skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, for instance :

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT0000... (fr)

To resume, it's an obligation to explain to citizens the administrative decisions taken concerning them with the help of an algorithm, and specifically to explain it in plain language, listing all the data used for it, and all the steps taken.

As you can imagine, it's not a request that can possibly be fulfilled in the case of a neural network, by which I can only conclude that the use of neural networks is itself illegal here.

But of course the state being sovereign, it doesn't really have to care about following its own laws if it doesn't really want to.

Also, what is particularly impressive in this case, is that the initial target of this law, the algorithm(s) behind the (now mandatory) college application platform, got at the last moment an exemption from it !

(There's also in parallel the question of the source code, the publication of which was promised, but only tiny parts of which have been - 7 years later - and now the new promise is "by 2029", under an excuse that is basically "security by obscurity".)

Or how the tax administration just went and started to use a neural network on private banking data anyway.

Or how Nice is experimenting illegally with neural network-helped video surveillance.

Or how Paris has "experimented" with neural network-helped video surveillance for the Olympic Games... will be very interesting to see what parts of this "experimentation" - that did specifically get in theory temporary legal exemptions - will stick around even after that period is over.
Interestingly, in some states it's illegal to post the "price" as one including all applicable taxes.
> The fact that something is happening, even slowly

Regulation like this, as necessary and obvious as this one is, should happen slowly. There are way too many short sighted, reactionary laws and regulations to begin with.
Legally speaking the insurance company isn't overruling medical professionals. They're simply refusing to pay. Patients still have the option of paying for treatments out of pocket. (I do understand that for poor patients this is a distinction without a difference, I'm just clarifying the legal issue.)

Some states have recently passed laws which limit the authority of health plans to conduct medical reviews or deny payment for services that providers deem medically necessary. This will reduce hassles and expenses for some patients, but it will also accelerate the inflation of insurance premiums paid by everyone else.
Yeah, I wonder why no one thought of that.
The two-way sync does seem to be another problem with these export tools. Thanks for sharing, I'll take a look!
That would be nice, but there is a LOT of background work before that is feasible (in the US). As it currently stands, for many products a vendor would need to know who you are and where you live before they could quote you a total price. That's unacceptable.
Testing spacecraft material the Sandia way: Setting it on fire with mirrors
There is nothing stopping you from not going to any social media. How do you propose the government regulate them?
NASA's STS seemed to be full of very eclectic setup - I mean we had Symbolics machines running video analysis, Amigas running telemetry, I think Explorer's might have been involved in early days of Hubble scheduling software (that now runs on Unix with X11), etc. etc.
Rapid Liquid Print: Patented Gravity Free Manufacturing
> Something is always broken, the whole system needs to be hard rebooted at least a few times a week

I remember this sort of thing about 15 years ago, but in the last 8 years of nixos, I've maybe hard rebooted twice. I've also only ever rebooted after an upgrade. otherwise I go months with just sleep/wake. I wonder if you have some interesting hardware...
Systems Biology
For a two-body problem computing a future location in spacetime of the two bodies is easy enough -- easy with Newtonian gravity, and a bit harder with General Relativity. For an N-body problem, with N>2 there are no formulas that can give you the answer, and instead you have to do a numerical computation using as small a dt (ideally an infinitesimal time step) as possible, with as much precision as possible, and as many steps as needed to get to that future point in time. Obviously the numerical computation will a) take time, b) have errors (due to not having infinite precision and true infinitesimals). Apart from that the N-body problem is chaotic anyways.
Can't stand airports, because from the instant you arrive, the success of your trip is now basically out of your hands but also incredibly precarious.

Maybe there's some ticketing snafu and it takes an hour just to drop your checked bag (sanctimonious carry-on fliers hold your posts like you hold the seventeen bags you try to drag on the plane)

Maybe security is insanely backed up or just run by incompetents, like the time at SFO where it took them 30 minutes to screen the 10 people in front of me.

