skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We know the risks from cigarettes

Hmm, the tobacco industry is also famous for actively trying to deny and suppress evidence about its harms. They actively didn't want people to be in a position to make a fully informed decision. In cases where jurisdictions introduced policies that packaging etc had to carry factual information about health risks, the tobacco industry pushed back.
I actually have one :) Besides, it's easy enough to turn off the circuit at the breaker (turn light switch on, go to breaker, turn each breaker off until light goes off). Wiring up the new switch is straightforward enough too.

But what's really terrifying is having to then walk back to the breaker box and flip the breaker back on. I can never tell if it's going to "just work" or blow up the neighborhood.

I've worked with electricity more than the average person already, between growing up in a place and time that had frequent grid outages, having to replace household fuses instead before breakers were common, engineering classes in school, and working in solar. But I'm still never comfortable with electricity. I've been shocked by improper wiring in a swimming pool locker room, fried motherboards from accidentally shorting them to the case, melted laptops from missing drivers, etc.

In my mind, every wire is a fuze to an atomic weapon aimed at me personally, just waiting for the right moment to strike. Some people are afraid of heights... or public speaking... me, I'm terrified of circuits. They're like a bunch of snakes imbued with the power of lightning, where one bite could melt you from the inside out. Ugh. I'll stick to Javascript, thank you very much.
What difference does it make if I meet him? Our lives and access to resources are still impacted by mega wealthy people.

I pay taxes that build roads and schools which enable commercial tycoons like Bill Gates to reap enormous profits. Bill Gates buys farm land, which drives up prices and blocks me from accessing that land.
We can have more than one job:

If you have kids, that's a job. If you have pets, that's a job. If you maintain a social circle, that's a job. If you have a job, that's also a job. I'd argue it's your job to restrain from stabbing random strangers in the street.

Maybe "responsibility" is a better term, or maybe that's too strong too. You're not going to be paid for many of these things or penalized if you don't, but living a life outside of any expectations towards other people does not a healthy society create.
How is this different from Lightdash? https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash
You know what, this is spot on! And, I'm happy you're proud of it.
Have you been there?

I've done my time. You seem to think the average Russian's sense of identification with the Donbas is exactly the same as, say, that of a typical French person with Le Havre. It's not and is quite different in fact.
I would certainly care if I'm trying to track down a bug, and am going down commits made to the relevant part of the codebase.

Not sure why you'd admit to doing a bad job, on purpose, in public.
And isn’t leasing a car very expensive compared to buying one?
Finally get to use this anecdote...

Friend: Do you have anything that doesn't taste like middle school girl lip gloss?
Gas station attendant: *chuckles* No, sorry.
Friend: Fine, cherry-berry then.

I don't think it works.
I like your optimism but because bonds can be resold on the open bond market, the bond holding adversary will still receive their money. Holding your opponent’s debt or currency opens the door for currency wars. Flooding the market with bonds of your opponent will simultaneously raise money for your military and hurt your opponent’s ability to raise funds for their military defense —- making it an issue of national security. Because bond buyers prefer stability, seeing bond interest rate changes spooks individual bond holders to sell even more. This is known as “shaking the tree” as a strategy to collapse prices even more.
I like minimalist puzzles, especially addictive ones, like this https://brainteaser.top/knot/
The optimal CO2 level for plant growth is between 800 and 1000 ppm, as observed within greenhouses.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/...

There is no perfect solution. One of the benefits of stratospheric aerosols is that they only stay suspended for 10 years or so, reducing the risk of long term effects. They are also an exceptionally cheap strategy, on the order of a few billion a year to cool the entire Earth. Compare that with the many trillions needed to just get to carbon neutral, while significantly reducing economic growth and living standards.

