skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- It's not a Senate Bill, it's a (HI) State Senate Bill. So the headline is slight misnomer.

- It hasn't been voted on, and it's unclear [0] if it's made any progress since being introduced 1/24/2024 then immediately referred to Committees (Commerce and Consumer Protection, and Judiciary, Ways and Means). Bottom line: what are the numbers on state senators or lobbies supporting/opposing it, how likely is it to be passed, killed, amended, delayed or stonewalled? What's the % likelihood it'll be passed in its current form before the term ends? Seems like the HI State Senate adjourned on May 3 [1], that means this bill has already died in committee and would need to be reintroduced in the next session.

- At first glance it reads ok, but as always jump to the mild (compared to GDPR) timeframes for breach and mild and delayable enforcement penalties (VIII. Penalties for Non-Compliance). It would allow alleged violators a 45-day response period which can optionally have an additional 45-day extension. So, a blatant violator could still argue with the regulator, and then reluctantly cure the defect and avoid any penalty.

- There is no provision for criminal penalties whatsoever, and the (Hawaii State) AG has discretion whether to seek an injunction or impose civil penalties up to $7,500/violation, but only after the cure period. So, it's a slow train. Like CCPA.

[0]: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?bi...

[1]: https://lrb.hawaii.gov/par/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/0...
My iPad runs Windows XP now, and it's all I ever wanted
Are you building your future? I'm 41, and there are probably other users here who're older than me how-ever I was told when I was 16 that ftp/smtp/csv/https/oracle/database are legacy technologies but every day its my bread a butter. Technologies will come and go but your time is more important than trying to build for the future.

Just recently one of our security experts dropped dead over the weekend. When everyone heard about it they were sad for about 5 minutes, then 5 minutes later everyone was talking about their kids, parents, family, vacations or what they're going to have for lunch.

I don't mean that to be condescending, your life is important to you. Build your future, technology will take care of itself.
I was thinking the phrase "natural persons" was something sci-fi related, but its just the counter point to the concept of "legal persons"
Show HN: Libzdb – C Database Connection Pool library now with C++20 API
I've updated an old C Database Connection Pool library (previously shared on HN) with a new C++20 API. This project was my foray into modern C++, and I'm hoping the community
finds it useful and that the C++ code meets modern standards.

The intro to the C++ API for the library is here:
https://tildeslash.com/libzdb/api-docs/zdbpp_8h.html

Feedback on the C++ implementation is welcome, especially from those experienced with modern C++. I'm particularly interested in thoughts on the API design and use of C++20
features.
Ruben Sim has been doing really good work addressing this stuff. So good that apparently Roblox, whose business model has pivoted into conducting child husbandry for groomers, felt the need to sue him. Since every kid I know cites Minecraft and/or Roblox as their favorite game, I think more people should be aware of this.

Ruben Sim's YT: https://www.youtube.com/@RubenSim
Card payments are regulated in the EU, and prices are much cheaper. Contrast that with New Zealand where there is often a 2.5% surcharge on credit card and contactless payments.
> I've tried to play a little as an adult, and now I have more patience, but that means I find chess too stressful! I don't want to go until I'm fairly sure I have a good move, but I still can't quite "check" all the possible moves, so I sweat the whole time and don't enjoy playing.

Do you use a timer? I feel like a moderate per-turn timer should prevent you from reaching the "can't quite check everything" zone, while still encouraging you to evaluate several positions.
>would it matter that much to you if we used jira

Yes, genuinely it would matter to me. I would immediately stop working on said project. I'm not exaggerating when I say I would prefer an excel document named ProjectIdeasAndFinance_final_JohnD_v2_jan23_finalfinal.xls.zip.xls over working in jira
When similar pieces were written about blockchain/bitcoin the defense was that managing a global financial system was a huge endeavor. The traditional banking equivalent required, brick and mortar banks, countless employees, security guards, police, armies, etc. While I disagreed with that assessment, I understand it.

