skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Escape hatch" is exactly how I describe it. I don't care how good a car's screens are today, I know they get software updates and I don't trust them to not screw it up down the road.

Yeah, we could go back to suction cup phone mounts on the windshield if we had to, but that feels pretty stupid when the car has a 12" screen in the dashboard.
Nobody wants this, but in an imperfect world, one has to make suboptimal compromises.

You can get an EV, and then have to deal with half a dozen barely competent charging networks each with their own donkey, slow and insecure app, their own quirks and pricing schemes, etc. For some, the tradeoff is worth it, for others it isn't.

You can also get a PHEV, which could allow you to use one car for commuting purely on electric power - even if you are lugging around an entire ICE power train - and then also take the family out to the countryside over the weekend. Without the having to deal with a bunch of annoyed passangers when you are stuck midway through your journey and the charging station you are trying to use is giving you the massively helpeful error message of "Charging failed, please try again later".
I find it weird that this article didn’t mention China’s aggressive invasions of Bhutan and settlement tactics violating their sovereignty. The fear of China’s CCP government stealing from Bhutan or taking over Bhutan is a big reason for people to want to leave and seek refuge and stability elsewhere. See https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/05/asia/china-bhutan-border-dst-...
> Reboots don't typically wipe RAM.

Typically yeah, I think you're right. But I seem to recall reading that iOS does some special stuff when shutting down/booting related to RAM but of course now I cannot find any source backing this up :/
I don’t see how you can prevent others from collecting your data without laws and enforcement, which seem to be hard to pass and maintain (see: GDPR and right to be forgotten. Sometimes they work, but sometimes they don’t, and they have their own issues).

The technology is already here for people to collect and publish their own data. Most people in the US can purchase their own VPS, host their own website, use federated media and self-hosted services. Lots of sites and institutions let you request your data, though sometimes the process is obscure, and you can scrape any data about you that is visible to you. The main obstacle here is that it seems the vast majority of people aren’t interested, I wouldn’t expect a layman to even know what “self-hosted” means.
It's only 57%, so a good chunk who don't, but according to [0], the median US household does own two cars. I assume that a fairly large majority of married people have multiple cars (between the two of them), and only a very small minority of unmarried people do.

[0] https://www.autoinsurance.com/research/car-ownership-statist...
Importing a front end JavaScript library without a build system
This is a good idea! The answer to my knowledge is no-one does this, we just the simplest, stupidest, possible method, which is to concatenate all the text in the world. That is during training, of course. At runtime, there is the system prompt.

The second simplest method might indeed use something like a system prompt with metadata like that, injected before the current window of text. But what would happen at runtime, when that metadata is not present? Probably performance would be much worse.
Because it's funny enough and seems like an absolute S-tier performance artist critique of the effective altruism movement. Like who gives a shit about whether shrimp freeze to death or are electrocuted and then freeze to death.

But this blog post uses a little BS math (.3 seconds IS shorter than 20 minutes! By an order of magnitude! Take my money!)

and some hand wavey citations (Did you know shrimp MIGHT be conscious based on a very loose definition of consciousness? Now you too are very smart! You can talk about this with your sort-of friends (coworkers) from the job where you spend 80 hours a week now!)

to convince some people that this is indeed an important and worthy thing. Because people who can be talked into this don't really interact with the real world, for the most part. So they don't know that lots of actual people need actual help that doesn't involve them dying anyway and being eaten en-masse afterwards.
And audio Captchas are in English. I suppose blind people who don't speak English or have any kind of hearing difficulty don't deserve accessibility.
We love bugs (and you should, too)
Right? I drive an accord hybrid (2023) and get ~53 mpg city and ~48 mpg interstate.

I have a hard time imagining switching to a full EV or going back to traditional ICE.
Um because people really want to be done burning petroleum in their cars. Hybrid is just an old gas car that’s gets improved gas mileage. It’s not a real fix.
> Such a weird thing to blame it on.

Yeah, should't be weird, should be obvious. (lobby, insider trading, etc)
and it stimulates interesting conversations like this. Watch this comment section it's going to be great
This reminds me of https://tiddlywiki.com/
Shrimps don't suffer. No one 'suffers'.

Suffering is an expresion / concept we humans have because we called a certain state like this. Suffering is something a organism presents if that organism can't survive or struggles with survival.

Now i'm a human and my empathy is a lot stronger for humans, a lot, than for shrimps.

Btw. i do believe if we would really care and make sure fewllow humans would not need to suffer (they need to suffer because of capitalsm), a lot of other suffering would stop too.

