skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They pursued happiness by ethnic cleansing of Nepalis.

It's why I can't look as a Bhutan as a good place. Bunch of hypocrites pretending to be saints.
> The city will have its own legal framework modeled on Singapore's and will run on clean hydroelectric power, with the hope of drawing technology companies, especially AI.

AI with an hydroelectric power supply? That's optimistic. At least the power-consuming part of this would have to be somewhere.
Show HN: Mktbx.com – Merging LLMs with Expert Systems
I think it is best to strongly reject the idea "best practices will always benefit you".

Most best practices that I have been told about were low local maxima at best, and very harmful at worst.

If someone quotes a best practice to you and can't cite a convincing "why", you should immediately reject it.

It might still be a good idea, but you shouldn't seriously consider it until you hear an actually convincing reason (not a "just so" explanation that skips several steps).
>USA has 1-2 mass shootings everyday on average.

2+ victims is a mass shooting per the FBI definition so while what you say is technically true it's also a particularly evil way to mislead the reader as the typical mass shooting of the FBI definition consists of 2-4 people shot over the course of an otherwise normal crime wheres the colloquial definition of "mass shooting" is more along the lines of a crazy suicidal person killing as many others as they can.
No, Bluesky has committed to not train their own generative AI on Bluesky posts [1]. Bluesky hasn't made any stand about other people/companies who want to train generative models on Bluesky, though the company is discussing ways to convince/pressure third-parties to obtain user consent [2]:

> Other companies could still potentially scrape your Bluesky posts for training. Bluesky’s robots.txt doesn’t exclude crawlers from Google, OpenAI, or others, meaning those companies may crawl Bluesky data. "Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on the Internet itself," spokesperson Emily Liu tells The Verge. "Just as robots.txt files don’t always prevent outside companies from crawling those sites, the same applies here. That said, we’d like to do our part to ensure that outside orgs respect user consent and are actively discussing within the team on how to achieve this."

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3layuzbti6s2x

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/24297442/bluesky-no-inte...
UDP has very low cost, the header is pretty much source and dest ports. For this low, low price, you get compatibility with existing routing, firewalling, NAT, etc.
In short, the untyped lambda calculus is Turing-complete.
I own a PHEV, for almost a year now, as my daily drive. It's not as good a BEV as a true BEV (range is ~20% of one) and it's not as good a HEV as a true HEV (gas mileage on hybrid mode is worse than my in-laws Prius'). But it perfectly fits our current life. We can do all of our normal daily routine (commute/school drop offs) on one charge, and when we head out of town I don't have to worry about it (I live in a Western US state with long drives between population centers- I can get range anxiety just on gasoline as I did not grow up like this). So we've driven it for 18,000 km, and 14,000 of those have been fully electric, just a couple of weekend getaways and one week-long trip around the country have been on gas.

Getting all of that capability in one car is very convenient. We replaced an 11 year old gas vehicle, and I don't expect that this PHEV one will last us as long. But it was the right car for us in our current situation.
> You have to look at it and see.

And your vision is perfect, while everyone else's is flawed? How lucky for you. No need to present arguments, just let us know what you see, and that what you see is the "very hard obvious truth".

Have a little self-awareness man.
Let's face it, the Canadian reaction is purely out of US friendship. There is no end-to-end EV car manufacturing in Canada. There is an EV battery setup in Ontario (and perhaps Quebec?) but that's about it. We are a decade or more away from having an end-to-end manufacturing pipeline. So... we implement tariffs that hurt the majority of the population? For the govt's lack of investment across decades. If you want to, put a tariff on EV batteries or any other part that is manufactured in Canada - not the whole car. There is no good reason for us to take this tariff.

At the same time, politicians will talk about the dangers of climate change and how we should all try hard to mitigate it. I guess some solutions just don't have the right story to it.

I do agree that the situation we are in now is due to lack of investment in EV/associated tech starting 1.5-2 decades ago. China has invested over 200 billion in EV+Solar and are reaping the rewards.
It took me a while to understand what GP was trying to say, but I suppose they're thinking of one of those sites where they let you create an account, will let you in and then nag you for a while about "verifying your email address" by clicking a link that will actually send you an email. An unsophisticated spambot won't probably care enough to click through that.
Hey HN,

I’ve been thinking, for a while now, how I could merge a LLM and an Expert System. What I wanted was the ease of use of an LLM and the rules based processing of an Expert System. Over the past couple of weeks, I built what I thought was a unique way of merging the two. I choose to use auto insurance as an example because of my past history in the industry, but I feel as though it would be applicable in other industries. It’s still very rough around the edges, but if you are interested you can try it out at https://mktbx.com/#tryout I’d appreciate any feedback and your thoughts.
From https://research.google/blog/mapping-the-ionosphere-with-the...:

> Knowing the current ionospheric conditions allows a GPS receiver to reduce location error by several meters.

