skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do You Have a Name For
...when you go to look at someone's computer/device/app and it magically is working perfectly when they go to show you? Like when the person is "Oh sure NOW it works..." simply by your presence? (Sorta like how the car stops making The Noise when the mechanic is nearby)

I've always called it "I.T. Person Proximity Location Rectification" and was just wondering if we have a better name for the phenomenon
You hake no reason to assume that. The people who will try to write those regulations are those with have an angle. We call it regulatory capture.
I mean...that's a precise argument. To have this argument effectively, you need to have more than a hand-wavy idea of how much congestion would be impacted by the fee, which we don't. The impact studies were ludicrously ambiguous, and as far as I can tell, the numbers were pulled from thin air.

What I know, without doubt, is that the plan didn't make any reasonable exclusions for residents, so it was de facto an additional tax. Would such a tax reduce marginal wait time cost by more than the price of the tax? Golly, that would be convenient for proponents, wouldn't it?

Regardless, even if you believe this, you still have to deal with the counterfactual of a world where we do the whole congestion fee thing, but exclude obvious categories of essential vehicles, like delivery trucks, construction, etc. That would be better, smarter, and more aligned with the stated goals of the system.
Or surviving as a book author, or making it as an actor/actress in Hollywood, or ... - they simply have a dream and it is quite hard to find the right timing for giving up such dreams.
Anyone who understands the difference between model available and open source would realize they're different things, and then also be smart enough to realize that randos arguing about the definition isn't what's going to sway someone as to wether they'd release the model or the source used to create them. You think Mark Zuckerberg, or anyone else with the $100s of million dollars to spend on training is reading these comments, seeing these dorks argue about if giving away models is open source or not, and then saying, I was going to release Llama4, but because PunchTornado said pedantic things, y'know what? I'm not gonna.

We want words to mean things. model available != open source, If you go to a restaurant and order the beef and you get the fish, what's wrong, it's still food, just eat it. Don't be pedantic, otherwise the cook isn't going to make food anymore. If you're 10 and your parents made you dinner that might pass, but if you're an adult and go to a restaurant where you're paying with your own hard earned money, that's not how it works.

They don't have to distribute the data directly, Stability AI has said they used the LAION-5B Dataset. Just like I could say I read Harry Potter without giving you a copy, and can say that it says "the boy who lived" without violating copyright.
Conservatives will not go into the night quietly.
> I would trust the nations top lawyers more than most of the congress members we have

If you're referring to the justices, who are approved by those Congress members you don't trust, it is a dramatic stretch to assume they are the nation's best lawyers.
Overall pretty neat. Not a huge fan of the three-way toggle though. Two-way toggles are plenty confusing already.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxee01m5yero.amp
Don't Call It a Bug
I'm curious why you say they leave a lot to be desired in terms of repairability. I don't have one, but my understanding is that you can get a replacement for pretty much any part directly from the manufacturer along with a guide to do the repair yourself. I don't know of any other brand on the market that does that.
Git commit signing is kinda wack
The purpose of Congress is to make these kinds of decisions. They pass the buck so they don't have a voting record that an election opponent can use against them.

They need to do their job.
It does, the problem is the law as written doesn’t explicitly say that and this court is all about textualism when convenient.
the model is available but that doesn't make it open source. That makes it model-available, or open weight, which means you can run inference on your machine, but for it to be considered open source, we'd need to know the dataset's name, the annotations on it, and the code used to train the model.
As explained in the dissent, they literally have to delegate the kind of authority in question here. It’s the hostile-genie problem: you can’t close all the loopholes in some iron-clad unambiguous way in finite space.
Just a reminder that new versions of Microsoft Outlook store your password and email data on their servers, even when using a non-Microsoft server.
Congress are the elected bureaucrats
Agency folks are unelected bureaucrats
I've worked in both places. Zurich, at least to me, is very conservative. The nightlife is pretty dull. Munich is a whole lot more relaxed and fun.

They both have pedestrian area shopping, and excellent transit. And they're both great for food.

I don't know anything about living there, though. But if I was choosing, it would be Munich hands down. So much friendlier.

Zurich isn't just a little bit more expensive. I was pretty blown away at how much everything there costs.
Should I Develop a Game or an Engine?
Isn't space gravity carrier itself? Something like the water that has waves?
For example, the IRS's free online filing thingy this year involves a third-party private company doing the ID checking and proprietary facial recognition database shit.

