but just in the last few weeks it’s been bad:

- Driver started watching TikTok videos on his dashboard-mounted phone while driving

- Driver going way over the speed limit in stormy weather

- A driver was clearly sick, coughing and sniffling and sneezing the whole ride

- Got in a car and it reeked of marijuana

- Got in a car and it reeked of BO

At this point I’d probably prefer a robot driver.
You should be able to use the `cjpegli` command the same way you'd use cjxl. The simplest invocation would be `cjpegli input.png output.jpg`
You can call their customer support line if you have a problem.
The fresh information was seeing who built an AGI, and what it looks like.

When OpenAI was founded it was expected that AGI would likely come out of Google, with OpenAI doing the world a favor by replicating this wonderful technology and giving it to the masses. One might have imagined AGI would be some Spock-like stone cold super intelligence.

As it turns out, OpenAI themselves were the first to create something AGI-like, so the role they envisaged for themselves was totally flipped. Not only this, but this AGI wasn't an engineered intelligence but rather a stochastic parrot, trained on the internet, and incredibly toxic; as much of a liability as a powerful tool.

OpenAIs founding mission of AI democracy has turned into one of protecting us from this bullshitting psychopath that they themselves created, while at the same time raising the billions of dollars it takes to iterate on something so dumb it needs to be retrained from scratch every time you want to update it.
Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024
If you’re a Seinfeld fan, listen to how George knocks on the door in “The Butter Shave”. :)
"Visit link without site tracking" would be nice, to save a step.
Ditto as a motorcyclist.

Making eye contact with drivers makes riding a lot easier. You know they see you.
They didn't manage it by hand, really. The system manages itself with speed droop flywheel governors. They were purely mechanical systems that made each generator on the grid 'push' a little harder when speed dropped, proportional to the generator capacity. Wince speed drops when load increases, the whole grid manages itself with a few springs and hydraulic valves on each machine.

Occasionally you might need to get a few more units online with fast load, transmission trips, etc but those events are infrequent enough to be well within the ability of humans to manage, especially with old trelatively small power networks.
Because very distant objects describe a very different universe, meaning the light has traveled in time without degrading. For instance, the cmb doesn't match the current universe, proving both that light travels forever and that the universe is not static.

Distant objects also do not show degradation in brightness beyond square area expectations. They are redshifted, but not dimmer than would be normal.
Unless you have major water issues, like roof leaks or something where water is accumulating consistently up against wood. For example a deck that slopes toward the house or something, rot isn't really an issue. Termites can be an issue, but it's not super common.
I don't understand why shadowbanning would be so effective. It's trivial for any competent spammer to check their submissions from different ip addresses, they will very quickly discover if they are shadowbanned.

The risk of misidentifying legit users and shadowbanning them outweighs the potential gain.
Why must that be the case? You can sum an infinite series to any arbitrarily small number you want.
I looked up glulam and it was immediately recognisable as the giant wooden structural beams I've noticed in my local Tesco, so yes, can confirm :) very interesting thing to learn, I'd been struck by how massive they were but never really thought any deeper about it.
Yes, those are taken far too lightly as well.
> amount of money that's been invested in this wants to get paid back, so they're gonna be charging as money they can

As they should be. They’re currently competing with Uber and Lyft, and charging a novelty/quality premium. There will be a halcyon period as they scale and print money, but others will notice and start fighting that monopoly.
This is litterally the best comment I've seen today!
Just a quick Google search shows that App Store revenue is 67%/33% split Apple/Google.

https://www.bigabid.com/apple-app-store-vs-google-play-store....

In that case, if PWAs were good enough on Android and they could avoid the 30% cut, why bother making native Android apps at all?

All of the HN commenters blame mean old Apple for holding the web back. But the fact is that every mobile platform at one point announced that “you can make good apps using web technology” - Apple, Google, Microsoft, Palm, and RIM. They’ve all sucked

Even before then, Sun promised that you could make great cross platform GUI apps and they sucked.

Today Electron apps are, battery draining, memory hogging monstrosities.

And the tracking thing is a non starter. You have much better ways to track on the we then through native apps - at least on iOS with a much better permission model.

To the first approximation - no one cares about PWAs - not users, not companies.
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Help us scale out our latest product, innovate with new concepts of your own, and work on what moves the needle for our customers and our company. This is not your typical role seeing as you'll be one of the first ~10 employees here.