The world we were born into will not exist in any scenario. As they saying goes, you never step in the same river twice. CO2 emissions show no sign of decreasing, especially as China, India and Africa continue developing. Furthermore, we are on the cusp of AGI within the next decade or so, which will radically change reality far more than the Earth possibly getting a bit warmer in a 100 years or so. The IPCC does not even predict major cataclysm, and expects only sea level rise of a couple feet in the worst case scenario.
Like Emmett Shear says[0], in this discourse we crucially need to separate out the "AI ethics" (like output moderation) from the real problem of "AI NotKillEveryoneism". People are pattern matching "safety" as "those people concerned about AI racism and censoring" when they're orthogonal.

I encourage everyone who is skeptical of superalignment (there's a reason very smart people like Ilya were heading that team) watch Emmett Shear (former OpenAI and Twitch CEOs) talk about this problem in the discourse.

https://youtu.be/jZ2xw_1_KHY?si=Jog7ULmjjNW21ZIf&t=800
Gato GraphQL: Automatically Translating Posts for Polylang (WordPress)
I have a simple solution to end all world hunger, forever.

Nuclear War.
Is genericization really a problem though?
You'd fight political activism using more political activism?
> if a decent LLM cannot understand it there is a problem with the prompt.

Ah, yes, the “you’re holding it wrong” argument with a dash of “No True Scotsman” so the goalposts can be moved depending on what anyone says is a “decent LLM”.

Well, here’re are a few failures with GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and GPT4-o:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304184

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40368446

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40368822

> Imagine someone not knowing chess and explaining it to them. Would they be able to understand it on the first try with your prompt?

Chess? Probably not. Tic-tac-toe? Probably yes. And the latter was what the person you’re responding to used.
Right. But everybody didn't play along nicely, did they? Even though MS flaunted wads of cash in front of their faces. So we can't really trust everybody to choose greed over morals or whatnot.
What Waymo's NHTSA investigation says about how far along autonomous cars are
> We put dangerous people in jail away from everyone else

This is a very naive understanding of what prisons are and who goes in them and why.
Not just market theory, but practice and common sense. People buy what there is. Companies can ride some brand recognition for a bit (I personally waited for them to get new components available) but it won't last, and any customers new to the idea won't wait. They'll pick of the available options.
The entire argument you all are having is predicated on the assumption that the presence or absence of the DRM and/or the user's ability to defeat it in some way affects a user's ability to present a stream of the content.

I am telling you flatly that the users who are producing the streams have absolutely no concern or effect from the DRM. Most probably are completely unaware of it. It's quite literally as simple as plugging your phone into your computer with a $15 cable and pressing the Cast button on a webpage.

We as nerds are privileged to recognize that the $15 HDMI capture card in the above scenario is playing fast and loose with HDCP; maybe we understand systems like ContentID that don't rely on any of this; maybe we recognize that there could be stenographic data in the output that can identify us.

Anyway my objective is to emphasize that the lack of data isn't sufficient to imply a false hypothesis. Please don't exaggerate your point in an attempt to 'balance' an argument that doesn't seem likely to support a conclusion that content piracy would be much worse without DRM.
Got stuck on the first swipe diagonal example - tried about 25 swipes but not the correct one. Need a hint or even solve button until I get how these work. Then after I went to the daily puzzle I couldn't get back to the training examples.
No. My background: I've done marketing for 15 years, have read every book on persuasion and have been called an expert.

The reason for this is that the most important element of persuasion is Ethos, or your perceived character. This is much more important than Logos (logical appeal) or Pathos (emotional appeal).

Suits have no credibility to teenagers so they cannot be persuasive. Cool kids have a ton of credibility and thus are very persuasive.
If people regularly 'overdosed' on heroin by throwing up and feeling like shit for a day, with the same kind of survival rate that drinkers 'overdose' at, opioids wouldn't be killing tens of thousands of people a year.

Alcohol abuse either kills people in the long term, or combined with automobiles. Very few people have a bit too much to drink some night and actually die from it. You'll generally black out long before you get a lethal dose.

With opioids, you can trivially take a lethal dose.
There are already property taxes on commercial real estate in most major cities including SF.

https://www.sftaxappeal.com/post/commercial-property-taxes-i...

The cost of these taxes is passed on in the rent.

