skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to sibling comments about the 13th amendment's exception clause (which is what legally allows forced prison labor[1]): forced prison labor has been a state-level ballot issue in recent years.

Colorado voted to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime in 2018 (though enforcement is reportedly poor). [2][3]

In other states voters have upheld forced labor[4] but sometimes it's because of issues with how it's worded[5].

You can argue it's involuntary servitude instead of slavery but to most people that's a meaningless distinction. Especially while they are being beaten for not working.[6]

[1] https://action.aclu.org/send-message/congress-end-forced-lab...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665295736/colorado-votes-to-a...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1210564359/slavery-prison-for...

[4] https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/11/california...

[5] https://lailluminator.com/2022/11/17/the-story-behind-why-lo...

[6] https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-inve...
On iOS apps must provide a reason for requesting it which appears in the prompt. App Review makes sure the reason is justified. A library might be able to opportunistically piggyback on this permission but again the mic indicator would be on. It would more than likely be discovered and the app banned.
People need to socialize with other humans that understand them. Therapy can be great and necessary, but it's not sufficient.
Yeah, where everybody is a manager except for that one poor soul in the basement.
A lack of "being polite" does not justify state sanctioned extrajudicial punishment, as your victimhood narrative implies. Sure, be polite to cops because you should be polite in general until someone gives you a reason not to be. And from a social engineering standpoint you get better results by being friendly. But as a rule one should be able to be rude to police officers in any way one can be rude to any other citizen, and if they attack you for it they should be the ones going to jail, like any other citizen. Public employees tasked with upholding law and order need to be shining examples of it, not hypocritically exempt from it.
> Iron fertilization is arguably simpler

its simpler, but also, if its like algal blooms, easy to fuckup and cause complete decimation of plantlife in the area.
Their fact-checker is on record as saying that he has to present equal amounts of fact-checking for democrats and republicans. That is quintessential "both sides". Fact-checking should be pretty agnostic to political party, you shouldn't feel like you have to present examples of incorrect facts on both sides unless they're actually there.
This whole criminal record piece of shit is a crime on its own. I believe that records of people who served their time or just have been arrested/carded and then let free must be sealed and not accessible to general employers.

Some obvious exceptions can apply but generally people should not be penalized for what they've been penalized already.
You bring up some interesting points. The publicizing side of things makes sense. Although given how often you hear about ex-military, police, etc, members in groups like these, I'd still expect that we'd see a handful of criminal/terrorist activities taken out by highly competent groups, even if it's unclear who it is.

But that may get back to your point about discipline, motivation, intelligence, etc.

Re SEAL/Delta-level: I guess I'm asking two distinct questions.

1) To use your basketball analogy: while NBA-level skills may be an unreasonable expectation, why do the videos seem to show middle school or JV-level competence? I'd expect that D3 college-level competence wouldn't be super difficult, but evidently that isn't a correct assumption.

2) What is the practical requirement for a world-class tactical unit (or near that level, e.g. D1 basketball or a bad pro team)? I wouldn't expect current militias to be at that level, but what about less developed nation-states?
> Planting trees is good thing to do but not even getting close to a solution.

for carbon, no.

For stopping heat being absorbed by the earth, yes. Some of the anti-desertification work being done in africa has yielded something like an average 8 degree c drop in temperature.
I know some countries have very....."easy going" attitude to drivers ed, but surely.....especially if most of your vehicles are automatic.....you must have been told that your left foot never leaves the floor or you're going to seriously hurt yourself, right???
It's not because we're indentured, but because we're on an island, and now most of the island is as transparent as a village.
> He also doesn't know the risks he's taking allowing that.

I don't know either; what are the risks?
“Socialize” with an AI?
It's still alive today, but it's not called "Shoot 'em up" anymore.

These days it's been taken to extremes (signs of the times?) and called "Bullet Heaven" (you exterminate hordes of wimpy enemies) or "Bullet Hell" (you evade myriads of bullets).
No, it's not.

If you keep calling your dog a "cat" it won't start meowing.

The list is really disappointing, not only it's hard to find an actual digital garden on the list, most aren't even blogs, but simple resumes or portfolios.
It’s completely fair to say that private prisons have too much pull and that there are bad incentives like you point out.

It’s completely unfair to express surprise that Americans would come up with a way to reduce their prison population because of the notion that they’ve all been captured by the private prison industry.
A Year of Oku
people that don’t have a fucking clue about slavery in their own country are the ones downvoting
ScamVictimBot:
sound = tts("Say again?") // constant, might as well cache
while(true):
phone.out(sound)
_ = phone.waitUntilNextPause()
This Python conference presentation from over a decade ago includes an adjustment of such a visualization for DST which I think of often https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/observational-science-w...
I'm going to challenge you to put that first screenshot into ChatGPT/Claude and ask them why it looks like something an intern came up with vs a professional product.

