skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All new manufacture cars sold in the US already have "black box" data recorders that can be dumped in the event of an accident. In many cases this can even be done without a warrant as of a decade ago [1] - not sure whether that's changed. In any event it seems as though this is a natural evolution in concert with those voluntary ODB-II devices that insurers started using to record driving habits.

[1] https://www.edmunds.com/car-technology/car-black-box-recorde...
Companies paid top executives more than they paid in US taxes – report
I still haven't found an extension that will give me the edit/ inline preview functionality of obsidian editor.

It'll great if you point me to one of those... Thanks.
This is actually how Airbus got started. It's a spin off from the Concorde manufacturer.
There needs to be a Pi-hole for cars.
Show HN: Phospho – Text Analytics for LLM Apps (Posthog for Prompts)
Hello HN! Pierre and Paul here. We are building an open source text analytics tool for user inputs and LLM app outputs The repo is https://github.com/phospho-app/phospho and landing is https://phospho.ai

Most people building with LLMs today don’t have quantified evaluation and usage metrics on the interactions between users and their product. The only solution is to read every message (or a sample) to get a sense of what is going on. You can't improve your product without understanding who your users are and how they are using it. Nobody would launch a website without standard analytics today; the same principle should apply to LLM products.

We made phospho to analyze the large amounts of text from user inputs and LLM app outputs, and give you quantified and actionable insights.

You first log messages and set up semantic events. Eg: “user is talking about sports”, “assistant didn’t quote the source”. We then run asynchronous jobs to detect if events are present in the text or not. To do so, we use GPT-4 for the first few events, and then downsize to smaller fine-tuned models (cheaper & faster). It works with any LLM provider (OpenAI, Mistral, Ollama…). No proxy, no monkey patch, and no OpenAI key needed.

You can link phospho to your users’ feedback, and even use the platform to annotate some messages yourself. This helps you design step by step a custom evaluation pipeline that runs automatically, fits your needs, and enables you to iterate.

Results are available in dashboards, as dataframes, or via API. You can also directly leverage the events in your app to trigger actions in real-time with the API or via webhooks.

Deploy everything with Docker, or use the hosted cloud version. We have Python/Javascript SDK and an API. License is Apache 2.0.

Give it a spin and see where we’re at: https://github.com/phospho-app/phospho We’re interested in both feature requests and roasts. Let us know what you think!
Whats with arbitrary monetary limits?
Physicists Find a Problem Only Quantum Computers Can Do
Rebuilt min api 29 (Android 10), hopefully it gets approved soon by google. Quite an oversight on my part here :) .
Not me. Aldi is crap around me. I live in rural area, it's cheap generally way worse quality and we don't need more cheap crap grocery. I know hating on Aldi is unpopular on the internet, but that's been my experience.
This is a follow up on an article about a billionaire who recently drowned in her car. It would be very strange if they ran this piece out of the blue.
Us$200 … a bit stiff.
> Similarly, I haven't seen anyone actually articulate what the risk from TikTok is.

Profiling of a large population, you put them in cohorts, and slowly shift what you show to these cohorts (based on their preferences, worldviews, etc.) to slowly nudge them into a worldview you'd like. It won't be 100% effective but it can definitely shift perceptions, if each cohort is siloed into their own reality bubbles through what you show them you can stochastically nudge them into a view you want them to hold based on their preferences.

If marketing works even to the people aware of how it works, a concerted effort to use someone's profiling data telling what do they like, dislike, will definitely work on a majority of users.

It's not like it will be blunt, it only has potential if you use this data to slowly shift views by using what's most effective to each cohort, with a large amount of data you can be quite precise in defining these cohorts and using different strategies/tactics for each one depending on what's most effective.

Have you ever worked on anything that did profiling based on accumulated data? I've worked on a few projects back in the early 2010s and even at the time it was scary how much you could infer about your users based on some 100-200 data points collected over a period of 2-5 years. Weaponising that is not the complicated part, the data collection is.
Agreed, and Magic Leap had its own problems. My point was just that “invest huge amounts of capital to create a moat and then monetize in the long run”
Is an inherently risky strategy. Business would not work if society insisted that large, high risk investments could not product higher long term margins than less risky investments.
Drafts is really about the automations you can do on your text in order to get it out of Drafts. The idea is you throw some text into Drafts — because it's quicker to create text in Drafts than in pretty much any other app — and then use an automation to do some minor parsing, reformat, add metadata, etc before sending the data to its final destination.
> Why can't ByteDance just dodge this with a US IPO of a local operating company with dual-class structure?

If they sell 80% of the shares (and voting power), sure. That would require either the largest IPO in history and/or massive valuation cuts.
Yes, it’s cable news. But US has restrictions on foreign owned news.
> A 4 year old child has 16k wake hours x 3600 s/hour x 1^6 optical nerve fibers x 2 eyes x 10 bytes/s = 1^15 bytes (approximation by Yann LeCun).

