skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s drain effect where as the city gets defunded, people with money and an interest in civic engagement move to the suburbs, and start voting accordingly.

Having kids is a pivotal moment. Suddenly that rich urban life looks like danger for your little ones.

I was an urban kid and we stayed in the city when we had kids, so my kids got to go to a school where the janitor had to arrive early and remove the needles and broken beer bottles from the playground.
I don't at all agree with that. Or at least, it's only true enough to be misleading and to downplay/obscure the real concerns I'm raising.

Because, of course it's true not all my friends are just like me. But I don't have to hide who I am from them. I can be completely true to myself and we can disagree about some things but still feel genuine connections.

I consider that qualitatively different from a relationship with a person who would dislike and distrust me unless I hide important facets of my identity/personality.

edit: I see that I made the distinction in my original comment between "not being true" vs "hiding", so I think that's where you jumped in. My fault for leaving that gap open; I hope my position is more clear here.
I agree, lots of, "my health insurance is fine! And besides wouldn't they try to kill me since i made insert relatively shitty technology for a decade". Reads like privilege of not having had these difficulties (because money), lack of empathy to read the room and maybe learn that far more people have far more problems than you might experience. And finally a suddenly realized guilty conscious(?) about their own roles in little pains and problems they created for people. Of course the person who built the claim denial system is going to be opposed to this discussion, because they're afraid. But, shouldn't they be? Shouldn't people be afraid to participate in evil systems? Otherwise what stops evil systems from continuously being spread into every aspect of everyone's (poors) lives.
A judge said no. Are shareholders above the justice system? It’s an interesting debate
I was actually talking about class differences not race.

>Capital is available for people here without reference to social standing.

Social standing relative to color of skin sure, but not economic class.

You are coming from a place of economic privilege and are ignoring how many suffer to access things like capital, housing, healthcare and other needs based on their economic starting point.

The American view you can raise yourself from lower to middle class with hard work and effort is less true today than ever.
Good point! Though also worth mentioning that they're already in Atlanta, which gets ~50in (and 59in so far this year, despite the mind-bending "first October without rain in recorded history")
PS3 graphics aren't that different from modern day graphics, just lower fidelity and the hardware was a bit quirky but other than that they didn't have any particular aesthetic; I don't think the PS2 had either. The PS1 did though, the weird texture shimmering that was reproduced in for example the Bloodborne demake [0] and subsequent Bloodborne Kart, which had to be rebranded to Nightmare Kart for copyright reasons. But that one's made in Unreal Engine 4, with a forum thread [1] saying the effect can be reproduced across multiple engines like UE4, Unity and Godot, using a shader.

[0] https://b0tster.itch.io/bbpsx

[1] https://itch.io/t/1999076/what-game-engine-did-you-use
Using Transformers.js for AI in the Browser
Waymo is changing to a Hundai iqonic 5, especially made for them. In the meantime they have brought up all Jaguar they could.
> If you were actually building a service like that in Go (millions of active connections) and you were very concerned about memory usage

Or, much more likely, pay a few tens of dollars per month for a second server and start scaling out.
On the way to work today, I made a joke about a full-size truck by mockingly saying "hurr, I drive a big truck to my white collar job to have more mass in an accident because I suck at driving."

My friend (and conveniently coworker) says "by Game Theory he's technically winning."

Then I got more upset because damn it, he's right.
At the end of the day that isn’t a technical problem but a unit economics one.

Removing the driver from a taxi doesn’t bring down costs that much. Self driving cars aren’t going to change the uber/taxi model at a fundamental level.

They have a finite fleet that they need to deploy. Urban centers mean that fleet utilization is high, and relatively less time and miles are spent driving with no one on board. In rural areas with little demand they will sit empty or have to drive empty for many more miles to their pickups. It just isn’t profitable to use your fleet that way no matter what you do.
4 colors is still 4x as much as the Playdate or games like Return of the Obra Dinn has (or twice if you consider 'off' a color).
It's got to be the lowest priority; population density improves economics and utilization. Not to mention that it's hard enough to drive in a city with snow, compared to all the other kinds of situations that can manifest outside of urban centers.
That was a lengthy, but nice article/review about someone that I didn't know of before.

