skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tragedy of the commons. US lawmakers need to ban pharmaceutical companies from selling their drugs in the US at substantially higher prices than the drugs are sold elsewhere.
> I would love to see more programmers refusing to work on AI.

This is not effective.

Having a regulated profession that is held to some standards, like accountants, would actually work

Without unions and without a professional body individual action won’t be achieving anything
Yes but it will be back. Just need a bigger distraction than the sportsball. When do the olympics start?

P.S. a much larger discussion was over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40736771
Postponed, not canceled. It is silly to postpone a vote just because it wouldn't reach majority. PERHAPS it shall be canceled indefinitely (or for a long time) if it gets rejected, right? They will wait a bit and then it's going to be voted again
Caught me off guard. Great book BTW, but not for beginners
In what language is the Linux kernel written on?

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm...

Those that have glass ceilings should not throw rocks.
I'm middle aged - mid 40s, in fact - and places don't ask.

Your appearance is the age verification. One can obviously tell you are of age to buy the products in question by looking at you. That’s the age verification.

Communities are permitted to determine what constitutes age appropriate materials and at what age those materials can be consumed. Such standards ought to apply to web content too. There is nothing special about online that indicates it should be exempt.
We use oil for every modern thing we make, and to power our machinery. As AI begins to express its true hunger, we'll start feeding it from any source we can, including oil and its byproducts. This will exacerbate the oil problem, and accelerate the point where it takes more energy to extract oil than we get from it. From there, things get bad. Real bad.
Yes, understood, but you’re going to ship out a maximum of fifteen or so candies or the economics doesn’t work. Even with really awful scaling, the fact you have an entire month to prepare and send the next shipment gives you a lot of computing time.
Also via the EU "Digital Identity Wallet" as a mobile app when it's ready https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-doc-archi...

The problem will probably be adoption by services. It's a lot more tempting to get more information than just age, if you go through the hassle in the first place.
Yup, I left out a key “in addition”, thanks for clarifying for me!

Expanding on this… we should all be jealous of Estonia’s digital governmental infrastructure!
Do you host hackathons? Love to know what tools you use to host your hackathons
Hi everyone,
I am a serial hackathon organizer and would host lots of hackathons. Typically, we would create landing pages from scratch and embed with Google forms or etc. However, that makes the data go all over the place so I decide to start building an eventbrite for hackathons and I would love to know from hackathon hosts what do you look for in a hackathon platform?
I really like this proposal. It's fairly concrete, makes day-to-day coding much more ergonomic and, more importantly, doesn't introduce a great many esoteric concepts that are just going to clutter the language.

I'm assuming not everyone will agree with this, since it's more 'magic' but I'd argue it's the right amount of magic to help you with common patterns that you'd otherwise have to spend time manually implementing anyway (like the Dioxus Labs 'context' example).
>I know it will go over your head but the scheme in Texas that bitcoin miners take advantage is not isolated to bitcoin and is used in other industries there as well.

Where did OP say that? They said _power suckers_, as in plural and used bitcoin mining as one example. It’s strange you started your comment with an unnecessary personal attack and assumption OP is an idiot when you didn't seem to understand their comment. I dont understand why you had to take it so personal. Unless you're part of ERCOT or a energy supplier, I guess, but even that's not a good reason.
Fair point. The overlap of machine learning savvy, experienced engineer, and ready to work for a startup's salary in Germany just isn't too big.
It is true that some people feel the BBC is politically biased. but buts not just that.

The biggest problem is that people watch the BBC a LOT less than they did when there were a limited number of channels. Therefore people feel they get less benefit from the license fee.

Up to about the 1980s there were three TV channels, two BBC. The we got more and more new channels, and so the BBC channels became less and less important to people.

If the BBC were to disappear I would miss comedy and Radio 3. I have to TV so that does not matter to me - it does not stop Crapita sending me the threatening letters, of course. I think it is idiotic to outsource to them, and to fail to control their behaviour.

"it's probably reasonable to say that the BBC has had a somewhat more pro-government bias"

or less of an anti-Conservative bias? I think this is something people will argue about, and that is part of the problem.
Ok, cool, but what the hell happened?
They had a guy in charge of signing-off the launch, he didn't sign off because of 3 problems he identified, and they still launched. wtf?
It was possible to write a search engine in the year 2000? Or any software at all for that matter? And writing a software application is much different from writing a mere academic research paper. By being harder and more technical. It, writing software, is engineering actually. Writing software is engineering, backed by computer science knowledge.

