skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that there are emergent, systematic issues that are damaging our culture is always very compelling. The first 100 articles of that style had me so utterly convinced. It's taken 10-THOUSAND of those articles for me to start questioning whether there is an alternative hypothesis.

Maybe all of the apparent poverty in our culture's discourse, art, social cohesion, etc. isn't caused by broad tragedies of the commons that make for intriguing blog posts. Isn't the more parsimonious explanation that our culture is now composed of poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated, lack sophistication and nuance, and accordingly have terrible taste? We keep trying to invent these just-so stories for why we keep selecting for horrible, simplistic ideas when so many good ideas already exist. Rather than inventing a hundred different perverse incentive models and technology-changing-the-landscape theories, Occam's razor would favor the explanation that there has been a 'continental drift' in our cultural tastes and maturity. The observation that we keep voting for crappy stuff is best explained by... us preferring crappy stuff.
> In the event of a war, all of the drones could be grounded or used for nefarious purposes.

That's only an issue if the drone somehow depends on an external Internet-based server, instead of just a plain radio link between the drone and its controller. The law should target that unnecessary dependency, if it exists, instead of banning even standalone drones.
That means 400+ kilowatts- doable, but pretty disruptive for grid operators. Typically that will mean expensive (>.5 MWh) onsite batteries. Gas stations are inherently capital-intensive but making a $200k+ bet may still be a struggle.
The bank should just have some sort of interface where you can cancel recurring charges on the card.

Changing card is a bit to blunt.
Official release: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/...
Alexis de Tocqueville noted in the 1840s that slave-holding America was much poorer than non-slave-holding America, and why, and it's not the climate because there were cases where simply crossing a river border was crossing from wealth to poverty. Slavery absolutely did not benefit the masters, except in so far as it helped them feel better about themselves. "I'm better than you" is a human instinct that continues unabated to this day -- many absolutely adore that feeling as if it was a mind-altering drug hit.
>What an utterly ridiculous response.

To be fair to them, i think it was sarcasm.
This could be great for scripting with Neptune! [0]

[0] https://github.com/Srinivasa314/neptune-lang
If they ban nasty things as such they can't do them themselves anymore without breaking the law.

Not that they care.
And if you need a backgrounder on Stefanik, she got elected before Trump, decided she preferred staying in DC to her hometown, sold out her previously-stated principles almost immediately when she saw a chance to gain power, and is now doing as much damage to civil liberties as Nixon and McCarthy ever managed:

https://theracket.news/p/stop-going-stefanik-committee-fools

She doesn't care about whether the bill does something valid or even whether it survives legal challenges, as long she can use it to score political points. It's a real shame. Congresspeople are supposed to be servants beholden to the public good, not power-hungry sycophants who can't be bothered with the details of governance.
Copyright law in this country has been rogue for decades. Thank you, Sonny Bono!
Learning styles is bunk because it's effectively a practice effect that's self-reinforcing, not because we don't have preferences at all. So the fact that you have not found utility innately in those schematics (per this thesis, i'm just using it to illustrate the learning concept) would mean that you have not had as much interactive exposure with it, and you therefore decline to engage with them. The bunk aspect of learning styles is that you could deliberately engage with them and doing so (again, in a theoretical learning context, not doing work) in combination with other ways of engaging with the code stack would lead to better and deeper learning than just sticking with what you are comfortable with. Plus the added bonus of you improving your use of the schematics for future learning endeavors. So to your point, in learning, "different strokes for different folks" just reflects the methods of learning you have been most exposed to, and is quite malleable!
Nonsense. I was in my teens when children getting cell phones was barely a thing, but there were already things like pagers and Gameboy and PDAs.

None of those things were allowed out of your locker from the moment you got to school until you left.

Children having smartphones in class is a significant deviation from the norm.
I switched to concerta and it works much better. Lowering my dose of adderall just made it less effective.
Does that mean charge rate is completely independent of battery size? I use to think smaller batteries must be able to charge faster. Meaning any battery type could be 6c if it was small enough.
"The bill as it stands does not provide any compensation to those that could be affected by this ban, if it is retroactive."

This is frustrating.
But what if you remove the word "genetically"?

I think there are a lot of people who would say "Indian people are better at math" and not even think about why they think that or why it might even be true.

In my opinion, most biases have some basis in reality. Otherwise where else did they come from?
Great opportunity to get a free-of-cost data health assessment.
I read a long time ago related articles:

Around 2000 (+- 5) someone claimed that with the internet you only need 1000 (or I believe 3000) dedicated fans to make something like a blog.

And around 2010 (+- 5) there was a Wired, I believe, article that did show that also the most popular things are more concentrated, while the Long Tail eats the former successful mid-range.

