skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's scary that there seems to be no off ramp.

Couple that with the amount of countries that were hit at the same time that all want to talk to the Mafia boss NOW to get it sorted out and get their tariffs lifted. There are literally too many nations trying to reach the President at the same time.
We absolve government officials and agents of legal liability for almost every act they do as part of their job, but that's under the assumption that (1) fear of prosecution would paralyze every decision, and (2) the government acts in good faith. Previously, this was taken to be an impenetrable defense. A government too frightened to do anything is useless. And it takes a lot to prove the existence of malice and the absence of desire to help the country.

But I can't see any reason besides malice, or cruel disregard for human rights, behind continually ignoring the usual legal process when they'd already been reminded what it was and that they should stop violating it. The executive staff must have explicitly worded their demands so that the agents in the field circumvented this man's due process. I refuse to believe everyone in the chain was identically derelict in their duties when passing along commands. There was no good faith, and every decision maker behind this kidnapping should be given their own days in court.

As for the paralysis of fear, this should be like accepting a bribe: we want officials to fear prosecution.
It's discussed in the article.
I would have expected a Mensa reading list for Americans to be in non-English languages. Maybe Homer in the original Greek.
People like you say this until the other party is in power, and bans stuff you don’t like, then you will cry about free speech too.

I won’t die on the hill of saving billboards anymore than id die on the hill of not taxing billionaires but sorry, whats fair is fair.
Holding public officials to the same standards as insiders should also suffice. Trading windows, pre set trading schedules, immediate disclosures etc. are all easily enforceable solutions. That would allow them to trade as much as they like, but with reasonable restrictions.
Would you rather they show utter chaos and panic during a emergency situation?
Crap is in the eye of the beholder...
> Having to deal with senior managers has always been the most unsavory part of my job, because when it comes to technology, these managers exist on a whole other level of stupid vanity and narcissistic pursuit of their own selfish agendas.

Whoever sent this dude made a mistake. People who don't share your worldview need to be persuaded, not insulted! Some dude stomps in, thinks all the snaps in the cloud are crap, things the big bosses are stupid for not instantly deleting the pictures they saved into the cloud.... and then what? Download Lisp? Thought we got over this, pal.

WORSE IS BETTER.

P.S. do not erase our porn.
WORSE IS BETTER.
There's at least a little bit of strawman-ing going on here.

The regulators are not insisting that blue checkmarks mean what they've always meant. Secondly xitter hasn't been transparent about changes to blue checkmarks. There was a long period of time when blue checkmarks were given or even forced upon credible sources at Elon's whim while he sold them to hucksters and frauds. Even if blue checkmarks had been that debased throughout their existence, there's still plenty of basis for regulators to find that they are deceptive.
Sounds Great.
Banning targeted advertising probably wouldn't be.
Comrade, do you like bread? How about lines?

Great question. This is punishing anyone but those in the highest bracket. Unbelievably stupid that people are losing thousands (or more) dollars because of one single orange chucklefuck. The other middle finger goes to Congress for sitting on their thumbs in a closed bathroom stall.

I'm sure I'll be getting my American-grown-from-America coffee any day now.
Commercial speech has limits, even as the first amendment is interpreted today. Well, for now at least.
How is it not affecting people "in the highest bracket?"
I don't think such out of context nihilistic arguments are helpful at all, actually I'm pretty sure they are harmful to getting any change done.

I also never said there aren't many other things bad about Musk.

And comparing doing decisions out of greed which will straight forward risk the live of many and you aren't even gaining that much from it (compared with what you already do gain from the same source) with "we as a society could if we where a hive mind life more frugal and help another society else where" is just a very pointless thing.

But even if they where the same, what does that change, just because you also do something bad doesn't mean it's less bad or more tolerable or should be tolerated.

> We could all slightly decrease our disposable incomes (spent on shit we don't need) and increase the life expectancy or QoL for someone in a poor country.

But we can't, or more specifically any specific individual can't, they can at best try to influence things by voting with their money and votes. But that is a completely different context.

And that doesn't mean you shouldn't spend you money with care and donate money if you can afford it.
Battle of Takur Ghar Controversy Continues
They said "often", not "always".

Even then, you've probably not picked the best plumber this way.
Oh, thank God. I only visited Portland once, and despite being vastly different from Austin in climate and flora, the sea of billboards made it feel eerily familiar (and not in a good way). I expected it to feel more like Seattle, but that one thing made a world of difference.
Imagine this being an automated workflow. Where the microSD card is both a bootable image and also an encrypted recovery / LUKS partition, which includes the BIOS flashing mechanisms and OS install mechanisms.

The temporary OS must keep some personal data in tact, otherwise you'll end up with a full search. So the "not so private data" has to be discoverable.

That would be tails on steroids, and help a lot of journalists and reporters while crossing borders.