So, the point is, that has there been a growth of resources and capabilities—opportunities—for motivated individuals to write software apps that are much stronger and capable than their 1990s predecessors? Common sense says "Yes, of course!" But a comprehensive look says no one who is social nor someone who is educated is doing anything like what Sergey and Larry have done for their pre-Google generation. No one is writing anything, no one is building, and least of all is anyone who does the college education thing building anything remotely close to the next Facebook or Google.

There are no engineers today. Just drones doing financially compensated development. No passion for building. Instead just doing what is told to do and for to be done.
So basically, you can carry:

- FlexSolar 40W panel: 1.35kg

- Nitecore NB20000 ~75Wh battery: 300g

- Starlink Mini: 1.1kg

- Smartphone: 250g

For 3kg you have something that should give 2-3 hours of Internet usage on an average EU/USA good weather day (assuming 20% solar panel for 10 hours = 80Wh/day, 25-35W power usage of Starlink Mini + smartphone).

For each extra 1.65kg you get an additional 2-3 hours, resulting in 7.95kg for 8-12 hours, 11.25kg for 12-16 hours.

Not bad, but not good either.
Sure, that’s reasonable. Let’s implement this. In fact Pornhub could have implemented this on its own and staved off the “need” for a government imposed solution. It knew there was a problem and did nothing.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the simplicity of Structured Query Language?
Now, I get that many programmers consider SQL to be too simple and noobish to be even considered a programming language. But of all languages, I think SQL stands out as not only one of the easiest to learn and practice, the sheer genius of this language is that it lets you do so much with so little expressiveness, while still trying to maintain standards across various kinds of databases as much as possible.

With all their expressive tokens and syntaxes, languages like C and Java and Python are often appreciated and rightly so, but I think SQL also deserves a place up there in the list of "do more with less jargon" things out there. In fact, the four basic DML/DDL statements (create, insert, update, delete) are all you need to get started with creating tables and manipulating data on most projects. And learning additional features like alter, drop, truncate, etc. is both fun and interesting.

And once you go even further with things like stored procedure and triggers, the real fun then begins! If you consider the below stored procedure of some hypothetical SQL dialect, it is no less elegant than any of the other popular expressive languages like Python or Ruby, don't you agree?

create or replace procedure foo:
begin
select @test = select foo from bar;
-- statement 2;
-- statement 2;
-- statement 3;
end;
A friend of a friend worked at NASA on essentially this, except that instead of fitting Japanese candy in a box, they were fitting cargo into the Space Shuttle. As you can imagine this introduces a whole slew of new complications, notably mass distribution and that things must be unloaded in a certain order.
Have they started to offer a vpn service or is it only on the roadmap?
Seems like a website that wishes it was a video. All of the irritation of video without the clarity of a website.
In most terms if you constrain supply price goes up. If you make cheaper to make and get and supply goes up it becomes cheaper. Waving the 'just tax it' flag does not actually make things cheaper or better. It just shifts costs and removes capital from the system. It is the broken window fallacy. If you just spend money on 'this other thing' 'this other great thing will happen'.

To understand that this book shows what doing that sort of thinking does. https://fee.org/ebooks/economics-in-one-lesson/

Getting tax law and pushing things to work are a delicate balance. Recycling is a good example of it. We are paying people money to 'recycle' plastic. When the reality is only 5-10% of plastics can be recycled. There is no magic fix. The basic problem is economics. Plastics are cheaper to use. Because they are a byproduct of something everyone needs. That is not going to change. If you tax it here they can find some other country willing to crack the oil and do it for the cheap way. You have to make other options cheaper. That usually comes thru volume.
Well that's obviously not true, I know people who have had their body damage fixed elsewhere. In fact, I doubt Tesla service centers do _any_ of their own bodywork, so it's entirely possible your comment is the exact opposite of true.
A surprising number of websites work fine without js.
Any chance these will ever be self injectable (with Rx)?
I dare say this would actually be even more harmful than Pornhub holding people's IDs, as it would then give OpenID immense power to track not only the fact that you watch porn, but also what other services you use as well...
The Helion ideas for fusion are pretty interesting. They put a bunch of energy in using electromagnetics to fuse deuterium, and then (if they can do the next bit) harvest the extra energy out of the magnetic fields on the way out using the same equipment.

It's a different approach than most fusion reactors at least.
It's debatable how many - if any - humans are truly proficient with C++.
The federal government could offer it as a service, just like they do in the physical world with physical IDs.
In context we are in [0], is space jam website really the problem?
Old space jam website is just bunch of tables and images. It is the "modern mode" that is bloated.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40748071
It was a long time ago that I read a history on this, and I might be missing a detail, but the gist was Google's investors were clamoring for profits following the .com crash and Google realized the data they had was a gold mine if they could just figure out how to apply ML to it.

