skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at light vehicle sales in the US they've been running at 17 million or so a year for 25 years.

So yes the only way automakers can increase revenue in the US is by making cars and trucks more expensive. Because they can't increase unit volume.

The issue the Chinese have is everyone not just the US is asking the question what in it for us having all the factories in China.
I couldn't buy I-bonds from the US Treasury website because they are using a third party identity verification. WTF? Third parties can't verify me, I've infiltrated private companies with nonsense to protect my privacy. Ask the IRS, DMV, DHS, or USCIS instead to verify me, damnit.
I've just sent them a notice letter to delete my personal information under CA Consumer Privacy Act and they declined and I am pursuing further. If anyone would like to send a similar notice, it's very easy through https://yourdigitalrights.org/
We evolved to deal with suffering, so, absent suffering, we invent our own. Appealing to worse problems can be an attempt to subvert that mechanism by forcing perspective. Subverting it is good since the mechanism is stupid: it's programmed to strive for a deliverance/salvation from problems which it guarantees can never arrive since that state is like the dog catching the car.

Another approach to subverting it is religion. :p In Judeochristianity, "don't worry, you get the salvation; it's just not in this life". In Buddhism, "the salvation is an illusion that you can tap into at any time if you meditate hard enough".
He was a class act, I really enjoyed his shows and stand up. Seemed like a kind person. A real legend, I’m sorry to see he’s gone, even though he had a really good run. If I make it to 94, I’ll consider that good.
While i do not share the opinion that jobs was such a genius at all, reducing him to be just a marketer seems very narrow-minded.

Sometimes it's about bundling potential rather than exploitation. I have read many stories of the people who worked for jobs, not many of the "first ones" seem to tell stories of being exploited. But many seem to be proud of how much work they put into their work guided by a guy who seems to be there mostly for saying yey or ney. Which seems to be crucial.

Think about all the dysfunctional organizations you have seen or worked with. In my experience, most of them were lacking clarity, responsibility, personal investment & decisions.

The potential to end all wars, end hunger, free societies etc is there. I mean just on HN, the potential to transform the world by tomorrow is there. There is enough people with good will, enough people in key positions, enough people who are the best in their field, enough people who love to hack away as a side project, enough people who enjoy debating etc... here on HN.

All that is missing is the right approach to get a few of these people together with the right goal and by tomorrow we could take out / stop a lot of evil. This person must be able to "market", to bundle potential. But this person must also be able to identify potential & make hard decisions & do the things others would call "insensitive". Otherwise the people would quickly lose interest or be lost in chaos.

Focusing potential seems to be the most crucial part. Having a lot of potential but high entropy seems to be irrelevant in most cases.

Anyway, had to type it out because i just realized that partially i am doing the same mistake with my startup. Too stuck fiddling on the tech while knowing that i should be focusing on bundling potential. Currently i am just contributing to a entropic potential, which serves no one. Bundling it might serve the right people, at the right time with the right people.

Which infects my mind with the question i have been struggling with: is there any way someone like jobs could have been more than just a marketer in your eyes?

I do feel like i am looking down upon people like jobs who seem to be happy with just talking and never trying to really do the things themselves. On the other hand having this opinion of potential entropy... what do you think?

Edit: just wanted to add the after thought that people most likely call these people geniuses, whose way of achieving results they can't quite comprehend. And usually for people too attached from the problematic domain, the same geniuses could appear like idiots or sharlatans.
I have to say, the experience of trying to sign up for Nvidia Enterprise so you can try the "NIM" packaged version of this model, is just icky and and awful now that I've gotten used to actually free and open models and software. It feels much nicer and more free to be able to clone llama.cpp and wget a .gguf model file from huggingface without any registration at all. Especially since it has now been several hours since I signed up for the Nvidia account and it still says on the website "Your License Should be Active Momentarily | We're setting up your credentials to download NIMs."

I really don't get Nvidia's thinking with this. They basically have a hardware monopoly. I shelled out the $4,000 or so to buy two of their 4090 GPUs. Why are they still insisting on torturing me with jumping through these awful hoops? They should just be glad that they're winning and embrace freedom.
Shoutout to Ameelio.

Show HN: Ameelio.org – Free Prison Communication Platform -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042558 - May 2020 (90 comments)

Show HN: Ameelio – Free and Open Source Prison Communication Platform (Part II) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701356 - July 2020 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39376264 (CTO comment on policy 5 months ago)
Being charitable, the question I would have is whether the FCC has the same regulatory power over private prisons as they do over state and federally run prisons.
Capitalistic businesses are run like little fascist dictatorships [1]. And so it seems natural that owners would have interests that align with fascism.

