skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because, I think, the cost is incredibly hard to estimate.

First off, when a birth defect does happen how can you even be sure Substance X caused it? Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it's not.

Secondly, how do you go about tracking that? Certainly we don't have a big database for the genome of every baby born.

Third, what about substances that don't do acute harm, like lead? Lead poisoning is slow and deteriorates your mind. We know about it now, but for hypothetical new substance X how do we measure who got the poisoning and how much they have (do we take measurements every few years and plot a graph, adjusting the cost over time?)

Fourth, how do we measure esoteric costs? For example this substance causes loss of intelligence. That could translate into lower paying jobs over a lifetime - could. Do we compare average intelligence income to the income of these individuals and then the difference is the cost? What if some of the individuals could have been geniuses, how do we tell? In general, how do we measure against things that have not happened in our reality?
Estimation considers that as my career started 13 years ago and we can see how home prices are today
Not everyone is the type of person that can build a new product from scratch…, I bet the majority of the 500 aren’t that type
We don’t even need to ditch the electoral college, but "just" get the states to more proportionately assign their electors, as Nebraska and Maine have done. But good luck with that, too. Can you imagine trying to convince, for example, California to proportionally allocate their 54 votes in this political climate and give Trump 40%?
you'd probably save money just paying for a VPS. And you wouldn't cook your personal laptop as fast. Not that people nowadays keep their electronics for long enough for that to matter :/
Walt Street must eat something they'd say. But yes that's the core problem here, it is only happening because the money ends up elsewhere. Saving lives alone isn't interesting enough
The main factual components are as follows: Party A has rented out property to Party B. Party A performs surveillance on or around the property with Party B's knowledge and consent. Party A discovers very high probability evidence that Party B is committing crimes within the property, and then informs the police of their findings. Police obtain a warrant, using Party A's statements as evidence.

The closest "real world" analogy that comes to mind might be a real estate management company uses security cameras or some other method to determine that there is a crime occurring in a space that they are renting out to another party. The real estate management company then sends evidence to the police.

In the case of real property -- rental housing and warehouse/storage space in particular -- this happens all the time. I think that this ruling is imminently reasonable as a piece of case law (ie, the judge got the law as it exists correct). I also thing this precedent would strike a healthy policy balance as well (ie, the law as it exists if interpreted how the judge in this case interprets it would a good policy situation).
Stop doing this. You are confusing the perfectly noble aspect of calling it abuse material to make it victim centric with denying the basic purpose of the material. The people who worked hard to get it called CSAM do not deny that it’s pornography for its users.

The distinction you went on to make was necessary specifically for this reason.
As should be expected from the lawyer world, it seems like whether you have an expectation of privacy using gmail comes down to very technical word choices in the ToS, which of course neither this guy nor anyone else has ever read. Specifically, it may be legally relevant to your expectation of privacy whether Google says they "may" or "will" scan for this stuff.
A more democratic process doesn't in any way guarantee better government. I guess we all ideologically believe that, on balance, over the log run, democracy tends to produce better outcomes than the alternatives, but it's very noisy. Sometimes (not too infrequently, in fact) the people want the screwed up partisan politics.
Zeller's congruence for the day of the week (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller's_congruence) exploits this:

- months are counted as 3, 4, 5, ..., 14, with 13 and 14 being January and February of the following year

- the contribution of the month to the day of the week is floor(2.6 * (m+1)) - the 2.6 comes from the 13 "extra" days (over the approximation 1 month = 4 weeks) in every 5 months.
The Apple brand is - foundationally - pretty solitary.

Think about the early ipod ads, just individuals dancing to music by themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSgBsCVpqo

You can even go back to 1983 "Two kinds of people": a solitary man walks into an empty office, works by himself on the computer and then goes home for breakfast. https://youtu.be/4xmMYeFmc2Q
Most of those banks' customers would be better off at one of the thousands of credit unions in the US.
I get the feeling that this is useful for something that someone half-listens to.
In response to some of the comments:

For silicon-carbon composite anodes, the challenge in getting apples-to-apples cost per kWh is that while the anode material is more expensive per kg than graphite, it also is much more energy-dense, so you need much less of it. However, to take advantage of the energy density, you need to enlarge the cathode (which brings the lithium). A classic simultaneous equation....

Without giving away proprietary info, it's safe to say the ultimate "value" of the battery (read $ per kWh) is reasonably close to today's Li-ion - for much higher performance.