Not strictly similar, but this brings to my mind Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Power and the Glory, and his 'whisky priest'. Easily one of the best novels that I've ever read, so highly recommended to give it a look.
No, and there's actually an analogy: phone taps. The "bug" is already installed, they just need the warrant to turn it on.
Worst US hack in history: Chinese can monitor all your calls and emails
. . . what? The German nationalists believed that the Proto-Indo-European or Aryan race was Nordic, but not that it came from Germany. They sent archaeological expeditions into the Middle East looking for "confirmation" of their nonsense.
America is a de facto keynesian state while the European Union is pushin austerity since 2008
Aye, thanks! That's very helpful to hear. I just cut back our use of the acronym a ton:

https://github.com/sequinstream/sequin/commit/28bfba603da6d2...
I'm not saying the economy is good. But according to polling, many folks who said the economy was "poor" before the November election now believe it's doing great. All in a very partisan fashion, of course: https://jabberwocking.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/blog_mi...
The pivot has already happened. They’re handing over Austin and Atlanta to Uber, and now Phoenix and Miami to Moove. The only places they will continue to own operations for at least the next year are SF and LA.
Except you can't just fire the mafioso who threatens you. The board/shareholders can just fire Musk.

On the other hand, intimidation/extortion is illegal and the $50B could be seen as the proceeds of that.

I'd say that "fired on-the-spot with cause" should be the expected and legal outcome of the CEO giving himself a $50B bonus. Also one of the expected outcomes of threatening the shareholders.

I'm generally of the opinion that the CEO's responsibility to shareholders/board with respect to controversial choices is just to do it with transparency and let them fire him if they disagree. Otherwise, as long as he's not making the company do anything illegal then that can be interpreted as doing his job.

But of course, all of this depends on the Cyclopean contracts these people have as well.
> You don't want to be poor in the US; there is no bottom.

How do you figure? US has SNAP, Medicaid, UI, TANF (for families with children), Section 8 housing, SSD, SSI, Childcare Assistance amongst other programs.

These aren’t much of course but are something.
I don't know why you would think that might be a possibility given the venue we are on.

Government has also demolished people's actual homes in the course of "crime fighting" and then refused to pay/fix them as well (that notorious case in Colorado comes to mind). But surely you can see there is still a distinction between things that happen infrequently, often with limited scope, or still at least with some semblance of a legal process, and what happens routinely to people accused of "digital crimes".

It should go without saying that I think all of these dynamics are terrible, and in dire need of reform. But at least civil forfeiture and "qualified" (née sovereign) immunity are getting talked about, while the totalitarian approach to personal digital infrastructure isn't getting so much attention.
>the EU doesn't have an answer except for tariffs and other protectionist measures.

You can't have an answer if you're competing with a labor force that's working 9-9-6 while your labor force is working 35h weeks on paper (much less in practice), gets 40 vacation days per year, get paid sick leave whenever they don't feel like coming to work, and highly paid underperformers are unable to be fired due to unions.

German workers could afford that cushy lifestyle when their auto industry was the most cutting edge and valuable in the world, but once it's not anymore, they'll have to accept a new reality of more work for less pay if they want to have jobs or an industry.
The Boston Tea Party was because the British made tea cheaper which undercut tea smugglers.

