skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$1.40 isn't the current rate. It is the rate the companies are threatening to pull out over.
There is natural human immunity to ticks, though fairly rare. In those individuals, the immune system detects a biting tick and kills it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/acquired-tick-resistance-why...

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/31/acquired-tick-resistance...

That would be a superpower worth having. Perhaps a vaccine could confer this sort of immunity to us non-resistant folks?
"The code happens to work" and "the code is correct" aren't synonymous. If my code contains a use-after-free, it might "happen to work" on the current version of an OS, but a small change to the memory allocator might break it.

Hell, I could write code which "happens to work" because I use the OS's version number as the length of an array and the OS's version number happens to be the same as the number of items in the array.
Technically they can ignore the users’ choices on cookie consent as well though. In fact, I would be curious just how many websites honor a user’s selection, and how many of them are just smoke and mirrors by having a consent modal that has zero subsequent value.
> Both Canada and Australia have strong federalism. About half of all expenditure is run through the state and local governments in the US. In Australia it’s similar, and in Canada it’s 75%.

Just looking at who spends the money ignores some big differences. For example, unlike the US, Australia has a unified court and criminal justice system - the federal courts have jurisdiction to hear appeals even on purely state law questions; there are no federal prisons (federal prisoners serve their sentences in state prisons); outside of the military, almost all federal criminal trials happen in state courts (technically some federal courts have the jurisdiction to hold criminal trials, but that almost never happens-federal courts do try civil cases, but in criminal matters are effectively appellate only); state prosecutors can prosecute federal crimes and federal prosecutors can prosecute state crimes (common for federal prosecutors to add on lesser state charges and vice versa)

Australia has institutions like the National Cabinet (council of heads of federal, state and territory governments) which have no parallel in the US-“cooperative federalism”. Formal agreements between the federal and state governments plays a big role in Australia’s federalism, lacks much of an equivalent in the US-e.g. Australia’s food safety system is governed by an agreement between Australia’s federal, state and territory governments, and also the national government of New Zealand.

> The people have a lot to do with it too. Large-scale immigration of Germans, then Irish and Italians, and now Hispanics has left a long tradition of ethnic machine politics in the U.S. that’s simply absent from Canadian and Australian politics. Even as say distinct Italian or Irish identity has diminished, our politics, especially on the left, is still centered around identity

Last time you made an argument like this, I pointed out it ignores the importance of figures like Daniel Mannix (Irish Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, 1917-1963) and B.A.Santamaria (Italian Catholic anti-communist activist; his height of political influence was in the 1950s) in Australia’s political history - between them those two men changed the outcome of more than one national election

And as to Canada, this argument of yours ignores the existence of Quebec, and also the (lesser) role that Anglophone-Francophone conflict has played in the history of some other provinces (e.g. New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba)

> What was his job before politics? He wasn’t a labor leader or anything like that. He was a community organizer in Chicago’s ethnic-based political machine.

Ethnic-based political organising exists in Australia too. For example, both major parties have done a lot of work on wooing the Chinese-Australian community, which includes interacting with that community’s social clubs, doing political interviews in Chinese language media, sometimes even running candidates from that background, etc
I saw a questing tick once, it was actually kind of adorable. They wave their arms in a gathering motion, probably helps keep them balanced.
To me the taxis were like an entrenched monopoly. Then competition tried to disrupt the system, but after lawsuits and regulation pushing up costs/prices on ride sharing, taxis will come back to fill the void. Full circle it seems. I can't help but feel this is exactly what the taxi industry wants.
> other side effects (unemployment!)
It was startling to see discussion of interest rates that talked about how increasing unemployment brought down inflation - almost as if it was a good thing to increase unemployment...

Sometimes people think of these abstract models of human systems as if the system itself is the important thing, not the humans that make it up. Like considering social systems as 'Darwinian' without considering that 'survival of the fittest' implies 'death of the unfit'.
I don't get this argument for writing or anything else. I do things now for which I don't expect to get paid for the next 50 years. What's my incentive?
India is on various blacklists of various western govt for military or advanced tech thoroughout cold war and even until recently. Pentium chips were denied even as late as 90s. Sanctions on Indian started to ease after 123 agreement, but India is still on US entity list restriction.

There is difference though, as most major Indian companies hardly invest in R&D and are happy to just keep using licensed IP from west. Indian companies, and general public, have very little risk appetite.
Fujitsu found malware on IT systems, confirms data breach
I don't disagree, but also don't believe this is mutually exclusive to being a cog in a company
UBI won’t happen but the price of most goods and services will fall to a tiny fraction of what they are now. There will still be people who are considered impoverished but they’ll likely have a higher standard of living than you do.
I have a still-functional though no longer in active use AOL account which I think is from ~1996 when I was ~9. My parents were subscribers so it was created as part of their family account.