Then once you get past security, a whole new list of potential problems comes up:

Maybe the incoming flight is delayed, possibly delayed so much you're going to miss your connection.

Maybe you'll board but the plane will be broken because the airlines don't believe in preventive maintenance, and you'll have to deplane again.

Maybe you'll board but due to various circumstances in airport operations you spend 3 hours sitting on the tarmac while the airplane gets increasingly hot and your toddler gets increasingly fussy.
It seemed pretty obvious to me. Yet, I was pretty impressed nonetheless, I mean, the sheer dexterity of movement of these things with a human-hand anatomy surprised me, I don't think I've seen it before, and didn't know carnival toys are at this level yet. Is it a commonplace technology? It seems like it must have some practical uses, to be able to operate an almost-human body remotely like that. But, as I've just said, I don't think I ever saw this, only clunky specialized robots with poor movement control. And Boston dynamics pre-programmed toys.
While I love SQLite, one has to admin that it has several quirks that we should not put into every browser. So probably some sqlite-esque API would be nice.
It's the only actual answer though; adblocking requires permissions that chrome is removing, and you won't get something useful out of chrome
Yeah I already have loads of people asking when the next one is for this exact reason. Haha. Well, I would love to have people help organise the next one. But I don't know yet
Name one billionaire whose products you are forced to use - outside of “natural monopolies” that are already regulated
The trouble is that sales tax can be different in every municipality. National advertising would be a nightmare. However, I think prices at brick and mortar stores should be tax included and, when shopping online, if my address is known, the tax should be include as well.

I also think "plus Tax/Tax included" should be featured more prominently but I think that businesses would likely do that themselves given the conditions above so that, when comparing prices, you would very noticeably see that whether tax was included or not in your price. ie, Amazon would put in green letters near the price "Tax included" so when I compared their price to another place I would know why Amazon's price might be higher.
On the subject of (b), shouldn't tobacco companies be paying the risk premium for their customers? Why does the buck stop at the individual consumers and not those making money from their misery?

To put it into more technical, economic terms: why should the individual tobacco consumer bear the full cost of their externalities while the tobacco company does not?
> For the moment the only option is to make capibaraZero with a breadboard but we are working on a PCB to make device more portable.
"Software at scale" is different from "data at scale" is different from "compute at scale".

But yeah, when I hear "STOP MAKING SERVICES AND FACTORIES AND INTERFACES AND JUST READ THE FUCKING JSON FILE YOU ENTERPRISE FUCKERS" I think "developer who's never worked on anything more complicated than a chat app, and isn't old enough to have learned humility yet".
That might be where Intel and AMD failed. With the hindsight watching ARM gobble up a number of sectors, Intel and AMD should have allowed their IP to be customized which may have slowed ARM's advance. Competition is good though. If this continues, AMD and Intel may have to merge. I wonder how RISCV is going to shake things up? Intel and AMD should build RISCV chips and chance ARM. That'll form a nice loop.
This post comes at a great time. I've been looking into what the "perfect" stack would be for me (I'm OK with Python but haven't done any frontend work).

Is anyone actually using FastAPI in a commercial, large scale app? Would you prefer using...say Django or Flask + Gevent (since they're more mature) over FastAPI?

I recently found this thread[1] about FastAPI. It's somewhat old now but reviews are mixed. I'm wondering if the landscape has improved now. Additionally, OP is using NextJS for the frontend and even that isn't without complaints[2]. What's odd for me is that the React website also asks you to pick between either Next.js or Remix[3].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/y4xuxb/fastapi_stab...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/1g18xgu/nextjs_is_h...

[3] https://react.dev/learn/start-a-new-react-project#production...
https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite
You don't have to learn morse code to pass the initial HAM test.
That's news to me that French for "valley" is masculine and "val" - isn't it feminine "vallée"? Like, say "Vallée Blanche" near Chamonix? And I suppose the English ripoff, "valley" sounds more like "vallée" than "val" (backwards argument, I know).
I went through the cancellation process for NYT once before.