We were bootstrapped, have been profitable since 2018, growing, and are expanding our team every year.

We are looking for those with real-world experience building back-office-type applications and maintaining those platforms over long periods of time like we have daily for many years.

This role is for a Figma / Material UI / React UX Designer- Front of the frontend (Figma) and back of the frontend (Next.js/React) work involved.

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In modern plants synchscopes are not common or nessessary. Auto synchronizers can routinely close machines into the grid with better accuracy and repeatability than human operators.
> You don't see this in other languages so much. People just use those languages and "they" have to fix any flaws.

You absolutely do see that elsewhere, and that's why here on HN we have a different new JS framework every day.

The safety in Rust (and .NET, and Java) doesn't come from the `unsafe` keyword, it comes from the guarantees that you have when you don't use said keyword. Ownership, garbage collectors, and less undefined behaviour are some reasons why those languages are considered safer.

At the end, memory safety is a spectrum, and while you can still break Rust's (or even Java's) memory model, it's much harder to do so unintentionally. That's a win. Even if there are some undefined edge cases!
Maybe not the same thing but holding a finger 1cm away from your face between your eyebrows creates a very strange sensation.
Umbra Releases over $4M in Free SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) Satellite Data
It wasn’t a full year of iPhone sales either: it launched in June and sold 1.9 million units in just six months.

The VR market is small for a reason.
Muni is free for seniors and youth.

That's a different kind of price segmentation than the kind of price discrimination that these companies can do. Also even without discounts public transit is substantially cheaper than taxi services (like 1/10th the cost). Some arguments I've seen is that the city should just make public transit free as you can offset the hit by getting rid of fare enforcement / fare machines.
Your local bank won't protect you from the American judicial system. If they get a court order they'll just fork over your assets. Your bank wants to maintain it's ability to exchange funds with American banks. The American banking system will refuse to serve your bank if they refuse to comply. Or more like they'll just order JP Morgan or whomever to fork over your bank's cash because that's how banks interact with each other.

If you got a pile of dollars in the US, you did business in the US and if that business has any tenuous connection to what the courts are after you about, we have jurisdiction.

If you don't like it you have to run to China, Russia, Iran, etc.
Or, we could recognize how farcicle it all is, and abolish the limits and make them guidelines, with tickets still being given for being reckless. If we're all safely doing 79 mph anyway, because it's not the 1950's and technology has advanced, just let us do that without risking a ticket.

Speed limits in a school zone should be 15 mph, but we care more that the children are safe than some number. If we have robots that are able to react inhumanly fast and are proven to be able to stop and not run people over, then they should be able to go at whatever speed that has them not running people over.
I have very little BSG in my head but I still jumped to this solution. Odd.
Really? do you want to see every little receipt from the GP?

I'll give a rough cost with my small sedan pre-pandemic

- Gas every 2 weeks (30 mile commute to work), fillin up the car is about $60. so $120 for gas. 120/month is 1440/year

- DMV costs are $150 a year

- car wash every few months. Let's make it monthly and more expensive than my actual washes. $50/month, 600 a year

- oil change every 3 months or so (probably less, but let's be conservative here). $70/quarter, 280/year.

- occasional repairs due to being an old car. sporadic, but let's throw in maybe $300 a year total.

- Finally, $100/month for insurance. $1200/Year.

so, ~4000/year. Given that that was a daily commute along with other short travel, it's cheaper than the idea of relying on taxis. Even if it was as cheap as $10/ride, it'd cost $4800/year to get to work alone. For my commute, it'd be more like $40-50/ride. Not even close.

ofc the rub here is that these are the costs for a paid off car, so if you don't own a car you need to factor in car payments, or the one time cost grabbing a used car. I grabbed my car for $5k before the car market (and every other market) went to hell, so it still very quickly paid for itself.
Thank you! Yes, it's a regular product software eng role.
What would it look like to monopolize AI for himself?
It's continually generated from radioactive decay. As long as the generation rate is higher than the escape rate, you'll end up with helium reservoirs.