I'm not saying that as a slight or an insult, but right now the screenshot looks like a Gradio space someone would use to prove out the underlying tech of a professional product, not a professional product (unless you literally mean professionals are your target users as opposed to consumers).

I think an LLM would be able to very quickly tell you what most product builders would tell you at this stage.

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Also one of the key enablers of NotebookLM is SoundStorm style parallel generation. Afaik no open source project has reached that milestone, have they?
That's great until the self-steering mechanism drives into a pedestrian or gets the driver into the hospital. Insurance sure isn't going to pay out and even if it does, no amount of money can undo injuries.

These rules aren't in place to annoy people who have fun with cars, they're a public safety issue. Until OpenPilot is confirmed to be safe enough to be road legal in Europe (I doubt it ever will be).

Having a 1366kg vehicle under complete control of a system with the disclaimer

> THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS. NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.

with hardware that was cobbled together in a garage somewhere, taking this thing out on the road is pure insanity.
The solution can’t be that those people have to interact with AI instead of humans. What a shit society that would be.
Highly recommend it. I reversed an app with o1 Pro Mode and the analysis of the obfuscated C# code matched up accurately with what I eventually discovered by manually reversing.
Am I willing? I personally have no control over the situation at scale as it relates to the rapid uptake in passkeys across major web properties. There is no legal or regulatory mechanism to prevent passkey adoption, and Linux users are so small of a customer population in most circumstances that the loss of them as customers or users is immaterial. On the record, I do support whatever mechanisms can be implemented via standards to prevent vendor and platform lock in. Platform and vendor lock in is bad, I do not disagree with you about that point.

Blog postings stating "Passkeys bad" is the limit of influence available. The rest of the global user population is going to rapidly adopt through whatever onboarding flows web properties put in front of them to upgrade their creds from passwords to passkeys. I suppose my question back would be "What do you think as an individual you believe you can do about the situation you believe is suboptimal?"

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amazon-says-1... ("Amazon says 175 million customers now use passkeys to log in")

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/google-passke... ("In 2022, for World Password Day, we launched passkeys. Today, we’re proud to announce that they have since been used to authenticate users more than 1 billion times across over 400 million Google Accounts.")

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/12/12/con... ("Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX design insights from Microsoft to boost adoption and security")

https://state-of-passkeys.io/
This sort of paternalism by “elites” who are “enlightened” and “know better than the proles” is why there is a global pushback against elitism. If people feel like they need this information to protect themselves or their businesses, however misguided, who are you to tell them otherwise?
This is why cacio e pepe is most often served as an appetizer, rarely as a main meal.
TikTok knew its livestreaming feature allowed child exploitation lawsuit alleges
We have prepared for disasters. 3 to 6 months of food fuel and water for every member of the house and livestock.

Everyone should have a week or two of supplies just in case. Look at what happens during large scale natural disasters. Prices go way up and supply goes way down. Why bother with that?

But in a real society collapse situation, our plan is much, much shorter term and much darker. That's just the reality of the situation. Why starve and suffer when you can just happily exit as a family in a way if your own choosing?
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I honestly wonder if Meta is just cooking the books now. Who are these advertisers ramping up ad spend on that site? And why?
The biggest risk is that you need to plant differently to take advantage of the solar panels.

Planting for forage is much harder than growing a field for hay/soy/beet/other feed crop.

obviously you can't use normal combines to harvest between the rows, so you need different, custom, equipment to harvest at scale.
The worry isn't the crappy car, it's that you can't get 3rd party insurance for it(or if you do, it won't pay out as your car isn't road legal). So yeah if you crash into a tree that's no big deal, but if you hit a Ferrari that's a problem as your insurance pays out nothing.
> none of it is relevant to me, so I can ignore it completely.

If I manage to properly digest this then you may have just changed my life. Thank you.
First live birth using Fertilo procedure that matures eggs outside the body
How software systems get big [video]
Another Brazilian here: I'm pretty sure "yearning" is that equivalent noun.
This is what I gather from reverse engineering material I've read and groups I've been around. Hidden state, hidden data structures, hidden automations all abound, and there simply isn't enough detail in the assembler itself to bridge the hardware's internal conceptualization and processes.
Looks great and sounds filthy.
Excellent post
Ah yes, the protests of 2020. Known for their love of and appreciation of all our politicians.
This is a good point, and the emphasis on belonging aligns with the article.