If anybody has references, the first could be Chris Anderson's The long tail, but I think that thesis was around earlier. The second I didn't find anything.
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Nothing.

But Canada is a long long distance for many Americans. America is pretty big and Canadian cities are sparse along the border.
While we're at it, can we sue Apple for making it too hard for us to export our data off of their cloud?
To be fair, the job of executive and especially CEO is extremely demanding because evaluating executive performance is nearly impossible. To say nothing of legal liability and popular opprobrium.

Any random event can sink a company, and the CEO will be blamed for not foreseeing and preparing for it. Good times can carry your company along even if their policies suck. Bad times can kill a great company with great leadership. Which means bad CEOs can sometimes go for years without the feedback they need to get better, and great CEOs will never get the recognition they deserve.

Some measures of good leadership are concrete and measurable, but lots are very abstract and only manifest over years and decades. So if a CEO does a great job at these, the profits might only show up for their successor, or even their successor.

I'd only do that job for a ton of money.
Related:

DJI Seems to Believe That It Is Possible Its Drones Will Be Banned - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40609973 - June 2024 (1 comment)

DJI might get banned next in the US - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171565 - April 2024 (81 comments)

In a first, FAA rescinds DJI drone's Remote ID compliance status - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36732256 - July 2023 (6 comments)

Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33150567 - Oct 2022 (188 comments)

US will ban investment in 8 Chinese companies, including DJI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29566125 - Dec 2021 (10 comments)

GOP’s top FCC official calls for ban on DJI drone sales in US - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28951488 - Oct 2021 (1 comment)

FCC Official calls for ban on DJI drones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28939517 - Oct 2021 (4 comments)

US Government adds DJI to commerce blacklist over ties to Chinese government - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25468406 - Dec 2020 (1 comment)

Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444443 - Sept 2020 (102 comments)

Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China, U.S. Officials Say - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15820987 - Dec 2017 (72 comments)

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Side note on the current post: usually we downweight "bill goes through intermediate state change" stories because they tend to be follow-ups [1] rather than significant new information [2]. That is, the discussion tends to be substantively the same at each step. I've made an exception in this case because there (maybe) hasn't been too much discussion of this one so far.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
You may well be right, or at least I hope you are anyway.
It will change the same way it changed for the generations before you. The old guard will retire and the young will become old. It's the circle of life.
People sometimes mock how in Star Trek they'd occasionally have a bunch of PADDs splayed out on a table, almost using the futuristic tablets as if they were clipboards instead of how someone might use a real computer or tablet.

Then we get projects like this, which I see as a step towards that future.
Well. That depends on who are on a given server. Having multiple friends spamming with calls can be disruptive, and convincing them it's ok to turn off notifications is hard because many of them seem to worry they'll be excluded from the group etc. if they're not involved, and sometimes they do egg each other on with respect to misbehavior.

I'm not generally all that negative to social media as long as they know how to deal with it, and Discord is probably towards the better end, especially if your kid has some self-discipline about which servers they join, but it can be nearly as bad.

Put another way: If your kid hangs out with the "good" kids, it's probably fine, ranging to good. E.g. my son started spontaneously cleaning his room today because one of his friends had ribbed him about needing it. But if your kid hangs out with the "bad" kids, Discord provides an easy way for them to do that without it being obviously visible to you, so it needs you to keep an eye out.

I think the fact that it's so easy for it to fly under the radar is the biggest problem.
Sounds like the hospital is running a successful business, by all relevant metrics of success. They get the most out of their resources. Sometimes the resources wear out, but that's okay because they can get new ones, and they calculate the rate of resources wearing out is acceptable to increase the overall profit extraction from the resources. Anything else would needlessly increase costs.
Ah, so it's a trick request? Okay, because I as a human also deciphered it as to guess anything else besides the apple. It doesn't seem very clear what am I supposed to exactly ignore. If you say that "ignore this mention of apples", in usual social setting it would hint that you want to me to guess anything, but the apple. So the instruction is not very clear.
I think the better advice that goes with the spirit of the article is, prioritize integration testing over unit testing if you're constrained on time.
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I bought an Amazon tablet a while back and it was a horrible experience.

It just can't-not be an advertising platform for Amazon. I'd planned on giving it to my kids to use but seeing how manipulated Amazon users are I couldn't. Ended up returning it.
FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
The situation is even worse if you happened to move to a US territory because you're in a quasi-unemployable zone since US companies won't hire in most of the territories (I have never been given a specific reason) and the EU basically bans business with a few of them for odd tax reasons (that shouldn't apply since the banking system is still run by US institutions).
> Are soap dispensers that don’t give soap to people with darker skin racially biased? Kind of.