Unfortunate typo. You meant 10^15 bytes at the end.

Thanks to your citation I was able to find a podcast transcript [1] with Yann LeCun's explanation:

> If you talk to developmental psychologists and they tell you a four-year-old has been awake for 16,000 hours in his or her life, and the amount of information that has reached the visual cortex of that child in four years is about 10 to 15 bytes.

The transcript is missing "the" (10 to the 15 bytes). The corresponding timestamp in the podcast on YouTube is 4:48.

[1] https://lexfridman.com/yann-lecun-3-transcript

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1vTLU7s40
According to the movie, the Enigma was broken because each message closed with the exact same phrase in every message. These all start with the exact same word.

However, anyone taking this thing as anything more than the jovial manner in which it is intended is not someone that understands a word of what you just said. So it's all just grandstanding for the sake of it
The state isn't dictating who owns it. They're dictating who doesn't own it. They don't care which American firm buys it.

This was also just the House bill. There's currently no appetite in the Senate or White House to ban TikTok.
Can this be opted out at the dealer? Black box collection OR wireless connectivity?

If not, are there guides on disabling the modem without damaging diagnostics or infotainment?

I want a car that does not transmit data. Which means I may need to get my 2010s crossover rebuilt and reupholstered instead of getting a new car.
Ahh.. I've seen this pattern before, skim-read the wikipedia article and yet it didn't click.

Your comment made it all fit together. May not be the most accurate (I dont know) but it helped me. Thank you.

If you have any written material I can access, from your courses, I'd be interested to read.

Thanks for this.
I have ran into this blog on my own while looking up the gumbel distribution. this is a very high quality blog. surprisingly, one of my collaborators was also credited on one of the posts. small world. it makes me wanna say the blog is even more high quality than i thought.
At first, I thought this was another repo called Marker, also a markdown editor:
https://github.com/fabiocolacio/Marker
Would there be any similar problems from abolishing daylight savings time, or is that idea fairly safe?
There's an online meetup for people in PST [1] scheduled for tonight. I didn't RSVP but I hope to be able to attend so I can show my home lab.

[1] https://events.indieweb.org/2024/03/homebrew-website-club-pa...
I can forgive you for not reading the article on the MSN spam site. Here's the original: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c...

It's literally an investigation into the government weopanizing the IRS.

The IRS published documents you can view yourself to see their misdeeds. The IRS has since apologized and updated policy to curtail (but not eliminate) the authoritarian behavior.

You don't give yourself credibility by making up names.
To be clear, TikTok's main threat is persuasion and opinion manipulation. Data privacy is a nice thing to talk about, but pales in comparison to being able to influence what a huge portion of a foreign adversary population is watching.

Edit to counter likely responses: this also applies directly to US social media and mainstream media and I have extremely dim views of both I can assure you :-)
When on the "My Designs" list, if you choose the vertical three dots way on the right, Delete is spelled Detele. Other than that, well even with that, you've come up with an amazing app!!
As a huge asterisk this is a Tauri wrapper around Tiptap that does filesystem management. You can use Tiptap yourself easily as it's open source:

https://tiptap.dev/

https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap

Tiptap is immensely popular, supports both Vue and React, is super lightweight and has a huge community of extensions. I've been using this since 2019 and can't recommend it enough. A number of comments here are asking for functionality that is built in, easily available as an extension, or easily add-able!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
A lot of people on this forum just use the MBA as a dirty four letter word (minus one letter) without understanding what it is or what it means.

There’s no such thing as being “MBAified.” An MBA is a generalist degree that contains the bare minimum information you need to operate a corporation.

You know how in undergraduate computer engineering you learn many different subjects like power systems, microcontroller programming, computer programming, transistors, basic processor design, digital/analog circuit design? And how nobody is going to use all those subjects in the real world? That’s exactly what an MBA is like: it’s got subjects like corporate finance, organizational behavior, information systems management, marketing, etc. Just about nobody with an MBA is going to use ever single one of those subjects on a daily basis.

Nobody else is being judged by their degree. It’s ridiculous, and kind of disgusting that people act like learning the set of knowledge contained in an MBA makes you a worse manager. Armchair engineers seem to think they could run a multi-billion dollar aircraft manufacturer using avionics engineering skills alone without understanding the concepts you learn in an MBA like inventory turnover, cash flow, global operations, or how to design the organizational structure of a company with tens of thousands of employees. In what way does an engineering degree prepare you to do that job?

