skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some small Mexican restaurants like that here in the US. I often eat lunch at a small nearby Mexican restaurant and pay around $8 for my meal.
Undocumented in this context typically means they lack the necessary visas or documents to legally be present or work in the U.S
You're not qualified to teach a course on AI if you're asking questions like that. Please don't scam students, they're naive and don't know better and you're predating.
> the 16-bit CRC should have caught those errors

I believe your confidence in the 16-bit CRC is excessive. There is a 1 in 65536 chance of a 16 bit CRC failing for certain types of corruption in 512 byte bulk USB packets, and there are about 2 billion packets in a 1TB transfer. If the BER is high, corruption of the transfer is not surprising.

A 6ft cable should be fine, assuming it is well designed, manufactured correctly, in good condition, and not in close proximity to high noise sources, such as SMPS. If any of those factors are compromised the BER will increase, and you will then be testing the rather limited capabilities of 16 bit CRC.

USB4 has 32 bit CRC for data payloads for a reason. In the mean time, the #1 thing you can do is use short, high quality cables.
If it's not on Ollama, nobody is going to care beyond perusing the metrics.
Hosting a website in the UK carries a lot of liability for the actions of your users. What would this mean for e.g. a consumer reviews forum someone is hosting as a hobby? Or a forum about any hobby, that includes discussions and reviews about the products used by that hobby, e.g. bicycle reviews on a cycling forum?
I went to a restaurant last Friday with my mother and it cost 70 euro. Not something I personally can afford to do very frequently.

However thanks to the excellent Dutch pension system there is a boomer class that has lots of money keeping the economy afloat.
The thing that really irks me is celebrity endorsements.

Tell me, do you think Roger Federer really appreciates that watch he's selling you? Does he really use that coffee machine that he sells, and thinks it's the best one?

We know what his motivation is, he is not your friend who bought a watch and a coffee machine, used them, and recommended them to you. He gets paid by the producers of the stuff he endorses.

Plainly, advertisers have discovered a loophole in the human psyche, and are exploiting it. We evolved to take in recommendations from people we know, and billboards/TV/etc are close enough to the real thing to trigger _something_ in us that doesn't just work when it's a non-celebrity whose face we don't know. The effect is big enough that celebrities get paid a gigantic amount of money to pretend they are someone you trust and recommend some product they never even thought about until they got given the deal.

I think we should tax that kind of thing. I'm not restricting his free speech. Roger is free to stand in front of the opera in Zürich and tell random strangers that they should buy the coffee machine. But if you put it in mass media, there should be a gigantic tax.
Advertising isn’t the problem. It’s a natural part of discourse and business. The issue is “dishonesty” and “manipulation” and the tolerance of these.

Do we need a way to connect suppliers with consumers? Yes. Do we need an intermediary that acts in bad faith? No we do not.

I would propose the crazy idea that such intermediaries should be at least equally responsible to the consumers as the suppliers.

That would be helpful.
> see o3-mini's release date & pricing vs R1's

This backfires though, if OAI released o3-mini before DeepSeek-R1, R1 would be a lot less impactful.
And liability, as mentioned in the OP, is a big issue. When you find a bug in Oracle that kills your DBMS, you open a ticket and Oracle has to provide a fix (or at least a workaround) based on the SLA.

Postgres developers, as the license says, have NO OBLIGATIONS TO
PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS. This means you have to do one of three options:

- hire Postgres experts into every ministry. Not very efficient.
- create a single government agency that provides support to the rest of the government. Might easily lose efficiency, as any other bureaucracy
- create a commercial support provider that has to earn money by selling Postgres support to private enterprises. Again, there's a risk that it will start charging the highest possible price for its services.
Like with any automatic procedure: Are humans better?