The same goes for mortgages/rent etc. on residential real estate.

If you think raising these taxes might increase utilization/optimize revenues, great, but you’re proposing pulling an economic lever, not some genius new system.

The government has many economists and political scientists on payroll to determine optimal and politically acceptable rates, any changes would need much stronger and more detailed argument.
dupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337009
Only on HN would an essentially Hobbesian view ("society is an optimal solution to individual human weaknesses") be labeled "extreme left" :-)

(Leviathan, XIII).
I used to before my Mac Mini burned out.

The elephant in the room w/ the expensive new iPad is that the consumer right now is experiencing a reset in their economic expectations (first of all because of the sugar rush of pandemic stimulus ending, secondly because of inflation, third from “polycrisis”). I think brands are catching on right about now.

Car companies for instance tried to quit making cars that cost less than $50k, especially if they are electric.

The new iPad strikes me as a little like the Apple Vision Pro. People might have spent their stimulus checks on them if they’d come out a few years back but now, no. Sure it does a better job of rending mobile apps in AR floating in your room than the MQ3 but it doesn’t have all the facilities for immersive worlds that the MQ3 does. They just can’t charge 7x what MQ3 costs for something that doesn’t do as much. The hardware is totally capable but Apple can’t or won’t add the software support.

Myself I quit carrying a desktop replacement laptop and I use an iPad as my “on the go” computer. As much as the industry tries to keep it a secret (so you’ll spend your money on an overpriced special keyboard) it “just works” to attach a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. If I want to do some serious work I RDP into a powerful Windows computer.

(Note one point of this way of working is that tablets are relatively cheap. I don’t feel all that bad if I smash a $40 Fire tablet or even a $300 iPad but I’d feel like I’d need to buy a case for a $2000 tablet, eliminating the sleekness advantage the tablet has.)

If Apple wasn’t NERFing the software you could have a great computing experience on an iPad Pro that would justify the cost.

Smartphones got established because they could justify a high price with corresponding value: if you add up the cost of all the gadgets an iPhone replaces it is much greater than the cost of the iPhone. Apple’s lost their way.
And if I try to change your mind about how much it matters to get a new perspective and new evaluation on some things, I might murder you.

A conundrum.
An iPad is the best portable secondary screen for your Mac and I watch videos with it before bed.
No you didn't. No one actually uses Gimp. We just say 'Gimp is a replacement for photoshop' and pretend that is actually an acceptable solution for people using Linux.

(Btw I switched to Krita and I'm never going back to Gimp. Even the things Gimp should be good at, Krita is better.)
None that I know of, so I don't expect anything to come of it unless there's something more the public hasn't heard about. You can't reasonably expect a murder trial with that little to go on. They don't even have homicide listed on the death certificates.
Indent.com Is Shutting Down
A peer comment has refuted that there is a duty like this in the US. For the record, it's not true in the UK [1]

In any event, any such duty would be likely to be meaningless. There are so many possible areas of confusion or inconsistency:

- Profit over what time period?
- Profit vs shareholder return.
- What level of risk is to be taken in generating this profit?

And so on.

[1] http://in-houseblog.practicallaw.com/fallacy-of-the-duty-to-...
What really grinds my gears is how hard it is to refactor terraform code. Put something in a module, but want to move it elsewhere? Get ready for pain.

I've been using terranix, which uses nix to generate a tf.json file, and oh my god is the experience night and day. I can make functions! I can refactor! And if it's a pure refactor, there is nothing to apply.
Thankfully we don’t need to run constantly to endurance hunt; walking is sufficient much of the time.
2 is the real hype
Building science intro: The perfect wall (2010)
I used to ~own all internal terraform usage at a very large software company. I could talk for hours about all the ways in which the "wall of text" is ineffective at scale. A surprisingly large amount of our technical investment in TF was around improving plan review.
I'm using an iPad right now as a portable second monitor for my Macbook Pro via Sidecar. I also use the iPad as a music player around the house whenever I don't want to use my phone. It definitely could be improved and it will often sit unused for months but it finds a niche once in awhile.
TIL, "Linux", without the "GNU/" prefix is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

https://ubuntu.com/legal/trademarks#:~:text=Linux%C2%AE%20is....

