skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most taxi services will send a car to your address immediately, no reservation required. Problem is, you have to know the exact address where you want to be picked up, which can sometimes be difficult to determine if you're new in town and/or standing on a street with no obvious sign or address, e.g. on the edge of a large university campus. That's where GPS-driven apps really shine, plus the ability to see the car's location in near real-time, and why I will never be sad at the demise of traditional way of having to call a cab.
The impact of AI on the technical interview process
Related:

"Atlantic overturning inferred from air-sea heat fluxes indicates no decline since the 1960s", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55297-5

"Florida Current transport observations reveal four decades of steady state", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51879-5
> That's with over $1.5B spent already, according to https://driveelectric.gov/state-plans

No, that money hasn't been spent yet. The money has been __allocated__ but it's taken a very long time for states to come up with and get plans passed locally at which point only then would the money be spent.
I can't imagine all cloud providers weren't leaned on heavily to provide this access long time ago. Its a treasure trove too juicy to be ignored. Pro quid pro of course.

Anything else is highly illogical or outright stupid, imagine CIA or NSA having meeting on this decade and a half ago and deciding 'well if they won't give us full access when we asked nicely I guess that's it, we have to respect the law and their wish'. LOL. They don't respect basic human rights at all if you don't hold US passport, and even then the list of cases breaking laws and constitution is endless.

Apple is good with their PR, but why do folks accept their every word literally and not as part of marketing spin to sell more services is beyond me. Rest of the market is not even trying to spin it that way which is actually more respectable behavior.
Well yeah but when you look at almost all of the life we come in contact with on a daily basis, it's all ultimately using solar energy at the end of the food chain. You don't photosynthesize, but the plants you eat to survive do, and the animals you eat eat plants that rely on the sun too.
Because that is what is democratically voted for? If the people (or the representatives they voted for) say that society having access to that data is what society wants, then the company can either provide that data, or have it taken from them.

There should not be a scenario where a company "beats" society.
Why isn't at least one of those things actually addressing (disbanding, regulating, whatever--left to people experienced in policy or with context to have some remediation plan) those taxi cartels' behavior?
Funny that the government does not need to order people to divulge their private communications.

It can just order to a third party do so. Wait, why does a third party have access to peoples' private communications. That is the Apple design. The company wants people to use their servers.
Aircraft AC electrical systems are 115V 400Hz, allegedly to minimize component weight.
This seems like a fine decision by Amazon?

If there is a ton of demand for shovels it seems fine to make more shovel factories?
I mean ... have you been on X recently? The bad actors don't need any help.
Quoting Mises himself [1]:

> The experience with which the sciences of human action have to deal is always an experience of complex phenomena. No laboratory experiments can be performed with regard to human action. [...] Neither experimental verification nor experimental falsification of a general proposition is possible in its field.

> Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic [...] science. Its cognition is purely formal and general without reference to the material content and the particular features of the actual case. [...] Its statements and propositions are not derived from experience. They are, like those of logic and mathematics, a priori. They are not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts.

Basically, Mises claimed that Praxeology brings prerequisite tools necesary to understand human action, and that these tools are axioms, not subject to being tested themselves. Praxeology is, to him, an algebra that must be true in order to be able to understand complex events such as economics.

I don't want to say how Mises would have reacted, but had he faced modern economics (for instance RCTs in the context of development economics) or machine learning, he would have been confronted with the fatal flaws of his theory, just like a time-traveling medieval doctor could not reasonably defend the theory of humours today.

[1]: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/greaves-human-action-a-tr...
Printable Molecule-Selective Nanoparticles Enable Mass Production of Biosensors
If that happens, it won't be a law, but a court-ordered punishment intended to force compliance. It seems that courts are allowed to do a lot of things to force people to comply with their orders. Up to and including imprisonment. Punishments given for this purpose apparently go away as soon as compliance happens. And this is a general principle, not just in Germany.

Germany probably already has a system for the government to order ISPs to block certain domains. It would be surprising if any overbearing surveillance state didn't.
Never heard of the Inko language. Interesting.
I tried once to contribute a fix to be able to use the track-pad on my laptop many years ago. But it was not accepted as the maintainer claimed it was an problem in userspace that did not process out of order events correctly. Despite none of the other drivers sent the events out of order. I had no intention to fix the problem on X11 (the only userspace for this at the time), so I used the patched kernel driver locally until I stopped using that laptop.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43591
https://lore.kernel.org/all/1340829375-4995-1-git-send-email...
This is cool because it kind of gets at the core of transparency about AI models.