Which is the entire reason I am not a subscriber at my current address. It's too bad, I'd pay for it otherwise.
Hi, I'm from the team at Zerodha. It seems as if the well-known URL for the laravel repository points to the GitHub page[1] instead of the URL for the raw code[2]. Changing the well-known URL to the raw code path should fix this issue. Will pass this feedback on to the team to improve the experience, thanks!

[1]: https://github.com/nativephp/laravel/blob/main/.well-known/f...
[2]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nativephp/laravel/refs/hea...
We discussed this ad nauseum at my work a few years back (2019?). We concluded that for the enterprise's designs to truly flow directly from Figma, it would need to be able to export a Material-UI theme (or some similar theme file), so the devs never need to do anything other than just import that theme into their projects.

But it couldn't do that. We talked to folks at Figma who were interested in the concept, but we never pursued it beyond early talks. I haven't kept up to see if they have gotten closer to that goal or not in recent years.
Python Developers Survey 2024
I'm not talking about how it looks - I don't care. I can find settings I need when the system implements them no problem.

I'm talking about the gimped OS underneath the eye candy:

- docker sucks compared to native Linux (obviously) and WSL2 (less obvious)

- I have to install BetterDisplay (props to the dev btw, great tool) just to make my perfectly good 25x16 144Hz monitor not look like shit

- I have to install a tool to invert my mouse scroll wheel

- I have to install a tool to manage windows in a sane way (sequoia only just started to know how to do that but it's a looong way ahead)

- I have to install a tool to have multiple things in the clipboard

- Sequoia broke the system firewall and it's still not fixed in 15.0.1 (my mac is enterprise issued and it has all the fancy security apps you've all heard about)

I ran out of time to keep going, these are what I'm running into daily. Fortunately there are tools, but every major macOS release breaks some of them.
Today's Amazon is doing it's very best to get rid of customers like you and me! Not at all a fan of what it has evolved into!
ASML CEO Sees Slow Chip Recovery Extending 'Well into 2025'
I very much doubt that. I tried installing Fedora on my new laptop, and the defaults are horrible. It doesn't even support two-finger gestures on the login screen, so you have to right click in a different way before logging in.

At least it's not as bad as Ubuntu, which allowed me with a simple warning to install Nvidia drivers without a full system update, which broke the system so badly it couldn't even boot anymore, o an otherwise newly installed setup.

And Debian is horrible too, it doesn't even have a task bar of any kind (you are forced to Alt tab to switch apps, or even see which other apps are running), unless you go hunting for some extensions someone made.

All of these can be made to work decently, but calling it a good out of the box experience is laughable.
What makes you think the "hacker" was just a person looking for an easy target? More likely that this was a targeted attack by those that don't like IA.
Sorry I mean “tell” as in make a freely entered into contract

It’s next to impossible to gauge a person wealth at any point in time so any generic “wealth tax” is a non starter, but that does not mean we should not make efforts to ensure that wealth is taxed at equal amounts as income. I find it hard to see why Warren Buffet should pay 10% on his increase in wealth for one year while his maid pays 40%

If Jeff Bezos borrows 500 million against some shares he is saying that the shares are worth 500m and that he has now realised some of the gains from those shares.

It’s pretty easy to avoid complicating the mortgage market by putting a floor on the amount governments will tax (ie borrow 5 million or less in a fiscal year we don’t care)
https://archive.is/rxy5c
Finally!!!

Hope the next dark pattern to be banned: buttons on a website should have consistent design!

So tired of having the opt-out (inconvenient to provider) buttons disguised as text.
Most of these applies to Harris as well. I can only hope it somehow falls through.
Unsubscribe links are a fantastic regulation, but there is a workaround. I must have received at least a dozen emails from Brown after graduating despite unsubscribing to every email they sent.