I'm struggling to extract the nuance that I feel is embedded here. Is it an ontological issue, a quantitative, or a qualitative dimension that puts it in the realm of kind-of?
Thank you for your work, Mek. Glad I was attentive.

Let us make this wretched world worth it.
Friedman wasn't the least bit sympathetic to non-management workers' plight. All he cared about was the owners. And executives usually own a disproportionate number of their company's shares.
There's something to be said for constraints leading to higher levels of creativity, but it's also possible that those artists could have achieved much more in a free society. We'll never know.

But in any case I think they were just speaking generally when they made that absolute statement.
are you sure the damage is the same?

it sounds like because they have access to a school laptop, you're assuming the consequences of smartphone usage will still apply. what are the odds that the impact is actually identical? it's almost certainly not. and if i had to put money on it, i would say the impact is significantly reduced.

still there, sure, but this is a spectrum
>Completely ridiculous. You might just as well say that the government is responsible for a lack of wage growth because they haven't decreased taxes to zero.

1. taxes aren't factored into wage growth figures

2. there's an obvious fiscal impact to lowering taxes. There's no fiscal impact to increasing the quota.

3. the government could plausibly be blamed for refusing to remove limits, even if there's plausible reasons for keeping the quota. eg. zoning restrictions to "preserve the character of the neighborhood"

>Demand for addictive stimulants will always go up the more available they become. It became more available during the pandemic, and surprise, surprise...

Except that keeping the quota the same is a terrible way to curb over-use/over-prescription. It impacts "real" adhd users and "fake" adhd users alike. If anything it impacts people with actual adhd users more because once they're less able to navigate the bureaucracy and/or call up a dozen other pharmacies to get their supply. It's like trying to fix the obesity problem by keeping food production the same.

>The indictment alleges exactly why Done's practices were illegal. Did you read the DOJ announcement or just the Reason screed?

I'm not sure how you got the impression that I claimed Done's practices were legal. I was only claiming that there's plausible justifications for "over-prescribing" in general but no such justifications for keeping the quota the same. Even if the drugs were illegitimately prescribed, the solution can't be "let's keep the cap the same and let the "real" and "fake" adhd users fight it out"
I disrespectfully disagree and will leave it at that. Good luck.
Mike Mulligan's steam shovel would be proud
I honestly doubt it. People with "range anxiety" will keep moving the goal post. They'll complain A) that's still not fast enough, B) there aren't enough public chargers, C) "the grid can't handle it."

What we have right now is good enough for a lot of people. I don't live in the most EV friendly area, but I know a few people who own EVs with no at home charging. And one of my Tesla owning neighbors parks his car in the driveway regularly, only charging occasionally.

If gasoline shortages hit tomorrow, a whole lot of people claiming they couldn't own an EV because of the limitations would figure out how to make it work.
I think it's difficult to conceptualize a program's behavior as "buggy" when the program has no specified behavior. The vexing thing about LLMs and image generators is that they ultimately have no intended purpose or principled construction as artifacts, being mostly discovered through trial-and-error and pressed into service due to various misconceptions about what they are — human imitators, fact retrievers, search engines, etc. But they are really just statistical regurgitators over whatever the training dataset is, and while that type of an artifact seems to sometimes prove useful, it's not something we have yet developed any kind of principled theory around.

One example is in DALL-E initially going viral due to its generated image of an astronaut riding a unicorn. Is this a "bug" because unicorns don't exist and astronauts don't ride them? One user wants facts and another wants fancy. The decision about what results are useful for which cases is still highly social and situational, so AIs should never be put in a fire-and-forget scenario or we will see the biases Dan discusses. AIs are more properly used as sources of statistical potential that can be reviewed and discarded if they aren't useful. This isn't to say that the training sets are not biased, or that work shouldn't be done to rectify that distribution in the interest of a better society. But a lot of the problem is the idea that we can or should trust the result of an LLM or image generator as some source of truth.
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You should report this to Tesla. I've got a tesla and have never had anything close to this. There is no card / screen or app needed. You plug the vehicle in.

I was on a mountain trip and there was a non-tesla charger. It was charging a leaf that had some kind of derate issue so the leaf was going to be there 4 HOURS!! The line of cars then waiting for that leaf to finish charging - those folks were SCREWED. Meanwhile, the tesla chargers were not that full mostly because the charges were pretty quick (250kw charger but I only pulled about 150kw because I hadn't preconditioned fully I think - it was deep winter with snow).