So (in the US, at least), it's "Linux(TM)" and not "GNU/Linux" - I'm going to love using this the next time anyone goes uhmackshully to me.
There's a whole genre from then called "Miami Bass". See also Detroit/Chicago House. All full of 808 goodness.

In the Deep South, at least, go to Sonic drive-in any night of the week and there'd be low-rider pick-up trucks whose beds were filled with 20 inch subs.

Also, any number of cars with the back seats taken out to make room for stupid loud window-shaking bass.

As an aside - going back to the '60's and the evolution of bass - one of the reasons The Beatles stood out when they started was that their lows popped on transistor radios because Paul recorded his amp using a loudspeaker instead of a normal mic.
No point fixing something that isn't broken (someone please tell Microsoft)
Ok I was actually joking. AI (up to this point - although the new OpenAI could probably do it), is not even close to being able to handle it. This was tongue in cheek and not meant to be taken seriously.

I am married to said therapist so I always joke with her.
With indent.com sunsetting in 2 months time (July 15th 2024), does anyone have any suggestions for access control systems?
The problem with subscription services is enshittification. They get users habitually using them and once the alternatives are dead they crank the levers to extract value.

I always thought be interesting for an app to organize an neighborhood to share its cars with themselves. This gets away from a lot of problems with rentals - the car always lives in the same place, you can get the same set of familiar cars, and you'd have more of a sense of ownership and personal liability. The problem is that people use their cars as storage plus non-linear spikey demand and everyone wanting to use cars at the same time.
Dragonfly: An optical telescope built from an array of off-the-shelf Canon lens
This seems like a handy app, but it's exclusively for M-powered Macs. I'll give it a try after I upgrade my iMac.
What has accomplished more work? Photoshop prior to 2013, or Gimp all time?

Lol we all know.

Why is Gimp the knee jerk reaction when its rarely used in the real world? Did we learn it in the 2000s and just keep repeating it? (I say this as a Krita fan)
There are also plenty of opportunities in the SV outside of SF which have a very, very different vibe.
I really hate the “LSD is safe” mantra people have.

I had a college roommate who did a shit ton of LSD one night and I woke up to the fire alarm having been pulled and him punching holes in the wall.

The police (fire department called the police) dragged him off and the hospital had to give him a bunch of antidepressants to short circuit the LSD.

He was literally not the same person ever again. That is terrifying, even more so than chemical dependency, to me.
How many billions and tons of water is wasted on this abomination and copyright theft?
Off the top of my head out about DraftKings $DKNG and Vertiv Holdings $VRT. Huge successes there.

True that the majority have been major disappointments but you can find some good ones.
The top-end Alder-Lake-N N305 is good too! Double the threads, and probably a bit worse performance-per-dollar.
Don't, there are many smaller email providers that will take that load off your shoulders for a small fee. I've been using purelymail and have had good experience with it, and heard good things about migadu and fastmail. The latter two are more well known and better staffed, but also expensive.

I've been using similar aliases for years (paypal@domain.tld, ebay@domain.tld, etc), but make sure you have a contingency plan for when you're no more. I've received lots of account info from previous owners of the domain by setting up a catchall mailbox. We will obviously not care, but when someone takes over your account, they might use it to do harm to others (spam or fraud or whatever else).
> Only on HN would an essentially Hobbesian view ("society is an optimal solution to individual human weaknesses") be labeled "extreme left"

Now you're just trying to twist my words to make it appear as if I said something which I didn't say.

I don't agree with that statement. I would not label the words "society is an optimal solution to individual human weaknesses" as "extreme left".

Society can be an optimal solution to individual human weaknesses while different people perform different functions within society.

Don't smear me again.
Detecting Compromised Identities with Teleport
If you ever a chance check out YouTube videos on US / Canada vs European trucks it's wild. I mean just regular Euro trucks not heavy duty.