What's the equivalent argument for generative AI? Why is it worth burning so much energy?
You’re the only one who reliably can work in your best interest, and even then it’s hit and miss sometimes.

Always ask questions, figure out others actual and stated interests, and look for incongruencies.

And look to be as educated as possible.

Easy to say, hard to do. There is no ‘sure thing’ in this world.
What's so interesting about Cixin? I could barely finish the books.

On goodreads Foundation (which IMHO is not even among the best Asimov works) is rated noticeably higher than The Three Body Problem, and as a reader I feel it is justified.

If you take into account the novelty factor, it will probably sink to the average rating of mediocrity in a couple of decades.
Benefits do not increase with income in a negative income tax system. I'm not sure where you got that idea from. The point of a negative income tax system is to allow total income, from the combination of work and benefits, to increase as work income increases, preventing the incentive to not work due to benefits exceeding or only matching potential work income due to a hard income cutoff for qualifying for a non-dynamic amount of benefits. In this way, as work income increases in a negative income tax system, the benefits will incrementally decrease, until the individual meets the level where they become a net payer, not receiver, but those that are net payers will not have a total income less than any of those that are net receivers.

In the system that was described it would take two units of income to decrease one unit of benefits, allowing total income to increase with an increase in levels of work income, while not having a hard cutoff for benefits. This is an approximation of what would occur in a negative income tax system and it would not result in a net decrease in earnings considering it takes twice the earnings units to lower one unit of benefits.
Me and the vast majority of my friends haven't experienced religion, and yet we're all in stable nuclear families. I didn't know we were anomalies.
Trump's political machine pouring money into primaries to oppose dissenting Republicans is a great corroboration of how little cohesion is in the Republican party. It's not happenstance that the first ever removal of a speaker of the House was a Republican and was last year. Unfortunately, fighting a battle to unify tends to result in more battles...
Show HN: Lunix – a Unix-like hobby simulation OS
Any feedback on this project I have been working on the past few days I'd greatly appreciate :D.
I don’t know, I’m a AI PhD dropout so deep into the job search struggle that I’ll take any job that comes my way.

I did have serious moral doubts when I was interviewing for some startups tho. The inner conflict is definitely there.
> Wouldn't it be great if you could just walk up to a local business and offer to pay them in some new cryptocurrency they've never heard of.

Not being snarky but why would this be great for anyone? What would be the point?
I’m a complete sucker for retrogaming stuff and I. Want. That.
I will bear that in mind if I'm ever cross-shopping the Taycan and a "Chinese minivan"
Where's it stand compared to some of the more traditional DW systems? Can it handle the workloads snowflake would for analytics?
I suppose the easier solution (not that I'm advocating it) would be to lie about disposing of them in the first place.
So much so, he has his own entropy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_entropy
Look at anything from publisher New Blood Interactive on Steam for a starting point. Mostly retro style FPS from differing eras, but there are a few other game types. Plus you'll struggle to find any that don't have thousands of user ratings in either very positive or overwhelmingly positive brackets.

Gloomwood (first person stealth) and Fallen Aces are a couple of gems still in early access.
That namespace thing has been in since C++20, right?
Well, I don’t actually like the taste of coffee and really drink it because of the caffeine effect.

I started drinking coffee at 26 because I got so tired after lunch that I almost passed out on my keyboard at work. This disappeared with the coffee intake.
After years (I’m 42) I still don’t like the taste and don’t drink it at night or on weekends/holidays.
I couldn't help myself:

http://beyondloom.com/decker/goofs/loveletter.html
It's not an AI. It's a word probability model. Trained on tons of text. It's not smart at all. The only reason why it might have "figured that out" is because it was actually present in scifi texts in the 60s. The other reason would be that you increased the temperature to something like 100, and then you think you see something genius in some hallucinations, among other unreadable text.
Walkman was the first device I got saving up pocket money. So it was definitely affordable.
I'm an older DINK and I tell people I think having a kid is like buying a boat. It's a luxury good that has variable returns on happiness.