If anything, product dumping (which happened to improve the lives of tea consumers, but hurt smugglers) was the motivation, not taxation. In that case.
That's awesome! Do their recent API changes impact things like this?
The UC Berkeley Project That Is the AI Industry's Obsession
Capital-intensive, or labour-intensive? If I were a provider of 'special smart sauce' that goes on a common piece of equipment, I'd be trying to focus on making it so I could provide the sauce rather than dealing with all the real-world issues that come with all the real-world people using the saucy equipment.
> I was into pokemon as a kid and wanted to make a "fan site", which is what got me learning

Oh wow, this reminded me... I was also ~12, maybe a bit younger, I don't know exactly.

I wanted to build my own Neopets, using Dreamweaver! I was making page after page, so I could link them together.

Stuff like: "home.html" -> "acara.html" -> "feed acara.html" -> "home after feed acara.html"... I didn't understand how people could make something like Neopets!?!

Luckly my older brother gave me some tips. But yeah, that started off my journey, as well as Game Maker!
Profitable from an operations perspective? Surely close since they charge the same order of magnitude as an Uber/Lyft and have fewer than one driver per vehicle (monitoring the vehicles).
The fact that Bitcoin's blockchain is unusable without unofficial, unreliable and slow L2 chains is kinda evidence that it doesn't have much potential left. If you're a serious country considering using Bitcoin, why even use Lightning at all when you could use a fundamentally better-designed currency? Why invest in Bitcoin if it's already breaking?
lets swap out pgadmin for this

replicate all its functionality, then imma stick this on all our production servers

yeeeeeeeah boooooiiiiii
A new "ChatGPT for Swingers" wants your feedback
I have been loving the ironically named, "ClosedXML" power shell module
Yes there will, and i think it will be a terrible thing, helped by a terrible precedent we're setting now. If you don't want death to be the precedent, give people another option. He needed to be punished for what he did. None of us can put him in jail, he has too much money for that. Violence is the only recourse we're allowed, that's a terrible thing but it's true. I wish it wasn't like this
I wrote my own UI[0] that connects over WebRTC using Smoke.[1]

[0] https://github.com/minwidth0px/gpt-playground and https://github.com/minwidth0px/Webrtc-NAT-Traversal-Proxy-Se...

[1] https://github.com/sinclairzx81/smoke
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We have to add the deprecation and maintenance of the car.

Plus I guess they need high resolution maps? Not sure if that is a significant cost factor.
Jaguar did not manufacture the I-Pace at all. It was made by Steyr, who also built a ton of them for Waymo.
There's no need to keep using weasel words. We *know* his company does a lot of harm. We can estimate it directly killed at least hundreds of thousands of people.
It does not suck! Hardware just barely works.

I design motherboards for industrial computers for living. Last gem: radio module draws 5 amps while transmitting instead of specified 2 amps. Trust nobody!
Morally, sure, if you know your wealth is sourced from crime, you likely have a moral obligation to disgorge it.

Practically, that's difficult. If you grew up wealthy because of generational crime that provides life advantages you can't return. At best, you could make sure you direct any inheritance to victims if possible or a suitable charity (and not your family foundation).

Legally, this is not plausible. All sorts of legal principles dictate that lawsuits must be timely (for various values of timely) and estates become unlitigatable not very long after they're closed. There are some cases in the news about crimes in WWII and such, though.
Is the remote status here up to date? The job descriptions say you do not accommodate remote work.
I remember reading about specific insulation chemistry a few years ago that apparently rodents love: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a21933466/does-your-car-ha...
It only affects 3rd party analytics, so it should not.
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I don't know why I got flagged for identifying this as a shitcoin.
What about the gold? We use dollars to measure that too.
Couple of notes on this:

52 devices could mean a phone, a tablet, and 50 USBs, SD cards, and such.

The problem with loading firmware to permit is the potential damage to the evidence and the potential to imply that the evidence was planted.

The vast majority of the cell phone hacking involves loading material into at least into memory and often modify the boot load sequence. This is how all that I worked with (e.g., Cellebrite, Magnet, MSAB, Oxygen, AccessData) function.

damage: I have toasted devices by hooking them up to forensic tools, mobile phones and more.

planted evidence: There have been several challenges to this (I think US v. Ganias), and let's not forget the Casey Anthony trial where they argued that the forensic tool CacheBack reliability. Not surprisingly, F/LOSS tools are better defense for this than black-box commercial ones.

