skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a part 1 to this story where they had reporters purchase precursors from Chinese vendors for miniscule sums. (The article claims they bought enough precursors to make enough fentanyl to manufacture 750,000 fake Perc M30s for $3,600.) You might not need China to do this but buying from Chineese sellers certainly seems to be a relatively easy and risk free way to do it. What I don't fully understand is why the need to import the precursors to Mexico and then smuggle the fentanyl back into the US, if the packages are arriving via Los Angeles. Possibly the cartels are able to operate big labs in Mexico without as much worry of being raided?

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/drugs-fe...
No, but presumably there are huge datasets from Tesla, Waymo, et al. that are tracking the boundaries of the road, crosswalks, the existence, or lack, of sidewalks, pedestrian density, desire paths, and all sorts of things that aren't on the map. If they aren't actively being tracked, the raw data could be used as training data against areas with known non-car infrastructure to create a model that maps areas with no data.
What an assumption. We're just having a fun conversation.
There is no moat. The reality is not only are they bleeding talent but the pace of innovation in the space is not accelerating and quickly running into scaling constraints.
There’s this…

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...

I’m not sure it would work for what you need.
The post says "Most of our Ruby code reads like English, but that’s not the case when we combine multiple DateTimeFns class methods", and to illustrate this, gives the following agreeably ugly example:

DateTimeFns.add_minutes(DateTimeFns.add_hours(DateTime.current, 1), 1)

Sure thing, but the syntax can be improved without restorting to refactor into instance methods:

DateTime.current.then {
DateTimeFns.add_hours(_1, 1)
}.then {
DateTimeFns.add_minutes(_1, 1)
}
Musicians want to accept credit card payments (you lose a lot of potential sales if you only take crypto), which requires a central party to handle payment processing.
> In long running games, untrustworthy players lose out.

Amazon and Microsoft seem to be doing really well for themselves.
I have kind of a crummy mind's eye, so my mind spontaneously produces vague "fantasy mechanisms" that seem to float in a void and interact with one another in some way that is analogous to the program, but there's no coherent metaphor and I don't think these visualizations actually hold any useful information or help in any way.

So at least for me: no, definitely no schema in mind. If you're missing out on that, so am I! Affect is weird.
I say we just give Florida back to Spain and call it a day.
It was made public because HAI filed a motion on Thursday to quash the FTC’s subpoena. Do you think HAI did that intentionally to bolster Lina Khan’s and the FTC’s public image?
Right, I was just about to ask: Entropy is the measure of how "surprised" I'll get from the next character in the password. It's not a property of the password, it's a property of me. "Γεια" is very surprising to everyone here, as everyone would assume the first character to be English, but not if you know that the user is Greek.
There’s such a dark cloud for automotive too, usually there’s a gateway between the diagnostic port/ bus and the vehicle network (usually CAN, LIN, Flex-ray) where you can still see traffic. They’re moving towards ethernet(100base-T2), although it’s easier to analyze the traffic the authentication is more complex and in many cases it requires “personalized login” which of course means paying a fee on top of your diagnostic tool subscription. In most cases re-programming used control modules is not permitted “for safety reasons”. Some brands sell a short time subscription but others (like Mercedes Benz) do so in the EU but not in USA/ CAN, there you need to buy a yearly subscription for around $4.5k plus taxes and fees and on top of their “approved tool” (another $2-4k).
Spoiler alert: it was not deep neural nets.
Ask HN: What do you like/dislike about my product?
Bazaari.io is the easiest way for sellers to create and launch their online stores.

It's a platform built for sellers with features like:
• Free Store with SEO optimization
• Effortless product listing
• Add and Manage Custom Categories
• Custom action button
• Personalized links to share with your customers
• Get Free sitepage with custom link (means Website) for Your Store. Share it with your customers

I am also adding new features like:
• Selling digital products
• Analytics Like Plausible
• Marketplace
• Brand Your Store

And the best part? Bazaari.io is free for a limited time.
I wonder why this has not been abused like with the cobra effect.
Ostensibly, I could see some "autopilot" like stuff relying somewhat on a central server. That said, I would also expect some form of local only capability to be available. Devil would be in the details.
But…flossy daily is literally flossing periodically. Or did you mean you used to do an unspecified longer period? Or aperiodically?
some of my Uncles are farmers....

Most hate John Deere as their profits derive from cost savings in fixing their own equipment.
Could you apply this to project work?

Instead of track tasks, track decisions.
So the js engine converting the javascript number (a double?) To an int and it's rolling over?
Embodying addiction: A predictive processing account
New GitHub features for Issues tracking – and memories of its past
Machine translation alone is a huge positive value. What GPT can do in this area is vastly better than anything before it.
Space Musk, Tesla Musk, and Everything Else Musk, act as though they're three different people.