Since LFP cathode technology is a topic, keep your eyes on LMFP. It is a bit more expensive than LFP, but also carries 15%-20% more energy - so its $ per kWh is lower. Then, if you marry it with a silicon anode, things start to get VERY interesting versus today's Li-ion performance and cost.
No, but that specific sentence you're quoting is targeting a very specific bit of business ethics teaching that I find great issue with. IME no one making decisions like layoffs really believes in the amorality of corporate decisions, except the morally bankrupt. You don't find solace in the idea that a company only exists to make money when you're telling a father whose kids are about to start college that he needs to look for a new job.
We'll be sure to run our future comments by you to make sure no one contradicts anyone else.
On mobile at the moment, can't share - but I have a great library of Ansible roles.

Strongly recommended for those looking for inspiration. Give "ansible-doc --list" a spin! This shows modules, it can filter for existing roles as well.
TFA is about elections (and also binary referenda) generally, not anything to do with the USA.
Propaganda. The elections are close because the media industry depends upon the advertising spend of political parties and political issues, and if they do not exist the media industry creates them. This is true for all popular controversy, it exists elevated in the media because it shakes the click revenues money tree, and that is the only reason. The media industry could not care less about the ramifications of their revenue generating media. They think they can just leave when a country becomes too hostile to live within.
I have a simple script I run before merging into the main branch that just tells Claude to look for obvious bugs, and to err on the side of saying it looks fine. Has stopped me from merging two or three bugs, 95% of the time it says things look fine so hasn't wasted my time.
Same in Wa state. I nearly voted for a republican this week until his Bio said he was against cap n trade.
600g of fruit _and_ vegetables -- not fruit alone.
> Not a single person in the US is denied healthcare based on inability to pay.

This is not true. Emergency rooms are required to take you in and stabilize your situation even if you can't pay. Everything else is not available if you can't pay.

Think of something like cancer, which an emergency room can't treat since it develops over time. You will indeed be left to die on the streets if you don't have the money or coverage from somewhere.
That is out of date

The language has changed as we (in civilised countries) stop punishing sex work "porn" is different from CASM

In the bad old days pornographers were treated the same as sadists
Do you think hiring is a promise?
What do you think the promise consists of? I think you are projecting a promise where you want one to be, but nobody is actually under the impression it exists.

Neither employers and employees are under the impression jobs are for life. If you're concern is primarily honesty and promise, would this piece satisfied by a written declaration and acknowledgment that the duration of employment is not indefinite and can change based on the arbitrary whims of the employer?

If you remove the corporate veil, what do you think the promise is for one human hiring another, and the ethical requirements. If I hire a housekeeper or babysitter, what am I committing to?

I dont see how corporations are held to anything but a higher expectation than individuals, not lower. Can you expand on this?
Spain should take the opportunity to move to WET like Portugal
So now an algorithm can interpret the law better than a judge. It’s amazing how technology becomes judge and jury while privacy rights are left to a good faith interpretation. Are we really okay with letting an algorithmic click define the boundaries of privacy?
Macs - they just work.
You can. And use your laptop screen as the third one.
Will do -- again. Hope that information helps. :)
Nishad Singh sentenced to time served for FTX fraud
Show HN: Voice-to-Picture Book Generator for My 5-Year-Old
Hi HN,

My 5-year-old loves when I read picture books to him, but we don’t always have one around. So, I made a tool where he (and I) can simply record an idea, and it instantly generates a picture book based on it.

BTW I've used v0 and Cursor for most of the UI. It's pretty cool for simple interfaces like this.
The course can be found here: https://github.com/BrandiATMuhkuh/josefs-picture-book
Seems like everything is working out without any issues. Shouldn't you be a bit suspicious?
>Just cook with stainless steel, it's not that hard

i've cooked a lot for a long time, and I have never gotten stainless steel to not stick absolutely everything (except water for pasta :)

I use cast iron and anodized aluminum and they are slippery AF
My next machine will probably be 512GB model, but I’m still doing fine with my 256 GB Air and a 4TB NAS. I use an action camera for mountain biking and I take photos with a 24Mpix mirrorless camera. I just offload the material to the NAS as soon as possible, and I don’t game on the thing.

Also, macOS definitely doesn’t take up 128 GB.
"That, however, does not mean that Maher is
entitled to relief from conviction. As the district court correctly ruled in the
alternative, the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule supports denial of
Maher’s suppression motion because, at the time authorities opened his uploaded
file, they had a good faith basis to believe that no warrant was required."

"Defendant [..] stands convicted following a guilty plea in
the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
(Glenn T. Suddaby, Judge) of both receiving and possessing approximately
4,000 images and five videos depicting child pornography"

A win for google, for the us judicial system, and for constitutional rights.

A loss for child abusers.
Have a look at ansible too, you can have what are called 'runbooks' to set up your server the way you want.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/getting_started/intr...
Consumption per se does not incentivize it, though; procurement does. It's not unreasonable to causally connect one to the other, but I still think that it needs to be done explicitly. Strict liability for possession in particular is nonsense.

