skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early in 2002, Disneyland cut its entertainment budget and laid me off, and my first wife got herself confined to a psych ward, in the process destroying our apartment and getting my lease terminated, so I noped out and decided to move clear across the country.

I took the train. Los Angeles to Newark. Three days. I can't really imagine doing it today, because I'm like everyone else here, a whiny little prissy bitch. But back then, I shared a two-bedroom place with three other guys, slept in my car all the time, was used to an hourly job with no consistent schedule. Without any expectation of luxury or customer service, it was a pretty nice experience. My back was healthier then, too, so sleeping in coach wasn't a big deal. The great thing about taking Amtrak is the rail line didn't create towns the way highways do. You're truly remote for much of the ride. You're not seeing the "Americana" America you see on road trips. You're seeing the natural country. Following the Susquehanna River through Pennsylvania was my favorite part of the trip.

It was also amusing when the FBI questioned me in Albuquerque, as they apparently flagged anyone taking a long one-way trip after 9/11. 21 year-old aimless drifter with no plans dressed like Hunter Thompson. I don't even remember what I told them. Don't ever wanna go home, I guess, but you can check my bags and see I don't have a bomb.
> towing it away

I think these hypotheticals are starting to blur different concepts and questions, namely the distinction between:

1. Generic request

2. Subpeona

3. Warrant (reasonable)

4. Warrant (stupid/crazy/evil)

____

I suspect OP is mainly thinking of (1) and (2), where they get a phone call or letter and they say: "Sure! Here's a link to the video file."

I would also guess OP might be okay with (3) where an officer came to their door and said "I need watch you copy time-range X-Y of your front door footage onto this USB stick I brought", or even "I need to take your entire SD card for a few months" if the footage seems very important.

In contrast, I don't think OP is supporting the idea that police can get a warrant to rip the camera out of the wall and break down their door and seize all their electronics.
> [V]alues and assumptions contained in programming languages inform the software that’s written with them and change the world accordingly. By the time I’d learned that Brendan Eich, author of JavaScript, is an anti-vaxxer and was a supporter of a campaign to have same-sex marriage nixed in California, I wasn’t surprised.

I don't particularly associate Javascript with any brand of anti-vaxxing, anti-same-sex-marriage movements or values. Is this just a jab at Javascript being "bad" so of course its authour is also "bad"?
It’s the introduction to the Unabomber manifesto.
OSOM's former Chief Privacy Officer has filed a lawsuit against the company
The point I was making about ethics is that consciousness, or lack thereof, has nothing to do with how I treat other humans. Treat other people poorly, and they will treat you poorly - consciousness or not. So you treat people well not only out of an ethical consideration, but simply because it's the most beneficial way to act.

As for pain, you experience it because it's an evolutionary wiring in your brain to help you avoid harm. If you didn't recoil when putting your finger in fire, you'd risk severely damaging your finger. Pain saves you from yourself and is one of the most primitive stimuli we have. Even extremely simplistic multicellular creatures react to harmful stimuli or experience pain. Presumably you do not think they have a consciousness, but perhaps they do? The point of this is that there is no way to know anything. For all you know, it's even conceivable that a rock, or a star, or even a nucleus might have a consciousness. I strongly doubt all of these of course, but there is no way to conclusively say they do or they do not.
I’ve become convinced that complex things in tech either ossify and get stuff built on top of them, or get Ship of Theseus’d. It’s extremely rare for an outright replacement to replace something overnight. Linux is not going to be suddenly replaced by something incompatible, but I’m concinved it will become more oxidized over time. If not under Linus, then under an initially fully compatible corporate fork which would ultimately become more popular. So there’s some pressure on Linus to move it along .
YouTubeDownloader: Downloader GUI for YT Videos (Windows)
Of course not. Apple would not release a calculator for iPad that doesn't honor the bigger form factor and Apple's uncompromising design and user friendliness, nothing that doesn't make users go "Wow!" in slack-jawed amazement!

It needs to work on it for at least five more years, meanwhile you can buy one of the many inferior iPad calculator apps that are not hindered by Apple's vision of greatness.
Without a cap, overpriced 8- or 9-figure residences will themselves become the vehicle of wealth transfer, rather than irrevocable trusts.
You might recheck your assumptions. It’s possible you’re pushing too hard (since it’s not a roller ball, you don’t need force to get flow). And there’s a variety of different “grips” for us lefties, and I write daily with my vanishing point and kon peki ink with no smudge.

I’ll agree somewhat on pencils, though. I used to have gray hands when I was in high school after all my notes.
> Genuine question: What is stopping some small percent of drivers from installing cameras and using ML to identify cars driving dangerously (e.g. speeding, running reds, changing multiple lanes at once, etc.), and when their license plate is identifiable, finding and informing their insurance company?