We would be able to actually think about shrimps and other animals.
This is one of those "lying with statistics" moments. The implication is that "Unwanted telemarketing calls" have gone down significantly, maybe even "more than 50 percent since 2021" and the second order implication is that it was the efforts of the FTC that made the drop happen.

The reality is simply that reports to the FTC have gone down which is going to be from myriad other reasons besides the implied ones.

1. Since many spam/scam calls utilize some form of spoofing, many savvy people aren't going to waste their time reporting the number.
2. Since many phones / carriers have the ability to report spam/scam, people aren't very likely to spend their time reporting the number to the FTC.
3. Many carriers and phones have services that come standard (or at least paid) that automatically filter or flag low reputation numbers, leading to fewer reports to the FTC.
4. People that have tried reporting in the past and have gone through the trouble of associating their email and phone number in yet another government database have given up reporting after no appreciable effect.

Frankly, I don't think calls have dropped much if at all, and many of us have stopped accepting calls from unknown numbers unless we are expecting it, so those "ignored" ones certainly don't get reported either.
A start would be what kinds of websites even need a CAPTCHA in the first place. Why does just viewing websites with static conent ever need to result in a captcha prompt.
Native widgets libraries were historically those, who were only one that knew, how to talk to the display server. So if you wanted to write another widget library, you had to link to them anyway, to use them as a proxy. That's how Qt, for example, runs on Windows or Mac, using the old win32 api or Cocoa.

But meanwhile, the OS vendors got creative and pumped out a bunch of new, _more modern_ libraries, which have abilities that the old, "system" ones do not have. You want Acrylic design on Windows? Better be satisfied with WinUI -- which, in v3 is the recommended way to write native applications by the platform owner, and which is decoupled from system releases and from Windows SDK.

Electron apps are coming from any shop, that want to throw together some installable, locally running app and figured out, that paying HTML+CSS devs is cheaper, than paying C++ (or ObjC) ones. Having shorter development time is also something positive. It has nothing to do with Linux shops; there are Electron apps, that could be running on Linux if there was a will, but aren't (Whatsapp), or almost-electron-but-edge_webview-instead (Teams).
I think people tend to underestimate the amount of pre/post conditions needed to ensure that software is correct, and when those are explicitly mentioned they become much less readable than you would expect.
Can you expand on this? I don't think this is the whole story. Perhaps a concrete example would help.
> They were going to be thrown onto ice where slowly, agonizingly, over the course of 20 minutes, they’d suffocate and freeze to death at the same time, a bit like suffocating in a suitcase in the middle of Antarctica. Imagine them struggling, gasping, without enough air, fighting for their lives, but it’s no use.

How do we know this isn't just fiction?
> They've rationalized their morality into some kind of pseudo-quantitative ethical maximization problem and then failed to notice that most people's moralities don't and aren't going to work like that.

To me, the point of this argument (along with similar ones) is to expose these deeper asymmetries that exist in most people's moral systems - to make people question their moral beliefs instead of accepting their instinct. Not to say "You're all wrong, terrible people for not donating your money to this shrimp charity which I have calculated to be a moral imperative".
few dozen crashed satellites quickly become shrapnel on their own, spreading in all directions.
not at "shrapnel speed" but nevertheless..
Simple distorted-characters captchas still do a good job of catching unsophisticated bots, which is most of them. They work even better when combined with hidden form fields because these bots don't support CSS.

Targeted attacks though? You're making your legitimate users suffer only so that you defeat 99% of bots instead of 95%.
>Blame the Second Amendment as currently interpreted.

It's been largely interpreted this way throughout most of our history, until around the 1960s when civil rights activists started carrying them. All the modern gun regulation started then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

Of course 1934 gun control came about due to people like Al Capone and the like.
That I think is just to try to prevent scraping, probably mostly from people training AI models. I don't really think anti-scraping mitigations are a good idea and I'm hoping that problem some day solves itself.
But the WEI proposals
were never about protecting from bad actors with device farms. They were always about guaranteeing that a certain ad company who also makes browsers can always push ads to users, thus maximizing value for shareholders. Protecting from device farms was just the bait.
It cuts your candidate pool by a factor of five or ten, and adds about 30k a year of comp demands (a number which will grow as engs get less desperate in a warming market).
> Aren't they a best of both worlds approach? What am I missing.

They have the mechanical complexity of both, in a package of roughly the same size. And usually far smaller batteries and thus far less battery-only range than a pure EV. There are plenty of downsides.
I use LLMs to write "secondary" code. Things like deployment scripts, autoformatters, Github Actions, Dockerfiles or Kubernetes config. Stuff that isn't strictly part of the main web project, but is still valuable to have. I use LLMs there because

a) those tend to be boilerplate, and LLMs are great for boilerplate, and

b) code quality doesn't really matter too much, and

c) those tend to be written in languages that you may not be well-versed in, since they usually aren't in the "primary" language of the project
Japan went all-in on hybrids, not exactly sure why though. Skip forward a few decades and it'd make a lot more sense to unify behind a fully electric charging solution than maintaining two fueling methods.
I didn't realize he'd announced what he's been working on after. Thanks for the tip.
There is another option.