Once we've opened up all the world's reservoirs though, that'll be it for cheap helium.
The date is a signifier that it is a loophole with a low bar, otherwise something more directly related to being a bakery would be there. Subway, for example, would be able to bake a few bags of bread per day and put them on the counter top for sell and call themselves a bakery. That's a clear indication it's not the selling of bread baked on premises that makes a place a bakery or not.

> Perhaps you can explain why this article now, in 2024?

"As California prepares to implement a new law that requires major fast food chains to pay workers a minimum of $20 an hour starting in April..."

> I can't explain the exemption although it was for a sector and not a corporation as the title implied.

because if it was a corporation that would be an obvious and odious conflict of interest. Exempting a sector offers plausible deniability. Plausible deniability's purpose is to help people who want to believe something believe it.

> Further, Newsom disputes whether it even applies to Panera.

Because he was caught, not because that wasn't the intent.

> The truth is out there. The hearings were open and a record is available.

I don't think we'll ever know, and I would need at least one example of these negotiations to believe that it's possible to make that determination.

> California's fast food law exempts Panera because of Gov. Newsom's relationship with billionaire franchisee

I think he had the means, the motive, and the opportunity. I think journalistic due diligence mitigated what would other wise be an abuse of office.

Most of all I find the dated bakery exemption dubious and the most simple explanation for a dated loophole, to me, is that it was meant to target a single company while still retaining some amount of plausible deniability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability
> In furtherance of its purposes
It took me a while but I think I've got it -- sports betting? (or horses, etc)
Stanley tumblers have lead but are still safe for sipping
Thank you for the fast reply.

And also thank you for cap'n'proto. Got the chance to sneak into the project again and am happy to see you announced v2.
There's no way the "true rate of unemployment" has been declining since 1995.
It didn't take years of little progress for the US public to become pessimistic about the Iraq War. The war had less than 50% approval only a year after starting. Also, contrary to what is commonly passed around as fact today, it was not abundantly clear that the Iraqi chemical weapons program no longer existed, as the US was never actually supplied with evidence that the Iraqi Biological Weapons program was done away with after the Gulf War, which is why it wasn't just the possible existence of WMDs that was given as justification, but the non-cooperation with inspectors also. In the early 2000s, soldiers were given multiple rounds of anthrax vaccine shots due to this lack of clarity. This is not to say that this justification a good reason, but it wasn't a clear lie at the time either, despite being repeated commonly as such on the internet these days.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/us/the-2004-campaign-the-...
Going forward - I think it's important to not just categorically say all self driving cars are safer than human drivers. It's probably better to say I feel safer around Waymo and <insert other trusted company> self driving cars.

With such complexity and unknowns within the codebase - there is likely going to be a much higher amount of variability w.r.t. safety and AI decision making. I'm not so sure I'd categorically say a self driving car from say Nikola or some SPAC'd startup would make me feel all that safe.
Some of these will still happen, even in a self-driving car, because of prior passengers. In fact they might be more of a problem because passengers won't have another human in the car inhibiting their impolite or gross behavior.

I look forward to Snow Crash's self-cleaning public restrooms.
On the same team — I’ve really enjoyed strsmlkt and built an app (that made it to the HN front page!) https://share.streamlit.io/-/auth/app?redirect_uri=https%3A%....

That said, I’ve found it to be clunky in a few ways:

1. State management is not intuitive — anything that involves rendering complex state/reacting at it changes requires a ton of session state type stuff.

2. I’ve very often had to go into css/markdown hacks

3. The control flow of when it’s running/executing makes for clunky interactions

4. Some API decisions are painful. For instance, a block str comment in the file will render as st.write

5. Long running (or even not instant tasks) make for some annoying engineering challenges — the UI is tied to the compute, so you have to be smart about juggling it

6. Caching is not smart — it’s quite useful, but it’s easy to get lost in caching/state

I’ve been dreaming about streamlit but a little more state/function oriented. E.g. react-based. Not far from fastUI

These are both great tools for prototyping, but I’ve found that I’ll pull up tailwind + some UI framework when I want something slick and it’ll take a few times as long.
Do the Win10 drivers not work? I'm pretty sure they should be almost completely interoperable - Windows 11 hasn't changed much under the hood.
> Siemens rep physically touching things despite vibration sensors being in place - do they not trust the sensors? If they do not, how are they doing routine monitoring? Have someone sit atop the machine and feel for things 24/7? Or is that just the rep grandstanding for the cameras?