This is amazing
Absolutely!

Since you're forced to stay here, why shouldn't we abuse you? What are you going to do, run away?

I remember in secondary school, my deeply patriotic teacher asked us who wants to emigrate. And she deeply condemned us for it, calling us leeches that stole from the country.
It was obligatory education! We didn't even had an option to choose by then. And also, my parents also could say that yes, they paid for it in their taxes.
I don't think anyone has ever thought that best practices will always benefit you. Nothing always works every single time in every single case.

This whole thing is really silly and obvious.

Of course you shouldn't blindly follow advice without thinking. But not following advice just because it might not always be right is also a bad idea.

My advice: In general, you should follow good advice from experienced people. If enough experts say this is the best way to do something, you should probably do that, most of the time.

But that advice will never trend on HN because it isn't clickbait or extreme, and requires using your noggin.
Well because it's obvious and I figured that you're smart enough to see that.

To spell it out for you: the set of evidence that is admissible in court is a tiny fraction of the set of all evidence that exists. Furthermore, the set of evidence that is not only admissible in court, but is actually presented to a court is an even yet tinier proper subset of the admissible evidence.

When you exclude the vast majority of evidence that a thing may be happening, you don't actually have grounds to say that the thing isn't happening.
Congrats on shipping!
Consider making it Mac compatible with catalyst or iPad app, seems like it would be useful on watchOS and macOS too.
Let me preface this by saying that I'm generally pro-legalization. Particularly of consumption, which when criminalized, makes things worse for everyone.

That being said, heroin is one of those things that are genuinely dangerous to try. It's so easy to become addicted to the stuff, and the costs to society are so high to get an addict clean, that one has to at least consider the pros and cons of prohibition. In an ideal world, all consenting adults should have the free choice to ruin their life if they wish, and perhaps in a post-scarcity society this is what we should allow everyone to do. But while resources are still limited, heroin addicts (and by extension opiates) create a lot of negative externalities. Personal freedom is all good, but where does it end? Should a person be free to ruin the lives of others when they cannot get their fix other than to rob people? And when someone is getting withdrawal symptoms, they have no more free will, they'll do anything to avoid that suffering.

It's tricky to say what would be the marginal increase in heroin users if it was easily available. I agree with you that rational people with well balanced lives and a strong safety net in terms of family and finances are unlikely to go out and buy heroin. People who are bored, in a bad spot, depressed, etc... might just go out and do it if all it takes is a short walk to the nearest shop.
It would be perfect if the symbols I wanted were already built in. There are some electrical symbols but they're very much circuit design focused whereas I'm looking for symbols such as these https://www.edrawmax.com/templates/1011842/

Additionally, https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/1660 would be a nice to have.
Maybe people just stopped reporting because it did not have any effect in the past?
We don’t want to do that. We want to give them the tools to help themselves, and leave them with the advises we believe relevant to not hurt themselves when using them, and then let them the duty to act according to their own experience.

Sure, we would rather not see our kids die from all the dangers of the outside world. But they won’t thrive an bloom if we confine them in a padded basement.
The issue in that paper isn't really limited to "singularities". The basic issue is that we use the continuum in our physical models, and "reality" might not actually be a continuum, so the continuum math we use is just an approximation. But if "reality" isn't a continuum, it isn't a continuum everywhere, not just near "singularities", so the continuum is an approximation everywhere, not just near "singularities". The approximation would just become unworkable near "singularities", while remaining workable in other regimes.

Most physicists believe that our best current theories, GR and quantum field theory, are approximations anyway ("effective theories" is the term often used in the literature), so that in itself is not a new idea. Baez's paper points at one fairly common hypothesis for why they are approximations and what the underlying theory they are approximations to might look like. I don't have an issue with that as a hypothesis; it's just something we aren't going to be able to test by experiment any time soon, since the most likely scale for where the approximation will break down, the Planck scale, is some twenty orders of magnitude away from the scales we can currently probe with experiments.
Email kind of solved its SPAM issues, but it came at great costs. It's possible but quite hard to run your own e-mail server; if you're not on a major provider, the possibility is high that a major provider will at some point have deliverability issues to or from you due to automated anti-SPAM measures. The degree of difficulty with participating in the network does somewhat degrade its openness in my opinion.

If anything works in the favor of email it is that email is not published. It is not necessary very private inherently, but it is at least not a system where things get broadcasted publicly. IMO this limits the value of spamming people over e-mail: you have to send a very high volume of e-mail to SPAM effectively over e-mail, and this high volume use pattern is not something that ordinary users will ever engage in, so it's easy to at least separate out "possible SPAM operation" versus "guy sending email to a friend". (I'm not saying that systems are necessarily perfect at distinguishing one from the other, but at the very least it would be hard to mistake the average Gmail account for being part of a massive SPAM operation. The volume is just too low.)