A trope of many action/thriller movies is groups of top-notch professionals becoming disenchanted with democracy and forming terrorist organizations. While movies aren't reality, it's striking that even watered-down versions almost never seem to happen. Maybe the military is just that good at filtering out those types during psychological testing, or maybe belonging is far more important than ideology.
> Why don't more women choose to propose to their male partners?

Because of "equality". /s
Was this fixed in future OS releases?
Thanks for sharing your perspective; HN really needs it; I could really benefit from it.

> The majority of "militia members" are just like me, middle age ex-military guys who lost their kids to an unfair, biased and broken "family court" system.

I can believe that and really I expect it. The majority of any movement aren't really true believers trying to burn things down.

How do you reconcile that with the militia group members that are planning and plotting and acting to burn things down? The most visible example was the January 6 attack, but of course there are plenty more.

Are they just segregated into different groups? Are there a few around but you think of them as ineffectual cranks? Do the groups, in this way, have different circles: the hard core, maybe another layer, and the people who like to hang out?

The majority of any movement aren't really true believers trying to burn things down, but some movements do try to burn things down. People just there to socialize sometimes find they supported something awful and turned a blind eye, when they should have done something or at least walked away. A genuine question: With everything happening, doesn't that cross your mind?
Like everything else, the sweet spot is probably in between.
Where is part II and III?
In addition to the prohibitive cost and effort to setup and maintain such a program, I believe all 50 states have laws on the books that make it illegal to organize and train in military tactics without prior authorization from the state.[1]

[1] https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/sites...
The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless
In my experience, coding with AI is much more mentally taxing than coding without.

But it is much faster.

When I use AI I need to continuously review, direct, and manage the AI.

I go through every change and I agree with them, updates nits and regenerate code that is not up to par with a better or more specific prompt.

Not doing this exercise is disastrous for the codebase.

It really explodes in complexity in no time.

Moreover it always try to fix error with more code. Not with better code.
That's just because SQL clients present their results that way, AFAICS. If you use a sub-query like in, say,

select * from orders where custno = (select custno from customers where name = 'John Doe');

you'll get the same result as if you'd put that scalar in your query, like

select * from orders where custno = 123456; -- John Doe's customer number

Or maybe you're right, that to SQL databases scalar values are single-row single-column tables. But so what? In mathematics, isn't any number also the single-member set of numbers that contains only that number? Where's the harm in that? (And, hey, RDBMSes are founded on set theory...)

So I don't really see what the big problem is either way. Hoping I'm not being stupid AF, maybe you could explain further?
Lifetime updates are the way to go at this early stage of the project. Then switch to upgrade plans. Then to annual plans.
Interesting. Wouldn't this actually be a deterministic problem based on graph analysis. Id have thought LLMs would have been more effective taking the out out some graph recognizer and then identifying what those higher level constructs map to?
Haha that’s funny, the beehive one lays out the hexagons as if they were squares - so they overlap and have empty space lol! But still it’s a promising concept.

Btw for some reason on iOS I had to download to view the video
LiveCode is still a thing! They just released version 10 a bit ago. If you need to build standard-ish interface apps -- text, images, sliders, radio buttons, checkboxes, menus, etc. -- nothing (I've seen) compares for speed-of-delivery.

I use LC nearly every day, but I drool over Python's math libraries and syntax amenities.
We always underestimate how many bots made the pre-2022 social apps were.

1. To make you feel like there is activity. How would you simulate activity when you have no customer to start with? I suspect Youtube threw subscribers at you just to get you addicted to video production (the only hint that my Youtube subscribers were real, was that people recognized me on the street). And guess who’s mostly talking to you on Tindr.

2. For politics and geopolitics influence. Maybe Russia pays half the bots that sway opinions on Instagram. Maybe it’s China or even Europe, and USA probably has farm bots too for Europe, to ensure the general population is swayed towards liking USA.

3. Just for business, marketing agencies sometimes suggest to create 6x LinkedIn profiles per employees to farm customers.

Facebook doing it in-house and officially is just legalizing the bribe between union leaders and CEOs.
You've already spent more than $10 worth of your time arguing why you want a premium search engine for free. (Because let's face it, if it was $5 or $1, you'd still argue that it's too expensive).

Things cost money. Some people can't afford a certain product. Some people don't want a certain product. But you don't see people in the grocery store arguing all day why they don't want to purchase a certain product on the shelf.
It is not much different from all the European, US and Japan car companies do in Brazil. Brazil has high tariffs (for pretty much everything imported) so companies set up local factories to make the goods. Thing is those factories are not factories, they are assembly lines, minimal amount of engineering or even manufacturing happens there. The only big difference is that those goods are kept internally in the Brazilian market, they are not re-exported out as far as I am aware.