You ever give a pair of kitchen tongs a few good clacks before using them? You know, just to make sure they're still clacking?
I'm really curious as to how ROWE works in practice for software developers, because the I'm extremely dubious.

In software development, there is usually an "infinite amount of work" to be done, so the important thing is to prioritize well as a lot of that work will never get done. But what does it mean to say "you've met all your objectives"? If you say "great, I finished all my objectives in 20 hours this week, see you at the beach", this company will eventually get killed by competitors who are just as productive yet work 40+ hours a week.

But fundamentally, the idea of "you've met your objectives, now you can go home" just feels like a fantasy in the world of software development.
But the cost dynamic would still be different, right? As in, it doesn't cost as much to register a .blogger.com as it does a .com?
Spotify, Epic Games pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a 'mockery' of DMA
So much for "you don't have to have a meta account to use an Oculus".
Your view on cyber security seems to be painted by bug bounty programs. But I agree that the offensive side is more sexy than the defensive side, but it easy to forget that in the end, we are all really working on defense
Only if it’s coded that way. And a profit-seeking org may not code it that way if the optimal solution (for them) is canceling and finding more lucrative passengers.
Russian FSB Successfully Intercepts High-Level German Air Force Webex Call
Some points of discussion, among others:

* Possible strategies and timelines on how Taurus could be used in Ukraine, including mouting to Ukrainian weapons systems (either on SU or F16 fighter jets)

* To what extend German troops are involved in mission planning and support

I realize most people here don't speak German, but it's 2am here, so I will provide a more thorough summary tomorrow, if the media hasn't by then.

Here is an article by Business Insider, though you need to run it through some translator:

https://www.businessinsider.de/politik/deutschland/es-ging-u...

Another German source that confirms that this was indeed first leaked in russian media:

https://www.zeit.de/news/2024-03/01/wurde-die-kommunikation-...
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I don't need to see the end result to make the claim - the doomsayers miss the basic economic principle about incentives changing with prices. They extrapolate trend lines out without realizing that every time something starts to "run out" people change their behavior in a way to either reduce demand, increase supply, or find alternatives.

This happens time and time again. Oil is the most obvious example, but helium fulfills this pattern as well, and was worsened by the government meddling in the supply, effectively destroying the private industry generations ago. Despite that, and helium being non-renewable without many alternatives, I'm still confident we won't run out without needing to dive into supply and demand numbers.
I don't know how many of the wanted it but here is an article that talks about it. Atleast is New York City they were forced to implement it and then it expanded from there.

> Uber might finally be forced to change its tune after New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission introduced a proposal this week that would require ride-hailing companies operating in the city to allow riders to tip their drivers. The need to follow a rule like that in one of Uber's biggest and most important markets could force the company to allow tipping across the country or around the world.

> The Independent Drivers Guild lobbied for the New York proposal, which it estimates will lead to over $300 million per year in tips for New York drivers.

https://mashable.com/article/uber-nyc-tipping
I’m chuckling to myself as I wonder how one might go about hurting themself with a spinning CD.
Can you share results like ChatGPT with convo uuid link?
You can check out the Hyundai Ioniq 7 for an idea of a non-conventional interior. Even then it still needs a driver's seat for the current day, so it can radicalize even further.

Though I'm not sure if we'll ever fully get to such a state. I can see driver's seats still being mandated in case of failure and a need to revert to manual driving.
If you send your CV, it shows an actual intent: you really are looking for a job.
Have you seen how people drive? Yes, the extra mass is to protect you in a crash. EVs are the heaviest of all, but not to increase their crash ratings.
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That's the definition given by Sam Altman above
+1 I like this one a lot.
Going downtown on Super Bowl night isn’t exactly peace and quiet.

But yeah, taxis and Ubers can suck sometimes.
Who knew the art was there? If it's priceless maybe they could have put a notice up?
> Your odds of dying in a house fire are far lower than they were even in the 1970's, let alone the 50's or 20's.

I am very surprised by this.

I'm sure that building codes ensure that the actual houses are more fire resistant. And fire fighting has probably come a long way.

But the typical home is full of processed plastic fabric. Which burns a whole heck of a lot faster than either cotton or wool. Carpet, curtains, clothes, furniture, etc.
https://archive.is/53MKV