skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, how are Uber and Lyft taking advantage of drivers' desperation any more than the jobs they're going to have to work instead, now that Uber and Lyft are banned? These drivers already had the opportunity stop driving and work those jobs instead. Why is the former "taking advantage of man's desperation" but the latter is not?

> The operation of market is assumed to be optimal, the Uber drivers had a nominal choice when they took a job with Uber, and that nominal choice cures any issue anyone could have with the terms of their employment, etc.

> While seductive, that framework is oversimple, and misses much.

Except... it does? You're insisting that this misses the point, but you don't actually explain what is misses.

Again, what will these drivers be doing to make ends meet when Uber and Lyft leave Minneapolis? Guess what, they already had that choice before and decided that ride share was better. Maybe it was the flexibility, maybe it was the independence, who knows. But they all made the decision that other available employment was worse than driving.

True, these drivers were working to put food on the table. But they're still going to be working to put food on the table in whatever job they do after ride share apps shut down in Minneapolis. It's no less "taking advantage of man's desperation".
LOL - It should be back online again.
This is just 1 operation. It's nice to see them go down, but in reality there are likely hundreds of these operations existing across the globe. Pluck one weed from the lawn, and tomorrow 3 will grow in it's place.
Also I've been trying to spot a tick in the wild before it grabs me and have never done it. I want to see a "questing" tick, ie one that is holding on to the edge of a blade of grass with its arms out trying to grab something.

Interestingly, a "questing" tick has been found to be able to cross air gaps by leveraging static electricity:

“We have now discovered that ticks can be lifted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that other animals naturally build up. This makes it easier for them to find and attach onto animals that they want to latch onto and feed from.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/news/2023/httpswwwbristola...
Meanwhile Indian scam centers cost Americans billions more every year and John Oliver has not heard or cared yet. Indian scam centers operate with impunity and support of local government in bed with big political bosses. This has been going for much much longer. Like many decades. Americans cry for other countries’ plight but do not care enough to help their own people.
Also needed: ai.txt declaring which AI bots are allowed or disallowed to scrape content
I signed up yesterday but you don't support personal accounts yet. I look forward to those being supported! You are who I'm planning to use (since I need macOS as well).
When you sleep on your stomach you turn your head to the side, breathing is easy.
I worry more about a steel bar being thrown out with ample centrifugal force or coming around and taking a whack at your jaw.
It just occurred to me that Gravatar data is owned by the same folks who decided on selling Tumblr data for AI training: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24084884/tumblr-midjourne... …

While I don't know enough about the nuances to weigh in on this specific proposal, decentralized solutions are going to become increasingly important!
From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up
> It seems like your functional theory of consciousness is "thing that produces plausible English output," which is, I might gently suggest, a bit flawed.

My functional theory of consciousness is that it's not at all implausible that any system capable of conversing intelligently might be conscious, which is perfectly reasonable.

> Why is ChatGPT "conscious" for you but DALL-E is not?

I never claimed DALL-E was not conscious. It very well could be as well, just in a different way than ChatGPT.
Huh, Cairns was so much the same. Watched that happen too. Most of the time we had to resort to enduring a cancelation or two before someone would show up. My parents ended up calling a taxi half the time.
Finder is an abomination. No app has been quite as rage inducing for me personally as Finder.

I use the command line almost exclusively for file management and avoid it like the plague.
If your definition of bicycle infrastructure excludes anything insufficient to facilitate increased usage, then yes we can agree it is obvious that building such will facilitate increased usage, but that's a useless statement.

But if we talk about all bicycle infrastructure, which is a conversation useful to have, it is clear from the multiple issues I pointed out (not limited to lack of physical separation) that simply building bike infrastructure ad-hoc and without holistic change is not useful.
the John Oliver segment touches lightly on the issue and at least it brings light on the issue.