Imagine if you were a nurse and you got told that you were a worse nurse because you got a nursing degree. That’s what the engineer-types who dunk on MBAs are doing.
> laugh when they will sell to a newly founded Hungarian company

Honestly, I’d be fine with that. (And I think it would stand.)

Punts the problem to Brussels, whom I trust far more than Beijing.
Just make US a hostile county to US™.
I don’t think even that would help. Culture is self-replicating. Everyone at Boeing today was hired based on that culture and socialized into it.
It probably wouldn't be too expensive to put a moisture detector somewhere appropriate that triggers the computer to lower all the windows.
You could partially match the output by tuning your syntax highlighting rules to make various markup invisible, thus leaving you with only the bold word without the asterisks.

Though still won't help with search ignoring markup
>IMHO, two things keep Boeing running afloat

Boeing's not going anywhere as long as the US exists. It is the state monopoly on civil aviation. However, allowing these rogue MBAs to run amok with it over the last 20 years has been an absolute disgrace. Any sane, democratic, society that had not been beaten into the dust by regulatory capture and corporate lobbying would have cleaned house on them and sent people to jail after they killed hundreds of people through pure greed. It's a pathetic state we're in now to realize that it's probably going to take another 200+ dead Americans on a domestic scheduled flight before anything even remotely material happens about it.
If you did that this afternoon, Boeing would cease to operate. There are no candidates ready and able to step in. They have to be trained, they have to gain experience, etc.
Call Python functions from the Ruby language
I occasionally use words that I have trouble spelling as part of a password. I learn 'em fast, let me tell you!
The app isn't part of the developer program so when you try to open the app, MacOS says "You should move this app to the trash" haha!
Workaround via running:
xattr -c /Applications/Marker.app
Can this be run on ti calc I wonder ?
When they were competitors, before the merger in 2015, they built stores next to each other. Rite Aid did the same thing with Walgreens drug stores. Then after the merger, they ended up with redundant stores in the same location. Duh!

https://corporate.dollartree.com/news-media/press-releases/d...

The thing I don't like about these stores is IMO they take advantage of poor people who think they are getting cheaper products, but in many cases, especially for food items, they're paying more. A gallon of milk was $3.50 last time I went to one, whereas it was $1.89 at Meijer. Of course, Meijer does the same thing: if you buy milk at their gas station store, it's also well over $3, but inside the store it's under $2.

People trying to save money would be better off shopping at Aldi IMO, because Aldi doesn't have 5000 kinds of orange juice or paper towels. They have one kind and the price is usually reasonable, whereas the large grocery stores play all kinds of games intended to cause people in a hurry or with limited time or ability to compare products, to choose the wrong thing and pay more.
It sounds like scuba diving, having enough in the tank to go for dives in the outside world at a time before returning to sleep in the lung.
I haven't looked at Drafts, but I stopped using Notes because I started doing work that requires Windows and it lacks native cross-platform support. The in-browser experience just doesn't cut it for me for something I need as much as a notes app.
L1 is first language, L2 is second, etc. Except for L1, which implies native proficiency, it doesn't say much about the level, just the order in which they are learned.
How about forcing Bytespider to observe robots.txt while you're at it?
Wild idea: What would it take for Lockheed Martin to start making passenger jets? Is that remotely possible?
That only cycles through open windows for the current in-focus application.

E.g. If I have 2 Excelsheets open and 2 Word documents open, if Word is the current in-focus app ... CMD+` only cycles between the 2 Words documents (and does not cycle the Excel sheets)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | EU time zones
I'm a embedded software engineer with 10 years experience in embedded systems.

I have extensive experience designing and implementing embedded firmware for a wide range of platforms (STM32F4/L4, custom ASICs, Cortex-A).

Technologies: C, Linux Kernel, RTOS, Security, ARM

Website: https://www.lynxleap.co.uk/
> TikTok is a propaganda threat controlled by a non-friendly state to the US

Yes. Would you have been offended when during the Revolutionary War we restricted British propaganda? German and Nazi propaganda in the World Wars? Soviet propaganda in the Cold War?

Let’s reverse the roles. How thrilled would we be if we could have had a propaganda arm active and accepted in Nazi Germany or the CCCP? If we had person-by-person profiles of interests and affiliations for every person in Russia or Iran?
It all comes down to the details. A meme sharing site that uses a computerized recommendation engine to recomend memes to users might be considered "cognitive behavioral manipulation".
I am excited that there is possibly a viable alternative to filing that can emerge over time (I am generally a TurboTax user, trying H&R Block this year) - but I also wanted to address the "why are taxes so complicated in the US" comment that unimaginatively pop up in all such threads.

At its core, most people in the US can file taxes very simply and for free. A typical guy or gal who works a normal job and doesn't own complex investments, gives to charity reasonably but not extravagantly, etc. can file 1040EZ on-line or on paper, and the equivalent state version, for free in a few minutes. I've done this in the first few years of my career.