Space Musk promises a lot, has a grand vision, and gets stuff delivered. The price may be higher than he says and delivered later, but it's orders of magnitude better than the competition.

Tesla Musk makes and sells cars. They're ok. Not bad, not amazing, glad they precipitated the EV market, but way too pricey now that it's getting mature. Still, the showmanship is still useful for the brand.

Everything Else Musk could genuinely be improved by replacing him with an LLM: it would be just as overconfident and wrong, but cost less to get there.
I'm not clear what you mean, here?
Worth a full read, but here’s a quick NotebookLM summary:

This article explores addiction from a predictive processing (PP) perspective, arguing that addiction is not solely a brain disease but rather a breakdown in the dynamic relationship between an individual and their environment. It challenges the traditional reward learning model of addiction, which posits that substance use hijacks the brain's reward system. Instead, PP proposes that addiction arises from aberrant precision estimation, where an individual overestimates the reliability of drug-seeking and using behaviors, leading to a distorted perception of the environment and a neglect of other life opportunities. The authors further suggest that bodily feelings play a crucial role in this process, providing feedback on the rate of error reduction and influencing precision weighting. By viewing addiction as a disruption of the agent-environment system, the article encourages a broader understanding of addiction's societal and environmental causes, promoting a more holistic approach to treatment and prevention.
Please submit this experience to the FTC for their database.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov

https://eig.org/state-noncompete-map/ might be of help.
Obligatory post of the most well known solar website. Low Tech Magazine

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

They do a lot of other sustainable web development[0] practices like letting you read offline, having incredibly small page sizes (always shown in the lower left corner), and dithering all their images[1] (which imo creates a cool effect)

[0] https://sustainablewebdesign.org/

[1] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/#h...
“Buy a different brand of tractor” isn’t the same as “let them feed bleach to babies”.
The decisions about which buildings to bomb are made by AI in order to select targets faster than humans can generate and review them manually. When you say making individual decisions, you mean through AI automation. This info comes from primary sources.

Showing restraint with atomic weapons is hardly a pass for lesser violence
What would that accomplish? They'd just kill more native fauna until they die, and it would be incredibly expensive. Plus, what program "captures, sterilizes and releases cats", which are not wild animals to begin with?
Check it out: https://bazaari.io/
Does it work that way for ISPs that "lease" their modems? This is the first time I've ever considered this idea that the hardware would still be inventory. Does inventory get taxed annually or monthly? Seems like the monthly lease fees would more than cover that.
I had the Game Gear version, it wasn’t great sadly. Most games for that console weren’t, for some reason. Or at least the ones I had. I had much more fun with the GameBoy despite being technically inferior.
I have two thunderbolt cables plugged into my Mac.

One goes to a dock, providing most of the connectivity and charging, the other goes to two daisy-chained thunderbolt displays.

I'd use a single port if it could drive four monitors.
Sensible SQLite Defaults
I can’t think of examples of them working in my lifetime. Maybe piddling little symbolic victories, but little else.

We still have no meaningful movement on climate change, an antidemocratic political system, no social safety net, Palestine, etc.

Can you give any examples?
Ehhh though he does seem to think that taking the USA to fascism is a prerequisite.

(This is, I think, an apolitical observation: whatever you think about Trump, he is arguing for a pretty major restructuring of political power in a manner that is identifiable in fascism. And Musk is, pretty unarguably, bankrolling this.)
Looks very nice!

Would be cool to see some wild animation styles, not designed for using in production at all, just some fun stuff. Emojis maybe or smth :)
> You’re almost surely doing something wrong if replace doesn’t work for arrays. I think the missing thing is a collection that is both ordered and keyed (often not by the same value). JSON by itself just doesn’t do that.

Yeah, you could assign an identity value to each element of the array and then use a subresource to manipulate those elements by identity value. Then you could PUT using the same JSON merge mechanism to clear individual fields, and you could DELETE to remove items from the array by subresource.

This just seems like a reinvention of a crufty piece of XML.
There’s a Mac version coming (very exciting!)

https://x.com/linqpad/status/1820379112651026587
so your idea to eliminate this human-caused, unintended problem is to double down... with the king cobra? Then maybe some sort of cobra-eating gorilla that's allergic to spring breakers and dies off?
The laptop I'm currently using (Acer Chromebook Spin 13) has two USB-C ports, one USB-A 3.0 port, one audio jack and one microSD slot. Additionally, I carry in the sleeve a USB-A to USB-C adapter, a USB-C to USB-A adapter and a USB-C dongle with a smattering of ports (4x USB-A, audio jack, Ethernet, SD, microSD, HDMI, VGA, USB-C).

Except for one ancient HP Z24 screen whose USB-C port is infuriatingly finicky, I'm docking with one USB-C cable without issues with all of my modern equipment (plus USB-C switchers to switch between the desk PC and a mobile device). On occasions where I need the extra I/O, the added weight and volume of the adapters and the dongle inside the sleeve are negligible ; I always have them on hand and can't recall the last time I had an issue with them.