[1] De Mesquita, B. B., Smith, A., Siverson, R. M., & Morrow, J. D. (2005). The logic of political survival. MIT press.
If you change the name of your company without informing the bank, your creditors, your secured creditors, your shareholders, the state corporation commission, and your firms statutory agent, you will run into some legal problems quickly.

The legal ramifications of changing your name is a ton of documentation, notification, and registration.
Completely, is linked to the Warren Buffet insight watching people playing at the Casinos [1].

[1] https://money.com/warren-buffett-stock-market-casino/
Unclear, but fine-tuning has many problems not faced by RAG:

- More prone to hallucinations

- Worse at citing sources for people to double check outputs

- Can't be updated without retraining

- Can't impose knowledge access controls for different users
The truth is flexible when falsehoods support political beliefs
There was also news about Meta withholding its AI stuff in EU.

The techbros are trying to push the narrative that all these countries with their regulations are missing out on the next revolution but IMHO they are dead wrong.

Brazil, EU etc. don't need to be exploited to own pieces of these companies and profit from the work they do in the USA. Also, we are yet to see a tech that doesn't end up in EU due to regulations. Yes, the Internet revolution happened in the USA but if you look closely it didn't happened all over the USA but in SV despite all of the states being the same low regulation environment. Also, many of the core technologies were invented in EU.
What are the signs of hope for a broader cure? That maybe heterozygous mutations work too? It's still a complete bone marrow transplant.
> not even trying to be innovative

it was Google's research that led to the current LLM revolution
The closest I see is Unlocking the Parallel Universe: Subinterpreters and Free-Threading in Python 3.13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCjsy7tb420
I have a shrunken nickel from these folks:

https://www.capturedlightning.com/frames/interesting1.html

Don't know if the copper figures into the shrinking...
> This sounds like a quick route to prisons with no working phones.

I agree; if you want the less terse version of my view, it's that the right to communicate (not necessarily privately!) with your loved ones from prison should be enshrined in law. There shouldn't be any profit in it; it should be one of the costs of operating prisons (and, by the numbers in TFA, a very small one).
Ah OK, yeah I wasn't aware of libtom, but it seems cool.

I definitely like the strategy of testing against multiple implementations -- we do a lot of that! Shell is really good for that too.

Thank you for the e-mail, I'll reply more there!!
> You basically have to give up on the idea of ever having any real evidence for one thing over another

Exactly. We agree.

> best explanations we could find

We have no tested explanation of abiogenesis, chiefly. Among many other questions. Lots of theories that say “and throw your hands up and wave them around and wait 8 million years and tada, probably, idk”

God intervening in the universe is a potential source of sudden changes in the laws of physics. For instance changes that allow a man to walk on water or split a sea. Those changes are stepwise, they do not impact space time gradually. Thus non-differentiable. If the change was gradual, evolutionists would come up with a formula for it and say it magically is that way, for “reasons”. They might look at how their laws of gravity work and see that they aren’t right for galaxies, and say the reasons are “dark matter”, for example. I might say they’re God working exerting a differentiable influence, but those two are interchangeable, at least on the surface. It’s only the stepwise that is Godly.
NSCopyObject isn't something that was "dropped into Swift," it's a function that has existed since the mid 90s, and is available in Swift because Swift can call C and Objective-C functions.

But yes, you do have to live with the history of the platform you're developing for. Opportunities to break backwards-compatibility are few and far-between, because users don't like when OS updates make their apps stop working.
My son used clay to make me an ashtrayer..
Warren Buffett is not fond of how the markets have started to resemble a casino
The vast majority support local streaming via rtsp...
This is not so much about prioritization but outright dismissal and comfortably not questioning the status quo.

Reminds of many surgeons refusal to use checklists a while ago despite showing general improvement in outcomes. Nobody wants to admit they could have done better, change their routine and think they don't need help as they're already really good. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19682451
> The American model of higher education focuses too much on teaching and too little on self-study

As an American in higher education, that has not been my experience. I spend most of my time teaching myself, and honestly, I like it that way. Very rarely has a professor explained anything to me outside of a video lecture.
Very militarily important too (it would enable the US fleet to cover both coasts) which is why Teddy Roosevelt pushed for it.
This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Related to this is what is sometimes known as the "Backfire Effect" which is the idea that a person's belief in something untrue will only be strengthened when presented with evidence to the contrary.