They tried really hard and did okay for a while using it for advertising, but Doubleclick did it better, so they bought it in 2008.

AI (ML) was absolutely on the radar.
As a backend who finally bit the bullet and started learning react a few months ago, my #1 learning resource has been ChatGPT.

I can tell it what I want it to do, iterate on the idea and see how it changes. After I did that a few times I was able to tinker myself on the project and again ask ChatGPT how to improve the code.

Perhaps it’s just my learning style, but it has been really refreshing experience to learn with something(someone).
No, this is not possible.

Even if every state started putting contactless chips into drivers licenses to provide anonymous age attestation, you'd still have the problem a kid can just use a parent's or older sibling's card.

And even if such cards did exist and they were considered legally adequate, you've still got the problem that nothing except smartphones can read them. And you've got the problem browsers don't support them, and app stores don't welcome porn-viewing apps.

Of course, this is all intentional - the religious anti-pornography groups that push for these laws consider it a good thing that complying with the law is essentially impossible. They want a full ban on pornography, but that would get struck down as unconstitutional, so they have to get a ban by indirect means.
There's nothing stale about sitting in a Tesla.

For most other EVs, it still feels like you're sitting in a car.

The main reason I'd consider something other than a Tesla today:

- What's the maximum range
- How much range do you get for the price
- What's the total cost (there are cheaper cars that look great)

As far as I'm concerned, nothing is outright beating Tesla on design. It's hard to beat simplicity.

Also, sitting in a Tesla on the road is a lot less special nowadays. It is the most common model. This used to be an argument I heard about why people would pick a Polestar over a Tesla: People would say "Hey, there's a car." and not "Hey, there's a Tesla." -- but nowadays, Teslas are as ubiquitous as cars, and all the new EVs have annoyingly bright beams.
> What I want to criticize is that Apple would rather re-add Magsafe than add another USB-C port, making one wonder if they are really clearing out old inventory.

Nope; it's not the same as the old MagSafe (it's actually the _third_ incompatible version).
>I'm a huge believer in Personal Integrity and Ethics, but I am painfully aware that this makes me a fairly hated minority

This is like when you tell an interviewer your great flaw is being too much of a perfectionist.
Yeah, Google, Facebook and Microsoft putting a massive fraction of their resources on AI is what already happened, but isn't really encouraging.
If you check my Github profile, you will see I still have on my list of starred repositories several of yours. I also still have at least 2 articles on my blog related to AdonisJs. I hope you understand what I mean.
What marketing? The only thing Starlink says about it is:

> Starlink Mini is a compact, portable kit that can easily fit in a backpack, designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet on the go.

In no way whatsoever is this marketed as a replacement for a satellite messenger or a PLB. I think the chance of somebody getting only this and ending up in a pickle is much lower than that of somebody just outright bringing nothing at all. Besides that, all recent iPhones support satellite SOS these days, and with Starlink direct to cell, all other phones will likely catch up very soon.

And why does the fact that backpackers are mentioned as one possible user group enrage you so much? Have you considered that people enjoy the outdoors in all kinds of ways, some very different from you, and maybe that includes internet access? Again, nobody has to use it!
I call this bidirectional monologue
exactly! I searched with the wrong keywords, now I have many interesting sites. Thank you
Controlling Motor Speed
A Search for the Heart: Digital collections, machine learning, legacies of care
According to https://www.withouthotair.com/, no.
Why not allow liquor stores and other establishments that check IDs anyway issue a digital certificate that you are of age? Here's my ID, here's my pornhub account name, here's a service fee, digitally attest to the fact that I proved that I'm of legal age.

Seems like the real motive here is deanonymization.
Managed democracy offers absolute freedom; freedom from the burden of choice
> He neglected to say that the approval came only after Thiokol executives, under intense pressure from NASA officials, overruled the engineers.

Sounds kinda familiar?
Do y’all not get how this would just be based on certificate authorities and would be privacy friendly?
Holy moly this was _exactly_ my impression. It seems to really be proliferating and it drives me nuts. It makes it almost impossible to useful things, which never used to be a problem with Python - even in the case of complex projects.

Figuring out how to customize something in a project like LangChain is positively Byzantine.
Same with prostitution and Nordic model. Porn is a bad thing, we ban it by prosecuting consumers.
Given that a browser is not practically a virtual machine and/or an OS, it is not too surprising that an OS developer is not scared by the task. At the same time, it seems to me that multimedia is a whole different beast.