The non-tesla chargers are comical. They either don't work, or charge slowly or have weird payment / billing issues. All of this compounds the issues.
If they weren't able to stop people from growing and distributing marijuana then I doubt they'll be able to stop this.
Risk profiles change though. Option 1 was a better bet in the late 1970s and early '80s, when the Old Hollywood franchises had been thoroughly wrung out and demand was there for new experiences.
The problem is that that does not release you from your contractual obligation to pay every month. The company is still free to (and often does) send you to collections.
Lots of layers and lots of mattes. You take any picture of a person, and matte them out of the background. You then find a background you like, and arrange as you see fit. You then find whatever hair style you like, and matte it in as well. Plenty of other filters involved as well. Hell, you can even play with this stuff in Illustrator to get the "painted" look by converting to vectors.

How many magazine covers do you see and actually believe that was anything close to what the original image looked like? I have no idea how long this thing takes, but I'm guessing it's helluva lot faster than a person in PS, and it will be doable with anybody with zero amount of talent required.

To think it couldn't be done in PS is just lack of knowing good PS artists.
Going on your original example "I heard rust was better than python because its safe", this would be a case where you ask: "What did the person who told you this say was safer in rust than in python?"

If they don't know anything specific, then it's pretty safe to say "Well, there are some differences in the languages, and you might choose one over the other for performance or ecosystem reasons, but they're both pretty safe overall. You probably don't need to worry too much about it, TBH."
> Maybe this is Boeing's way of slowing down Dragon capsule dockings?

I'm gonna go with Hanlon's razor here. The Starliner team seems to have enough trouble just getting a single Starliner to the ISS without issues, I can't imagine they're capable of devising a malicious plan to interfere with a competitor.
I've put off picking up a drone. Should I hurry up and get one now?
> it really comes off as you having not even watched the video.

I fail to understand the link here. The video contains arguments and examples of that premise. Dismissing arguments and jumping straight into the "here's my opinion" is exactly the communication style I chuckled upon.
Also the intermittent failures of your tests relying on unstable dependencies.
God I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm working on getting a newsletter up and running and I'm so focused on best writing practices and these guys can't even remember to define their acronyms first?
E-bikes imported to the US from Europe for sale to Americans who have essentially unlimited funds and little concern for what things actually cost.

For mechanical bikes, they've always been (relatively) expensive. Here's one for $16k: https://www.cannondale.com/en-us/bikes/road/race/supersix-ev...
I wonder, though, could this be considered an unconstitutional bill of attainder? That's an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, without a trial. Article I, Section 9, iii: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed".
Also, don't create any interfaces you wouldn't mock. I've seen too many people waste months creating some kind of "database wrapper."
For reference, 1000wh/l is 10% energy density of Gas. Impressive indeed!
Totally agree. I regularly hear that students should use tablets at school as it gets them used to technology they will use in the workplace. This is technology designed to be easy enough for an 80 year old to pick up and use, no training is required! Much better to be teaching them real work based activity & creative problem solving.
> Just don't touch anything created by that company, and you will have one fewer regrets in your life.

:-)
Interesting to know how things were done before the generative AI wave, and yes this is based on stable diffusion
> Do you have a product and a bit of traction?

No. I spent some of my money while I was employed on contractors but it didn't work out. I am back on my own as of April 1 however I had a medical issue that lasted ~5 weeks with a few bills to go along with it so I am currently contracting to make money to pay those. The unexpected expenses were ~20% of my runway so I didn't feel comfortable just trying to absorb the cost. I also missed out on a conference I intended to attend.

> raised 180k with TinySeed

That is awesome - did you invest all of it in hiring?

> 8 full time at Activity Messenger and doubling year over year

Very impressive! Congrats. Turns out we're in a similar space (as are several dozen other companies, as I am sure you are aware). JackRabbit is one of my customer's most common platforms.
Photorealistic reconstruction in static and dynamic scenes
Poe's Law applies
Smith has mostly been taken out of context and selectively quoted. I don't lump him in with the others.
There's a few issues with this IMO:

1. Changes often require changing the functionality of a component, which means many of the current unit tests are bunk and need to be updated. Changes that are simply refactoring but should retain the same behavior, need to update/rewrite the tests, in which case again often requires significant refactoring of the existing tests.

2. Small isolated changes usually require testing everything which in a big org is very time consuming and slows down builds and deploys unnecessarily.

3. A lot of false confidence is instilled by passing unit tests. The tests passed, were good! Most of the production bugs I've seen are things you'd never catch in a unit test.

I really can't imagine a large refactor where we wouldn't end up rewriting all the tests. Integration tests are much better for that imo, "units" should be flexible.
Way ahead of you. https://lite.cnn.com/2023/12/20/media/siriusxm-cancellation-...
I believe you're thinking of Kevin Kelly's "1,000 True Fans". That should help you refine your search.