I had thought this was well established by experimental psychology, but now that I am looking into it it seems like the evidence is not nearly as strong as I thought and the effect may be very small or nonexistent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance#Backfire_e...
in a sense having goo.gl be legitimate only serves to legitimize google-site.com

additionally we should tar and feather whoever came up with akams
I used to work for a company that gathered data about doctor's licenses and sanctions. All 50 States do it a little different and I helped with scraping some of the data. Sometimes we would have to buy the lists of sanctioned doctors--think about that, a State putting the list of board sanctioned doctors behind a paywall.

So, while every real estate agent has cheap and instant access to all this data, the public is behind a paywall to see which doctors have been sanctioned. Where did we go wrong?
But open source, which is a pretty big difference
3) tax laws that mandate buybacks + dividends cannot exceed more than a % value of R&D + CapEx spend.

Otherwise 1+2 result in the C-suite deciding to divert all that cash to their pockets.
Reference: the past 40 years of big business
Agree. This seems to just be a trashy clickbait headline with a vaguely related thought piece about effective communication following it.
You could probably get better "framerate" by just hearing the slamming sounds from the microphone instead of querying acpid.

Or using the webcam to look for darkness of the shutting.
Wonder if you could use that to separate gasses.

I also wonder about "sorting" atoms/molecules like Maxwell's demon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
At the moment, my "perfect Hacker News" is Mastodon. A curated feed of people sharing interesting things, and that's it. No viputerative snark, no performative cynicism, no wallowing in conspiracy theory, no flame wars, no race wars, no green accounts shouting slurs and death threats. No lectures whenever someone makes a joke or steps on one of an ever increasing and increasingly pedantic set of guidelines. It's everything I wish Hacker News was. It's fun. Hacker News hasn't been fun in a long time.

If I had to change one thing about HN, architecturally (since trying to change the culture is a fool's errand) it would be better curation. This would go against one of the design goals of HN, having a "non-fragmented" community where everyone sees the same site and the same content. But I would argue that the community is already fragmented. The size and diversity of the userbase is such that people already experience completely different versions of Hacker News depending on when they arrive and what they follow.

Being able to whitelist or blacklist accounts, domains, keywords, etc and curate one's account would improve the subjective quality of the forum across the board. People who want Hacker News to only be strictly technical and startup content can have that. People who want rough-and-tumble politics and debate can have that. And never the twain should meet.

I really do think there is an interesting design space between Twitter and traditional threaded forums that might make for an interesting experience.

And if I had to change a second thing about HN it would be getting rid of voting/karma, because it clearly isn't serving its intended purpose.
Great idea, I'll start!

I leave (of absence, technically) this program with a lightness of heart and exhilaration at the next adventure in joining the rabid commercial world of a tech startup. I would like to acknowledge a great debt to everyone who helped me grow in these 4 years. Know that I will be a faithful alum, of lesser degree.
>It’s just a bunch of old dudes talking about where they are driving to and gate keeping the spectrum

Yup and the grouchy boomers who LARP as emergency preparedness personnel.

My experiences with amateur radio people have been universally negative, and in my opinion the death of ham radio is squarely the fault of its participants.
This is one of my favorite bits of TV ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdUWXf8jJk
The law used to support this decision was the LGPD. LGPD is not against AI, it's pro-privacy and pro-explicit user consent. It was approved back in 2018, mirroring the GDPR.

Meta was training Generative AI on Instagram photos as an opt-out feature and even after opting out, photos you uploaded before that date could still be used to train generative models. I don't think stopping it is by any means "draconian".
There is a video of a guy shouting into a can which was changing the pressure of a piezo ... I think they picked it up in the shack but didn't mess with it much more. Completely passive I think.
Other device manufacturers with proprietary drivers don't engage in publicity stunts to make it sound like their drivers are FOSS or that they embrace FOSS (or just OSS).
Per diem rates can be looked up at https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-a-trip/per-diem-rates. The standard combined rate is $166: $107 for lodging and $59 for meals and incidentals. This is adjusted for high COL locations. Many hotels have a deal with the government where rates are subsidized. Government employees should pay no taxes on their stays.

So yeah, they’re not staying at the Ritz on government business (and they shouldn’t be!) but it’s not like they’re living in a tent.
> just because it’s not detectable how do we know for sure you haven’t transmitted it

We know this unambiguously. If it’s not in your body fluids you can’t transmit it.