Flashing the BIOS would probably be the hardest part, considering that libreboot will raise suspicions.
ometimes, I force my old caveman self to do things I do not want. Believe it or not, reviewing the landscape as it relates to data orchestration frameworks is not something on the top of my list. People, including me, have their own pet favorites when it comes to orchestration platforms, and it’s hard to be unbiased.
>Well, in between step 1 ("ban billboards") and step 3 ("ban advertisement") you'd need step 2 ("repeal the First Amendment of the United States Constitution"). Let me know how that goes!

For most of US history, Commercial speech was not afforded full free speech rights. Nor does it currently enjoy them, although it is more protected than it used to be[0]:

Commercial speech, as the Supreme Court iterated in Valentine v. Chrestensen
(1942)[1], had historically not been viewed as protected under the First
Amendment. This category of expression, which includes commercial
advertising, promises, and solicitations, had been subject to significant
regulation to protect consumers and prevent fraud. Beginning in the 1970s,
however, the Supreme Court gradually recognized this type of speech as
deserving some First Amendment protection.

As such, it wouldn't require repealing anything. Just reinterpreting how the First Amendment applies (or not) to commercial speech. And given the wholesale tossing out of precedent by recent SCOTUS personnel, it's certainly possible (albeit unlikely -- and more's the pity -- in this configuration) for them to do so.

[0] https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/commercial-speech/

[1] https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/valentine-v-chresten...
A less extreme version of this other recent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269

Billboards are banned where I live and it's great. It's interesting that this post says that where the author lives "someone can put up a 48-foot advertisement wherever they want". From other things I read I got the impression that in some (maybe many) cities a reason they're not banned is because they provide revenue, since many are on land like road medians that are controlled by local government. I'm not sure to what extent the designs themselves are reviewed but the ability to erect a billboard is regulated in such cases.
Step three seemed to pass First Amendment muster for cigarette companies.
Why do you think this? The closest thing in “common” Rust would be unwraps/panics, but these are (1) not crashes per se, and (2) probably not more common than they would be in an equivalent C codebase.
Fair, but you can own stocks in a blind trust
I agree. But I will say that at least in my social circles I'm finding that a lot of people outside of tech are using these tools, and almost all of them seem to have a healthy skepticism about the information they get back. The ones that don't will learn one way or the other.
> flight attendants in aisles physically demonstrating and making eye contact with passengers has something of an effect of guilting you into paying attention.

I certainly felt that guilt the one time years ago I was the only passenger on a 737 on what was effectively a dead leg from ORD to ROC. The flight attendent just came right up to my seat and did the demo staring straight at me. It was very uncomfortable. After she did it though, she was very nice, and told me she wouldn't bother coming through the cabin but that she'd be right up front if I needed anything.
Or use vim to convert it to HTML https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/792/how-to-convert-a-...
Does anyone have more information about the design and the technical details of the projects? The article like any cooperate announcement is full of bull words but void of details.
LLM's are pre-trained to minimize perplexity (PPL), which essentially means that they're trained to model the likelihood distribution of the next words in a sequence.

The amazing thing was that minimizing PPL allowed you to essentially guide the LLM output and if you guided it in the right direction (asked it questions), it would answer them pretty well. Thus, LLMs started to get measured on how well they answered questions.

LLMs aren't trained from the beginning to answer questions or solve problems. They're trained to model word/token sequences.

If you want an LLM that's REALLY good at something specific like solving math problems or finding security bugs, you probably have to fine tune.
Meh. I've been using 2.5 with Cline extensively and while it is better it's still an incremental improvement, not something revolutionary. The thing has a 1 million token context window but I can only get a few outputs before I have to tell it AGAIN to stop writing comments.

Are they getting better, definitely. Are we getting close to them performing unsupervised tasks, I don't think so.
<cough>TikTok</cough> and unlike that corrupt old world Europe, we have specific language in our constitution against bills of attainder.
Oh I suspect the US has most modern manufacturing somewhere in small quantities, for more specialist uses - I agree you don't want to resurrect the 1980s stuff.
>1) We are talking about the late 90s, well before Ubuntu, where Desktop Linux was pretty poor in terms of features and polish.

I think it's hard to understate how much traction Linux had in the late 90's/ early 2000's. It felt like ground breaking stuff was happening pretty much all the time, major things were changing rapidly every release and it felt exciting and genuinely revolutionary to download updates and try out all the new things it really felt like you were on the bleeding edge, your system would break all the time but it was fun and exciting.

I remember reading Slashdot daily being excited to try out every new distribution I'd see on distrowatch, I'd download and build kernels fairly regularly etc.

Things I can remember from back in those days:

- LILO to GRUB boot loader changes

- Going from EXT2 to EXT3 and all the other experimental filesystems that kept coming out.