The more complex the evidence collection, the more likely damage can occur, or planted evidence can be argued.
Hm, I mostly agree, but I think that's a bit tangential.

It's not like people really get to make that choice and still have a good chance at success. In order to meet any definition of success[1], you need to get hired. And also, if you're in a job that's making you miserable, you once again need to get hired (somewhere else). Networking is the solution to that problem. If you're not someone who can enjoy and/or succeed at networking, your career is at risk. There's not much you can do about that except take a different path.

[1] excluding either "leave the field and succeed somewhere else" or "start your own company"[2]

[2] although starting one's own company without a robust network would probably also be a pretty difficult path
https://archive.ph/TeSt8

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/climate/geoengineering-ea...
Good job hijacking your own pavlovian responses to run more. Personally, the low-tech solution of a plunger stuck to my forehead with a klondike bar dangling from the end has always worked for me.

Related but if you're wanting to get into running (and have the environment for it) - I HIGHLY recommend favoring trail running over running streets/sidewalks. It's far better for your joints, it'll make you work harder since it'll absorb some of your energy, and it'll improve your proprioception.
Meta: Accelerating the Next Wave of Nuclear to Power AI Innovation
Accessible as in "better to understand", helping with bringing the idea to a more general audience.

A lot of people are uninterested in long texts or in this case parts of the expected audience might also have literacy issues.
> having other companies handle the capital-intensive parts.

Waymo definitely wants to outsource the areas where they don't have special expertise (i.e. Waymo is 100x better at driving, but not 100x better at washing and vacuuming cars). I'm not sure how capital-intensive regional operations are. The vehicles are definitely the largest capital expense. This is more like an AirBnB property owner hiring a cleaning service.
Because you're on GrifterNews
Chat GPT is not aware. It has no self.

It produces token strings that are statistically likely to be a match for any given prompt based on text it's been fed. But the reason it gets things wrong is not the same reason we get things wrong. It gets things wrong because the probabilities matched but the actual meaning did not.

It sounds great that RAG stands for Recursively Assembled Grammar (in a discussion about LLMs), only it doesn't. The LLM generated text that even explained RAG as a recursive grammar applied in the context of LLM usage, but RAG stands for Request-Augmented Generation. When I pointed this out the system output "Oh, of course, that is also a thing and it means..." But the system had no awareness. Not of the meaning of the text it was producing, and not of any sort of self.
iVerify Mobile Threat Investigation Uncovers New Pegasus Samples
The way that Twitter currently ranks replies, all the top replies will be from blueticks, and thus generally low-quality nonsense or outright spam (a lot of people seem to be using it for self-promotion, which is perhaps unsurprising given the nature of pay-for-attention). For a post with any significant engagement, this makes ignoring them a lot of work. Many people may find a platform where this isn't a thing attractive.

Like, Twitter is clearly _worse_ with promotion of bluetick replies than it was without it; I don't think that's really controversial. That gives platforms which do not do that an advantage. Do I think Twitter is outright unusable in its current state? No, though it's getting there. But it's certainly way more _unpleasant_ to use than it used to be, and increasingly viable alternatives exist, so it's unclear to me why you'd expect people to bother using Twitter.
Second worst hack. The worst one was when the FBI and NSA worked together to install the backdoors that China uses today, and then exploited them for warrentless surveillance for years without any significant criticism.
Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky - I left them all after deciding that doom scrolling through any infinite app makes me feel like I'm stewing in someone else's kettle of advertainment slop.

I read HN only because the content doesn't refresh too quickly and the comment threads are generally higher quality than tech posts on Reddit. Otherwise, substacks and email lists are doing it for me lately.
"Judge not, that ye be not judged"
In real world engineering, defects are part of the design and not bugs. Really they aren't even called defects, because they are inherent in the design.