I would imagine if this would built a certain way it could not only tell a brand what I models are saying, but could be used to look for bias in models that do credit scores, for example.

P.S. I also used to work at Rover!
it's substantially easier to run modern electronics off random frequency power than other stuff like an induction motor. A typical power supply is rated for 47 Hz- 63 Hz. But it'll happily run off almost anything higher than 10 hz and lower than 1000 hz.

universal motors in particular do not care at all about frequency
There are many problems with zip codes / postal codes but the biggest two we see are:

a. Excel treats them as numbers instead of strings of digits and thus drops the leading 0

b. Developers make assumptions about postal codes based on how they work (or more usually how the developer incorrectly thinks they work) in their own country and these assumptions absolutely do NOT hold in other countries.

A relevant guide to geocoding and postal codes: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes...
Were these acts committed by the drivers or somebody else?
> tried Ketamine but I have tried shrooms, LSD, and DMT... After one or two days I'm always back to baseline

You did it wrong. You need to micro-dose psilocybe shrooms over the course of ~30 days.
"Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" by Liz Pelly goes into more detail about their origins and the culture around piracy in Sweden at the time.

https://lizpelly.info/book
While I agree and generally feel the same way, I think it is worth mentioning that the "war for attention" is an existential issue for most online publications these days. The clickbait headlines are used specifically because it marginally increases readership/views, without which the publication would probably cease to exist.
I mention Impulse Labs and their battery-assisted 120V high power induction range in the comments elsewhere. Seems like a similar concept could be used to make an incredibly powerful kettle; throw in a battery that charges from the mains, and when you ask to boil, send in 20kW and boil the 250ml in 4 seconds.

4.18 J/g/C * 250g * (1/ 20,000 kJ/s) * 75C = 3.918s
Everyone seems to be forgetting that the Mueller report was a thing and this type of research is fairly critical in ensuring there’s no foul play in elections from foreign interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
Gotta shave some Yaks
No, to your first two points. 100% of the discussion was happening on HN. The blocking of links from HN was 100% about silencing discussion _happening on HN_.

It has nothing to with "not letting assholes in". Asahi Linux doesn't have a discussion board.

To your third point, also no. HN guidelines keep the content of our posts relevant to the topics they are in. They also guide us to link to original sources, not archive links. Both of these mean that if you can't link to Asahi Linux content, it can't be the topic of discussion unless for some reason it's otherwise newsworthy and was posted elsewhere.
James Burke explains it to you 36 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=451xJqNGFqU&t=6150s
I feel like the UK always tries to do this w/ encryption. I don't know if it's a cultural sway GCHQ has on legislators and such but it happens w/ every generation of cryptography. Weren't they the one that neutered GSM encryption such that it was essentially ineffective from the get go?
Couldn't the violation of the DSA also lead to prosecution at the EU level?
what is this? it doesn't load for me
Some of the checks added up to quite a bit more than that (if there's ever another error check for TeX it will be for $327.68), and one notable at a TeX User's Group conference stated that he had cashed a check for $40.96 and was grateful to DEK for it, since it put food on his table when he was a poor starving grad student.
One causes "the base" to dig in even deeper in their support. The other makes people happen under subsequent administrations. Americans' addictions to cheap sugar doesn't end at literal donuts.
Wow. No mention in this history/hagiography of the 2019 global add-on outage where (after banning unsigned add-ons even if you enabled them in about:config) they forgot to update their certs?

Some of the HN threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421948

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871989

Edit: removed speculation if consequences of privacy loss, but come on … that’s still pretty serious.
It is replacing jobs
The 1.5B spent is misinformation.

The money has been _allocated_ but it hasn't been _spent_ yet and that's because it's taken a very long time for _States_ to come up with proposals that can be funded.

It's just taken much too long to happen, but that's at the state level (the Fed Gov is allocating the money but the States are managing it).
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And so?
Of course Apple doesn't have principles, they're a for-profit company. What's in question here is whether they believe the UK is financially worth opening this can of worms. Following US government whims is good business for them in almost all cases, but that math isn't the same for the UK.
I don't think 60 or 50 Hz matters wrt to this.