If anything, it's actually cables I usually have problems with.
I agree "." would make more sense than "/".

I actually think an array would be better, ["foo","bar"] for "foo.bar". How many many bugs are introduced by people not escaping properly? It's more verbose, but judging by the rest of the standard, they don't seem to be emphasizing brevity.
Because "invasive engineering" is just systematized "natural breeding".

People that don't understand this think that the production of GMO crops is done by scientists gene splicing scary chemicals into food products.

What is actually done is scientist get a genetic profile of crops, look for genes in crops that behave in a way they like, and bread crops with those genes. Exactly what "natural breeding" does, except for maybe the fact that it can be far more targeted with the genetic information.

There is a downside to this, it often results in highly homogeneous genetics in plants. However, that's a problem we already have with "natural" processes (see: bananas and most citrus fruits).
You are not building a house, our job is more intellectual rather than physical
How in the world is it enshittification if there's no noticeable change to users? Nothing got shittier, so doesn't that by definition mean it's not enshittification?
AOT JavaScript compilation by wevaling the wasms [pdf]
The person who created the art has been dead for a long time.
The biggest improvements are coming from the diffusion models. Image, video, and voice models.
> They could have had Adrianne Lenker or PJ Harvey or Patti Smith or Björk.

Is Adrianne Lenker becoming popular? She showed up on my Pandora a while ago, and I’m very not cool, so I guess she must be getting some visibility (Pandora is kind of neat because you can hear artists like that, without being as miserably cool as this author).
If it were feasible to charge you for your own heartbeats, companies absolutely would. Infinite growth is a poison pill idea - it brought us to where we are today, and would drag us to the future you outlined, unless the folly is abandoned.
Yep. The link above says:

> The conventional wisdom is that you can avoid income tax (via the basis adjustment at death) or you can avoid estate tax (via lifetime gifting and estate freezing strategies) but you can’t do both. This conventional wisdom is wrong, and I’ll explain why below.
Cuba could be the most prosperous island in the Caribbean, they have a railroad, miles and miles of beautiful beaches, farm land, etc and yet can't make communism work. I friend returned from a short trip and said even the finest resorts have no bread amongst other things. The population is malnourished and live in squalor. Castro's Dream....

My grandfather use to say "80 years of communism and we are still lining up for bread to eat and soap to wash with". Can you believe there are those who still embrace it, think they can do it better and it will be a utopia.
only if you own a mongoose!
When a unit test fails in code I'm working on I don't read the name of the test, I jump to the line in the file for the test and read the code so I never really understood what people find advantageous for this naming convention.

I've worked at companies that required this style naming for tests and it was an unholy mess, and it only works if the unit test is small enough that the name is still a reasonable length which at that point the code should be clear enough to understand what is being tested anyway.
Starship delivery robots are the most notable these days since most of the others are bankrupt.

Either way, very few pedestrian spaces in SF are out of sight of driven mapping vehicles and most of those are parks that are easily mapped or interior spaces.
Raspberry Pi Connect: Access Your Raspberry Pi from Anywhere
The Justice Department's Proposals for Breaking Up Google's Dominance Won't Work
It’s hard to forget what you know and see through eyes of a beginner, but I definitely find C# to be a very “rich” language, in the sense of finding new features and ways of doing things the more I use it and as the incessant releases roll out. I like to think it’s still pretty easy to start with though if one is focused on the fundamentals. Lots of head room for progressively expert use, I guess.
Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision, robotics
Appreciate your work on this, Wes & crew. Express is still my go to for nodejs, and it's really good to have this active governance.
Gigabyte introduces Thunderbolt 5 PCIe 4 card with 120Gbps bandwidth, 100W PD
HN: What problem CAN'T be solved with more technology?
I have aphantasia too an I do a lot of game jams where I more or less make something from start to finish in one go.

One of the things I noticed is I approach a game from the point of view of how it is played, whereas most people approach games from the perspective of what it is about. I'll make a navigation game with a pirate theme as opposed to a game about pirates where you navigate.