Maybe you bump your car because you stopped an inch too far. Perhaps it's because the tires on your car were from a lower performing but still in spec batch. Those tires weren't defective or bugged, but instead the product of a system with statistical outputs (manufacturing variation) rather than software-like deterministic ones (binary yes/no output).

Which goes back to OP's initial point: SWE types aren't used to working in fully statistical output environments.
If you look at his comments they are basically all shilling for Russia apart from one on Rust. The most recent being "what took him so long" on Putin raising defence spending to a third of Russia's budget.

I'm not sure that's really what you are supposed to do on HN? Also you might think Russia could find something better to do that spending all their money and tens of thousands of their men on trying to kill the neighbours and steal their land. It's not even really profitable these days.
I have known since before the election that Trump is planning to deport all of the immigrants. I’ve been angry about it. I’ve talked to the people about it. I have argued with people about it, but I haven’t truly cognitively processed it.

When I got to the slide about immigrant workers, I broke down, crying, sobbing tears—no no no no that can’t happen here tears. I already knew. It was something I already knew.

The reality of such a thing is so horrible to contemplate that even if you can attach the faces of people you know to the coming horror, you’re more likely to think of it in abstract terms. 20 million people is a number we can’t fathom. But data allows us to process it in an abstract way, and can connect the abstract to something cognitively meaningful.

When I saw the data arranged that way I was forced to confront the abstract representation of this category of people that drove home cognitively what could be coming.
The US administration of the next four years has no intention of making a principal payment on the debt. They borrowed $7 trillion before, they can do it again. If a country dumps their US treasury bonds, the administration will impose tariffs on them.

I think it's interesting to compare other countries. 120 years ago the UK was the most powerful empire in history. Now 36% of UK children live in poverty, and 43% of single parent families and families with three or more children live in poverty. Over 40% of UK families from Asia/Caribbean live in deep, persistent poverty.

Many in the US are really close to that, and describe it as a "poor economy". They may have an iPhone, but they can't afford it.
We have been implementing Diátaxis style engineering documentation. We have "librarians" that make sure information is going to the place, and that we aren't creating unnecessary duplication.
Wow. It never occurred to me that this might be anything but the landing page of a product.

The title here, the presentation on the page itself. Everything screams "landing page". I had to go back on a desktop browser to see the word "blog" in the url bar, and mentally shift those graphics and little islands of text around until I can view it from that lens. If it's really just a sub-product of the main product that they're talking about, then yeah, it makes more sense in that context.

But my answer to your question would still be "Yes". Absolutely. If you're a product, the job of your blog is to convince people coming off the street that they need your thing, even if they didn't realize it yet.

Step one of that process is to not bounce them back to the street without any idea what they're looking at.
Great idea! I was picturing a device you wear that feeds you as you run :)
Hours worked translate into annual pay for workers, but productivity and hourly wages determine how competitive a company is.

Fast food is filled with part time employees because those companies benefit from doing so, it’s one way to keep their costs down.
The public's reaction to this shooting seems to range from apathy to pure glee. I wouldn't be surprised if this incident inspired copycats.
isnt there a limit on prompt size? how would you actually use this? Im not very up to speed on this stuff
My city (Seattle) is part of a large county that includes suburbs. My city is also part of a state with a mix of many types of areas. Legislation and budgets happen at all three levels, and because the city is a primary economic engine of the state, others have an interest in dictating what happens in the city.
Then there are Excel collar workers who decide what gets build in the first place or what needs to be downsized. People in private equity decide which resource is worthy of keeping or which needs to be let go.
Nah, for complex problems maybe, not for single digit addition that should be in the training corpus directly.

Regardless, the intention here is to highlight a difference between Gemini and ChatGPT/Claude, neither of which will agree to simple mathberrors.
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