CAPTCHA is useful only when it is costly to solve. It is a costly signal that this is a real person, or at least is more than 1/10^9th of a real person (you're not running a fully automated spam system).

The postal service also has costs - everybody that wants to move something through the postal service needs to buy a stamp. Transport fees are a 'natural' way to moderate traffic and deter spam.

Various combinations of network architecture and cryptocoinage permit you to invoke transport fees per attempted transmission/login. Sensible ones, if every spam email or login guess costs even 1 penny it becomes prohibitive for most fully automated spam applications. The cryptocoin aspect is specifically about preserving anonymity of private wallet access while permitting the cash-like transactions that stamps enable.
>why not endeavor to replace meat grown by slaughtering animals with other alternatives?

Utilitarians tend to be very interested in this, too. I've been giving to this group: https://gfi.org/
> The GC has to now move every object remaining in the vector down a step to make the vector dense again

Is there something which forces you to compact everything here? Or could you do what most GCs do and track that free entry in a free list?
When to send abandoned cart text messages?

For me, absolutely never. When a company spams me like that, they lose me as a customer.
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Yes, hashcash.
There are lots of young people who are not ambitious. And as soon as you say that, there is a reactionary group that will come running to say well the problem is with teachers not being inspiring, curriculum being poor, society not creating the right environment etc etc. But these kids are never the issue. They are quite satisfied and accepting with whatever the universe throws in their lap.

The real issue is Ambitious kids. Not the ones who have enough looks, contacts, knowledge, skill, intelligence, creativity and imagination to meet their goals but the ones who don't.

Materialism exploits such people more than anyone else. It tells them Donald if you are not admired, respected, loved just work hard, don't stop, keep grinding, keep hustling, accumulate material wealth, accumulate status, accumulate luxury goods and you will get the affection, respect, admiration and love you crave. Its pure bullshit.

This is the stuff that has to stop. We have to take care of these people better and channel their infinite energies into things beyond consumption and materialism. Its the hardest thing to do cause they are an extremely annoying group to deal with constantly craving attention, praise, sympathy and love.
But thats the only path to a better, healthier and sustainable society.
No Free Lunch.
That's a valid problem you are solving.
I had similar usecase that I solved using PDF[dot]co
Author: The ergonomics of this _are_ hideous, to my dismay, which was a lot of the motivation behind @celine/celine (https://maxbo.me/celine, aka me packaging the article up into a library).

It's still not quite there as a platform for exploratory data analysis - you don't have the instant reactivity of either a fully-fledged web code editor from Observable Notebooks or the hot-reloading file-watching Observable Framework. And the new Jupyter Kernel for Deno + VSCode is a pretty smooth experience too.

So while I agree that the ergonomics for exploratory analysis is uhhhh bad, I don't think the _publishing_ ergonomics is that bad. In fact, they're good. It's just a single file! I don't need to maintain some massive toolchain or pay some 3rd party service to just send someone a graph and some data munging - I just lob a HTML file at someone over Slack or host it somewhere. And the flexibility to style the analysis means that you can publish in environments where styling is important (blogs, or as a research paper).
Theory. This is not how things work in practice, even in "democracies". Speaking as a person who has been harassed at the US border from Canada many times, I've learned it depends more on how the border agent "feels" about you. These people are often uneducated bullies who don't know or don't care about the law anyway. And if you start objecting on some legal basis, they can legally make things a LOT harder for you, including simply denying entry for no reason (yes, they have such a right). Better to cooperate rather than give the appearance of "destroying evidence" (even if completely legal) or you're in for a world of hurt if you got the wrong guy.
> I mean everyone already has turn-by-turn directions emanating from their pocket

Navigating the map is a problem already solved. Knowing what a delivered package looks like on a doorstep is not, knowing how to interact with any individual waiting for the package is not, etc.

> I'd imagine they'd also want to create their own "actual location" address book.

Good call! Another to add to the list.

We're talking about Amazon here, right? A company known for maximizing efficiency and resources. Why wouldn't they use this sensory device to work towards this goal?
i have heard that a hybrid car is in fact the worst of both worlds, having to carry both 50kg gasoline _and_ over 50kg battery
You can read and respond to my reply here if you like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42173441
> The current US government is the most corrupt entity in the history of the world

Current ?
"Mark Twain: 'There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress'"
Hey @akomtu, if by chance you read this, shoot me an email (see profile).