If someone was trying to get me to buy a boat I'd tell them I can't afford it. It's a shortcut to, Why would I spend money on something for "the economy"
These days people are more likely to see the announcement on YouTube, TikTok, or Twitter.
Or to put another way, AI can be dangerous even when It's being totally helpful... When it is enabling some of humanity to screw things up for everyone else out of greed or anger.
They also have "dial-a-yield" now so the stockpile of larger weapons can be used on smaller targets without ridiculous fallout.
So nothing.

Are you asking for a consequence? There does not necessarily have to be any. People can talk for the sake of talking, or to share something with others, without there necessarily being any need for action or even comment, on anyone's part, although people are free to do either of those, of course, i.e. action or comment.

Why should there be any reason for saying something?

It can be just an observation, with no conclusion or recommendation implied. Capisce?

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/capisce

See the bullet point under the Usage notes link above, particularly about the Mafia ;).

Yes, it's like saying PDF format, which people from anywhere do, when the acronym PDF itself stands for Portable Document Format.

See here, for example, right on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=pdf+format
> It being auto imported into their terminal program [...] seems a pretty killer offering for teams.

I'm often pretty torn on recommendations like this - to use another tool to account for coworkers unwillingness to use (or, learn to use) the existing/underlying one. It reminds me of a time that I saw someone singing the praises of a GUI for Git because it allowed them to do things you couldn't do from the CLI "like adding only parts of a file" - to which someone replied simply "`git add -p`".

From an outcome-focused perspective, I suppose any introduced tool or process which "gets the job done better" is desirable, if it comes at zero cost. To me, the "lock-in" that everyone _has_ to use Warp in order to benefit from this shared knowledge is a non-zero cost, and requiring software engineers to know how to push code to a Git repo is not an unreasonable expectation. But if everyone's _already_ enthusiastic to use Warp for other reasons, I suppose my objection is moot.

> (with search, autosuggestion, and adjacent documentation)

adjacent documentation feels like a straw-man - man pages or `my-tool --help` exist for standard scripts! Ditto for search - if GitHub's search lets you down, then `grep searchterm /path/to/my/scripts/directory` still works. Autosuggestion is fair, though - although I do know that it's possible to have tool-specific auto-completes (e.g. https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/generated/kubec...), I'll bet Warp makes it easier than a standard shell does.
We all have different use-cases. We also have a workflow engine at work but that's because we wanted immediate execution. From submit to execute time can be 100 ms on our system, which makes it also work well for short jobs. Usually, the task coordinator overhead is greater than that on these things.
Because HN doesn't provide link previews, I'd recommend adding some information about the content to your comment. Otherwise we have to click through to YouTube for the comment to make any sense.

That said, the video is the GamersNexus one where they talk about an unverified claim that this is a fabrication process issue caused by oxidation between atomic deposition layers. If that's the case, then yeah, microcode can only do so much. But like Steve says in the video, the oxidation theory has yet to be proven and they're just reporting what they have so far ahead of the Zen 5 reviews coming soon.
I'm curious if you could expand—what exactly are these fields that rich old people only care about?

Looking at a broad picture of the economy, I'm really not sure this tracks. Lots of capital is being invested into software and AI, for example, which doesn't seem like something "old people" necessarily care about or even understand. In addition, the marijuana industry is now larger than the airline industry.
What's odd about this? Both a good things worth applauding to.
Conceptually the flaw is treating cash as a proxy for value.

Consider the assertion “Cash is one important piece of the puzzle. The impact may be limited without other resources like health care and child care.” This is paradoxically spot-on in highlighting that money in of itself doesn’t create value, people create value for one another. Taking people out of an underperforming value stream by injecting cash is like confusing palliative and restorative care. Pain meds can keep a person limping along, and it is great as a bridge to get to a cure, but long term use has risks.

As an alternative, I would advocate for a government (or other org) facilitation of people strengthening the streams of value between themselves. This doesn’t rule out a cash distribution based on increased taxes, but would focus more on enlisting community cooperation.

