skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a drug dealer, but I did get not so nice treatment from police once. Well, more than once but this was the most applicable to this discussion.

I was profiled, verbally assaulted, shouted down, searched, etc. All while AK assault rifles were being waived around to scare me while my car was searched.

I knew I did nothing wrong and it was just corruption and intimidation and fishing. So I responded with yes sir, no officer, etc. Eventually it blew over.

No idea how it would have went if bystanders started getting involved and causing chaos with proximity to the police.
It's interesting to see the negative reactions to this while an awful lot of us are employed specifically and payed exorbitantly because computers regularly are not operating correctly in weird subtle ways that are hard to figure out. Especially as society leans into ML models to solve computationally hard problems, the legal notion that the computer is "correct" by default absolutely needs to go out the window.
The sad part about Canadian lotteries to me is all the advertising. If we accept the idea that they exist to preempt illegal gambling, no ads are required. The sheer waste of these campaigns, and the likelihood that they are a factor in developing some gambling addictions is quite saddening.
Would that be a bad thing? If you want the convenience you either pay for something that is proven correct or you take the inefficiency of paper (under your implicit assumption that it's somehow invulnerable to error, burning down, etc), or you accept that you take the convenience but will not be able to use it in court as evidence. If you suspect somebody is stealing, you could always take further measures like switching to magical paper that can't go wrong, or set regular inspections, or new procedures, etc.

Don't pretend that fucking over innocent lives in the pursuit of profits is a law of nature.
> my comment is limited to "acute, traumatic soft-tissue injury", the scope of which excludes viral infection, allergic reaction, and strict joint injury.

The point is that evolved responses don't always properly account for nuance or proportion. If inflammation evolved for large traumatic injury, it may still be triggered for limited soft tissue injuries but then the response could be disproportionate.
Interesting idea.. but ABleton comes out of germany!
I’m from Boston visiting Ireland for the first time. We’re spending our time in the west, from the Dingle peninsula up to Sligo. Right now we’re in Connemara.

That’s a neat coincidence, but it doesn’t give me any insight on this problem. What I can say from the article is that it sounds just like articles in the US decrying Gen Z’s “failure to launch”.

It’s a real problem, but it doesn’t seem unique to Ireland. I guess people in UK and continental Europe all struggle with the same problems.
(Oso CTO here). Out of curiosity what do you not like about CASL? It always seemed to have a similar goal in mind which I loved, but I suspect it hit similar challenges we had when replying on ORM integrations.
I'd be annoyed if my bank did this, or airlines, or anything where I just need to get a task done.

For personal websites, I actually think individuality and fun and creativity are good.
A good leaderboard is https://arena.lmsys.org/ (the "Leaderboard" tab).
What I mean is that I regularly see science being denied on the right because it’s labeled “woke.” Mostly social science at the moment, but I see the term attached to medical science as well, vis a vis the pandemic for example. It’s utterly nonsensical, but the point is to imbue the subject with negative feelings by association.

So, yeah, history repeats itself yet again.
These people aren't entirely wrong, but at the same time a scant number of them (in my personal experience) bother doing something boring like investing their money in a taxable account or IRA. In a peak act of irony, they dismiss the stock market as "gambling." They'll give bits of money away in a piecemeal attempt at random chance but dismiss participating in a market that has a far, far greater level of predictability than lottery tickets. It doesn't matter that the barrier to entry has been lowered to near-zero. It doesn't matter that a person can invest in a single ETF so they can set it and forget it. They won't do it. So while the economic situation has become more challenging for a lot of people, if all people are doing is trusting their 401k and otherwise throwing their money at random chance, then I really don't want to hear them complain.
Yes, this says more about how awful humans are at judging others than it does about the people committing these crimes.
> Doctors and lawyers can become programmers far more easily than programmers can become doctors and lawyers though, so though the SV amplification is real, doctors and lawyers can also wreak havoc outside their discipline.

I think that's kind of missing the point. Also, I don't think many doctors are making the switch to engineering. Why would they? There are probably far more engineers becoming doctors than vice versa (though the total numbers in both directions are likely small).

The specific problem with Engineer's disease, is that engineers have the job of building things for others, and thus have the opportunity to force their half-baked ideas onto them. SV has amplified that and turned it into a monster, by elevating things like "disruption" into something like a moral imperative.

The counterpart in finance and the closely related managerialism rival it because those jobs involve control of others.

Doctors though? If they get arrogant about some other field, they usually just end up hurting themselves or a few others (like they learn to sail, get in over their heads, and sink their ship in a storm). They don't have a mechanism to do more damage.
> Well, it's in mice first of all. And it has nothing to do with the mRNA vaccines that are popular right now.