The trouble is they're endlessly creative about the lists they put you on. I'd get one email from "Alumni Connections" and then another from "Faculty Spotlight" and then another from "Global Outreach" and then another from "Event Invitations, 2023 series". I'm making those names up because I forget exactly what they were called, but you get the idea. I hope this was in violation of the regulation: surely you can't invent a new mailing list that didn't used to exist, add me to it, and require me to unsubscribe from it individually.

They finally stopped after I sent them an angry email.
This is my problem, I don't worry about tests until I'm already putting the marinara sauce on my main functions.
$25,000 vs. $25M [video]
Obviously I wonder about post-AirBnB migrants... or maybe also can we see changes in the source countries between pre- and post- ?
EPSS Scores in the GitHub Advisory Database
Oh, SQLModel [1] looks interesting – hadn't seen that before. For apps with html front ends, are people replacing WTForms?

[1] https://github.com/fastapi/sqlmodel
Shade trees can be pretty nice to have, especially when they are deciduous and automatically provide dense shade in the warm months and less shade in the cool months.

They can also destroy pavement, and foundations, and underground utilities.

They can be messy. Leaves fall and generally need dealt with somehow, and many kinds fruiting trees produce fruit that is big enough for a person to twist an ankle on just by walking through their own yard.

They can be expensive to maintain properly, and even when maintained properly they can drop heavy things that damage expensive things.

It isn't necessarily a straight forward comparison.

While I'm sure that well-placed trees can be a great benefit to the overall cost of owning and living in a dwelling, I'm also sure that they can be a great detriment.

If I had a choice, I think I'd rather have big solar panel arrays than big shade trees.
You're describing legitimate add-ons though. The most important part about plane tickets is that I get from A to B. If whatever price compare tool I'm using doesn't let me select the add-ons I want, I can at least find the cheapest base price of a few competitors and then go from there.

If I need luggage, I can do my own legwork to make sure that I factor that in.
Yup, this is exactly the answer.

It is unfortunately more profitable for them in the end.

Which is precisely why we need these types of consumer protection laws.
I still receive (paper!) letters semi regularly about subscribing after I cancelled. It was so hard to do too, cancelling my NYT subscription was a breeze in comparison.
Plane tickets legally have to include all required fees. I do not pay any more than google flights shows.
2GW of nuclear cost $34B in Georgia, and took decades to come online.

China are currently building 27 reactors [1], and the average time is still 7 years for completion.

[1] https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/17/how-innovative-is-c...
I think Adam Neumann and a couple of others notably got zero interest loans from banks from the bank wanting to court their business income too.
What lie did Firefox do? Nothing listed in the examples sounds like a lie
I think that's the FCC, not FTC.
I think personally that Coalton and the stuff its built on is crazy cool. Coalton is a little library you add to your Lisp, but, to quote the third link here: "In terms of its type system, Coalton’s closest cousin is Haskell." So Lisp's dynamism with all sorts of advanced typing.

QVM, a Quantum Virtual Machine https://github.com/quil-lang/qvm

Quilc, an "advanced optimizing compiler" for Quil https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc

Coalton, "a statically typed functional programming language built with Common Lisp." https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/
Attacking the Internet Archive is like robbing from your own grandmother.
Any Shen people in the house?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851104
The problem about being pedantic is that you can choose different directions to be pedantic in. My "direction" is that code isn't written in a vacuum, it mixes with code millions of other people wrote and runs on machines millions of other people built. As such:

My concern isn't that the phrasing in the book is wrong, and I have expressly not argued that. It's that it presents the issue as having no further depth, and these two choices as equivalent. They aren't. The "Some processors are even able to switch between the two orders on the fly." that follows makes it even worse, at least to me it really sounds like you needn't give any care.

And the people reading this book are probably the people who should be aware of more real-world background on endianness, for the good of the next million of people dealing with what they produced.
None of those things should be included. I want none and dont want to pay for having access to them. What we actually need is a business that lets you put in the add ons you want and shows you how much that would cost.
> I wonder how RISCV is going to shake things up?

