skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren’t these vehicles statistically safer than human driven cars?
Not exactly the same. Lamont would be more like banning propaganda on all social media. Which would obviously not fly. Requiring certain ownership of media is actually already the law for radio and TV so it seems to be permissible.
Stop building restaurants with foundations and secure access.

Here’s a plan for building a food cart for serving your first 1000 customers.

Yes, this might be a viable option for some use cases. In fact in Thailand and other SEA countries many restaurants never graduate past the food cart by choice.

But there are environments and some business plans that require a certain level of maturity, security posture from the get go.

At the same time I can deploy an application on AWS using IaC (AWS CDk) methods in minutes and use mostly serverless services without paying $200/mo.
Well the tictok ban stands a chance at passing while general regulation does not
There's enough brain rot content on Chinese social media network. That homesome science stuff content is just bs.

You can find enough youtube reaction videos for it.
Actually you haven’t been able to play WoW in China for a ~year. But that’s largely irrelevant to your point.

More specifically Blizzard is able to bring their product to everywhere else in the world. The fact that they choose to “work” with a local partner in China to get access to that market reads more to me like a government run racket / forced rent seeking than anything else.

> approach China with realistic deals are allowed to operate there

On a more hyperbolic note, I’m sure many people in the past paid off mobsters for the privilege of doing business in certain areas with the rationale they were being “realistic”.

To that end if the US wants to start treating Chinese backed companies a similar way (laws that distort the market) I’m not surprised. China has no moral high ground here. Or more simply your point cuts both ways.

> doesn't mean other countries have to allow it.
Hm, I remember portable MP3 players with those. The wheel broke fairly easily. Maybe they used cheap wheels in those, and there are higher end wheels.
My thrust was more that people are out doing stuff in the world, and for the most part philosophers don't do anything other than say things about what people are already doing. Engineering was an empirical science long before it was a deductive and analytic one.
A while back I implemented a sort of hierarchical clustering on points using a recursive k means algorithm. I thought it worked quite well, though I admit it's probably considered a naive approach.
How is this different from the past where people wanted to be actors on TV and/or movies?

When I was growing up I remember some said they wanted to be Barbie, or GI Joe.

Cultural influence will always be a “thing” as it were. Doesn’t mean it stays a primarily thing or wha t have you. I don’t think it says anything meaningful about someone’s future per se
Ask HN: How would you build a budget CPU-focused cluster (or desktop) in 2024?
As I've lately dabbled more and more in CPU (and memory) bound stuff I was wondering what would be the best approach to create a home cluster/lab for this kind of stuff considering what is now available on the market? Assuming the tasks are easily distributable so the penalty of using multiple computers performance-wise should be rather minimal.

Of course the price should matter too - so stuff like Threadripper is a bit too pricey.

Currently I have a Ryzen 7950X box and while it is great there are limits of how much I can do with it. What would you suggest?
The US is following a tit for tat strategy. Which European companies has the US forced to divest their holdings to justify the action you're proposing?
Time for the great wall of Europe.
Yes, you should condemn Hamas for putting them in peril! They just need to keep their soldiers and weapons away from the children instead of using them as meat shields and banking on their supporters like you to help them with the information war.
I read years and years ago the whole thing had sufficient funds from their porno main hustle to keep it afloat forever. I guess they didn’t anticipate expenses getting so out of control. And it was weird porn with naked women posing with a cat. :/
I don't think the person you are replying to was gatekeeping ICs, BUT I have seen a lot of gatekeeping up and down the corporate hierarchy. I've had a high-level manager directly tell me, "Oh, you don't really want to be a Manager, and definitely not a Director. It's so much work and responsibility. You should be happy being an IC!" I'm not sure if he drove away in his Porsche 911 after that, but I'll choose to remember it that way.

Very Huxley. Almost exactly like: "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas."
Does anyone really think bills to ban something, even if temporary, are motivated by an honest desire for more time to "consider the effects" of something? Who is sitting around and doing this pondering? Does anyone's mind ever change?

It seems to me people have made a decision, and then if they can't gather the majority for a permanent ban they compromise on a temporary one.
Ps: it's not paranoia if they're out to get you!
I hope so much the US bans it and those big capital houses are forced to sell their stock for pennies on the dollar to Chinese shareholders. It will be epic.
I used to say that Congress should be a minimum wage law. However, I have revised that view. I think Congress, as well as the heads of various Federal institutions that have defacto rulemaking power, should be paid handsomely, but they should also be prohibited from having any business dealings other than as a simple purchaser of goods and services during their terms of office. It should be a Federal crime for them to acquire any capital that isn't their paycheck, while they hold office. And we should pay them well enough that they don't need to have any business dealings to live a comfortable life.
This doesn’t really seem germane to what is going on here though. An individual subscribing to mail is quite a bit different to Chinese spyware tracking and propagandizing citizens (without their knowledge or consent).
Why the AI can read your mind but nothing works
That's not your original request though, to use line-based data. It seems you're determined not to use jq but if anything, json output | jq is more the unix way than piping everything through shell vars.
It sounds to me that the issue isn't that train drivers are being compensated too much, but rather that nurses and pilots (among many others) are not being compensated enough.