By the late 2000s I had migrated to Gmail and was only using my AOL account for AIM. One day a friend texted me to ask if I might have been hacked. It turns out my mom's account--and thus those of mine and my siblings--had been compromised. We'd not been subscribed for a very long time, and AOL customer support for account recovery was basically non-existent for non-subscribers.

My brother happened to know Adrian Lamo[1]. Adrian still knew people on AOL's security team from when he was a thorn in their side. He was able get our accounts restored and enable additional protections for our accounts. I did a short phone call with him after it was done and thanked him for being so much more helpful than AOL. His response was, "I try to provide better customer support than the people I hack."

I haven't used that account for anything other than recovering other ancient accounts of mine since AIM was shutdown, although I wasn't using it very frequently by then anyway. Friends had long since migrated to other platforms.

[1] This was probably 1-2 years before he turned in Chelsea Manning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Lamo
> They chose

I'm afraid most humans are not "choosing", at least not in the way many people on hackernews get to choose between various extremely-cushy white collars job.

Work = Survival
We'll "choose" the best option available to use, and as the overall temperature of the market changes, so do our "choices"..
I just recently switched the email associated with my Xbox account from the Hotmail I created in '98 or '99 to my current email address. That Xbox account is probably the oldest account I'm actively using since it's from around when Halo 2 launched.

I'm sure I have logins for older accounts stored in 1Password, but none of them would be anything actively used.
The SQL standard nominally defines one (I don't know if it hands it to you on a silver platter as some sort of grammar but it certainly defines one one way or another), but if you just implement that and then send your code out into the world, you're going to be disappointed with the results. All the database have deviations and extensions of their own and people use them frequently.
Monoliths are cool again
>> A site can serve ads without tracking (and the banner) - the ads just couldn't be targeted at individuals.

The biggest problem with online advertising is not tracking users. It's a lack of trust between advertisers and pretty much everyone else. If you're going to pay for an ad, you want to be sure it was seen by a real person. I'm not sure that's the concern any more because click-through is more important than "seeing" an ad. Regardless, the goals are to make sure it's easy for a given advertiser to get on many web sites, easy for a site to get ads, and also possible to prevent fraud since there will obviously be multiple parties involved.

I suspect tracking users was an offshoot of just verifying that users were real to prevent fraud in the ad world. Not saying any of it is OK, but it seems like the way to prevent tracking is to find a way to verify authenticity while also preserving privacy.
import multiprocessing as threading
Adjunct mostly just means "collaborating with us", it's not a term of derision.

If he got a fancier title they'd probably have to commit to more interaction, and heavier obligations, as would he. (And not a single soul at 80 years old is likely to want to take on some committee service for a university program...)
> If this were the case, then the remediation is to promote better awareness about depreciation and factoring it into net profit calculation.

This is a long-standing point of public messaging around rideshares. It's not a secret; the reality is that the people who care about it aren't the ones with hundreds of millions allocated for advertising.

None of this assumes that Uber or Lyft drivers are stupid. Everybody discounts long-term externalities; it's a universal human trait, and it's why we have entire society-level issues that boil down to long-term discounting. The only thing that sets rideshare drivers apart in this particular case is that a company is actively exploiting that human weakness, and can do so in part because we allow economic privation as a fulcrum.
>The law is objectively bad.

No, the websites you visit are probably bad.

Which cookies did you have to accept/reject? What do they do? Why do the websites believe they must ask you to accept them?

Also, the law allow browsers to automatically accept/reject the cookies on your behalf (actually, the law does not care about which specific technology the websites use to collect and process personal data). You, as a user, can choose a browser/extension that rejects these cookies by default, except the necessary ones. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/istilldontcar... and I haven't see a single cookie banner for years on desktop and mobile. I don't like cookies and I like the law.
AI First API Strategy
How are they able to continue to operate in SF
So where do the animals pay their taxes so they have some place to live after we make it economically un-feasible to keep land undeveloped by taxing raw land out of existence?
Well, we do have the ability to detect individual neutrinos, through their interactions with ordinary matter. That's not currently the case for dark matter: it's sort of in the place neutrinos were in between 1930 (when neutrinos were postulated (as you describe) to explain missing momentum) and 1956 (when they were first observed [0] in nuclear fission reactors).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowan–Reines_neutrino_experime...

/tangent I learned a fun fact! The original proposal for the neutrino experiment wanted to detonate a nuclear bomb. The reactor was a last-minute change.