I personally liked the podcast episode from Darknet Diaries on this issue - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/141/
Ha ha, and the compression artifacts on the images: how you know it's gonna load fast.
I don't really agree with that, because it is exceedingly unlikely that all drivers are lobbying for it or agree with it, even if a majority do so (which is not at all certain).
I do not recommend DIYing this work, but I do recommend springing for the high cycle (20k cycles) torsion springs if offered by your installer (TLDR larger wire size and a few inches longer to optimize for longevity). They are a bit more in material cost, but will save you labor costs, which will only go up in the future. Also, depending on your living arrangement and situation, an unexpected spring failure can be annoying AF if you can't get vehicles in and out of the structure.
A lot of developed (HDI greater than 0.8 and GDP per Capita greater than 13k) countries don't have regulations similar to the "Clean Water Act".

Turkey, Hungary, Cyprus, the Baltics outside the capital city, Malaysia, and Romania are great example of that.
There's no lack of "pixel-level performance optimisations" on GPUs, and just because basically the whole world seems to think that graphics programming == using some rasterisation library like OpenGL or DX or Vulkan or whatever for realtime applications, doesn't mean you're forced to use it or that that's all there is.

Just fire up OpenCL (or CUDA, if you must) and start executing some data-parallel kernels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockdown_resistance

I don't know if this has appeared in ticks but it has appeared in mosquitos.
But were they more expensive in the long term?
Definitely great at 8-12 years old. Gave me a huge head start when actually getting into coding. A lot of concepts people got stuck with just made sense
MS and Apple already have/will have/build ai features into the OS and intel is also adding AI cores to laptop CPUs.

So when you have a webbrowser based photo editor or other tools, you can build things which do not require a backend server.

Not everything has to run remote and without such an API you can't use it locally.

Perhaps this will allow me/us to write a website for a local agent as well or an assitant.
Ok so you couldn’t list a better laptop.
Any laptop is good docked and ignoring the noise with headphones.
The only thing valuable of your response is the matte screen. Which can be fixed with a cheap Amazon film if wanted. Still with the glossy screen I can see my MacBook much better in direct sun than I can any matte HP elitebook I’ve used in the last 5 years. The sure view screens are actually almost unusable indoors.

Speakers bad in a MacBook? Come on man at least try to be objective.
It's a case of moving goalposts. The thing claimed is that sites don't need cookie banner and a simple parliament site needs it.
There are several different springs, some are more dangerious than others. It isn't hard to safely replace any spring. However it isn't always obvious what is safe or unsafe and mistakes can kill.
This seems like a boon to credential stuffing attacks. Given a list of passwords and email addresses, having a well known, email keyed URL would allow an attacker to quickly find if any of the emails have an account on the service, before going through the better secured and more time consuming login page.
does POTS still exist? Aren't all land lines VOIP now?
I started to heavily pay attention to economics about 15 years ago. I thought economists had a decent grasp on things, given the massive complexity of it all. Going through the pandemic and post-pandemic era, I can only conclude that economists and their ilk have no idea what they are doing. Nobody is getting anything near correct anymore. I don't really care anymore to try to predict things, and I don't really care what other people predict, because while there is a small chance the guess correctly, it is only a guess. Instead, I just read and watch mostly factual information to just pay attention as it plays out. So now I'll read Freightwaves or Wolf Street or mining.com just to see what is actually happening, and care less about any commentary that isn't explanatory.
It's good to see others coming forward with what they know.

Previous discussion on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709089

Original story: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-comp...
My experience submitting software patents is you need to provide enough textual description that the assessor can plausibly understand how it would be implemented. That means no “magic goes here” sections.

The models submitted prior weren’t fully functional. They were a demonstration of what something would plausibly look like to give the assessor enough context to plausibly understand how you would build it. That means no “magic goes here” devices.
How many humans do you need per project though? The number can only lower as AI tooling improves. And will employers pay the same rates when they’re already paying a sub for their AI tools and the work involved is so much more high level?
> Super defensive drivers who happen to also go unreasonably slow cause a lot of problems and traffic.