They should take a page out of the playbook that the train drivers have been using.
Yes, it’s a sequential voice in your head. I’ll literally sit down to do something and tell myself in my head “okay, I need to focus on figuring out this intro sentence first” or whatever I’m trying to do. if I’m coding and for example, I’m running a switch statement I’ll have to verbally describe to myself each of the cases.
I can absolutely understand it being frustrating when you work in the industry but I can see a ton of very valid concerns when it comes to robots on sidewalks. There are already a lot of accessibility concerns with these scooter companies that let people leave scooters wherever (blocking access for wheelchair or otherwise disabled folks), seems valid to me that you’d want to make sure those robots do not hinder other kinds of sidewalk transit.
Nature itself is evil by this standard
LLMs labor savings will only help financial market participants if they manage to do it without hallucinations / can maintain ground truth.

Sure its great if your analysts save 10 hours because they don't need to read 10Ks / earnings / management call transcripts .. but not if it spits out incorrect/made up numbers.

With code you can run it and see if it works, rinse & repeat.

With combing financial documents to then make decisions, you'll realize it made up some financial stat after you've lost money. So the iteration loop is quite different.
I assume any congress person who voted for surveillance has a horrible kink and received photos of it shortly before the vote.
> One of the primary ways iCIMS is using AI

Aside, I've worked on code integrating with iCIMS--and will likely do so in the near future--and I don't understand why any company would impose so much paranoid yet half-baked gatekeeping around such crappy/incomplete API documentation.
Lol. They create algorithms that are quick to identify what new users are interested in, and then hamper the same algorithms by deleting watch histories.

I'm okay with having a fresh start. I don't want the algorithms knowing a lot about me anyway.
From the man who said MKBHD was irresponsibly criticizing a “nascent” tech project that has hundreds of millions in funding and built a dud
Why Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt Don't Own Nearly 99% of Their Hotels
Emotional modulation of memorability in mnemonic discrimination
I called it when generative AI became mainstream and none of the major artists or record companies fought it or said anything about it but kept quiet, despite people saying it will be a threat to their business. To me, their silence meant that they were already using it in their projects or at least planning to use it in the future.
> And anyone who complains CEOs are over paid is free to become one too, in theory

I think you know that’s a specious argument because in reality it’s far easier to become a train driver than a CEO

Yes, UK train drivers might be better paid than most of their European counterparts but we still don’t have enough of them and their representatives have negotiated well

Nurses being underpaid doesn’t make train drivers overpaid that’s just Tory politicians talking points
It turns out when you slowly raise the temperature of a pot with a frog in it, it eventually hurts it.
If Bytedance tried to dodge it then the app stores (which are all run by American companies) wouldn't be allowed to list the TikTok app and no US company would be allowed to host the website. [1]

So, yes, the website would still work when hosted outside of the US and people could sideload the app but in general it would kill TikTok.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8038...
Ehhh, there's pros & cons, just like anything else.

Maybe some VCs want you to dig to the bedrock, but not all, and everything in life is a negotiation.

I look at YC as grad school for entrepeneurs. You'll learn a ton, build a network, and have a good time for a while. Unlike grad school, there's direct upside, and you won't have to take out loans or live off the lab stipend.

Now would I go to grad school at 40? Maybe, but the calculus is certainly different than at 20.

YC is clearly good for something. You really have to figure out how to make it work for you.
Join a CEO group and set up a cross-holding of stock between the companies in the group. Now you’re all digging for gold at the same time. You don’t have to be a VC and you also don’t have to be that person with 26 lifetimes to spare.
It's more like, they don't want any place on the Internet that's a social network allowing uncensored exchange between Chinese people and the Western sphere of influence.
do you guys support other languages other than python or js/ts?
In each section I got maybe 1/3rd of the way through before reading something that was just so wrong and exposed his lack of knowledge and skipped to the next section.

Which is a bummer! I got excited by the title but disappointed by the content.

I’d love opinions from people who have actually gone through YC and their arguments against applying to YC.
I’m a big fan of tools producing json output, but I couldn’t help but chuckle a bit at:

> This allows easier parsing in scripts by using JSON parsing tools like jq, jello, jp, etc. without arcane awk, sed, cut, tr, reverse, etc. incantations.