So it's a novel strategy for vaccines. And it seems to be working.

That combo should qualify as "breakthrough" I think? Sure, it may fail later on in clinical trials. But potentially a huge step forward.
Those examples were more about the body's tendency to overdo its response.

(But aren't joint injuries usually soft-tissue as well? It's the ligaments that get the short shaft.)
How has the state destroyed itself? Most of the debt is from the bank bailouts during the 2008 financial crisis (debt quadrupled between 2007 and 2013)

> Government is giving free houses, money to people who don't work [...] and people make a lifestyle out of living on welfare forever

This is just the usual blah blah moaning about welfare states in general. What do you mean by "unlimited dole"?
we must surely be moving toward it.... otherwise they wouldn't have used the term "close"... otherwise this is just cliK bait.
A fair number of people really seem to enjoy writing. What I'd really like to see automated would be things like laying bricks or roofing or other construction drudgework or flipping burgers or stocking shelves. Depressingly, it looks like the fun stuff is going to get automated first (though I don't think the LLMs are all that close and they could very well hit some walls soon).
It really was. In the early 2000s I had a stack of Mac laptops doing exactly this. Made some decent cash advertising locally to rip people's CD collections!
My comment wasn't really about Etak at all, I just thought you might have mixed up Jodorowsky's Dune with Lynch's! The Lynch one seemed like a better fit, although I think "set up an entire field for subsequent success" is a bit of a stretch for both of them.
Literally in the headline of the source you linked states 20% are affordable or social housing, not all social housing.

And a ten second google about what "social housing" means as I'm not Irish and don't know, tells me that social housing is not, in fact, free and is instead adjusted rent based on your ability to pay. I suppose it's not impossible that some of it is free, since some people may not be able to pay anything, but this is some incredible goal post shifting from:

> Government is giving free houses

To:

> By law all new developments are required to have 20% social housing

Which then after going to your linked source became:

> Law change to make 20% of units in new developments affordable or social homes

So 1 in 5 newly developed homes has to be affordable or social housing, which is rented, not gifted as property to the unfortunate resident. The horror.

You're of course entitled to disagree with these measures and programs, but if you have to go so far as to be within shouting distance of outright lying, it kind of implies you don't have a good position that can be backed by the actual facts on the ground as opposed to your ideological predispositions.
The closed aspect directly speaks to how much diversity you can have on the platform. The features (like WebUSB) aren't the drivers for a more open platform, but they highlight what the impact of having no competition does. Opening up the platform will fuel competition and the market can decide what works and what doesn't. At the moment, we just have to trust Apple has our best intentions by supporting/not supporting certain features and standards. However, we know from the work the Open Web Advocacy has done that this isn't true. The primary driver for both stifling progress on Safari and keeping browser competition out is the profits from the App Store [2].

Chrome becoming the dominant browser is also concerning, and they will have to be held to a much higher scrutiny by us and policy makers to ensure they have users best interest at heart [3].

> shifting the cost of compatibility into userland

What do you mean by this?

> struggling to pay for their last-minute plane ticket at the gate but being greeted with "Sorry, our checkout page doesn't work on your browser/device". This is not the way.

I agree! This is exactly why we can't depend on one organization to dictate what's allowed and disallowed on that platform. On iOS, think about how long it took Apple enabled Apple Pay support for non-safari browsers even though they all had to be WebKit-based.

[3] https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#the-chr...
Agreed, and it shows that planning that takes into account project risk is very valuable. While Apple was spending what probably amounts to tens of billions on a car project, they never let that be a threat to their business or even to their valuation. So burning all that money was nearly a non-event, and didn't ding Tim Cook's reputation at all.

Tesla meanwhile is left short of the resources it will take to retain a leading position in EVs. The robotaxi announcement just adds risk.
> All of that money was thrown into the welfare pit.

Largely bailing out the banks, actually. Debt fell to practically nothing prior to the financial crisis, then leapt up, and has been kinda flat ever since. So, I mean, arguably welfare for the rich? We were arguably over-generous with the banks.

> What does Ireland has to show for such a large government employees. Health service is in tatters, so is housing.

Again, that is because we _don't actually spend very much on it_, to a large extent. As I said, I think we should be spending more, particularly on building housing.

I'm a bit confused; what sort of changes do you want to see? Cuts to the dole? That wouldn't make any significant difference to the state's finances. Cuts to pensions (the bulk of social welfare)? I mean, good luck with that; no politician is going to run on a policy of annoying old people.
full refund as an alternative sounds fair
What are you talking about ?

The only failings I see with the Irish model is they don’t go far enough in some areas.