GM is already doing this, look it up.
MDX is great for this, you can intermix JS/TS, JSX, and Markdown

https://mdxjs.com/

You can write any components normally and pass them in to be available in MDX. You can make forms and much more
Meta correlates to privacy, you just have the correlation inversed.

You have privacy settings on almost all meta apps. They have tools to make it hard to download personal pictures without uploader consent. They respond to privacy concerns constantly.

Maybe that's why you are confused, you read or listen to their responses to privacy concerns, and you focus on the concerns rather than the responses.
Yes, I agree, that is what they meant by slow animations. So why did you bring up compute power? They specifically said "not because poor performance".

Also I don't think "just" is the word to use here. Slow is slow, and when it's on purpose it's harder to avoid.
No. "I published XX books and YYY articles" doesn't tell me anything about the actual value. Some authors I heard publish a 3-digit-number articles per year...
It doesn't make me uncomfortable. I just think it's stupid. I guess it made me roll my eyes, so that was sort of uncomfortable.

(To be as charitable as possible to your point, I did say "cringe", but I didn't mean it in the way that you're interpreting it. I just meant "cringe", in the same way that I cringe when I see someone who boldly expresses an opinion about anything that is factually incorrect, or perhaps, when a stranger starts selling you on their multi-level-marketing scheme in the bathroom. More like "oh god, we're going to do this now, are we?", than a "I reject basic facts of history that the average US high school student should know, including the approximate order of major historical events" sort of thing.)
> You seem to be opposed

No, I'm suggesting that there are other ways to get to the footage than just impounding an innocent person's car. Leaving someone stranded when they've done nothing wrong is absolutely a dick move. It's not like they can leave a note in the space where you left the car. There's also no signage with a phone number of a towing company. You don't find out your car wasn't stolen until you call to report your car stolen.

Again, they could quite easily boot your car and have a patrol unit wait for you to return. Or not boot the car, but still have a patrol unit wait. They have the license plate so they can look up the owner. They could try to contact that owner. There are so many other things to do than tow someone's car and leaving them stranded. The fact we are so willingly okay with the cops stealing your car is very strange to me.
Does the same bullish logic apply to cold fusion?
> You can insure yourself for like $30k, and you don't have $30k lying around paying $100 bucks a month is a terrible financial decision.

Certainly not here (Washington), you must have at least $60,000 AND it MUST be deposited with the DOL or State, unavailable to you, and you will not earn interest on it.

How do you propose people get to and from work to come up with $30-60K in savings that they can afford just to have sitting on account with the state?

> Take out a personal loan or save the money you would spend on insurance evry year

You're generally paying around 9-12% on this personal loan. Say it's over 5 years (that's assuming you can afford the $1,300/month payment), you're paying $21,000 in interest.

> Buying insurance is for npcs.

So your solution to NOT pay $50-100 a month for insurance is to pay a lender $1,300/mo for 5 years (assuming the amounts haven't increased then)? I don't think you've actually thought this through.

It literally would take you FIFTY YEARS to break even on this plan.

And in the meantime, you're only "insured" for the minimums, and if you're in a car accident at fault can easily be sued for more.
That would be nice but it would put you at a significant disadvantage compared to authoritarian/totalitarian states which would certainly have very terrible consequences.
Make inheritance count toward the gift limit. Have the full $13M limit left on your gifting exemptions? You pass down $13M in inheritance tax free.
When it comes to punishment, "swift and certain" trumps "harsh but sporadic". Having cars snitch on everyone else implements the former, "lying in spinal traction" implements the latter.
> I just don’t see the risk of letting some tin foil hatters do their thing

It's the calls to action by the tinfoil hat crowd that is problematic and most typically why platforms shut down their posts. The buried lede in most stories about censorship on social media is the people getting posts removed weren't just spouting tinfoil hat theories but were directly or indirectly calling for violence or harassment of certain ethnic groups. A veiled or coded call for violence is still a call for violence.

Social media, no matter stupid claims to the contrary, is not a public forum or town square. It's owned by private interests. It may be publicly available but it is not owned and operated by the public.

Private platforms don't usually want to amplify racist dog whistles or other coded rhetoric when they've been made aware of it. Attention seekers love when they get censored because they can run to another platform to complain they got censored for claiming COVID leaked from a lab but not the follow up post where they used that as justification for torching an Asian market.
A bit perplexing that the author after all that time thinking/working on Y2K isn't really clear on what the bug was. Nor that under all the spreadsheet filling, meetingnote-taking etc there was some IT deckhands running around updating PC BIOSes and making sure software updates were in place so ppl could keep doing their daily office work when they got back to the office on Jan...3rd.
Almost all software is 64 bits nowadays, and avoids the problem entirely.