Unfortunately I think the entities driving this only care about the specific car they are insuring, not the traffic problems indirectly attributable to the insured.
How does one stop a metal box getting damp? The last thing you usually want to make walls from is something that has such high thermal conductivity.
The highest level would be like delegating part of your project or the entire project to a developer. These “AI coders” would take in the requirements, write the code, fix errors and deploy the final product to production.

About the "write the code" part - what code is that? Machine code, Assembly, JS? Who creates the languages, compilers, interpreters and the plethora of tools required to operate these and deploy to production?
Damaged undersea cables disrupting Africa's internet will take weeks to repair
Thanks for that - fascinating story!

http://www.queenoftheisles.com/HTML/Republic%20of%20Minerva....
A typical notes app.
You will miss out on having your YouTube feed filled with garage door videos for the next 3 years as well.
Here's the article:
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/05/us/bush-encounters-the-su...

You seem very convinced that the NYT pulled this notion from thin air and Bush was experiencing a moment of wonder towards everyday technology (the theme of this thread).

After reading the article, I believe this is the first electric scanner Bush saw. Bush is quoted saying "This is for checking out?" "I just took a tour through the exhibits here," "Amazed by some of the technology."

"Some grocery stores began using electornic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade."

This tells me that he hadn't been to a grocery store with this technology, which seems very plausible for many politicians, then and now. They have people to do that for them, they're out of touch (at least to some degree).
Probably the year this was published, the blog said the first version was in posted in 2002
I'm really interested in this. Most of my systems use DI containers to orchestrate any system-level fakes (e.g. the file system) I might need, but I have minimal mocking or fakes otherwise.

Do you have a blog or article that goes into your design more?
Airbus assembles planes with components from various countries so don’t think that’s the cause.

It’s the profit at any cost mindset that is the issue imo
Is it just me or is this article taking a negative spin on what's happening? The change in the market is described as a "cool down". Recent construction is described as "overbuilding". Higher vacancy rates are described as a "glut of luxury apartment buildings".

As a renter, when I read this article I just see lower house prices and lower rents and this is awesome.
5 years typically means 20-40 years in these contexts.
Thank you. I agree on all examples. Absolutely not worth the risk. Not even close. I wince thinking about when I changed my own oil in my 20s... Potentially throwing away so many good years, for so little gain. The car danger can be mitigated if the work is done under a professional lift.
> JIT compilers often use techniques, such as speculative optimizations, that make it difficult to reuse the compiler outside its original context, since they encode so many assumptions about the specific language for which they were designed.

> The developers of Cranelift chose to use a more generic architecture, which means that Cranelift is usable outside of the confines of WebAssembly.

One would think this has more to do with Wasm being the source language, as it's fairly generic (compared to JS or Python), so there are no specific assumptions to encode.

Great article though. It's quite interesting to see E-matching used in compilers, took me down a memory lane (and found myself cited on Wikipedia page for e-graphs).
We were promised mars, but instead we got ubiquitous aerial surveillance of all human movement.
In Austin, Yellow Cab became Z-Trip, with more of a ride hailing model than the old taxi model. They are cheaper than Uber or Lyft and considerably more reliable. Uber/Lyft will cancel a pick-up (sometimes, without telling you) when the pick-up is less profitable or would cause the driver to leave an area with more ride pickups. Z-Trip has never done that, that I know of. U/L also tend to have more drivers who are less proficient with English, which causes communication issues. Lastly, if you have a medical condition and it's not an urgent trip, Z-Trip can usually handle it. I have had Uber and Lyft drivers cancel on me, once while I was sitting in the car. But the main difference is on price - Z-Trip does not do the annoying surge pricing like the others do.
"Notably, "unintentional fall" is the #1 cause of emergency department visits for adults"

Most of these are not from DIY, but age realted
Rents are definitely down, though it still seems like there are a bunch of flippers who have barely budged on list prices for houses that should be 30-40% below where they are now.
Data Driven story on the rise of a car dealership
You've built a habit of checking HN. If you feel this is a bad habit (sounds like it) then you need to break it. I've been reading thru Atomic Habits and have found it helpful so my advice is to attack the root cause of the "addiction" (aka bad habit) to HN or any other consumable content.