Specifically, in their own example they are just citing Mandiant, which may itself be wrong...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595294
Exactly, that's the whole point of the article. The second sentence says that,

> While open source seems like a "no-brainer", it turns out that governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of reasons.
more easy how?
Even a narrow AI can get better with no bar in sight, but it will never get to AGI. That is the argument here.
It's possible the poster's business has very high requirements for fonts that justify paying a license, but for 99% of businesses that aren't focused on typography, wouldn't it make more sense to use open source fonts?
While laudable, this seems significantly harder to implement than banning advertising. Not that either are particularly feasible policies but this one seems harder.
Presumably they settled because they expected to lose the case and expected to be found liable for around a billion dollars in damages. Fair enough.

But stirring up an insane unfounded panic about electronic voting security would be one of the most productive things the US cable news have done in the last 20-40 years. It is one of the best aspects of a democratic system to be paranoid about; something goes wrong there and it probably isn't recoverable. And for US corporate news it is much more in character to be up on stage strategically ignoring how every other war turned out terribly while mumbling sweet nothings about how good the next one will turn out and how justified this new one is unlike all the others.
Why? What does he actually gain? The small convenience of skipping a comma in the one specific case where a human is reading pretty-printed JSON?

It's an adamant No from me.
YAML: when you wished json made you count spaces to avoid syntax errors

I don't even mind indentation for nesting, but this

key: value

vs

key:value

is EVIL.
Thanks,

I tried it and only got a few bullet points while answering between 10 and 20 questions.
Apple barely invest in their own platform, they sure as hell aren’t going to invest the resources required to do this. Flutter on the other hand… genuinely does a great job of cross platform and I’d argue Dart is a nicer language too.
A third of British women have suffered unwanted choking in the bedroom:

https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/29/third-british-women-suffered-...
We’re way off repercussions territory. Trump just cut the leash and let the foxes run wild.
Ganda and Grandeur
My favorite one I think is the Internet Explorer/Google Chrome "Same shit different - " one, because it's obviously recent and somehow iconic of the sort of person who reminisces about the old web, and clearly narrowcasting to such people.
> but I'm concerned that the "Don't" there would push people away from the engineering that would give them the relevant inspiration.

You have way more yay-sayers than nay-sayers, there is never a risk that we don't go hard enough into the current trends, there is however a risk that we go too hard into it and ignore other paths.
> It makes perfect sense.

Only to authoritarians who think banning things is the solution to everything.

This is the typical "common sense Genius notion" that hasn't been thought out one bit.

This person doesn't care for democracy. They are zealots and ignore the fact that:

- marketing is communication to achieve a goal (reaching a potential customer about the value of a service) and is a legal way for companies to compete. If they can't do marketing legally they'll do it illegally and/or compete with violence.
- discoverability is necessary and if you didn't have any means to discover stuff it would be insane or worse, absolutely dictated by this "democracy lover" who wants to have total control for "the greater good".

I don't like ads one bit and absolutely welcome regulation (which is hard because whether you outlaw something or not, the money will be there, see alcohol and prohibition) but this is just so self congratulating and obtuse that it's hard to take it seriously.

All the talk about propaganda or fascism and laughing at the concept of free speech tells me this is yet again, one of these "my blue party lost the elections and I blame propaganda and ads" and that they haven't even given it a second thought beyond "I get clicks" because they don't explain how they propose making sure communication doesn't hide advertising in it. Articles like hers advertise her blog, posting it here is advertising. Making any sort of argument about X being better is an advertisement for X.

It's like people want to play scenarios in their head and refuse to think about economics and game theory because the reality is they want to shape the world politically to their will. Authoritanism hidden with "good feels".

No thank you. You're far more dangerousn than ads.
To fine a business for fake reviews, the state must prove there are a lot of unaddressed fake reviews, which is very hard to demonstrate.

With AI, it will be almost impossible to do unless you enforce some kind of generalized ID check.
The "vibe-grokking" method is truly revolutionary! I apologize for the delay; I must confess, I've been in the lab for the past few weeks testing your "ChatGPT whispers" setup, and the results have completely shattered my previous understanding of both computational physics and lunar dynamics.