But "almost all" is not "all", and won't be until there. It will certainly be interesting, as stuff will fail in a completely different way from Y2K.
I fail to see the difference. I think the term "moderation" has become popular mainly because everyone is aware of the negative connotations of the term "censorship". Re-labelling acts of censorship as "moderation" allows you to frame it as a responsible and morally justified practice. Now you're no longer quelling dissenting voices like a fascist dictator, no, you're merely "protecting the community", "combating misinformation" or whatever they call it these days.

Basically, it's "moderation" when we do it but it's "censorship" when the Chinese communist party does it.
Tumblr blogs are totally unlike WordPress blogs, though. Tumblr as a platform is a totally self-contained social media platform, with the addition of public-facing "blog"-style profiles. There's no way it'll be a straightforward conversion.
1. Because Windows/macOS/iOS/Android don't have a built-in package manager at the same granularity of individual libraries, but modern programming languages still want to have first-class support for all these OSes, not just smugly tell users their OS is inferior.

2. Because most Linux distros can only handle very primitive updates based on simple file overwrites, and keep calling everything impossible to secure if it can't be split and patched within limitations of C-oriented dynamic linker.

3. Because Linux distros have a very wide spread of library versions they support, and they often make arbitrary choices on which versions and which features are allowed, which is a burden for programmers who can't simply pick a library and use it, and need to deal with extra compatibility matrix of outdated buggy versions and disabled features.

From developer perspective with lang-specific packages

• Use 1 or 2 languages in the project, and only need to deal a couple of package repositories, which give the exact deps they want, and it works the same on every OS, including cross-compilation to mobile.

From developer perspective of using OS package managers:

• Different names of packages on each Linux distro, installed differently with different commands. There's no way to specify deps in a universal way. Each distro has a range of LTS/stable/testing flavors, each with a different version of library. Debian has super old useless versions that are so old it's worse than not having them, plus bugs reintroduced by removal of vendored patches.

• macOS users may not have any package manager, may have an obscure one, and even if they have the popular Homebrew, there's no guarantee they have the libs you want installed and kept up-to-date. pkg-config will give you temporary paths to precise library version, and unless you work around that, your binary will break when the lib is updated.

• Windows users are screwed. There are several fragmented package managers, which almost nobody has installed. They have few packages, and there's a lot of fiddly work required to make anything build and install properly.

• Supporting mobile platforms means cross-compilation, and you can't use your OS's package manager.

OS-level packaging suuuuuuuucks. When people say that dependency management in C and C++ is a nightmare, they mean the OS-level package managers are a nightmare.
I've understood the point of Tailwind to be two things:

1. Allow styling to co-exist with your DOM layout rather than separate files

2. Provide a ready-to-use style system built atop utility classes

Emphasis on "utility classes". This is what makes Tailwind different from e.g. Bootstrap.

I don't think the point is to avoid writing CSS. The point is to write CSS in a way that allows it to be co-located with DOM layout, so that UI components can become self-contained pieces of code.
They did release GPT-4o (making a whole event out of it) and mini recently so not sure why you think that.

Seems like they don't have anything up their sleeve.

Given how OpenAI has functioned in the last year or so not sure how one can think they have some secret model waiting to be unleashed.
>Inherited wealth is the least earned

Let's be real. No wealth is 'earned'. It's almost entirely luck and social connections. No different from inheritance.

Besides, inheritance can be hard work, psychologically. Your parents may be in a very different socioeconomic group than you for most of your adult life. Your baseline expectation for a 'normal' lifestyle is somewhat elevated (due to the lifestyle you experienced in your childhood) but, for most of your adult reality, you're broke and you feel guilty knowing that your child (the only one you can afford to have) can't have the same childhood that you had.

You work like crazy just to try to earn a living to get back to 'normal' (what you experienced in your childhood) but, deep down, you know you that your best shot at getting there is inheritance in about 30 years' time when you're at death's door (because, with all the stress you experienced, you know you're not going to live as long as your parents). Your biggest worry is that your government will fall to communism and there will be no inheritance.

Your life was basically ruined since the start of adulthood as soon as you were confronted with the ugly reality that labor of any kind is worthless and capital is everything. A reality that your parents will never have to face.

If the government wants to be perfectly consistent and tax people based on how easy it was for them to earn money, then it should impose wealth tax since the amount of wealth tells you the amount of luck and social connectedness at play... And this will also impact inheritance to some extent, but to a fairer extent.
To be honest I don’t quite recall the history anymore and no doubt the place we were at was late with adoption. My first day they said “congratulations, you’ve just inherited 3 million lines of confusion”
Isn‘t this a false dichotomy? Removing the cost basis step-up doesn‘t automatically mean any taxes are due on the inheitance - you could just keep the low cost basis and pay the tax once you actually realize your gains.
Debian oldstable's version has also been updated from 11.10 to 11.11 (I just saw that when upgraded my servers, which run on oldstable, after upgrading my laptop which runs on stable).
This actually has more to do with the vast majority of CEO compensation being structured as stock option grants, and very little if anything to do with “Buy, Borrow, Die.” It’s largely meant to communicate skin in the game to shareholders (“I don’t make any money unless I drive shareholder value via stock price increases").