> For a new project I wonder how much simpler (or secure) a browser could be made if you only allowed a subset of js and browser apis

IMHO the only viable subset is the empty set. There are some surviving HTML-only browsers that are still usable for e.g. viewing documentation or browsing simple-minded websites (like HN, but they are fewer and fewer every year, unfortunately).

I really don't want to drop the all too common negative comment - in particular since I already use an alternative web browser - but the initial investment required just for an MVP seems mind-boggling to me.

I think a basic HTML browser that can automatically delegate all it cannot handle to other apps - PDF viewing to a PDF viewer, video playback to a video player, and JS-requiring things to a big browser - would be interesting (if it already exists, please let me know).
Why not just not have sex unless trying to procreate? It's amazing in 2024 this line of discussion is happening.

We all know exactly at a individual level what to do and not. We can keep asking "Why not just use a condom?" and see how far that gets us, or actually understand psychology and use patterns and work with what people actually do (good or bad).

Same can be said about (illicit) drugs, why not just not do drugs? Simple!
It's much easier and cleaner to subdivide quads to refine shapes when modeling. For example, you can split the quads along an entire edge to get a new clean edge for manipulation (ex. to bevel it). If you try to do the same with triangles, you get a jagged mess.
> Yeah, but just unimportant people from flyover states

That’s not what I said at all..
I am certain that Pornhub isn't doing this because they actually care about PII. However, I can think of a number of reason why they are taking this stance:

* They don't want the work to do the verification to be their problem, and to be legally responsible when (not if) it goes wrong.

* They know that age restricted devices are few and far between, so this is just an effort to kick the can down the road another decade.

* Even if all new devices support age restrictions, there will be a myriad of legacy devices that will continue to have access.

* They know people in the affected states will just use a VPN to another state anyway. If all the US eventually adopts these laws, they'll block the site entirely from the US and secretly fund and post informational videos on how to use VPNs to get around the restrictions.

* By blocking the states, they get more publicity for themselves, but also potentially anger a group of people into arguing their cause.

One thing that I think is interesting is that they are placing a lot of trust on reliable state-level geo-IP. They're only a few bad DB records or a BGP failure that routes people from these states to other servers away from a potentially costly fine. But maybe given the benefits above, this is just another cost of doing business for them.
Advanced text features and PDF
Why not turn this around?

1. Introduce a X-PEGI HTTP header that sites can use to change the content. This would also be useful for other contexts such as cybercafes and whatnot.

2. Mandate that porn website abide by these headers.

3. Have responsible parents, lock their children's computers and add the appropriate header.

The adults then have access to the adult internet with no extra restrictions.
>but why are they chasing against porn sites vs finance sites?

They view pornography as a purely or at least sufficiently negative presence, justifying going after it. Legislating to withhold it from children is more straightforward and politically palatable than an outright ban. The deanonymization of the internet is probably an acceptable risk more than a desired outcome.

I assume it's the same mindset as people who end free speech to crusade against hate speech.
Apparently not much.
What percentage of your coworkers do you enjoy working with?

Do they like working there?

Is your manager a net boon or drain on the department?
> Is there a way to prove your age without being identified/logging in?

This comes up every time, but the purpose of the identity check is to ascertain (to the extent possible) that the person logging in is the person whose age you’re verifying.

If you completely separate identity from age checking using some cryptographic method, the loophole is that a single identity token with an adult age can now be used by everyone, everywhere to tell websites that they are above a certain age. So as soon as you did that, someone would just share (or steal) a token of valid age and post it online for everyone to use. Entire system subverted.

You could try to use a 3rd-party service that handles age check functions and implements some level of rate limiting to prevent this, but then you’re trusting that party to know about all of the porn websites and other places the person is trying to log in to. If that 3rd party is the government, well you’ve just created a convenient place for the government to collect stats about people logging in to porn websites.
This is more or less the idea behind projects like the Gemini protocol [1].

It's even deliberately designed to not be easily extensible, as to avoid the temptation of adding features.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
It's difficult to predict, but I don't see the classics going away: Java, JavaScript, SQL.

But overall, the goal should be to get a broad range of experience in different platforms so the technology you use is irrelevant. From that point on you just need to decide where you want to invest your time.

For example, when I was doing internships in college I invested in getting Java experience because I knew that it was used by large companies (companies who pay more). This paid off and I was hired by a company who paid me a lot of money to use Java straight out of college. Now I'm paid a lot of money by another company to use Java.

So you want to have the capability to code in anything, but you have to decide which technologies to put on your resume based on what's out there. Knowing Java, JS, and Web Application Development is never a bad idea.
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