I am quite interested in these topics right now and don't have a lot of people to share thoughts about it with.

Best!
I definitely agree with you - it reminds me of an inverted bell curve, or the YouTube series "The Search For The Worst" - It is far better from a viewer's perspective to wholeheartedly and absolutely fail, then create something so mediocre and lacking in soul that it isn't worth a thought. I suppose the primary purpose of an art gallery, at least this one, is to entertain, and MOMA (Mueseum Of Mediocre Art in this case) was already taken [https://www.moma.org/]

I'm reminded also of the corporate art style [https://thebroadsideonline.com/17614/opinion/opinion-the-cor...] - every effort was taken to produce something so inoffensive and average that it could not possibly provoke any emotion in any demographic. Nobody would ever say that this is their favourite art style.

What's your favourite piece within the collections on the MOBA website?
I've always found IPA to be deeply confusing for English, because different accents have different historical vowel mergers, so I am never sure about vowels. And I think linguists aren't always sure about them either. IIRC, I saw a video by Geoff Lindsey suggesting Americans don't really have a /ʌ/ phoneme. Most people who have written about this write as if we do. (By the way, Dr. Lindsey's YouTube videos are some of the more interesting content I've found about English phonetics)

For other languages I have exposure to, IPA seems to make more sense. Possibly I have a bias in that they're not my native language, so I can analyze them instead of internalizing them. But also, they have cleaner phonetics, cleaner orthography, and less regional variation of phonemes.
I really don’t understand how the average resident could be a cost center for a hospital. At least over the course of their 4-6+ years.

There are some hospitals you will go to (big names!) where you will never actually see an attending physician most of the time. Your entire care team are residents.

How a hospital can’t turn a profit off $60k/yr “junior doctors” doing all the actual work is beyond me. I’m sure there are costs I am not considering, but my immediate gut reaction is that it’s nearly all creative accounting to pretend residents cost more than they bring in - to keep that sweet government subsidy coming in as well as limiting the number of slots.

Some programs of course this makes sense, but on the whole it doesn’t seem to pass a smell test to me.
Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
It's an HTML canvas, but you can give it input similar to a shading language?
While I would never suggest it, in case of emergency, most professional CAD programs can be found online on torrent websites.
A lot of contemporary art is bad... surprisingly bad. A lot of it is /intentionally/ ugly. As an outsider just getting into the art world, it is fascinating - some kind of weird social phenomenon is going on. Maybe it's "different at all expenses" or something else. Not sure.
Argh, you're right - I made a bottomless sandwich, the least edible of all sandwichkind
Doubtful they'll be optimized for games. I guess if by indie you mean unoptimized then maybe...you still don't get rigs or animation.

I mean, at that point you could just make a 2d game with the input images.
"Why does everyone use Colab or Observable to run notebooks in a browser?

Anyway, here's an alternative that uses Observable for the hard parts."
Having semiautomatic rifles or armored vehicles isn’t militarization. Private citizens can get those too. Police forces don’t have M1 Abrams tanks or F35s or nuclear carriers. This claim that the police are problematic is an entirely emotional activist response to a few incidents. That sentiment then led to hyperbolic claims like militarization.
There are less annoying alternatives. Things like honeypot fields are worked for me so far. There are more dynamic variations on your maths question.
TL;DR - The leaders of a highly-religious, homophobic, low-HDI, faux-democracy country get surprised when some of their people want to leave for greener pastures.

Turns out that inventing a specific measure of happiness that makes your country look more favorable than it is doesn't change reality.
Email hasn't actually fixed spam issues, it's just mitigated a big chunk of them. But I know for a fact that I still mark emails in my inbox as spam on a regular basis, and still dig legitimate emails out of my spam once in a while.
No, look: you cannot take chunks of posts when they are not semantically isolated, there is no «new» position, it is the same expressed more verbosely:

it was "Protect[ing people] from themselves[? ... Certainly[], because society has consequences over the individual".

It means, "no, it is not a good idea to let them be liabilities: the consequences fall on you".

You see that the point is not plainly "protecting people from themselves", and the closest cone of interpretations of that, right?

> Be aware they will

An where is the problem? That is duly! Society is based on reciprocal interaction AND correction! Of course everybody is supposed to contribute.
One of the biggest reasons that I have seen folks mention as to why they are currently avoiding hosting their own PDS[0], is that there is currently no migration path back to Bluesky's PDS system. You can go Bsky PDS -> self-hosted PDS, but there is no way back, yet.

[0] https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-archit...