Layered on that is a bit of "complexity" that occurs when you engage in activity that the government seeks to reward or discourage. EG if you start a business, or partake in equity, make more complicated types of investments, hire people, donate large (relative to your income) - then your tax work gets proportionally more complex.

According to the IRS, almost 90% of filers take the standard deduction - so you can take that as a rough proxy that only 10% of filers deal with more complex situations.

The fact that state taxes further complicate the situation is a small price to pay for the diversity of lifestyle that the US offers (kind of like the complexity of Unix is worth it for the freedom over the simple interface of IOS for many people.) I live in NY which is a very high tax state and therefore has complexities that are worth navigating if you're in that more complicated 10%. We could have chosen to live in a lower tax state and face a very different tax code (but also very different lifestyle in other ways) but I am happy to take on the complexity for the freedom of the choice. And as I said, for most people the state tax is a very straight forward calc/file.

There are some HIDEOUS situations, I got a taste of that when I worked in Connecticut but lived in NYC (which has its own tax on top of NY state) but that's so rare and again, the edge cases are worth the main case.
I think floods in lower manhatten are somewhat rare, but you could drive into the hudson
Stripe's 2023 Annual Letter
GNU Guix as an alternative to the Yocto Project (2020) [video]
No. It's a turbulent time with new opportunities.

When one door closes, an other door opens. Boeing.
2 days ago. 162 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666976
Looks like logseq
My Private LLM Setup at Home, Confidentially Accessible on Mobile
So they’re both confidently making stuff up without any sources or justification. Quite on brand for the current generation of generative AI.
The point is that the West painted itself as the defender of freedom, democracy and free markets. Going beyond, it claimed that (in the post Reagan/Thatcher era) that free markets are a prerequisite for being a rich country. Yet, the moment free markets became inconvenient, the west dropped that narrative and went full protectionist. As a result, China gets a propaganda victory in the eyes of non-Western nations.

All things considered, it's a minor problem for the US/West. Just looking like hypocrites. Compared to, say, the 2003 Iraq war it's a nothingburger.
I was flying to Mexico recently (from Germany), and went for a $100 more expensive flight just to avoid taking a Air Canada leg (on a 737 MAX).
Aldi has a number of high quality and healthy items. They have great prices for things like nuts, jerky, cheese, etc. Just skip the processed stuff like you should in any grocery store.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692020
That is what half of the 7 trillion dollars are for...
> The EU is fundamentally an American colony

Oh how the tables have turned
Is there a list of games?
The actual problem is threat of algo manipulation in times of crisis. But they apparently don't want to make that their argument. It's the only valid justification imo. Data privacy should apply to all companies.
Historically, dollar stores do better during bad times.

I’m wondering if Dollar General is what’s really hurting them. I hear people talk about Dollar General all the time, but almost never Family Dollar. DG seems to be the Walmart of the dollar store game.
No. Hadn't left the iron lung in 5 years.

Source: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/magazin/eiserne...
449 upvotes after 25 minutes. Malware inside?
Serious question: Is it remotely possible for Lockheed Martin to start making passenger jets? They’ve won every 5th gen fighter and bomber contract over Boeing.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691808
No, McDonnell Douglas made much better planes.

The Mad Dog nickname came not only from its MD initials but also because it took off like a rocket and makes a hell of a lot of noise. Unlike later automated planes, the Mad Dog also needs full hands-on attention from the pilot during takeoff and landing. (i.e. doesn't kill you with MCAS)

Source: https://simpleflying.com/why-was-the-md-80-called-the-mad-do...
The article doesn't say they're switching to Max 9 because they care about safety or quality.

It says they're switching because Max 10 isn't certified (and probably won't be any time soon, considering recent events). I read that as they would happily get it but they worry the FAA won't allow it.

They're happy to order the Max 9 which had the door problem.
From the article, they currently have 16,774 stores in the US, so this would be around 6%.
Taxes are genuinely quite complicated in many countries (Germany's patchwork of feudal church obligations, diffuse taxing authority spread over multiple layers of government, and "temporary" taxes lasting over a century has some fun surprises, e.g.), and almost nobody ever voluntarily reduces the tax code's complexity.

What really sets the US apart is 1, very few other countries manage to witness so much criminal energy getting put into legislation without simply collapsing.
I am using it for many years. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...

> Strict: Blocks tracking content (videos, ads and other content that contain tracking code) in addition to trackers blocked in the Standard setting.
:syntax off (2016)
I setup a simple homelab on a macbook air and added ollama + open webui. Now I have an LLM I can talk to whenever I'm out.

I'm using llama2 and llama2-uncensored, but I'm going to download llava and mixtral later. Either way, it's been a great experience