There's also an interesting question wrt simulated (drawn, rendered etc) CSAM, especially now that AI image generators can produce it in bulk. There's no individual suffering nor social damage involved in that at any point, yet it's equally illegal in most jurisdictions, and the penalties aren't any lighter. I've yet to see any sensible arguments in favor of this arrangement - it appears to be purely a "crime against nature" kind of moral panic over the extreme ickiness of the act as opposed to any actual harm caused by it.
Is it reasonable? Even if the hash was md5, given valid image files, the chances of it being an accidental collision are way lower than the chance of any other evidence given to a judge was false or misinterpreted.
> I am absolutely flabbergasted at the fact that Chrome extension security is the way it is, considering how much Google spends to keep chrome secure.

It's crazy and it's not even a "Google Scale" problem. There are only around 2,000 extensions that are popular (100k+ users) and the co-ordinated malicious activity is super blatant.

> Additionally, are we even able to review the source code of extensions if they are not open source?

Yes and you can even do this without installing the code by downloading the zip file (that contains the extension code) by using the extensionId + a get request (or using a browser)
>They went to the same Jack Welch school of business that boeing did and thought they were clever not being responsible for anything and could just be middlemen pushing paper.

Mercedes thought themselves to be untouchable due to it being a premium brand with high margins by putting a star on commodity parts, like they're a Swiss watch.
But no one is changing positions in the way you describe. Maybe they are changing tactics to APPEAR they are changing positions but actually aren't.

And I have issues with this idea, that we can know the populations well enough, to slice and dice and shave population groups until we have a 51% winning vote. That doesn't seem real.
My company uses the Dora metrics to measure the productivity of teams and those metrics are incredibly good.
You probably don't hang out on too many right wing communities. This is good for your mental health, but it does mean you miss out on big trends that 40% of the population ends up getting behind.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/01/bidens-woke-green-energy-makes...

I admit the phrase "woke energy" isn't commonly used, but the sentiment is there. If you think backing Elon would lead to cognitive dissonance you have to remember that you can avoid the issue entirely by just not thinking about it.
High inflation + low growth

High inflation bc we have too much debt.

Low growth bc all the low hanging fruit has been picked.
Is that script shared somewhere?
It's not about class, it's about staying alive. Cars win any encounter, hands down. My rule of crossing streets is to assume I am invisible and the drivers are not aware of my existence. This is, IMO, the only safe rule to follow when crossing the paths of fast moving, multi-ton machines with only minimal requirements made of the driver.
They're now mostly in the form of tax rebates and cheap loans these days. According to the Nikkei (https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-s-hidden-s...) :

"BYD received a total of 37.1 billion yuan in tax rebates over the five-year period, nearly four times the 9.3 billion yuan it received in subsidies. Additionally, BYD has secured long-term bank loans at interest rates between 2.05% and 2.98%, lower than the one-year prime lending rate of 3.35%, according to the company filings.
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The overt subsidies mostly existed in the early part of the development process. It's a playbook that's quite commonly used in East Asian economies. Basically it goes like this:

1. Erected barriers to foreign competition and hand out subsidies to simulate local competition

2. Withdraw subsidies to push industries towards mergers and leave only a few big companies in the industry

3. Remove barriers to foreign competitions (i.e. invite Tesla) to foster innovations

4. Export

This makes it devilishly hard to quantify the amount of subsidies received and it's intentional.

China isn't the first to do this but rather borrowed the playbook from Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, who borrowed it from Germany, who, ironically, was inspired by the idea of industrial policy from Alexander Hamilton (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2024-03-14/odd-lots-ind...)
Same here. Way more people will understand how approval voting works when compared to rank choice. Not to mention, it incentives candidates to behave with more tact, rather than be so adversarial. You see this in how approval voting elections have less adversarial, negative ads.
> Could code complexity be measured as cumulative entropy as measured by running LLM token predictions on a codebase? Notably, verbose boilerplate would be pretty low entropy, and straightforward code should be decently low as well.

WinRAR can do that for you quite effectively.
> weird how people feel so differently when they get fired

It's weird that the average person working these jobs has bills to pay, and perhaps additional family members to care for?
Sadly these days it's a waste to upgrade a single generation. There's very few workloads that work poorly on gen x-1 and work well on gen x.

So while frustrating to people that want to geek out on the tiny details, the real market for Apple is people not using Apple silicon and maybe the M1 users. Upgrading from M2 or M3 isn't worth it. Thus the comparisons with Intel Macs and M1s.
Exactly right. Candidate positioning/messaging is a highly dynamic process.