I hope the open web survives, but if e-mail is any kind of sign, it's not a great one in my opinion.
I don't see the paradox here at all. People who are out of work because of automation are out of work and suffer as a result. For them, automation absolutely is a villain.

That the same automation may cause more jobs in other fields to be created is not of a great deal of interest to those who find themselves unemployed. They still lose, and the fact that others may win doesn't change that.
Well, there's also the 4.3 million US autoworkers who'd ultimately be the ones to get shafted.

I don't think we can keep killing off entire industries and expect it to work out in the long run. At some point, what's left? WalMart?
Perhaps, then, those who have graduated into practice and who are now earning big bucks ought to absorb part of the cost. For example, training residents at some reasonable frequency could become a requirement of license renewal.
Can your friend focus on all-remote companies?
> It's tricky, though. What else can you do?

I had an idea about amost-privacy-preserving system by involving government ID and blind signatures:

1. The service passes a random string to the user.
2. The user authenticates to their government and asks the government to sign it.
3. The government applies a blind signature which basically says "this user/citizen hasn't registered an account in the last 60 minutes".
4. The government records the timestamp.
5. The user passes the signature back to the service.

Upsides:

* Bypassing this would be orders of magnitude more expensive than phone numbers.
* Almost private

Downsides:

* Won't happen. Remote HW attestation is likely to win :(
* The service knows your citizenship * The gov knows when and how often you register.
* Any gov can always bypass the limits for themselves.

I think it may be also possible to extend it so that the government attests that you have only one account on the service but without being able to find which account is yours.
living in a major US city in 2012, we had ancient DSL
meh, continuing the pearl clutching and asserting there has to be some general "solution" is itself part of the problem. The sheer majority of captchas I come across are while browsing essentially static content. If simple source IP based rate limiting can't keep the server load at something manageable, then the real problem is with how the site is built. And adding even more bloat to address another managerial bullet point is exactly how it got that way.
Communicating Software Estimates
Any one have a good (LLM (vulnerability scanner) list?
>donating to Sudanese refugees is a waste of money

Donating to Sudanese refugees sounds like a great use of money. Certainly not a waste.

Suboptimal isn't the same as wasteful. Suppose you sit down to eat a great meal at a restaurant. As you walk out, you realize that you could have gotten an even better meal for the same price at the restaurant next door. That doesn't mean you just wasted your money.

>ghoulish and horrific math

It's not the math that's horrific, it's the world we live in that's horrific. The math just helps us alleviate the horror better.

Researcher: "Here's my study which shows that a new medication reduces the incidence of incredibly painful kidney stones by 50%." Journal editorial board: "We refuse to publish this ghoulish and horrific math."
The o1 connection is made through "Evaluation of openai o1: Opportunities and challenges of AGI"[63]—a paper mill product with 50 or so authors. They created that 280-page monstrosity in less than two weeks of the o1 release. Did I miss something? AFAIK, there's no published literature from OpenAI on o1, and nobody knows what o1 is doing exactly, but it seems the Chinese have figured it out in the matter of days... They say their model performs well on visual benchmarks, but I suspect it probably owes to them overfitting on these benchmarks in the first place.

Consider their Proposed Method:

"Each stage is initiated at the model’s discretion, without external prompt engineering frameworks or additional prompting. Specifically, we provide the model with four pairs of special tags: <SUMMARY></SUMMARY>, <CAPTION></CAPTION>, <REASONING></REASONING>, and <CONCLUSION></CONCLUSION>.

These tags correspond to summarizing the response approach, describing relevant image content, conducting reasoning, and preparing a final answer, respectively. Upon training, the model autonomously selects these tags as needed, activating each stage based on its own judgment.

As with OpenAI o1 [63], all stages are completed by the model in a single inference pass."

[63]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.18486
Mass shootings as defined to inflate statistics by groups like the Gun Violence Archive aren’t what people usually think of when they think of mass shootings. Those figures include anything with four victims including gang violence, robberies, etc. The more accurate measure is from the Mother Jones database, which lists just two this year.
At least on our PHEV, when you read out the battery module state with an OBDII reader, you get to know not only the current estimated capacity but also how much time it's spent at various states of charge, how much time it's spent being charged and discharged at different currents, how much time it's spent at different temperatures, and a completely absurd amount of other diagnostics.

I'd feel a lot better about the state of the battery if I bought one used, rather than the state of the ICE. It's possible to borescope it, but you have no way of telling how long the previous owner went between oil changes, if they flogged it out to redline regularly, etc.
You don't think you could identify yellow buses without cultural knowledge?