While I love jq, I find its syntax to be utterly baroque. Far more than awk and sed (let alone simple tools like cut and tr). To the point where I end up looking at the jq man page to remind myself how to do even seemingly simple things at times. And often jq is just the beginning of a pipeline to get hierarchical data into columnar format so I can hit it with awk and sed.

But maybe this is all about familiarity; I have years of experience cobbling together shell tools and reach for jq comparatively less. I suspect the author may be the opposite.
This dude is posting for clout or something.

In one thread he gets into histrionics about an overfunded VC hardware startup getting a bad review and in another thread he criticizes the existence of such companies.
Chrome just dies with some of the samples.
I'm surprised this passed (in the house at least) at this point in the election cycle. My suspicion is that ByteDance will in fact refuse to divest, and TikTok will get banned. Which I don't think the electorate will like very much
>they should have just banned the whole thing

How is this such a common opinion while we also critcize the great firewall?
I suspect that you're using empiricism somewhat more broadly than philosophers do, and that you may include things like science as a whole. Science is more traditionally IMO considered to be a recursive process with rational (i.e. theory) and empirical (i.e. sense data) steps. In science, sense data provides a constraint on theory and theory (together with psychology) provide a constraint on the raw sense data (in the same way, for example, an AI provides structure to the raw input vectors).

If that's something along the lines of what you believe, then sure I'd say we're on the same page and we're not actually in disagreement.

But I wouldn't describe that belief system as saying empricism is self-justifying. Empiricism in practice goes off the rails pretty quickly with things like subjective idealism and the belief that there are no external entities, only sense data etc.

The thing we have now, where theory and experience mutually constrain each other seems obviously correct to me both in the academic sense (e.g. I think that Kant was right that the mind provides structure to raw sensory data). I also think it's true in the broader sense (e.g. that the applied sciences tend to move more slowly on their own and advance much more rapidly when combined with theory).
Also don't forget about apps like OrganicMaps and OsmAnd, which bring their own styles and technology, and, of course, downloadable off-line maps.

For people on Android: get OsmAnd~ from F-Droid instead of Google's app store, and enjoy the unlimited version for free (alternatively: use the freemium version from Google Play, or pay for it).
This sort of became an anti-VC rant, definitely, and also a little unfair to the product YC offers. It's a legitimate product in the market, not a scam, and the 22-year-olds who do it are not getting duped.

My biggest issue with YC is that the deal isn't very good. Giving up 7-10% for $500k is pretty crappy for any company that has a decent shot at becoming anything good. That is why I have only ever applied to YC when my company ideas were very speculative. If you already have a network and a decent platform to communicate with people, as well as the motivation to go at it for yourself, you're giving up a huge chunk of the company for a pittance.

If you already have the ability to go talk to a VC and an idea/product/company that is good enough to make it into YC, you don't need YC for your company. If you can sell YC on investing in you, you can sell your product.

However, it does make sense to do YC right out of college to get the networking benefits and the credibility signal. That's why so many 22 year olds do it. It sacrifices your stake in your first company in exchange for helping you as an individual later in your career.
> So much bias in your comment.

It is perfectly okay to be biased against China, they are biased against my rights as a human.

They do not deserve the benefit of the doubt, they don’t give those who “disappear” for speaking out against their government the benefit of the doubt either.
In "The Right Stuff" Tom Wolfe claimed that pilots talk like this because they are (unconsciously, due to cultural reasons) imitating a famous/high-status fighter pilot from many years ago called Chuck Yeager, who had a West-Virginia drawl.
He doesn’t have a perfect pitch but his son does which is even more confusing how he didn’t pick it up
Let Tupac rest in peace.
iTunes used to do this, not sure if it still does. It would use Bonjour to make everyone’s libraries available on the network, so people could play tracks from other libraries on the local network.

Plex might do this as well. It has music libraries and management, and features for having friends, who is watching/listening to what, and sharing libraries. I’d assume you could have one central library that everyone friends and plays from.
No. They were naming famous people who dropped out of college.
The deep dive version of this convo might be a topic for another time, but the most concise answer I can give is to grab a copy of I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, and flip to chapter 2 where he discusses an idea proposed by John Searle about the so-called "terribly thirsty beer can." This is an argument from Searle that he believes is a knockdown argument against the idea of consciousness embodied in something that isn't a biological mind as we know it. It is, and I do not say this lightly, it is just stunningly naive.

Hofstadter's dispensation of it in chapter 2 is to my mind, a completely decisive dressing down of the fundamental naivety of Searle's ideas about minds. I can't find any convenient quotation of the passage on the internet, but in my copy of the book it's page 29 chapter 2.