I also don't use engines and make something from scratch each time. These factors may go hand in hand, I build up from the mechanics instead of fashioning a scene into a game.
If the place is packed you should raise prices.
… this is conflating two things, marginal and average cost/revenue. They are very very different.
If you're paying people < minimum wage on a per piece basis, is time the dimension where you should focus?
Not when they were alive, which is the period we're talking about.
Over on r/technicalwriting I'm having a debate with someone regarding whether this is a general principle or not. To be clear, I have no idea how niche or widespread this problem, is. My hunch is that it's a brilliant insight that applies to technical writing in many industries. For now it's just an idea that I think deserves a lot more thought and discussion.
Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?
The eugenics question aside, Natera is an awful, scammy business:

https://zlk.com/press/ntra-class-action-learn-about-the-nate...

https://hindenburgresearch.com/natera/

https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-alleges-custom...
And it didn't occur to you to use just the Linux parts of ChromeOS? As in the Linux dev VM with Wayland passtrough. Firefox runs fine (including touchpad gestures) as does pretty much everything else.
> Certainly plenty of poorly designed crypto things also have that point of control,

They all have. They just claim they can work against social dynamics with technology but that's a fool errand.
If you do have useful feedback, please submit an issue or contribute a PR to dotnet/runtime. That’s how many performance improvements in LINQ come to be, that the post discusses.
Ask HN: Would you deploy/utilize/invest –$1M to maximize wealth
Scenario:
- ~$1M in liquid assets
- SWE, but burned out of working in big tech
- no dependents or major financial obligations
- not tied to a specific geographic area

In your opinion what would be the best way to deploy this amount of capital to grow wealth?

I'm not interested in safe, passive investments like 'index funds', I want something more active whether it requires part or full-time work and am also willing to accept higher risk.
This suggestion reminded me of the ad-hoc open access decrees (aka "letters patent" (aka H-1B visas)) that might have supercharged modern Venice : whether for inventions of glassmaking, inventions of new books, or inventions of the Americas :

https://www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-invention-the-origin...

This involved lobbying the local rulers though... so was restricted to few chosen, and I am not certain that the situation would be much different today, because it's hard to imagine enforcement working for widespread ad-hoc licenses ?
You're not the only one who thinks that!

JSON Patch uses JSON Pointer (RFC 6901) to address elements, but another method from (very) roughly same time is JSON Path [0] (RFC 9535) and here's one of my favorite mnemonics:

- JSON Path uses "points" between elements

- JSON Pointer uses "path separators" between elements

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONPath
IMHO, the "JSON patch" concept is useful in contexts that have nothing to HTTP, just like having a "diff" format for files.
> What actually ended apartheid was international pressure

There wasn't any international pressure. There was a withdrawal of the continual and embarrassing support from Britain and the US, the only people other than Israel who hadn't been overly troubled by Apartheid. First from Britain, because as bad as she was, Thatcher was nauseated by Apartheid, then from the US who would have had to actively intervene (as they are right now in a similar context) in order to preserve Apartheid. This was only 25 years after the US had ended its own legal Apartheid.

The US political class was largely indifferent to Apartheid (aside from periodic expressions of mild disapproval of both sides and condemnation of Communist-backed terrorism), so when they saw how the wind was blowing within SA ("fear of a civil war"), and that individual domestic politicians could be damaged or gain politically through their actions towards SA, the US supported the "coup" (as always) so they could keep doing business without interruption.

So I'd instead say popular pressure among citizens of the US and Britain against their own politicians, and the resulting withdrawal of Anglo-American support. Everything else but "international pressure" I agree with totally.
Yes, forget about it.
if you read the article you'll see it's two existing departments that are tasked with broader ecological goals. If they have perverse incentives licensing snake hunters is not one of them.
All we really need is a simple object access protocol to link it all together.
I assume it is not as powerful at some tasks than full sized model, so what would one use this model for ?
Microsoft "trains" on business data already, but typically for things like fine-tuning security automation and recognizing malicious signals. It sure would be a big step to reading chats and email and feeding them in to a model.
Unfortunately, it may be that the robots in the video are also remote controlled. Why take Musk's word that they're autonomous? Once you know that Musk can and will lie and cheat, it kind of makes you skeptical.
> Tragedy of the commons is why short term is all that matters and will ever matter to non-ideological investors.

Tragedy of the commons was an ideological essay designed to justify privatization of public goods. It was disproven by data before it was published. I am sure there are some hyper specific examples where it has happened as described, but as a “fact” about the world and as a justification for any course of action, it’s highly suspect.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false...
Even more blatantly hypocritical is the fact that Trump and his running mate are both married to immigrants.
Whoa he's a furry? That's crazy. I should've known though when I heard that he made big money selling Second Life content back in the day.

Man, what a lore drop
When I first was interested in cryptocurrency, or Bitcoin, this is the sort of thing which made me excited. The idea of a new currency outside of the control of states or banks, which will take back the power for ordinary people.

It soon stopped being about that and about "hodl" and self-enrichment. I applaud this project for being in the original spirit of Bitcoin.

I've since come to realise that the important thing is not how we organise our currency, but how we structure our social relations. We could have this currency, or Bitcoin or whatever be the global standard, but it would make no difference to our social relations based on wage labour for the owners of capital.

We are not going to solve that problem with technocratic solutions but with the working class taking power for themselves.
I think the fact they aren't publicly traded is not an insignificant fact in this context