- Sound system changing from OSS to ASLA

- Introduction of /sys

- Gentoo and all the memes (funroll-loops website)

- Udev and being able to hotplug usb devices

- Signalfd

- Splice/VMsplice

- Early wireless support and the cursed "ndiswrapper"

Nowadays Linux is pretty stable and dare I say it "boring" (in a good way). It's probably mostly because I've gotten older and have way less free time to spend living on the bleeding edge. It feels like Linux has gone from something you had to wrestle with constantly to have a working system to a spot where nowadays everything "mostly works" out of the box. I can't remember last time I've had to cntrl + alt + backspace my desktop for example.

Last major thing I can remember hearing about and being excited for was io_uring.
the mountain to sound green way, billboard free, is amazing, green, and beautiful. more places should do this.
This is obviously an uncharitable interpretation of the comment that you're replying to.

A better question would be how is seeing ads for sports betting in between periods of a game promoting bad behavior.

And the answer to that is very obvious -- the legalization of online sports betting and the nonstop barrage of ads for it on tv and social media is bad for individuals and society as a whole.
> Some of these don't strike me as particularly pragmatic. E.g. are overflow checks really that expensive

Did you read the article? Rust includes overflow checks in debug builds, and then about a dozen methods (checked_mul, checked_add, etc.) which explicitly provide for checks in release builds.

Pragmatism, for me, is this help when you need it approach.

TBF Rust forces certain choices on one in other instances, like SipHash as the default Hasher for HashMap. But again opting out, like opting in, isn't hard.
What is an advertisement? Let’s see if we can define this before deciding on an all out ban.
I will just let you live with your comparison between an ad and cancer.

Try it out on someone is is battling or lost someone.
> So true. Lisp was designed to give individual programmers tremendous power. That means Lisp programmers sometimes prefer to reinvent solutions to problems rather than learn to use some existing solution. This tendency can be an absolute nightmare on a software engineering team.

I've found that there's a world of difference between my tendency to wheel-reinvent when I'm messing around on my own vs. my tendency in an industrial setting. When I'm messing around on my own, Lisp gives me so much more reach it's incredible, and yeah, I kinda do want to reinvent the application server, or the TCP/IP stack, or something sometimes.

But when I'm getting paid and there are milestones and deadlines? Fuck it, I'll just use what's available to build what's needed. The difference is that in a Lisp codebase, some really smart people have come before and built some really cool abstractions. Like a test framework that makes automated testing so much simpler it's ridiculous. Like, two lines of code and you have a test for a new feature. You get access to tools and techniques that let you close the gap between "ticket lands in your lap" and "done" much faster than you would in Java.
I live a town in which the bar in the village downtown is completely unlabeled, because the town code forbids it. Their website brags about being "A white brick building with no sign". (They have a big sign inside.)
they can, if someone takes their smartphones away for a while.
Cutting 70% of Infra Costs with Go: Benchmark Between Go, NextJS, Java, GraalVM
This is exactly the problem. Consider an order processing system that processes a million orders a day, and retains them for ninety days. What percentage of those 89-day-old orders are actually needed at 89 days old? It could be quite low, maybe a couple thousand out of a million.

But if those orders aren't there, shit hits the fan. PCI compliance audits fail. The ability for customers to reconcile their charges with their purchases breaks. In that 0.01% of cases where the order was fraudulent, placed by mistake, or just didn't have what the customer thought it had in it, not having that data makes the order processor read as, if not malicious, at least incompetent.

The real question is, how much data do we need to store inefficiently, in a way that uses a lot of power and space?
<< You're not my friend.

Shame, I personally have no ill-will towards you.

<< I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't exist. I'm suggesting that we, as a community, shouldn't allow you to participate in debate, because it simply helps spread your hate, and it makes the community as a whole worse to allow you to participate.

I suppose it is helpful that you are so open about it, but, ngl, you are making a solid argument to not bother. Not exactly a recipe for kumbaya future, I must say.

<< If you have a bar and let nazis hang out, you're a nazi bar.

I will ask the question in good faith, because I saw this phrase pop up before followed by rather complete lack of understanding of what some words actually mean. Can you define what a nazi is?

<< If your disagreement is about whether someone should be allowed to exist because of the way they were born, then it's not OK to disagree.

Mkay. Lets test that definition a little. Must aborted fetuses be allowed to exist? Yes, I am setting you up a little bit, but I am now genuinely curious if you are gonna go for born part or attempt to dismantle the argument in a different way.
The plumber could be lowering prices, or focusing on making his customers happy enough that they recommend to a friend. Instead that money/effort is going into a dimension that has nothing to do with good plumbering. That's bad behavior.
I think it'd be healthier to recommend teenagers read science fiction.

It actually gets them to enjoy reading -- while thinking about society (and technology), and stoking their ambition.
Poland != Portland. But very close as they're both in the Northern Hemisphere, although not on the same continent.