The only thing that matters is that a clock that expects a certain frequency gets that frequency and not 1% more or 1% less.
Yeah but Zip+4 represent a collection of houses not a polygon so not useful for aggregations or statistical work
Vietnam invigorated the US economy? The twenty year Afghanistan War too?
What I can't wrap my head around is the fact NVDA almost is a representation of "AI infrastructure" in the narrative. It is weird now that everyone is saying the focus is be in inference / test time scaling compute: inference should be easier to offload to chips from other manufacturers.

Maybe I'm too dense to get it, but that doesn't make sense to me.
If you are worrying about address at all instead of tax or legal jurisdiction its probable that you as a business have a physical presence. You can probably correlate better by predicting which location a given address would likely interact with if you don't know already by prior purchases/interaction which they normally do so. I would suggest actual purchase data followed by travel time.

Zip and distance as the crow flies often gives shit data. My zip suggests I'm off in bum fuck and since I'm on the puget sound things that are relatively near as the crow flies can actually be hours away.
Ah that makes sense. Bleak comment on what's happened to local journalism though, time was you could rely on finding a good writer or broadcaster to deliver that.
How very fitting that this story is flagged too.
In practice it would be very difficult to predict RDRAND outputs. Even so I believe the truly paranoid can use RDSEED to skip the PRNG step. Not qualified at all to talk about how they de-bias the measurements.
Such a space exists, but it's crowded out in the current economics of tech. If I buy a hammer at Home Depot, then I benefit and the hammer manufacturer benefits. And when I take the hammer home, it's entirely mine to use entirely on my terms in perpetuity, regardless of the manufacturer's desires. The hammer company is incentivized to sell me a product that serves me well.

That's not how it works in tech. Vendors and manufacturers always have a way to claw back features, value, and data from the user. Even for paid products and services. Unlike in the hammer industry, tech users are resources to extract, not necessarily customers to serve.
The plus four changes all the time so it isn't feasable to know it. The use is large mailers can get a discount by looking it up and presorting mail. If the mail coming into my post office has my mail next to my next door neighbors that saves them a lot of time.
James Hansen has been a very vocal Neo-malthusian doomer forever. Not saying this means he's wrong, just that he's got a clear point of view.
Yes, I also read that. Still mystified about how this is new or interesting.
Also, try Amanita Muscaria microdosing that has legal and different active alkaloid (muscimol, not psilocybin), look for the new "Microdosing with Amanita Muscaria" book.
Treating a human trafficker and someone who downloaded some files from a server the same is not in the job description of a prosecutor. What an absurd statement. It's very much the job of a prosecutor to make judgements about the severity of the crime and how to respond. And in this case, the prosecutor showed incredibly poor judgement. There wasn't even a particular reason why the case should go federal in the first place. The state prosecutor saw things very differently.
Where do you get that from? Huge numbers didn’t vote. Of those who did Trump squeaked by with a small lead but significantly less than 50% of the populace voted for him.

He has no mandate.
The Pirate Bay was also blocked in various European countries, enforced at the ISP-level. Sure, people can use a VPN, but the vast majority won't.

Also, ignoring the court order would be a possible violation of the DSA, which can be fined at 6% of a company's global turnover.
Exactly. We need leaders with the political will to apply a "financial death penalty" to companies that engage in this kind of brazen behavior. That means all assets seized, the company dissolved, personal assets of executives seized, executives jailed. People running companies should live in mortal fear of ever doing the things that they routinely do today.
I Like and Use Global Variables
"It's a weak proposition from the government because anyone with something to hide will just move it somewhere else with encryption."

This. Whether it is an app to install on your phone or desktop or simply a website to use. People who need encryption to make sure their communication is private will _easily_ find ways around any kind of government snooping.
Manning was released early from her 35 years prison sentence only because there was Obama who had balls to do it and go against extreme far right part of society and government employees. Not going to happen again anytime soon in US.

I am actually surprised she survived this and wasnt suicided or sent to Guantanamo for water boarding till heart stops, I guess thats only for those without US passports.
Yeah but we have that already in the census hierarchy. Plus you have to pay to access Zip+4 geospatial data and it changes sometime as frequently as quarterly
If website haven't been able to make even consistent logins and forms for humans to use, what makes you think they will be able to make usable API's for agents to use?

I've tried making a Firefox extension that fills webforms using an LLM and the things website makers come up with the break their own forms for both humans and agents are just insane.

There are probably over a 1000 different ways to ask for someone's address that an agent (and/or human) would struggle to understand. Just to name an example.