Hell, they didn't even white-label it behind a .gov domain and UI, which means they're training taxpayers to fall for phishing scams by disclosing their most sensitive data to any dang company with a spiffy web page and plausible-sounding domain name and a "Trusted By The IRS!" image sticker.
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Student loans are not dischargeable by bankruptcy because an education is not an asset that can be seized and sold during the process. There should be (and are) pretty strict limits on how your wages can be garnished to repay this debt. However I do agree that student loans are a form of debt bondage, and are questionably ethical for that reason. I would much prefer student loans not be given special protection. That would at least help us stop subsidizing educations that do not lead to productive careers.

I would not be opposed to licensed professions (eg. doctors, lawyers) adopting policies that would revoke licenses for members defaulting on their student loans via bankruptcy. I don't imagine any intervention would be required for such policies to arise if the special status of student loans were to be reconsidered.

> Also you can’t back-out of an organ sale

Yes of course you can only back out up until the point you are rendered unconscious. You have to reconsider before then. The idea that "life" and "death" are somehow morally important states is what has been "hammered into us from a young age". Morality is a relationship between (free and equal) moral agents. The important concept is therefore agency and its expression via consent.
| an engineers’ commitment to technical accuracy over practical effects

This reads like the design of nightmares.
I watched Cast Away. I always wear my seat belt.
That story hit me in the heart, thank you for sharing
doesn't long-distance power transmission solve that problem? just put the solar panels somewhere else?
That’s cool that you make it separate from the commit message and yet linked to it.

We also might need customer facing release notes at some point. But that shouldn’t be in the commit messages I think since it’s irrelevant in that technical context.
Could be an inverse relationship, too - the more frequently they occur the more experience, training and guidance the pilot, and the other crew members get to manage it: how to control the the airplane, urge passengers to wear seatbelts more, etc.
One-per-circuit, at least, would be a good change. Not as many as you’re proposing, but does make sense.
Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says
>make voters universally and roughly equal uncomfortable eith poor fiscal managment so they feel the pian when they vote thwmselves more stuff without also voting in a payment method)

What does that look like in your mind?
Congress people are supposed to hire and listen to domain experts in the field they legislate on.
The first thing I noticed is that the site didn't respect my dark mode preference because I have JavaScript disabled.

So there's still some work left here until I'd call the implementation "great".

(A simple css check for prefers-color-scheme handles this.)
The article’s author’s domain seems to have been hijacked and redirects to a malicious site.
The Consensys case exposes the fundamental mismatch between blockchain tech and securities law.

The SEC claims MetaMask Swaps 'effects transactions in securities,' but can a smart contract be a broker?

This isn't just about Consensys; it's about whether the '34 Act's definition of a broker can encompass code without breaking the entire DeFi ecosystem.

Congress's silence forces courts to decide if 'protecting investors' requires stifling the very innovation that could democratize finance.
There’s a lot of negativity around this ruling here on HN.

As a not-lawyer, non expert, I welcome this ruling. The strongest argument I can make in favor of this come from the dissenting opinion by Justice Kagan:

> This Court has long understood Chevron deference to reflect what Congress would want, and so to be rooted in a presumption of legislative intent. Congress knows that it does not—in fact cannot—write perfectly complete regulatory statutes...

> It knows that those statutes will inevitably contain ambiguities that some other actor will have to resolve, and gaps that some other actor will have to fill. And it would usually prefer that actor to be the responsible agency, not a court...

In other words, Congress can not get its shit together, but someone still has to do the work of figuring out what rules we should all follow. Congress would much rather play politics and make speeches and theatrical high-drama hearing rather than doing the hard work of legislating laws.

It is obvious that Congress can not get all the details right. Neither can the regulatory body. The only advantage of delegating the work of rule-making to regulators is that the iteration times are faster.

Why are the iteration times faster? It has more to do with the Congress being a dysfunctional body.

When incompetence is rewarded by reduced work loads, incompetence is amplified.

Yes Congress can not get their shit together. But that’s way more visible to voters when their incompetence translates to visible inaction.

This is the way the system should work (in my opinion). Feels like a positive ruling to me.
It would have been so interesting if two famous cases were connected like that, but I don’t think Reiser bought that book.

> Reiser found David Simon’s, “Homicide: Life on the Killing Streets” and Masterpieces of Murder by Jonathan Goodman

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/03/06/update-hans-reiser-b...
You’re saying it’s impossible to have an optionally required feature? If the satellite TV is down some sensor data isn’t sent. Why would that be cause for grounding the plane? You could easily make the regulation an SLA like all routes flown must be sending data for 90% of the flights on that route for the month and failures to meet the SLA are investigated.