Sopot, Poland[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopot
> "Home" is a powerful American concept. People will kill and die to prevent it being ruined

People will also kill and die to get it.

I own my home. I get it. But the power of that concept pulls both ways, mediated only by turnout and municipal solvency.
paid advertisement is easier to define, I think. If entity A pays entity B to show/tell me something, that's an ad.
> (and most non-Teslas even today) don't ship with battery thermal management

Some do but don't enable it immediately, but do so with a software upgrade. (such as what happened with Kia EV6/Hyundai Ioniq 5)
You know it when you see it.
Apple's mouse is so bad Tim Cook uses another brand at work (2024)
I agree; I don't think it's realistic to tell them not to invest at all. The only real way to preserve your money is to invest it somewhere.

I think if the only thing that they could invest in was total-market index funds (or something similar), that would not have too much of a conflict of interest. They'd have the incentive to make the entire market happy, not just individual stocks, which benefits nearly everyone.

If the only stock that politicians owned was VTI or something similar, I think most people would mostly be fine with that. That would still have problem in terms of the uneven weighting, but it would certainly better than what we have right now.
Wait, doesn’t Austin have a billboard ban? There are some billboards but they’re grandfathered in and cannot be rebuilt if they fall over.

https://www.kut.org/austin/2022-04-21/advertising-companies-...
I'm a new business. How do people know I exist to choose me over the incumbents?
There are definitely a lot of problems with advertising and I am all for regulating them but this seems like such an extreme response. As someone who has worked for smaller organizations (both for profit and nonprofit) without some form of advertising people just would not hear about us at all.
The whole proposal is economically illiterate.

If billboards have negative externalities, then tax those; don't ban them.
Is this legit? Weird filenames on some of them.
The Curve Is Bending
If they had broad ETFs that had a whole bunch of companies (like VTI), then conceivably that wouldn't bias their vote as much. They'd have a personal reason to make sure that the entire stock market is doing well.
Yeah it seems like Sturgeon's law combined with a bit of Pareto principle.
So paid actors in movies are ads? They are paid for by the production company.

Presumably we want to keep paid actors, but then the loop hole is that Procter & Gamble becomes a media production company.

That's actually close to how things used to be eg in the US.
Make the cost of operating data centers reflect the damage to the environment and see how quickly people optimize. I don’t know how damaging storage is, but that’s the only way to make a difference.
So when say Comcast owns a sports team and runs videos promoting the idea of buying a ticket to see that sports team it wouldn't be an ad because Comcast didn't pay itself?

I'm all for banning whole forms of advertisements (ex. Billboards) that don't actually educate the consumer about the product. But _all_ advertisements is too knee-jerk.
The econ is clear on this: subsidies are taken by whichever side (of supply and demand) is more elastic, and taxes are paid by whichever side is less elastic.

For things like housing or fuel there are obvious answers for who's who.

For something like this it's a little murkier. My guess is that Netflix will end up paying, if only because every Netflix show is also easy to pirate.
out of curiosity, wouldn't an automated spell check pass help catch ocr errors? e.g. "tne" would be caught immediately.
The U.S. (indeed to some extent, the West more generally) still has a robust manufacturing sector where it matters, such as military. The stuff is expensive because the jobs involved pay so well, which also creates a further incentive to push for quality over quantity. This is a success story, at least if seen from the POV of manufacturing workers. It's not clear that artificially expanding this beyond military to other stuff would have much effect. The fact is there's plenty of other high-paying jobs around e.g. in services, and it's not possible to just put this cat back in the bag.
Discussion (131 points, 2 hours ago, 178 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605670
I started it as a dance instructor (after competing since I was 13 years old) then I saw that the dance studio director still shared a room (!!) with somebody else in a really crappy part of New York City, so I got a job on the airport from a classified ad my husband clipped from NY Times and I got really interested and passionate about aviation. Took a few lessons and went through a course for my dispatcher license.

I loved it and got hired internally the second try. If I tell you we were called 'flight dispatch officers' you might be able to figure out which airline that was.

In about 12 years the airlines headquarter and ops center moved to the Midwest so I opted to stay in NY and go to school for retraining. I choose WAN admin because there were no coding schools. Here I got my A+, MCSE, MCSD,CCNA,CCNP,CCIE. But in the meantime I got heavily involved in scripting and coding. So my first job was perl, PHP and SQL developer and I've been doing it for quite some time now. I must say this is the most liberal and appreciative career I've seen. As long as your work is done, you can be anywhere. Besides the great salaries, benefits, (,ok no travel) these jobs are fun. Good choice.
How should the law codify that?
I am actually arguing quite the opposite, I am very anti-banning but where do you draw the line? it is a fine line between lawlessness and allowing bunch of idiots (regardless of which "political party" they are affiliated with) to make these decisions. so how do you get this done? obviously lawlessness is not the answer?