You don't need to buy the book, many of the things discussed there are referenced from lots of other works. There may even be notes or synopsis of the framework online. The core idea is to recognize the habit, then dissect it and make it invisible, unattractive, difficult and unsatisfying. Some good suggestions in this thread to block the site, etc. but some more steps are needed to really reduce HN consumption than just blocking it.

HN, reddit and social media in general are kind of the equivalent of customized tabloids you see at the market. Same patterns of headlines, outrageous claims, filler content, ads, etc. and the bonus of being able to immediately argue (on HN politely) with others (or are they bots?) about things.
This is promising: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-005#xterm-compa...

(I have also been bitten by terminals calling themselves `xterm-256color` or some such thing while not being remotely xterm-compatible; GNOME being the worst offender, as usual. My daily driver is mlterm¹, which is pretty good in that respect² — its main downside for me is its idiosyncratic font configuration, which is tailored for multilingual flexibility, not the English-only programmer.)

¹ https://github.com/arakiken/mlterm

² https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_mlterm...
Oh wow - thanks for the sign up. We are not intending to support personal accounts anytime soon btw because of spam and credit reasons :(
Land value tax already has a specific meaning as a class of tax systems. If it's poorly named from your point of view, I'm sorry - but I had nothing to do with the naming.
For fun and frolics:

No flags: 1843ms

-march=native: 2183 ms

-O2: 423 ms

-O2 -march=native: 250 ms

-O3: 425 ms

-O3 -march=native: 255 ms

O3 doesn't seem to be helping in my case.
If you enjoyed this post, you might also like these books that expand on the same concept:

* _Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed_ by Stephen Bertman

* _How to Do Nothing_ by Jenny Odell

The first book more than the 2nd, but the 2nd book is still a lovely read that may help you figure out for yourself how to practically deal with the pacing of modern life.
How is this not science?

He has a hypothesis - modern sleep devices are not as good for the spine as the bare ground.

He suggested a reason why - pressing against the ground during sleep acts as therapy.

He has data - life experience,
pictures, and demonstrations.

Maybe it doesn't pattern match as science to you, but the raw science is all there. A few hundred years ago, this is how most science was conducted - by individuals with specific bones to pick.

Is it conclusive? No. Is it worth being part of the conversation? Absolutely!
Pay US$20 for access to remastered movie poster images.
Rappi now charges delivery drivers in Brazil a weekly fee
Most knifes today are mass produced.

But there are still knife craftsman.

You could become a software craftsman/artist if you enjoy writing software.
We're doing what now? Where do I go to witness these "Soviet-style" markets? Presumably they're cited somewhere in the 2-3 blocks between giant competing Pete's and Mariano's grocery store pairs. Bonus points if the Soviet-style market is on Grand on the near-west side so I can go to Bari for a sandwich.
I'd read this as "rare because it is a Vermeer" rather than "rare for* a Vermeer".
The dynamic aspect seems weird to be for a well-known. Are there other well-knows that are similarly dynamic?
https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak
Your parroted argument is just proving my point: we can't make definitive claims that chairs aren't conscious (see panspsychism), all we have are degrees of plausibility we evaluate in our ignorance. But under the materialistic assumptions of science, features such as intelligence indicate a degree of complex information processing that is a hallmark of systems that we know are conscious (like humans), and the absence of such sophistication in chairs reduces the plausibility of consciousness significantly.