Also I’ve flown a bunch and I’ve rarely seen the Internet link go out except where there’s technical limitations like crossing the ocean where they can’t maintain an internet and have to rely on preprogrammed content. Given how much money they make from cabin internet, the airlines are clearly incentivized to apply pressure to keep those things running. I doubt I’ve seen anyone be really annoyed when there’s technical difficulties. Most people who fall into that category would have made other arrangements for entertainment anyway.
Or... just hear me out... we could hire experts in various fields, give them general principles to follow, let them work out the details, give them the authority to enforce it, and maintain the right to step in if they overreach.

But yeah, "opinions are greater than facts" is technically a very democratic way to do things.
>What they cannot do anymore is delegate unknown unknowns.

And that's absurd. Congress should have the ability to do this. If they don't like what an agency is doing, they're perfectly able to amend the law.
So run Memtest86+ If it fails, replace one DIMM at a time and retest until it passes; as soon as it passes, the DIMM you just replaced was bad. If it passes, replace the motherboard, ideally under warranty.
Doom process managers where a thing for a while too, 20 years ago. Using the BFG on a crowded room of processes usually resulted in a system crash. Hunting down a stuck program and shooting it in E1M1 was pretty neat though. Your comment reminded me of playing with this in MacOS X a long time ago.

> https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html
So did the other member of the "trinity", the TRS-80 model I.

My mental picture is that the kind of display controller I'd like to build is about two large breadboards stuffed with 54xx chips. Such a thing is a bit simpler than a minimal CPU but not that much simpler because you need the stuff to interface with memory. I'd probably want to buy an oscilloscope and/or logic analyzer but maybe I could run it slow and use an AVR-8 Arduino to run test sequences.

Almost everybody who builds throwback computers today uses either an FPGA or a microcontroller for the display controller. For instance

https://github.com/fdivitto/FabGL

is a highly flexible controller implemented for the ESP32 which can do tile-based graphics and sprites for games but also emulate an ANSI terminal. This is used in this SBC

https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/AgonLight2/o...

which I am going to highly recommend because this machine is compatible with the old Z80 machines but has a real 24 bit mode with 24 bit registers and also performs an order of magnitude better than any Z80 machine did back in the day.

Modern systems usually avoid the unified memory model that was popular back in the day but that also usually held back the performance of the CPU because one way or another the VDC was stealing cycles. The AgonLight board communicates with the display controller through a serial port, for instance.

This thing

http://www.commanderx16.com/

has a memory mapped register for the address in video RAM the CPU wants to read/write and another for the data. The address register will auto-increment when access the data register so you can read or write video RAM at high speed just by repeatedly accessing the data register. The CX-16 uses an FPGA as a display controller

https://github.com/X16Community/x16-docs/blob/master/X16%20R...
Let's be real, at least 40% of those comments are bots
Turn this into a SARS/MERS - it would be highly profitable. I'm not an anti-vaxxer - I have all vaccines, and I made the mistake of getting the first Pfizer, which I regretted a lot after I damaged my health due to side effects that were downplayed and ignored by both Pfizer and CDC!

Geert Vanden Bossche [0] has been predicting a vaccine-induced massive die-off this summer!

We need antivirals, not vaccines! Just look at this [1] and shit in your pants!!!

[0]: https://x.com/GVDBossche

[1]: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m
The article is quite interesting, but I have to say I don't understand why Yiddish being a Slavic language would suddenly mean that all European Jews are Iranian; the Slavic languages aren't descended from anything spoken in Iran in the first century CE. That really feels like it came out of nowhere.
Remind me again which side is the antisemitic one nowadays? Was it the far left or the far right?
Thunderbird packs up to 6,144 CPU cores into a single AI accelerator
Probably better to patch the current system than create a new one with potentially new unknown vulnerabilities.
I’m really impressed. CAs are 100% rent-seeking businesses and their position is solely derived from having convinced browser and OS vendors to put them in a list. You’d assume their top prio would be to stay in the list.
It's a good guide, but I'm not sure I understand the point of a site-specific JavaScript toggle to override the browser's default theme. The only thing that immediately comes to mind is to override a browser default of 'light' for a multimedia experience, as a dark background is conventionally used for these in order to give more emphasis to the multimedia content (or perhaps as an anachronism from the use of projectors). Any other examples where this kind of toggle would be useful?
Show HN: A real-time list of open tech roles
Hey HN! Quick TL; DR: I set up scrapers for the websites of ~20k tech companies, fed the results through GPT, spent some sleepless nights building a web app, and voilá.