Right now RISC-V is ultra slow in all implementations I've seen. Like 30x slower than a top of the line Apple Mx series CPU. Maybe there is a high performing RISC-V chip out there but I haven't yet run into one.

RISC-V benchmarks: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?q=RISC-V. Compare to an Apple M4 benchmark: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8224953

That said, RISC-V is good for embedded applications where raw performance isn't a factor. I think no other markets are yet accessible to RISC-V chips until their performance massively improves.
Your font and/or eyesight might need attention!
I'm sorry, but I could not get beyond the first sentence in the abstract: "Living cells are extremely well-organized autonomous systems, consisting of discrete interacting components." Living cells (and most other biological systems) are extremely poorly-organized. They work. Often very inefficiently, with lots of duplication. Any "organization" is purely accidental (in some sense, by definition, since it arose through evolution).

Reading a bit farther (RNA is lists, DNA doubly-linked lists) is embarrassing. DNA is double stranded, which does not make a doubly-linked list. And somehow we fail to recognize the difference between template-driven molecules (DNA,RNA,proteins), which have a genetic history, and lipids and carbohydrates, which do not.
Tests are like the burning sun in your eyes after you wake up for a night of drinking.

I prefer separating writing some code down, making it functionally work on screen and writing tests. I usually cover cases in step 2 but when you add sometime new later it is nice to have step 3.
So the free market approach degrades to heavily regulated and government controlled?
> But damn, based on how well it all works now, you can just tell by the 4th or 5th generation, Apple Vision Pro will be on the face of every frequent flyer.

A 4th or 5th generation Apple Vision Pro (and other corresponding advancements) may obviate the need for a lot of travel.
Ask HN: How do you organize your electronic components?
Capacitors, resistors, micro-controllers, oh my!... god it's a mess. I keep finding spare parts between my toes and under pillows.
"Open-Air Desk-top" storage is no longer an option.

What types of storage do you use?
Are you subscribed to an organizational philosophy?
Do you sort your resistors by resistance?

Please and thank you ~
The end of Chicken Soup for the Soul media (who owned RedBox and Crackle at the end) was a complete shit show. I’d be unsurprised if they just walked away from the DVD boxes leaving the whoever had them on their property with the job of dumping them.

CSS just stopped paying vendors before the Redbox acquisition to make their balance sheet look better then just never paid after that until going bankrupt a year later. (My company was a vendor who had to get our attorneys involved to reclaim some payment prior to their bankruptcy and will never get the rest)

I’ve seen a bunch of these SPAC style (there’s usually some sort of penny stock starting point so the company is publicly traded from the jump) rollups of bankrupt or failing media and entertainment brands over the years and they all blow up.
It doesn’t need to go to SCOTUS, Chevron deference was precedent for the lower courts, SCOUTS can always do whatever it wants.

The plain reading of Loper Bright is that the courts should make their own independent interpretation of the statutory provisions. In doing so the court can ignore the agency’s expertise.
Colloquially, "the moment" also includes the context, both immediate and general.
Difficult, they try from time to time, then they get fake email adresses and fake zip codes in their database.

(Not using loyalty cards or CCs)
"If it ain't broke, open it up and see what makes it so bloody special." -- The BOFH
Do you mean states of the USA or states as in "country"? Which ones?
Well, sorry to be a bummer again, but indeed kids these days are from the Alpha generation, which is two generations from Millenials (GenZ being in-between) :

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Ge...
There's little evidence to support this afaict. Certs generated using non-default Roots are limited to 825 days in validity, more than twice the limit for those generated using the defautl roots.
Show HN: An in-memory, NoSQL database implemented in Python
I agree that tips are stupid. But they are technically different as you can pay the price without them and be fine. This is unlike "convenience fees" and tax which are required but not displayed in the advertised price.

I definitely believe that you should be able to purchase something for the advertised price. Maybe that is "starting at" but you should be able to check out at that price.