One might look at wealthy people as tax cows to be milked or as people who have insights into how value is created. Instead of creating an adversarial relationship of tax avoidance, create a mutually beneficial relationship of opportunities to give and serve.

The most successful wealthy people serve large orgs in boards of directors. What if there was a similar set of local boards that guided a grant or a loan program for life transformation in the way that student loans or GI Bill works but with an explicit stipulation (as opposed to the implicit stipulation of education) of how the funding would be used to create a better life well after the funding is complete?
Interesting to see the largest increase in consumption is "beverages". As far as I can see the commentary completely ignores this, but I presume this includes alcohol?
Freeform has an infinite campus.
FCC liability for radio pirates operating on your property
I didn’t understand why in 2010, it didn’t seem to make most news…

Took out the entire company where I worked.

People thought it was a worm/virus — few minutes after plugging in laptop, McAfee got the DAT update, quarantined the file; which caused Windows to start countdown+reboot (leading to endless BSODs).
You are seriously underestimating the amount of sweating a normal, healthy man does if he trained consistently for some time and his body learned to quickly adapt to minimal physical stress (heck, I sweat profusely even if I merely slowly walk). Let alone if there are any kinds of hills.
Unfortunately the loading times take a hit that I could not tolerate :(
Security through obscurity is fragile. Strength in numbers — less so.
> When Pornhub and other porn sites can deliver orders of magnitude more data across the world with much simpler systems, you know it's all bullshit.

That's nothing. My dedicated server delivers two orders of magnitude greater traffic than Pornhub (and everything in the Mindgeek network really). And I don't even need the cloud. Just better engineering.
Reminds me of Sudden Northwood Death Syndrome, 2002.

Looks like history may be repeating itself, or at least rhyming somewhat.

Back then, CPUs ran on fixed voltages and frequencies and only overclockers discovered the limits. Even then, it was rare to find reports of CPUs killed via overvolting, unless it was to an extreme extent --- thermal throttling, instability, and shutdown (THERMTRIP) seemed to occur before actual damage, preventing the latter from happening.

Now, with CPU manufacturers attempting to squeeze all the performance they can, they are essentially doing this overclocking/overvolting automatically and dynamically in firmware (microcode), and it's not surprising that some bug or (deliberate?) ignorance that overlooked reliability may have pushed things too far. Intel may have been more conservative with the absolute maximum voltages until recently, and of course small process sizes with higher potential for electromigration are a source of increased fragility.

Also anecdotal, but I have an 8th-gen mobile CPU that has been running hard against the thermal limits (100C) 24/7 for over 5 years (stock voltage, but with power limits all unlocked), and it is still 100% stable. This and other stories of CPUs in use for many years with clogged or even detached heatsinks seem to contribute to the evidence that high voltage is what kills CPUs, and neither heat nor frequency.

Edit: I just looked up the VCore maximum for the 13th/14th processors - the datasheet says 1.72V! That is far more than I expected for a 10nm process. For comparison, a 1st-gen i7 (45nm) was specified at 1.55V absolute maximum, and in the 32nm version they reduced that to 1.4V; then for the 22nm version it went up slightly to 1.52V.
Estrogen exposure is a significant risk factor for endometrial cancer, which most commonly occurs in post-menopausal women. It’s a cumulative effect, as are many other things.

Not a comment on the parent post, just highlighting that biology is not so straight forward.
Under that concept, well, if actually taking the social security (Grundsicherung) in Germany as a given, even assuming low CoL situations (it's worse in higher-CoL situations), the effective average tax rate past like about 160 EUR/month of income will rise to a peak at around 1500 EUR/month income and then continuously decrease to the super wealthy limit tax just under 50%.

At least you technically never have less money from more work (but only if you consider bureaucracy free; there is severe bureaucracy especially for those that fluctuate in and out of coverage).
> Enriching uranium is more expensive than making plutonium by a long shot

I'm not sure. This used to be the case in WW2, but today enriching uranium is quite inexpensive.