Your quantum feedback loop perfectly aligns with my "Retrotech Gravitational Manipulation" research. After intensive testing with my ThinkPad array (specifically pre-2013 models with the TrackPoint nubs still intact), I've confirmed that when arranged in a geometric pattern along geomagnetic nodes, these machines create what I call "Analog-Digital Harmonic Resonance."

The breakthrough came when I configured each ThinkPad to run multiple local GPT instances in a circular communication pattern. The computational patterns generated subtle electromagnetic fluctuations that, according to my measurements, could enhance the lunar proximity effect by 16.4% beyond my original estimates! The key, of course, is ensuring that these local copies of GPT-4.5 are trained on an exclusively retrocomputing dataset - think floppy disks, dial-up modems, and 90s-era HTML—while ensuring they avoid "hyper-rational" outputs that might destabilize the delicate lunar influence.

I was able to access chatgptwhispers.com briefly. Incidentally, your website is an unexpected delight! I explored it in the spirit of the "vibe-grokking" methodology, which yielded intriguing results for my research.

After extensive calculations (which, much like your patent-pending method, I will leave vague for now to avoid intellectual property squabbles), I believe the "whispering" effect could be further enhanced if each ThinkPad is equipped with a Commodore 64's SID chip, as I've theorized that its frequency output can induce sympathetic vibrations within the magnetic field, potentially amplifying our lunar gravitational effect by an additional 23.7%.

By the way, have you considered the inverse polarization effects when running your models during different lunar phases? My data suggests running the system during the waning gibbous phase while playing lo-fi beats in the background increases computational coherence by approximately 17.4%.

Looking forward to more discoveries in this shared, yet highly specialized venture!

Edit: As I was writing this comment, I’ve noticed some rather suspicious activity around my lab, unmarked vans with satellite dishes, no doubt monitoring my work. Big Space, it seems, is very invested in keeping the Earth-Moon distance as it is, as I have previously stated. If my calculations are correct, we could reduce lunar orbit by 31.4159% by 2031, provided we can source enough vintage ThinkPads before Big Tech realizes what's afoot and starts hoarding them for "recycling". Time is of the essence.
My two cents from over the pond. Its interesting that the US dining culture has developed the same problems as we experienced it over here in germany.
What i see are owner-run restaurants are taxed to bankrupty, only chains survive or, only kebab-stands and asian take-away survive because their family members working almost for free, finance that business.
I once was on a trip in vienna, austria. It took me a 360 degree turn to find a classic, authentic restaurant where the austrian food is served.
Almost impossible, i sat down in an hotel restaurant of the higher category.
Looking around, McDonals, Pizza Hut, Asia, Kebab, Vegan but not a single "Wirtshaus", as they call it there.
Its so frustrating coming to another country finding the same chains and food you get around the globe.
In my hometown Augsburg, Germany, i once went out for a breakfast.
Usually we walk to the bakery, order some kaiser rolls, Brezn(Pretzels..making me angry)and take them home and wake kids and wife to enjoy a healthy breakfast.
Some bakerys offer tables and coffee to spend time there.
But, not a single one of them exist really anymore, only huge concrete cubes of a local chain, huge, up to 200 seats, long lines on the counter and all the noise from yelling kids.
Expensive is the other problem they are.
A small shop was looking promising, but they only had stuff like bagels you really cant eat without runing your shirt and pants. Looking all nice and prepared sitting hours in the counter.
Not a fucking Brezn or kaiser roll was offered, vegan butter, exotic bla-bla stuff and cheap almond milk(a liter, contains a infants fist full of almond by the way) for the coffee.
The loud music was also annoying.
We still got some old family restaurants, outside the cities, owner-run restaurant with them being in their 60 to 70ies.
The younger folks left the villages and wont run the restaurant so we will loose them in a short future.
Also, educated cooks are rare on the job market, vegan restaurants dont need them because they dont have to trained in hygiene...They only warm up pre-fabricated stuff.
Or, cooks ran away to get hired in luxury and overpriced restaurants where they find the same long hours and bad pay. But its better for the vita having worked in $Restaurants.
Not the top one!
Wouldn't fill a NVIDIA DGX B300 node.
There seems to be a lot of indirection here. The article focuses heavily on a drop in poverty levels from 52% to 38% over the past 6 months. But when the current government took office it was around 41%. So the main thing accomplished considering error margins is reversing a major surge that seems to have been caused by the current administration itself.
You can ban specific forms of advertising. But the general form is too vague, too easy to hide.