I think it puts on perfect display how truly ridiculous Searle's ideas are, and I think the Chinese room idea is similarly discreditable, and ultimately I think that Searle was more a fraud who more appropriately belongs in the category anti-science apologists along the lines of intelligent design proponents, rather than a positive contribution to the canon of Western analytic philosophy. And the extent to which he has gained influence in academic philosophy is something I take as discrediting of it as a field, to the extent that Searle is it's standard bearer. So if the commenter above cited him instead of Wittgenstein I would be cheering it on as a legitimate observation.
I do a startup called Lepton AI. We provide AI PaaS and fast AI runtimes as a service, so we keep a close eye on the IaaS supply chain. For the last few months we see supply chain getting better and better, so the business model that worked 6 months ago - "we have gpus, come buy barebone servers" no longer work. However, a bigger problem emerges. Probably a problem that could shake the industry: people don't know how to efficiently use these machines.

There are clusters of GPUs sitting idle because companies don't know how to use them. It's embarrassing to resell them too because that makes the images look bad to VCs, but secondary market is slowly happening.

Essentially, people want a PaaS or SaaS on top of the barebone machines.

For example, for the last couple months we were helping a customer to fully utilize their hundreds-of-card cluster. Their IaaS provider was new to the field. So we literally helped both sides to (1) understand infiniband and nccl and training code and stuff; (2) figure out control plane traffic; (3) built accelerated storage layer for training; (4) all kinds of subtle signals that needs attention. Do you know that a GPU can appear OK in nvidia-smi, but still encounter issues when you actually run a cuda or nccl kernel? That needs care. (5) fast software runtimes, like LLM runtime, finetuning script, and many others.

So I think AI PaaS and SaaS is going to be a very valuable (and big) market, after people come out of the frenzy of "grabbing gpus" - and now we need to use them efficiently.
To complete the picture Poland was also pretty happy with aiding the Nazis, together invading Czechoslovakia two years before that. Until the Nazis turned against them.
#1 reason imho is the rapid expansion of the field in term of technologies and the required knowledge combined with an influx of below par software 'engineers.

Also, IT as a field attracted way to many non IT personal that, because they lack technical knowledge, always seems to go up to management functions because they make great power points.

Mediocraty promotes mediocraty
I would trust a robot to be less obstructionist than randomly placed scooters by inconsiderate humans
Yeah this won't be popular with the "tech above all, progress at all costs" crowd, but I don't see how having unlicenced, unregulated, and unpredictable robots navigating sidewalks is a good thing
I'll my $0.02: when possible, assume/emit "arrays of records".

eg: `ls ...` should be an an array of homogenous entities (objects) with usually simple key=>value relationships.

Slight variations such as "field contains an array of strings" (eg: tags, groups, file path hierarchy, temperature per each CPU) is also totally fine.

Seeing the wildly differing record types and deeply nested "stuff" in some of the examples weirds me out.

{
"type_cpu": [ ... ],
"type_ram": [ ... ],
"type_network": [ ... ],
...
}

...obviously, in some cases a graph/hierarchy is very useful to be able to traverse, but emitting records and "coalescing" the path into a record-field makes simple operations simple.

Example: `hwstats | jq '.type_cpu | .[] | select( .temp > 40 ) | .hierarchy_field`

Don't make me go like `.cpu.bank[0].chip[3].temp` or whatever... just give me "all the CPU's" and then give me a good URI(!!) to describe it or search for it later.

Rationale: coalescing and traversing weird object paths is tough to do dynamically via current shell DSLs, and the URI concept as an ID excellent application.
Because the only reason you have to believe anything at all is that you perceive things. And the things that you perceive probably lead you to believe things like that you are a human being, that you exist in a particular subset of three-dimensional space, that there are other humans that exist in other subsets of that same three-dimensional space, that these other humans move around and do things that can reasonably be described as "saying things" and "writing things", and that the things that these other humans say and write correspond to circumstances in this three-dimensional space that you occupy so that it makes sense, at least in some circumstances, to label these sayings and writings with labels like "true" and "false" to indicate whether the way they correspond with circumstances is a positive or negative correlation, and if you get these labels right it can help you survive and flourish. Likewise, if you get them wrong (and that includes denying what I have just told you) it will greatly diminish your prospects of survival, and evolution will take care of the rest. In short, it isn't circular because if you try to pick a fight with reality, reality will win.
https://archive.is/ScYur
FreeBSD drivers available at:

* https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/
No mention of licensing, pretty sloppy considering it is Variety.

I would be worried about this setting a precedent, but without license details/cost it is hard to say.
If you're willing to entertain more leisurely mappers like me (i.e. those unaware of what happens in the community), care to steelman their reasons for the blockade?
That sounds like potential for DoS or even an exploit.
Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money
Either crashes my chrome to desktop, or comes up with a "session error".

Needs some work still I guess, but looking forward to it.
Measure the width from one building, across the street, to the other. The vast majority of the space is taken up by land reserved for cars. Scooters are not the problem. The fact that cars are allowed sole domain of the vast majority of public spaces is.