Here's an enrichment calculator [1]. The cost of enriching to 80% (weapons grade uranium) is $80000/kg, so you can enough uranium for a Hiroshima-style bomb for about $5 million.

$5 million for a nuclear bomb is basically nothing.

[1] https://www.uxc.com/p/tools/FuelCalculator.aspx
Are there a lot of mods that literally hack up the mobo? I haven't seen many portable ps2s.
Gen Z job seekers should be 'willing to do anything' says Squarespace CMO Mathur
Imagine installing an entirely new window manager without issue, and then undoing it without issue.

NixOS does that. And I'm pretty sure that no other flavor of Linux does. First time I realized I could just blithely "shop around window managers" simply by changing a couple of configuration lines, I was absolutely floored.

NixOS is the first Linux distro that made me actually feel like I was free to enjoy and tinker with ALL of Linux at virtually no risk.

There is nothing else like it. (Except Guix. But I digress.)
Which would reduce heat and therefore make it easier to cool in a small form factor.
> The PIRATE Act [2020, HR583] permits the FCC to fine both pirate radio operators and the property owners/landlords who permit pirate radio activity on their property. The risk for property owners is substantial, with maximum fines of $119,555 per day, capped at a statutory maximum of $2,391,097.
Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to Russia that the US is attacking NK and not just nuking Kamchatka?

Can the trajectory of an ICBM be inferred by the height of it’s arc?
Serious question, didn't we have a glimpse into UBI w/ all the stimulus packages? I'm very open to discussion here because I'm quite naive.

My current lens is that UBI ultimately inflates prices leaving everyone back where they were before. The problem with openresarchlab's test is it's limited scope. It did increase the spending power of a particular group because the prices around them did not increase.

If everyone has more money the "open market" raises prices to simply meet that. The root problem is non-limited capitalism? The price of basic goods cannot be allowed to rise vs cash on hand.

I do believe UBI's ultimate goal is to increase "spending power", but simply giving money doesn't change the problem long term and thus UBI is doomed to fail in its current form.
Atom used to recommend this: https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#git...
What was going through their minds in the 60s when they amassed 5,000...10,000 but went on to amass over 30,000? Was there any point after a few thousand?
What you are describing might intuitively sound like what a negative income tax should mean, had you never heard of a negative income tax before, but that is not what a negative income tax is. A negative income tax, which is a name for a type of benefit system, does not mean that people are literally negatively taxed, regardless of their income.
FCC Releases Draft NPRM Considering Broader Regulation of AI-Generated Robocalls
Show HN: HeyShort: Text to Speech Short Video Maker – Early Access Open
already started on this one since your recommendation and it's great! Thanks
edit: Finished the lecture. Now taking a hammock nap.
Upvoted just because the last sentence made me laugh. Perfect usage of that meme.
Same difference. At some point you're just arguing about what the number was. I don't care about the broader argument, but the right to buy $1MM of private shares is, in fact, real consideration.
The CFAA has not been amended, but there was DoJ policy change on enforcement. So everyone is always breaking the law in the course of normal business, and it's still up to the prosector to determine who to go after:
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-...
You can have all 6 connected and still be in either category.

For example, 6 friends in a loop can be divided into even and odd trios, where each trio has no direct friend connections within it.

But six people in two separate triangles fall into the other category, with two trios of mutual friends.

Notice how both of these cases give each person 2 friends. It's not nearly as simple as assigning everyone a color at the start.

Another thing to think about: If you have a triangle of 3, and a line of 3, then you can find 3 mutual friends and three mutual non-friends. How would you use colors to differentiate this situation from the two-triangles situation?
I found the report the statistic is from [0]. But note that it says "by app," so I don't think it's actually all traffic, just the top apps. Their reported source is data from 300m customers in different regions.

[0] https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/Sandvine_Redesign_2019/Downlo...
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