I think simply knowing "yellow" and "buses" would suffice.
> We don’t need any Oct 7th type attacks happening on home soil.

Well homegrown attacks happen DAILY. "Averaging almost 50,000 deaths from firearms annually". But no, once they're not on the news like the Oct 7th attacks where, it's fine I guess.

https://www.statista.com/topics/10904/gun-violence-in-the-un...
Why isn't there more focus on plain old Hybrids? Not PHEV's... Aren't they a best of both worlds approach? What am I missing.
Would this mean that each shape/structure/map get its own vector for each field in order for this to work?
> "MOBA curators believe this painting, as well as others in the collection, may have been affected by the artists' never having actually seen a naked woman.“

Cold blooded.

(ref - https://museumofbadart.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/PAULIN...
Culture aspect is way underrated.

It's not only fact that in Western Europe I could earn a lot more. But also that I don't have to deal with massive corruption. I don't have to deal with feeling I have to be constantly on guard. I don't have to deal with failing education. I don't have to hide who I am in fear of being ostracized by society. (even if for that point we made a lot of progress - but still, why wait endlessly while I can get it right away somewhere else?)
This is also using OpenAI's GPT model. So the same hallucinations are probable here for PDFs.
Using entry of Starbucks cafes into neighborhoods, researches found that the creation of third places leads to increased business formation. Overview of the paper and the methods here - https://www.nominalnews.com/p/coffee-entrepreneurship-innova...
It's still the company that trots out humans in spandex to simulate robots and a self-driving taxi that was actually remotely operated by a guy on his phone.

I'll believe in the cheap Tesla when it arrives.
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They already started researching that in 2014 and have integrated the resulting protocol in some products like EBS:

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/08/continuous-rein...
You mean the CPU right? Browsers can send commands to the GPU too.
Low price normally requires lower margins, so for the same risk, you're making less money than with a higher end model. Make it up in volume, you say? Well, that increases the risk that you don't sell enough and end up with a loss.

Ultimately, you CAN "win" by doing really well with a low-end model, but the chance of losing big is there, too.
In a Post Developer Relations World: Fix or Fire?
Not a solution.
Verification emails alone got a small web site I set up to be blacklisted within days. Most of the unwilling recipients presumably couldn't understand the language the verification email was written in and reported it as spam.
True, if by "some" you mean a few thousand rocket launches worth of shrapnel.
> Whatever that means

Look, if you're not even willing to understand the argument, your refutation of it is toothless at best, worthless at worst.

Not to mention, your own claim is vague and without evidence. In point of fact, there's plenty of evidence to the counter. There are ample studies to choose from, but from just this year: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/police-budget-crime-...
Will this help fix hardware longevity for any of these legacy google device uses?

- android / any forks out there nowadays?

- chromeos device linux
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet
I don't think this is the same at all. Creation of good is not necessarily as good as avoidance of harm is bad.
> PHEV is just too complicated to support long term (imo).

PHEV isn't that much more complex than an ICE. The transaxle is typically mechanically simpler, and you have two electric motor/generators instead of an electric motor (starter) and an electric generator (alternator). There's a big battery you need to find room for, and the power wiring. And the engine control is significantly different, but if it doesn't work, swap the ECU works as well for an ICE and PHEV.
This is a moot point anyways because the Americans with Disabilities act bans businesses from asking people about their specific disabilities. Asking for proof of blindness will almost certainly be in contravention of that.
In the episode, the main character is the sociopath. My use of it is to say that giving people the power to execute or blacklist sociopaths will inevitable create more, only they'll be the ones in power.

"Lack of empathy" can easily be interpreted in many ways. What you are upset about are the actions of those you accuse of not having empathy. You think that killing anyone without empathy is the solution. You clearly have no empathy for those without empathy.

You are the monster you fought against.
remarkably similar story to JStark1809, creator of the FGC9 [1] and thus a great boon to the people in Myanmar fighting against a tyrannical government. JStark died of a heart attack during a european swat raid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGC-9
I went to Bhutan and looked up the surveys. The consensus seems to be they are happier than most countries at their (low) gdp per capita but probably not doing as well as the leading rich countries like Denmark etc.

I think the Bhutanese are a bit cynical about 'gross national happiness' which was invented on the fly by one of the kings.
North Americans can have their Auto Galapagos. Even Aussies and the UK aren't listening to the White House's histrionics (for now).
Why not just us a vector drawing program such as Inkscape? (EDIT: rather than using MS Paint)
This is orthogonal to your GP point which was about salary. There are a lot of issues with the teaching pipeline AFAIUI so it is difficult to comment on n=1 examples.
Since 90% of my car trips are under 30 minutes, yes that would be worthwhile.

The other 10% are beyond any practical battery range, so a BEV isn't an option.