Denying consciousness exists in systems that also feature sophisticated information processing and that reproduce human capabilities is an argument from ignorance fallacy, unless of course you have additional evidence you haven't presented. Which is not to say that they are conscious either, but I never made such a claim.
> The second article says, "A big part of the problem is rooted in the legalization of industrial hemp, which looks and smells like marijuana but won’t get you high."

The next sentence says farm-scale hemp production was legalized in 2010. When the price of hemp collapsed in 2018, which was after weed had been legalized, hemp farms started being used as cover for illegal weed farms, because legalization had created such a huge market for weed.

> For example, the first article says that most of the weed grown on illegal farms in Maine isn't being sold in Maine, it's being sold in Canada. I'm just not seeing how legalization in Maine would result in more marijuana being grown illegally and sold in Canada.

That was the opinion of a single anonymous weed grower. These farms didn't exist prior to Maine legalizing sale of recreational weed in 2020, and the more lax laws about possessing weed mean it's harder to get a warrant to search these residential grow houses.
This is a great link directly to the source code (`Quirks.cpp`). Here's a fun little snippet from near the top:

#if PLATFORM(IOS_FAMILY)
static inline bool isYahooMail(Document& document)
{
auto host = document.topDocument().url().host();
return host.startsWith("mail."_s) && topPrivatelyControlledDomain(host.toString()).startsWith("yahoo."_s);
}
#endif
Since I’m on my phone, I can only try the 2D js versions, but the quadtree version does seem to provide some really obvious and nice frame rate improvements. It seems like good work, although I don’t know much about this field.

Sidenote:

I’m often too self conscious to put anything technical online with my real name on it, probably a bit of imposter syndrome or something. I think based on

> For one of my programming classes this semester, my task was writing a program in Python. It was only an introductory course, so it didn’t have to be anything fancy.

the author is sort of early on in their career. I often suspect I’d be better off if I’d gotten over myself and thrown more early experiments online. I dunno, maybe this stuff just isn’t a big deal for some people, but I have to applaud the bravery.
"The Soul at Work" by Franco Berardi is excellent also.
Does MSG cause headache?: a systematic review of human studies
Good catch. I haven't found a proper source other than a quotation from some HN comment, so I'm not sure if it actually is POSIX valid or not, just that many people seem to think it is.
I worked at Interval Research (yet another Palo Alto lab) in the mid/late 90s on a large project (and if it had completed and worked out, would have led to a proper IoT without the crap, maybe) in which we use Smalltalk all the way down to the custom hardware. A few hundred lines of C and assembler tucked away in a corner, but interrupts and processes were all handled in Smalltalk.

It was fun. It could have been great.
Amazing insights!
I concur: I used to ride a bike in Paris during the mid 2010 and I eventually left the city in 2017 in part because I was fed up with the difficulty of the endeavor. And now everytime I travel back there I'm amazed at how far it's gone already, and the number of cyclists keep rising every time!

This year I started seeing a significant amount of cargo bikes, the things that I had only seen in the Nederland before.

I don't know when the growth will stop, but it's already beyond what I could even imagine back then.
5000 IU is 10x the recommended dose? I'm Vitamin D deficient (though not Canadian) and currently have a prescription for 1000 IU daily regardless of season, and that's the lowest dose I've been on in a while.
Great to see some improvements on that front. CloudFormation is perfect for point-and-click install of third-party software (like mine [1]), but the slowness doesn't make for a great first impression when setting everything up.

Really good thing is the declarative nature of it. When you release upgrades to AWS accounts where you don't have any control, this makes everything safer (and simpler to manage).

[1] https://runs-on.com/guides/install/
This is an overtly anti-semitic comment.
The thing you describe as "per-pixel optimizations" is exactly what a fragment shader is? You don't need "a polygon" per say, you can just run said code over ever pixel in the frame for each frame. This is how simple screenspace effects are implemented, compositing, HDR, etc.
Google and the Gemini Debacle