- "Eminent physicists enthused about the plan. It was approved by Reines’s employer, the government-funded Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. Work began on the detector, nicknamed El Monstro, and on the construction of the shaft. At the last minute, Reines and Cowan transferred the experiment to a nuclear reactor, but not because of environmental or safety concerns. They had worked out that although the reactor would deliver a flux of neutrinos three orders of magnitude lower than that from the bomb, it offered a better option for distinguishing signal from noise."

https://www.physics.uci.edu/node/14126 ("The singing UCI Nobel Laureate who nearly bombed Nevada")
To the parents point, you sort of made their point. “If you made it to x”. By having fewer older members of their population they likely had few joint problems reported overall. I would expect any reasonable study to control for this variable but a survey would not.
> Yeah, it was insane how long it took for developers to start taking transport security seriously.

It's just the way life works.

In 10 years it will be "insane" that your computer ever ran any unsigned code.

10 more years after that it will be "insane" that computers trusting a codesigning key other than the blessed ones were ever allowed to connect to anything useful over the internet.
Berty, Libp2p and Bluetooth Low Energy (2020)
Selling yourself IMO is a pretty distinct skill. I know great MLEs that suck at interviewing, and people who BS their way through interviews, sound great, then suck at the job.
Depends when they made that trip. I lived in that area for a while. The train is a little bit exxy and only used to go to Greensquare. You'd need two buses otherwise and there is sfa room for bags, so if you have luggage etc a taxi is an easier option for the $20 it should cost.
Technically, "missing gravity". The mass is inferred, but not absolutely required. (Though it is by far the simplest explanation.)
YouTube Now Requires Creators to Label AI-Generated Content
Oh, there was a neat way to create a starfield without background images: a dark background and then the content is set in a table with very small cells (where the main content uses colspan and rowspan to get a bigger cell). Some of the small cells can contain stars with transparent gifs. That way, some stars can even blink!

Found an example (though not surrounding content in this case): http://boom.shivas.se/natthimmel/natthimmel.htm
F-up story time: How we maxed out a credit by not capping API usage
Bah. We could have had usable AR with HUD-like AR overlays at least 8 years ago, and usable VR 3-5 years ago if manufacturers didn't keep chasing increased pixel counts.

Because the limiting factor was and is latency (the article covers this only in passing in one comment, choosing to focus instead on only one component of latency, refresh rate).

I'm not sure why pixel counts keep going up, except perhaps as a marketing checkbox (and false comparisons with AAA game graphics), but it is self-defeating. Perhaps now that display resolutions are reaching the limits of human vision attention can finally be given to the real usability issues with this form factor.
I find the concept of '$local_deity' really interesting, as generally believers argue that their '$deity' is universal. Other than in fiction like Pratchett's excellent "Small Gods", are there any extant religions whose deity is geographically constrained?
Both of these scenarios are a gamble and not guaranteed.

On the social side: the gamble is that social growth will outpace the increased economic pressure. Meaning, you need the new vertical growth to create opportunities faster than it increases prices further in the area. A land tax alone wouldn't pull people out of poverty, create affordable housing, or open up public school. Those are all just potential avenues for the city to develop, not guarantees.

On the environment: cities aren't isolated enclaves. Resources needed to build, maintain, and feed the city all come from the outside world. The more you build up the more steel, concrete, glass, energy, etc is needed. The more people packed into the city the more food you need to ship in and waste you need to ship out.
Well, look at the history of workplace safety laws (removing the option to work in dangerous conditions), minimum wage laws (removing the optin to work below a certain amount of money), and union protection laws. I haven't done a study, but I'm pretty sure we'd find that each of those laws resulted in less exploitation.

EDIT: There are also loads of limitations on what contracts are valid. The government removes the option to contract yourself into slavery, as well as a host of other things. All these laws removing these options were written in response to exploitation, and I'm pretty sure you'd find that they actually reduced exploitation.
new NFT bull market confirmed! these companies and executives that make decision about these are usually very good at timing! reverse indicator
This is the future of software development:

> The Administration will work with Congress and the private sector to develop legislation establishing liability for software products and services. Any such legislation should prevent manufacturers and software publishers with market power from fully disclaiming liability by contract, and establish higher standards of care for software in specific high-risk scenarios. To begin to shape standards of care for secure software development, the Administration will drive the development of an adaptable safe harbor framework to shield from liability companies that securely develop and maintain their software products and services. [1]

LLMs can help! But using them without careful babysitting will expose your company to unlimited liability for any mistakes they make. Do you have humans doing proper checking on their output? Safe harbor protections for you!

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nation...
I still have an ICQ account from 1996, and I can still sign into it. It's a low six-digit UIN.
Apparently you don't really know how people work after all, if your position relies on a vast conspiracy between thousands of competing scientists around the world over the past 2-3 generations to cover up and deny some mistake, even as they question and test each other's ideas on the daily.
Right, point being that using terminals in Windows is not necessarily subpar to iTerm2 on macOS.
> The law is updated to say you are not allowed to charge the user a fee unless you tell him in advance.