Apple also has a factory in Brazil that makes most (all?) of iphones and ipads sold in Brazil. Most appliances companies (Bosch, Eletrolux, etc) in the local market also do the same.
> Human + AI is going to be close to as good as 2 humans

LLMs are very good at programming chores, albeit with supervision and verification.

But the role of your human pair is to do more than that. I am not keen on pair programming as it in the extreme (reductio ad absurdum ) it is a waste.

But I am denied human conversation in my day job, and it is very bad for my productivity. It is not the programming chores I need help with, it is help avoiding "cul-de-sacs". An LLM is hopeless at that It has no idea of the bigger picture, the passing of time, it feels no frustration and has no hope.

No, AI is not going to replace pair programming.
I disagree.The human mind is adequate for coming up with new ideas, ;) and it has been reported by many good authorities that staring at a blank page, :) no matter the quality and fineness of one pen can be madeningly unproductive.
For my day to day work, a pen and paper is indispensible for the making lists of, and crossing out things needing doing.
The aquisition of perspective is vastly more important than meer knowledge.Removing blinders
and having the scales taken from our eyes, a new light, etc. VS getting a bigger market share by whatever method, works, best.
People gain more experience. Many/most also naturally become more cautious with age. I know there's a school of thought here that if we just made licensing more time consuming and expensive--whatever the cost in employment possibilities etc.--problems would go away. But I'm not sure how much classes, beyond a certain point, for a young driver really help.
1. Create AI bot
2. Wait until it gets lots of followers
3. Sell mentions of products by popular AI bot. Profit.

Sure, they faltered at Step 2, but how was this not the plan?
What I wonder is:

Of the items that are rerouted, does Vietnam (or other similar countries) tend to move up the value chain over time? Or do the supply chains just stay as they are.

I suspect, possibly hopefully, that over time the "rerouting" countries would evolve from simple assembly/repackaging to sourcing more granular pieces of the manufacturing process from within their own borders. How fast that might happen is another question.

If anyone has any sources on this I would love to read more about it, I'm just not sure how to find them.
Modern entrepreneurship is basically gradient descent. You try to predict what action will yield you more profits, you do that action, rinse, repeat. It's a completely abstract process.
Which one was JAN6?
Seattle allowed BLM protesters to establish their own “autonomous zone” and ignored it until enough kids were killed.
Yeah I'm trying to understand the landscape myself. Until I learned about attestation, it seemed like a cool tech and I even spent all morning writing this positive blog post about it. I was really disappointed/hurt to read the spec authors openly not caring about user rights.

> On the record, I do support whatever mechanisms can be implemented via standards to prevent vendor and platform lock in.

It seems like removing the attestation feature from the spec would get us there.

> Blog postings stating "Passkeys bad" is the limit of influence available.

Yeah. I'm no one special, but I wonder if blog posts from places like the EFF and SFC could get some publicity on the (apparent) fact that Passkeys are an anti-user-freedom technology, just like DRM and TPM are.
My favorite work in this vein is still the guy who did the trigonometry to convert a year+ worth of telemetry from a light level sensor in his back yard to paint a picture of the tree canopy. Each day is a scan line of light and dark patches at a different solar inclination. So everything above the sensor eventually got “painted”.
It's the same crowd who blame cyclists for making the roads more dangerous because drivers "have to" overtake them in dangerous ways.
I hate that word "impact". As an engineer my job should be to engineer systems not to worry about how the business is running and how much profit it makes. I know this is not how most companies work but I feel it is at the core of a lot of disfunction in the practice of making software.

It's like hiring a plumber and telling them "your job is to create the most impact in my house"... uh, no... how about you tell me what you want or what the problem is, and if you want an overhaul that can be done as well. This whole "create impact" and "add business value" is such a sneaky way to exploit people, and of course there are many people who oblige and just dedicate their entire careers to running a business instead of being engineers and implementing things properly.
Respectfully, this seems upside down to me. Tools incorporating LLMs will be the knowledge repository for s/w projects of the future, and will capture and then summarize ideas, create mocks and finally render code (on command with guidance and iterations involving teams). My point being that the LLM era will be a deeper realization of code as theory building.
Can we rent a nonna?
I appreciate harm reduction but I think any such 'perfect' drug would lead to dehydration / starvation deaths, or at least a lot more people living on the streets.
Yes! Fond memories. I put it firmly in the Betamax category: superior technology that lost out for political/marketing reasons.
When I mentioned "hygge" I did not mean to imply that they have the same meaning. I was referring to the fact that "hygge" has entered mainstream English culture, to the point where a lot of English speakers know what it means. I was wondering whether "saudade" now has a similar level of mainstream awareness.