We don’t require folks produce a transcript of every VD they ever had to every prospective partner. If the science says not transmissible, that properly takes the matter out of the sphere of public safety and into that of personal trust. (I agree with you that it would seem polite for someone to disclose that.)
But, isn’t that the case with others, including government agencies, benefiting from the ESG grift pulled on us tax paying suckers?
> linux for example doesn't have true IO async API

io_uring has been around for a few years at this point, with vulnerabilities having been fixed to the point that it's fit for broadband usage.
Plang: Abstracting Away the Complexity
it's better, but I wouldn't say it's good now. Try holding the arrow keys, the site won't move. Any swiping both on mouse and mobile overshoots by a lot. What should be a small movement scrolls the whole website
It is true. How about linus pauling and quasicrystals?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328481-400-impossib...
You are all over the place.

The person that you’re replying to already called it negligent. It’s clear that it’s negligent.

That’s different from USPS not having some “legitimate” reason to use a Facebook tracking pixel somewhere.

I’m not even American, but I just spent 30 seconds on the USPS site and came across an online store where you can buy gifts, etc. This reasonably puts them well within the ballpark of an organisation that’d seek to use this sort of tech. As anyone that’s worked with anyone in ecommerce marketing will tell you, there’s always organisational pressure to shove these ‘tracking pixels’ onto your site.

Again, it’s negligent that they did it, from a privacy POV. But let’s not conflate that with ‘old man grumbling about social networks’.
Isn't the issue that the goal on one side of the aisle seems to be to revoke all authority agencies like the FCC currently have? It doesn't matter if the agency itself agreed in a bipartisan matter when the courts and the executive both decide that the agency is illegitimate.
This solution breaks DKIM - it inserts new postfix headers. You can do the same thing in Thunderbird by going into the config editor and adding your own "x-ms-reactions: disallow" headers as per https://kb.mozillazine.org/Custom_headers
More Americans are searching online about moving to Canada. But will they?
The usual uptick when it looks like Republicans will win the election. However, as a Canadian, i can tell you the US is still looking much more attractive these days (the article does touch on southbound migration)
Single-Stepping the 6502 Processor
>Instead of ignoring it signaling that their criticism was acceptable, you can push back on it and remind them it's irrelevant and unwanted and they should probably just keep it to themselves.

Unfortunately, that won't stop many people, it will only make them double down.
Gotcha, then, it's "not even wrong" in the Pauli sense to say Whisper isn't streaming
I am pretty sure they said they’d reevaluate that ID login change but instead rammed it through.

I think about it every time I have to use it.
As the parent comment has explained, all USPS is doing -- at least from their perspective -- is to use some third-party analytics tools, without intentionally or specifically linking to Facebook or Snapchat.

Or put it this way -- is there a data analytics platform that is suitable & easy to use for any US government agency? Not that I am aware of (but please let me know). Without such infrastructure, these government organizations understandably are looking for those commercial options.
> shouldn't be any profit in it; it should be one of the costs of operating prisons

Sure. My point is turning it into a pure cost centre almost guarantees it will be ignored.

That said, I’d support a certain number of minutes being required to be provided to every inmate every month for free, provided they aren’t in a high-security prison or otherwise high risk (where their calls need to be manually monitored). That simplifies the problem from maintaining infrastructure to ensuring it's being properly provisioned.
In this discussion people claim io_uring is not real async IO, but just another kernel level threadpool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38919659
Personally, I somewhat wonder about that. The firmware (proprietary) which runs on the gpu seems like it'll have access to do things over the gpu PCIe bus, including read system memory, and access other devices (including network gear). Reading memory of remote hosts (ie RDMA) is also a thing which Nvidia gpus can do.
I've played with a cheap Chinese clone sdr receiver and LNA and filter and have received FT8 calls from Indonesia and Australia on a length of scrap wire I hung up in my loft here in London UK. Calls from all over Europe and from USA are pretty trivial to pick up.

I would be interested in getting licensed to TX, but then to apply that practically I'd need to invest also in 100s - 1000s of £££ of gear rather than a mere 10s. And then once I've done that ... I think the novelty would be mostly gone if I'm honest. I don't think the practical expense seems worth it.
These are problems with the server implementation though and not with the SSH protocol itself; you could design a SSH server software that does not run as root (if you do not need the capabilities that are available when it does run as root; for example, if you only want to allow SSH to one user account then it can run with that user account).
Imaginary Enemies