I’d like to see the healthcare system expanded for example.

Per captia they are extremely wealthy. Have free education including third level. No student debt. Are extremely educated. Very low crime (including a tiny murder rate). Very low homelessness (although pressure has increased on the system in the last few years because of refugees from Ukraine and asylum seekers - but I’m happy they are helping people and I think most Irish people are too).

They frequently rank highest on happiness measures and the fact that they worry about how young people feel about their future and are willing to make policy changes to accommodate them is a sign of strength not weakness.

Also caring for the less fortunate is a huge positive not a negative.
Now repeat that for a Tony Robbins course :-)
Hi, please can you show an image on your github repo? Thank you
Surely its politics, religion and sex(uality)?

Sports is the go to watercooler topic after weather
What happened to the value of your home in that time?
I like this, but think there is some crucial motivation missing in steps 10.1-10.3 regarding what query/key weights are and why they're needed.
I personally know 6 people who order food delivery 5-6 times a week and generally eat out lunch and dinner almost every meal. Another handful of people I know do food delivery 3-4 times a week.
RAG is mostly a hack to address limited context windows, or limited use of wide context windows – some models have large windows but don’t use content that isn’t near the beginning or end well, or expensive content windows (LLM-as-service typically charges by the token, so RAG can reduce cost).

“Stuffing relevant data into the context window rather than relying purely on training” is a solution to confabulation, though, just like providing relevant reference information to a person who is being pressured to answer a question is.
>but I'd like to see other people's ideas

Rehire the content moderation personnel he fired after the acquisition?

I understand that cash is tight following the implantation of certain policy decisions so I’d probably undo those too.

I imagine large global brands pay more for ads than the gambling sites, crypto scams, and alibaba junk peddlers I get ads for nowadays.
I think it’s sarcasm. It must be saying both the remote job and this article are not believable.
storj does this
Consciousness itself is a magic trick, of a kind.
Not to distract from the important content of this piece - which I simply can't devote any attention to in the middle of my workday, lest I ruminate for the next few hours - but for those interested in its development, here's a dev diary: https://bigcharts.substack.com/p/behind-the-scene-this-is-a-...
From that article:

> Primary energy demand is going to shrink, not grow.

What? Absolutely nobody is predicting a shrinking primary energy demand. You can hand-wave and say "yeah but electrification", but nobody is predicting a decline in global demand before 2050, if at all this century. I'd argue that demand will more than make up for the efficiency gains as we've seen in the past - look at the growth in deployment of electricity-hungry GPUs as one example of robust demand growth.

It also doesn't matter if US demand shrinks if China and India more than make up the difference. The planet doesn't care what country CO2 emissions come from.

> The truth is that the transition is happening

Who said otherwise? Nobody is arguing that renewables aren't growing.

Vaclav Smil's argument is that historical evidence strongly suggests that primary energy transitions take a lot longer than people want to think, and even as the renewable share of energy is growing the absolute demand for fossil fuels is still increasing. Again, the planet doesn't care about relative share.

People who believe the future will somehow be different from the past (like you) need to provide extraordinary evidence for why they believe this will be the case, and there is none. Installing solar panels, or wind turbines, or upgrading distribution lines, or selling electric vehicles all do not follow any kind of Moores law-like curve, so what factors would drive future results to be different?

Maybe robots will install solar panels faster than humans? Like what's the thesis here?

You can live in a fantasy world and cling to wishful thinking, but it will be a great recipe for mass disillusionment when activists are selling a vision of the future that is at odds with reality.
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Definitely at least one order of magnitude off. For comparison, one Patriot battery can cost over a billion dollars, and they hit none. Not because they couldn’t (it doesn’t intercept hypersonics, which Iran has) but because they chose not to.
Thanks, I was looking for information on this, it seems to be lower speed than pure-CPU inference on M2, and probably much worse than a ROCm GPU-based solution?
A "productized agency" is a type of agency that offers standardized services packaged as products, often with clear pricing, deliverables, and processes. Productized agencies often specialize in specific areas, such as iOS development with SwiftUI, like SwiftAppLab. This means you're working with experts who have in-depth knowledge and experience in their field, leading to better outcomes for your project. Additionally, productized agencies typically offer transparent pricing and clearly defined deliverables, making it easy to understand what you'll get for your investment. This eliminates guesswork and helps you budget effectively.

I used to work for Fidelity Investments, helping them build their enterprise-wide Design Language System for iOS in SwiftUI. I remember how challenging it was to find SwiftUI experts. Many candidates who claimed experience with SwiftUI on their resumes actually had only basic knowledge. SwiftUI significantly speeds up iOS development that's why it's in high demand currently.