I started this after getting fed up with how slow LinkedIn felt. I finally got it working and easy to use, so I wanted to share it with you guys.

The job list is free. But I’m currently paying a lot of money to OpenAI for all the data I’m passing through GPT, so I may end up eventually charging for some advanced features, or putting ads on it or something.

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- The list doesn’t encompass every single tech company (yet). I have most of the major ones (~20k), but the process of adding new companies is pretty labour intensive so it’s still ongoing.

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I do not understand how you can not see this is an activist court. They have by fiat invented new judicial principles out of thin air: "history and tradition" and "major questions doctrine" come to mind. And they apply these arbitrary principles in a heavy handed, inconsistent and simultaneously predictable way while sanctimoniously acting as though we can't see what they are doing.
Email can be considered as a decentralised social network.

It seems to be scaling properly.
I was going to reach for dagster to run some DBT and data load scripts. No orchestration as of yet-why would I use hatchet instead of dagster?
"... dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse".-
Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack?
So I want to try to answer what I can, despite being a layman on this.

Gravity exists, it manifests as the warping/geometry of space. This is in contrast to the other fundamental forces which get explained via Quantum Field Theory. That's the very high level difference of the two, our current understanding of gravity does not work the same way as the way everything else does, and so far we can't find a provable theory (yet) that makes the two work together at all scales.

String theory purported as a way to create a quantum theory of gravity and explain everything else, but my understanding is that it's fallen out of favor because it mostly turned into a tunable mathematical framework that could just change to fit any observations that were made, so it doesn't have the same kind of predictive power that people want (i.e. too much freedom so it can be used to explain anything, not just everything). I believe this is where predictions about a possible gravitational force carrier generally come from, aka the graviton.

Then there's theories like Loop Quantum Gravity, where the way it works is that space-time itself is quantized and that's how you get things to mesh because you can now use the same wave-function style of things that all other quantum theories use. Though I think this doesn't predict much about a quantum field for gravity on it's own.

I believe one of the other things that runs into everything being difficult is that with relativity you end up with a lot of infinities in the equations and results and so there's a "new" kind of math for it that gets called "renormalization" that prevents them from coming out but it also has issues when translating between quantum theories and relativity.
The use of "begs" in that title it a bit dramatic. Sure Google is being childish, but that's just making a more inflammatory headline.
I don't see how the threat of regulatory capture would argue against letting experts decide what actions need to be taken to protect the publics health and the environment
> The Supreme Court is not supposed to bend with the wind of every political election. It's by design.

Looking at a few Supreme Court's rulings, say -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._Anderson

- I'd be inclined to say that the Supreme Court's design is to bend the results of every political election to suit their own wishes.
This is done with the regulatory agencies now, i.e. the revolving door from government agency to private sector.

Worse, in some ways, because there's no real paper trail, such as donations to politicians or PACs.
Shit that's cool.
it's not fuzzy. weights are binary blobs. we know what binaries are, source code gets compiled into binaries. photoshop is a binary. firmware are binary blobs. that llama3.ggml outputs text when using a wrapper program vs photoshop launches a program directly doesn't make anything fuzzy.
It's very easy to get informed on these topics, yet people keep posting these high level extremely simplistic takes.

You can't summarize the world with "People want the most convenience in their lives" and use that to explain or justify the state of things.

A couple examples: Cars compete with public transit and are highly subsidized. "Roads" are a public transportation method that doesn't have to be profitable in people's minds. But "Public transit" does. There's so much more and the information is readily available.
people are not building things with it. The more you build the more popular it gets.
Informationally, this post lands on information regarding randomized controlled trials (RCTs). However, there isn't a specific thesis I can nail down outside of introducing a general audience to the history and philosophy of RCTs. There is some discussion regarding how they aren't a panacea, but its more of an afterthought.
Wow...a very interesting read. It's always humbling when reminded of how many and how large are the pieces we are completely missing in the understanding of even the immediate world around us.

We mostly behave like we have our basic every-day experience pretty much covered - yet, there are such vast areas - across basically all of sciences - that we just utterly don't understand, and who knows how much more additionally that we don't even know is there.
Exactly. It's like insurance, even if you have no sympathy, you're probably ok paying a little for other people's accidents because you could just as easily have one. Allergens are different, though.
Paper Trails