Why not a real regulation then to get rid of hidden fees and heavy fines/jail time for companies that are found to be doing it?

PG's argument (I hope) is that there is no point in talking about "regulation" and "customer protection" if companies STILL get away with their ridiculous and hostile practices.

There is no customer benefit in having user data collection and tracking. Companies do it only to exploit you. Even the usual BS excuses ("oh, we need user data to customize the experience") could be done completely in-device.

I don't want regulatory bodies to just give more hoops for other companies to jump. They will jump it anyway, because it is profitable to do so. What I want is for regulatory bodies to effectively stop predatory practices.
The app I use to read HN doesn't even display up votes or karma and I can't see my past comments - I only just realized this was a thing and I've never got around actually looking at it.

If I don't have negative karma I'd be surprised and this is obviously not my real name, it's not a throw away but it might as well be.

If I say 1 + 1 is 2 tho it's still 2 tho. Truth can come from any mouthpiece, even Trump can ramble his way into a true statement occasionally, and even in that example, said truth cannot be refuted simply bc he is a liar most of the time.

Haha, I've never ever thought like "oh, thank God that person that disagrees with me has such low credibility that I don't have to defend my ideas" - that's kinda sad actually
The phone line is disconnected, but maybe some other link isn't.
I mean it would be an extremely cool hack but I wouldn't be super-surprised to learn that google deployed some sort of exfiltration search technology in these boxes.
Gundam Gets New Plastic Model Partly Made from Recycled Wood
Our legal team is following the checklist that they have that they know is pre-approved
Eventually...maybe...considering the sectors get flagged and there's spare sectors to be rolled into service...and odds are the battery is the real bottleneck before the Flash becomes an issue.
Yea, you're right there. Uber has absolutely crossed the rubicon between 'gig workers' getting paid to drive someone around a few times a week as a side hustle, to being a full blown transport company.

I do think it's interesting to see how different countries/states etc. legislate Uber though because you can make a lot of arguments that they are doing things in a novel way.
Katie Mack has a response to this kind of take: https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:72bt6f...
> I dont care if the software is vulnerable to CVE-1234567

But your neighbour plugged into a life-support machine at the local
hospital does, because your machine could be used as a staging point
for further attacks.

When we built an "interconnected world" we created interconnected
responsibility.

That said, I agree with you that products that assume permission to
connect to the internet and update when they feel like it are a
menace. They result from disgraceful, lazy, inept software engineering
and allow sloppy manufacturers to unload responsibility on to users.

That is unacceptable and it is going to change in Europe with a slew
of legislation coming soon.

But that law may actually make things worse because it misunderstands
the locus of responsibility and trust models.

Centralising trust in automatic updates with a manufacturer makes
security much worse in many regards. Solarwinds is nothing compared
to what is coming when billions of connected devices can be owned and
turned into a botnet in s single exploit.

Your right to control your device is not to be championed solely
because of your property rights, but perhaps ironically, because that
is the better security model as the lesser of two evils.

Please don't say "I don't care about CVE-1234567", because at the end
of the day, you're the only one whose 'care' actually matters. The
manufacturer doesn't care and cannot really be trusted.
Was reading Stranger in a Strange Land recently and Heinlein describes a similar system developed for handling the volume of mail addressed to the Man from Mars.

https://archive.org/details/StrangerInAStrangeLandRobertAHei... (pg 183)
I'm not sure why a tree would not be considered a functional ecosystem. Perhaps giving incentives to people growing even individual trees is the thing to do. Otherwise people without trees are just freeloading of someone else's property.
I have hunting dogs that will pickup hundreds of ticks if not protected. I use Bravcto (Fluralaner) on them now, which is extremely effective. Hopefully lotilaner is similar with humans.

Most of the older generation of anti-tick meds have pretty substantial side effects and poor efficacy.
The Rise of Western Individualism
Superoptimizers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization

Also, program distillation: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220989887_Distillat...
If you want free market to find the price. Why not force Uber and Lyft to accept pricing from their drivers. Absolutely any pricing and any rules. I think that would be reasonable.
OTOH, github.blog is not github.com.
This is what I meant, thanks for clarifying.

I might also add that, “they,” on the first line are software developers. Most are not trained to read proofs. Few enough can write a good test let alone understand when a test is insufficient evidence of correctness.

I had to learn on my own.

Even if LLMs could start dropping proofs with their PRs would they be useful to people if they couldn’t understand them or what they mean?
You guys had web? We used DOS TSRs to read local compressed programming guides with hypertext links. And we liked it!