When you work with a productized agency, you don't need to "hire" them. Some clients schedule a quick intro call, while others subscribe to a plan and start adding their tasks immediately. The beauty of productized agencies is that you can pause or cancel your subscription, unlike with "non-productized" agencies, where you have a contract. In productized agencies, there are no terms like "hire" or "fire", but rather "subscribe", "pause", "unpause", or "cancel".

This way of working isn't for everyone. If you require your developers to attend meetings or need invoices with line items and hourly breakdowns, SwiftAppLab may not be the best fit. Additionally, while I specialize in native iOS development with SwiftUI, I can't be an expert in everything. If you need help with ReactNative or Flutter, for example, I'm not the best fit.
Broadcast TV still exists, and now it's sort of getting a built-in DVR
Requiring a percentage of social housing with new developments is quite common in many EU countries, though.
> "CSAM" itself could be read as a dysphemism of CP whose purpose is less to emphasize the heinous nature of the abuse involved

Maybe it could be read that way by some, but that's not why the term was adopted and it's not why the term is advocated for by anti-sexual violence organizations.

https://inhope.org/EN/articles/child-sexual-abuse-material

https://www.rainn.org/news/what-child-sexual-abuse-material-...

https://www.thorn.org/blog/decoding-the-language-of-child-se...

As for the fact that making it simulated renders the term meaningless, the entire point of a simulation is that it is not the actual thing that is happening but rather an imitative representation of something that could be real. Presumably the abuse towards a child could be real, and hence it's possible to imitate that abuse in various forms of media. It is that imitation that constitutes the simulation.

If you argue that it makes the term meaningless, then you must accept that the simulation of anything is meaningless.
If the primary way the user is interacting with the package manager in this user-friendly distro is via the GUI then of course I mean the GUI when talking about the package manager.
Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing. (2022)
SeL4 would be a better choice, if you count it as an OS.
How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys
Here you go, <120 loc: https://github.com/bottledcode/durable-php/blob/v2/cli/auth/...
> Google is famous for only supporting a few general languages. Initially it was just C++, Python, Java, and Javascript

I think most of the big companies are like this. It tracks my experience at least.

At the scale that these companies operate at, it's a good thing. Even if you restrict language choice, you tend to end up with half a dozen or more languages in common use at your company, each of which you have to support with developer environments, CI/CD configurations, security & supply chain code vetting, etc.
Half of Ireland's young people have had their entire future stolen from them before their very eyes.
It’s looking like the same fate awaits Rust in the linux kernel!
I don't often say this lest it be taken as judgmental, but that is terribly sad. I could not imagine living like that.
This sounds really elegant, I love it. Have you seen this deployed in a service-oriented architecture or primarily integrated as part of a single app/db?
To whoever downvoted me... you clearly never played Descent or looked up the cheat codes.

I dusted off D1-D3 a few years ago and played them in DOS Box and man, what a trip! Going from playing it in my teens to playing it in my 40's was something else. It was a lot harder than I remembered, but also a lot BETTER than I remembered.

I'd kill to see a modern reboot in 4k. Keep the gameplay largely the same, but get the graphics and physics up to snuff.

Back in the day, I played for hours and hours on my 486DX2-66 on Windows 95, with something like 64MB memory, and a 120MB and 40MB drive compressed with DriveSpace. Those were the days. I played mostly with keyboard. I tried switching to mouse, but it didn't feel as good as the keyboard.

I thought I was good at the game, and fast, until I joined an Internet game one day and kept getting pwned by some dude with a pile driver who was camped out at spawn. I realized I'd never be that fast, and never played the online version again :D
Quality problems real or percieved, lack of dealerships, and some trade barriers will hold them back for a while. "A while" could be as little as 3 years. Not enough time for Tesla to be ready.
I used to work in machine maintenance, so I always think about what will happen when the machines involved fail.

NYSE machines hosting the trading server fail: presumably they have hot backups they're ready to switch to but that takes time and will interrupt trading during the cut over. Not to mention that not all failures are hard failures, what if the NIC is downtrained to a lower speed, RAM is slower than it should be, or a single hard drive storing important data crashes? Lots of interesting failure modes. When the NYSE owns their own machines they can handle these cases directly. When they don't and Amazon is responsible for repairing these machines it might take a lot longer to get things fixed. I hope NYSE is thinking about hardware failures and building a system to check performance of their trading servers before letting them become the active host.

Thinking about failures on the side of the traders: basically if they get unlucky then there could be delays as Amazon rerprovisions them replacement servers in the case of failures. This likely impacts what trading strategies are viable, and could cause them to lose money if machines fail at unlucky times.