Candidates stake out an initial position (or affiliation) and then court voters at the margins of that initial position, often by modifying that initial position (edit: or by modifying their messaging around that initial position).
I'm curious about getting one of these to run LLM models locally, but I don't understand the cost benefit very well. Even 128GB can't run, like, a state of the art Claude 3.5 or GPT 4o model right? Conversely, even 16GB can (I think?) run a smaller, quantized Llama model. What's the sweet spot for running a capable model locally (and likely future local-scale models)?
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While those are good reasons to keep the weights static from a business perspective, they are not the only reasons, especially when serving SOTA models at the scale of some of the major shops today.

Continual/online learning is still an area of active research.
Chicago is he ultimate style guide and reference for nearly any kind of writing.

Well, this puts me another edition behind. Should I update the 11th edition sitting on my shelf that belonged to my late father in law?

Just checked and it dates to 1949 (my printing 1952). That's old enough that the address listed for the University of Chicago Press is "Chicago 37".
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After decades of a love/hate relationship with thunderbird mail reader, I sure hope this isn't the beginning of the end of decent email on android 8-/

K-9 also has it's faults, but it's been a pretty good ophone mail reader.

Thunderbird, under the ever declining mozilla foundation's wing, continues to make nonsensical changes while still failing to fetch mail into all IMAP folders (among a number of other fundamental functional failures).
Yeah i'd be nice to have the other two datapoints.

Production cost per PV watt was around 15 cents at the end of 2023 [1]. Some claim that by the end of 2024 this figure will reach 10 cents per watt. [2]

[1]. https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-solar-panel-costs-plunge....

[2] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/23/solar-module-prices-m....
To all these comments, I'm not talking practically for myself, I'm talking about what a revolutionary "think different" company would do for its users and projection into the world. Starting with taking away the friction of changing models and the impact of all these product lines, which sometimes instantly become less valuable (2023's "8GB is more than enough"), would be a good start, and Apple if anyone could amortize this on behalf of their userbase.

Another observation; I've travelled the world and rarely see people who could use robust, secure products the most (vulnerable people) using Apple products. They're all packing second-tier Samsung or LG Androids and old Windows notebooks (there are decent Samsung, LG, Android, Windows products, but that's not what they have access to).
I believe it is politically loaded, but that it doesn't matter here. Certainly I'm not going to bother to call these things out when it's not really the topic.

But, since we're here, I think it's loaded because it implies the fetus will be born. It kind of gives the impressions that a fetus is equivalent to a baby given enough time, hence they are unborn babies. I think that language is inherently anti-choice. It seems nitpicky but these subtle collective consciousness changes result in culture shifts over time.
Yes. How else would you prevent framing someone?
> Only reason they wouldn't take off outside China is the astronomical tariffs the West are putting on Chinese cars

Doing very well in New Zealand and Australia

The dealers doing even better with 200% markups....
The First Atlas
What would actually happen if Plaid or the like was hacked? Would people lose money or would they be able to reverse it all?
I've been happily driving a BYD Atto 3 for ~6 months now. Very happy with it, its got a lot of nice software and hardware features, carplay/android auto works well, driving is nice and very smooth (especially on sport mode), and my daughter loves playing with the "strings" on the doors. The most glaring issue is the battery which is really its weakest part.

Is it better than a Tesla? Probably not - there are clearly places in the software where I know that Teslas are more polished (e.g. the "360" parking view which IMO could be a bit better, although I feel like I'm parking in gta 2), and the acceleration won't blow your socks off. However, they're much cheaper and it's a good family car (for us) - definitely for the price.
No, the electoral college seems to be mostly OK to me since without it the elections would be forever determined by a few densely populated coastal cities - which is also where the politicos would turn all their attention to. The rest of the USA would be treated as those districts in those Hunger Games books, as regions from where the stuff you eat and the stuff you build stuff with comes from but otherwise uninteresting and unimportant.

Ranked Choice is also a bad idea because it is too complicated, just do what many sane countries do to great effect: paper ballots, filled in with a pencil, deposited in a ballot box under the eyes of a staff member. One ballot per person, mail-in voting restricted to those who absolutely need it. Voter ID for everyone, no exceptions. Early voting is mostly OK as long as the ballot boxes are kept under watch ALL THE TIME, no exception.

After the polls close the ballots are hand-counted in the polling locations, then sent off for an automatic machine recount. Mail-in votes are counted beforehand and the results of that count are made available when the last polling booth closes - this is important because 'late mail-in votes' can be used to 'fill in the gaps' which is not what should be happening in free and fair elections. Provisional results will be available on the same day as the elections are held, those provisional results will become final after all results are in and the machine re-count is finished. The only technology needed is a scanner and a tabulator, Herman Hollerhith [1] could have supplied these.

So: paper ballots, hand counted, verified through machine counting. Voter ID like all civilised countries use, no exceptions. Mail-in voting only for those who absolutely need it. Early voting on polling locations OK but the ballot boxes should be guarded 24/7 in an open and verifiable manner, no exceptions allowed. Results available on election day.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/money/Herman-Hollerith