Euro trucks which seem to be mostly Scania are V8 diesel vs US straight 6, Euro can be 800hp vs US 400hp since the Euro trucks can haul 40 tonne vs US 36 tonne max.Euro trucks many seem to be automatic vs USA all manual(?), have air ride suspension.
> The Twitter engineering lead is asking for anyone who has a direct line to FF staff

lol

"Hey browser vendor, our owner woke up one day and decided to change our name for the lulz and then fired most of the company... now we don't know what to do. Halp?"
I remember seeing some video where they did a FT of an audio sample and then just used mspaint to remove some frequency component and transformed back to the audio / time domain.

Something along those lines anyway.
Having lived with young kids in Switzerland, I agree, but one also has to add that there are very few places your kids won't be safe in Switzerland. Most places you could leave your bike unlocked and have a reasonable expectation it would still be there when you came for it.
Magnitude matters. A full frontal lobotomy counts as personality death even if a conversation doesn’t.
If USB is involved you can't really make a production ready system with it. At least they could put some proper ZH or whatever connectors for UART that don't unplug when you look at them wrong. That's one of the things they did right with the Pi 5 at least.
Actually, if you do that you get:

"Property 'email' does not exist on type 'never'.ts(2339)"

When you do

{{customer.email}}
We've already had robots "run away" into a water feature in one case and a pedestrian pushing a bike in another, the phrase doesn't only mean getting paperclipped.

And for non-robotic AI, also flash-crashes on the stock market and that thing with Amazon book pricing bots caught up in a reactive cycle that drove up prices for a book they didn't have.
Because I looked into it in the past, I would like to point out two things.

First, the shirt is very easy to find. If you want it, you can easily find the store online with the information from the post alone.

Second, Instagram is chock full of shady sellers like this one selling t-shirts with AI-generated pictures. You can order from them and the product will probably arrive (eventually), but their websites are copy-pasted versions of each other (I just found at least six stores with identical "About Us" text) with different t-shirt designs whose reviews are uniformly poor. So don't count on excellent customer support.

Then again, maybe you are the type of person who always wanted to maybe receive a badly-printed, misaligned polyester shirt of a cat carrying a deformed sword. If that's the case then today is your lucky day.
This seems to be the overwhelming majority sentiment of the Internet or at least of what gets upvoted, but I think DARE at least worked on me. I wanna say it was probably 2nd grade, which would have been 1987 or 1988, and I don't remember the briefcase, but I do remember a plastic lung. It filled up and blackened with tar after only a few puffs from a cigarette and I remember being so viscerally disgusted and disturbed by that, I resolved to never smoke and I never did, in spite of a lot of peer pressure. I was largely friends with goths and art kids and nearly all of my friends smoked, some as early as 4th grade, but I never did.
> But you obviously do not have any such claim — or anything that is in the same time zone as such a claim.

I prefer the term “anything within ICBM range” as shorthand for “not even on this f*king planet, ya douches”.
Modern Vintage Gamer over on Youtube has worked with Nightdive and Limited Run Games and helped design a C recompiler called Carbon Engine for various older consoles that are functionally the same as ahead of time compiled emulators.

https://youtu.be/eZRzaGFWoz8?si=XQyJol0pe2z2oG6d
Then it is spam, my bad. I get next to nothing somehow maybe once a week at most...
This is why I always use `Math.random().toString(16)` for my examples :D People often get lost on the details, but they see `Math.random()` and they instantly get it's... well, just a random thing.
That says more about the web developers that you know than it does about Firefox.

Its anecdotal I know, but would have to say that I know more web devs who use Firefox as their daily driver (or use more than one browser), than those who use just Safari or Chrome only. The better web developers (better able to solve bugs, and write less error prone code) are the ones who don't use Chrome for everything.
Fun game. Here's a small bug report: If you reset the puzzle while a flip is active (but incomplete), the flip UI remains active after the board is cleared. (Desktop user.)
You can die from water if you drink enough of it. Some people actually did.