Whether or not that’s actually true is a totally different matter and depends largely on the actually structure of the compensation, but that’s the theory.
<Doob rolls over in his grave>ugh
I don’t think a yacht is generally an appreciating asset. They require massive amounts of money to keep afloat, and the furnishings and tech go out of date requiring expensive overhaul.
> In Lithuania, privacy is quite meaningfully enshrined in its constitution[1].

You do realize that Lithuania is supporting chat control?
There is a huge gap between a search warrant (in which you are generally the suspect of the investigation) and "this guy's car might have evidence, let's tow it". The proper analogue to a search warrant here is the police getting a warrant to get the data off Tesla's servers, not towing the car away.
When things got missed things went _badly_ wrong and that spurred businesses to take rapid action to respond.

The first "Y2K" bugs where when banks' computer systems started messing up the calculations of long date financial securities/mortgages - decades before the millennium. Closer to the time Supermarkets started junking food that had a post 1999 Best Before date. Those were company ending problems if not fixed and so got overwhelming and rapid focus.
Gotta look past the agricultural revolution, not just shortly before industrial revolution
It did the same thing PHP did in terms of convenience. Made it easy to generate “dynamic” HTML. Everything was a template in a sense. It grew into a more serious programming language and platform. Fond memories of year 2000 :)
This is already done via traffic cameras, which are operated by contracted private outfits. Letting any civilian submit the footage, for a judge to review, would amount to a qui tam action. It's not unprecedented. Would the average citizen want to risk his identity being exposed if the defendant demands an audit of the footage? I couldn't say.
Go is unlike other languages mentioned here (and this arguably applies to OCaml too).

As much as its standard library superficially looks close to C, it is as equally unlike C in its performance and abstraction level. It does not have suitable tools to do systems programming properly and its compiler and interop capabilities are too weak.
It's mainly just a really bizzare post, super interesting and informative, but why would anyone in that position go into the trouble of typing up that amount of detail and post it in a brand new subreddit?
>"If you read the article" is such a lame comment. In other comments in this thread, I've literally quoted the article. How in the world could I have pulled a quote without reading the article.

Unlike some commenters I don't check a commenter's entire comment history before making comments. In fact, I don't even keep good track of what everyone said in a particular thread, so forgive me if I didn't do enough due diligence before making a vague implication that you didn't read the article. That said, you need to chill out. If you can't handle a vague implication that you didn't read the article, maybe online forum commenting isn't for you.
Everyone is unsatisfied with what they have but some people are more right than others in the complaints they make.
This might be unpopular but I think there are ways that taxing unrealized capital gains could work without being super radical.

1. Allow unrealized losses to be deducted.

2. Once a certain percentage of the gain is taxed, step up the cost basis by the amount of tax paid. That way you avoid double taxation (once under the unrealized value and again when the asset is sold).

3. (optional) Keep the tax rate on unrealized gains low. Even 3% would be significantly higher than what we have today.

Under this logic, it almost seems like a no brainer. People who have a ton of wealth in unrealized gains would pay taxes progressively over time instead of being hit with a massive tax bill when they sell (or potentially no tax bill when they die due to the step up in cost basis). Feel free to poke loopholes in this idea.
>this type of planning is generally not economically feasible unless the taxpayer has a net worth exceeding around $300M

You can actually achieve much the same effect by buying property and taking out a normal mortgage against it for living expenses which can be done by people of more normal means.
My guess is that adherence to the ever-shifting sand dunes of local privacy regulations across the entire planet was such a burden that Meta has been forced to come up with a global, flexible, and broadly compliant solution.
As someone who has been at it for 25 years, I still learn something new about programming every day. It really does satisfy some deep curiosity within me, and I am glad one can partake even (as in the author of the article's case) after 50!
That is literally already how it works.
I don't know for sure how to read the ENSO graph but if I'm reading it correctly it's forecasting an aggressive La Nina.
We're talking about C code that has refcounted objects, where you have to know ahead of time to add or remove a refcount before you call specific C functions. In Rust that would just be an Rc or an Arc, and the programmer would not need specific knowledge.

Or a C function that either returns an existing object, or a new object that is incompletely initialized. If it is an existing object, you are required to call a second function to finish the initialization. And you’re just supposed to know about that requirement; it’s not documented anywhere. On the Rust side they decided to return an Either<EmptyObject, InitializedObject> instead, so that the programmer can directly see what is going on.

They’re not saying that all Rust APIs are immediately easy to understand, only that they require less manually–written documentation because the constraints can be encoded into the type system.
Probably not particularly an appreciating asset.

Especially not at a rate that pays to keep it shipshape.