I think agents will be able to get through them easily, but NOT because the websites makers are going to do a better job at being easier to use.
I agree, it kind of reminds me of this paper that shows LLMs, just like humans, will preferentially remember information, which can lead to biased outputs.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2313790120
George Washington signed order for Sullivan expedition, yet American capital is named after him. Should we use the name of one of Nacotchtank settlements on that territory instead?
An Arctic 'beyond recognition' by 2100
I agree, unsafe rust is only meant to be used when absolutely needed. It’s up to the programmer. Frivolous use of unsafe should be rejected from any respectable code base.

I didn’t mean to say that without it the kernel would be irrelevant. I meant more that this is just one possibility for the future of the kernel and I think it’s important that we try as it has to always be better. Given the response from current maintainers I also question if the experiment should continue.
It's just as weird to read for a German

indeed as a german i have a hard time to read this in any way other than "if the fact is not demonstrably true", which means if it was true it would be allowed. but intuitively it does make sense that true statements can be used to defame someone and that should be limited. among other things the right to be forgotten is relevant here, and also the problem of taking things out of context and beyond the audience it was intended for. a statement that i make among my friends should not allow anyone to defame or embarrass me by making it public to a wider audience.
Everyone just simultaneously won Buzzword Bingo with this headline.
And yet it is legal to produce and redistribute summaries as sufficiently transformative derivative works, and this has been court tested[1]. Of course in Australia we passed rather specific laws to the contrary, because lo and behold Rupert Murdoch wanted money and gosh darn it our government was going to give it to him[2].

[1] https://www.practicalecommerce.com/Search-Engines-Indexing-a...

[2] https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/copyright-and-the-digita...
Yeah I agree. Its much easier to disseminate false information in the digital age, because if you have the means, you can drown out the true information in a way that's much harder to detect. I don't think this is an oranges to oranges comparison.
Ontario, Canada, at niagara falls generated 25hz for industry (stelco and others) until the early 2000s
https://www.lifebynumbers.ca/history/the-rise-and-fall-of-25...
>I don't think the UK government would try to put Apple out of business if they don't comply it's more likely that they would just get heavily fined until they do so.

Sufficiently advanced "escalating fines until they comply" is indistinguishable from "putting them out of business".
This is it. There are many regular city parks I wouldn't walk through at night even if they weren't closed. I walk around them not through them. I live in the park it becomes a problem.
I see. I just did a claude search:

https://i.imgur.com/hjHvClK.png

So this is all going to a google ad words bidding type system I'm guessing. There will be the new SEO side but also no one can resist a pay for ranking higher system.

With ads: https://i.imgur.com/fk1Kkct.png
This article keeps talking about the legal hoops Trump would have to jump through in order to do this and is completely ignoring the fact that any time he's presented with legal hoops he has to jump through he ignores them and does what he wants anyway without consequence. I don't believe the system will stop him this time because it hasn't stopped him even when it has managed to convict him of crimes.
Ha ha - I had a similar experience with DeepSeek-R1 itself. After a fruitful session getting it to code a web page for me (interactive React component), I then said something brief like "Thanks" which threw it into a long existential tailspin questioning it's prior responses etc, before it finally snapped out of it and replied appropriately. :)
Yes. But that would be more like giving someone a bookshelf.
How would he know the passwords weren’t changed.
Does apple have a canary provision in their EULA / TOS somewhere?
Absolutely. The weird strain of Marxism running through our country these days sort of imagines a bunch of politicians sitting around going "ok, we have to keep the fat cats fat so they keep giving us illegal stock tips we can abuse for our own profit". And not that that never happens, but it seems like in the middle of the depths of the Covid pandemic, they just wanted to not add economic depression to the list of problems we had.

And sure, the when the government transfers large amounts of money it's like moving water with a leaky bucket and in this case maybe a colander, but I'd rather be sitting here 5 years later complaining about fraud than a depression.
Just use a spatial query. That’s what they are made for.
It's another way to observe the behavior.
I think Elon is still working hard to get rid of the bots, just like OJ spent years looking for the real killer.
ZIPs are also specifically used in a variety of medical, epidemiologic, public health contexts and HHS has explicit, fairly fine-grained rules on their use: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/d...
Also, "everybody" knows their zip-code/postal-code is mostly an American/British thing, I still remember my British former boss asking me about my zip-code about 20 years ago (I live in Romania, we were implementing the first google-maps-based mashup in this country) and me answering that I have no idea, and that no-one around these parts really knows his/her postal-code. We do know our address, though, or used to, before we had smart-phones.