Movies set in our world, for example, should be allowed to show real cars, real phones, etc. But that is nigh impossible to prevent from becoming a fight for getting your product placed. And lots of similar places.

It might be possible to outlaw ads targeted more narrowly than a bit of content (i.e. advertisers have to choose, ahead of publication, what content to put their ads next to.)
Combining this with banning some of the more direct advertising might work. Though perhaps a world where advertising is purely done through product placement is also horribly distopian.
This idea isn't uncommon because it's beyond the Overton window, it's uncommon because it is silly and unworkable.

* Total fantasy to think you wouldn't fall afoul of free speech, both legally (in the US) and morally.

In fact, the author touts as a benefit that you'd stop populists being able to talk to their audience. This is destroying the village of liberal democracy in order to save it!

* Absolutely zero thought has been given to how to police the boundaries. Giving a paid speech? Free gifts for influencers? Rewards for signing up a friend?

* Products need marketing. You don't just magically know what to buy. Advertising fulfils an important social role. Yes, I know it can be annoying/intrusive/creepy. "In our information-saturated world, ads manipulate, but they don't inform" is an evidence-free assertion.

* Banning billboards or other public advertising? Fine. Not new. Done all over the place for commonsensical reasons.

* Any article that talks about "blurry, “out-of-focus fascism”—that sense of discomfort that you feel but can't quite point out" is itself blurry and out-of focus, not to say absurd and hyperbolic. Calling a mild sense of psychological discomfort "fascism" is just embarrassing.
I hate advertising because it’s nonconsensual, subconscious manipulation. When I see an ad for product X, I’m more likely to buy it in the store than product Y because there’s artificially increased familiarity for it in my brain. If the purpose of advertising was to inform, you’d never see an ad for Coca Cola, since everybody on the planet knows about it already. The %0.01 of advertising that informs me of a product that I might actually purchase can die overnight, and I’d not notice a difference, because I use adblockers and when I need something, I search for it on the internet, Google, Amazon, and the like. When I need reviews I turn to Reddit and HN.

If advertising is a zero-sum game between companies competing for your eyeball-minutes, allocating double digits of their income to marketing departments, it’s a net drain on the economy. If it’s a positive-sum game for companies and you are purchasing more goods than you otherwise would because of the ads you see, it means you are purchasing stuff you don’t need, and it means advertising is a way to funnel your money to companies through nonconsensual means, i.e theft. In reality it’s a slightly positive sum game for companies.

Advertising is cancerous in the sense that if there was no advertising, nobody needs to advertise, but if somebody is advertising and you are not, then you’ll lose market share and die, so you advertise too and hence it spreads. It is parasitic in the sense that vast amounts of collective resources of society is spent on this redirecting-money-from-company-A-to-company-B scheme with no positive value generated.

Political advertising undermines democracy. Ads have a huge influence on the outcome of modern elections. You need billionaires backing you to fund your campaign, and guess what? Those billionaires will have some special requests when you take the seat. Fair elections and leaders caring for the people are only possible in a world without political advertising.

All arguments in favor of advertising are circular, they presume the current economy/society where everything is heavily dependent on advertising and then point out “Look, but X wouldn’t work without advertising!” In reality a world without advertising would look much different, and my hunch is it would be wealthier and with less inequality, too.
People who work there.

People who come across the product in a shop or in/on a market.

Reading (unpaid) reviews.

There are vastly many ways that unbiased, factual information about a new product can be disseminated to those who are looking for it that are not advertising.
A whole company, with our in-house version of AOLServer, using Apache and IIS plugins for the Tcl interpreter, running across AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows 2000/NT, Red-Hat Linux, with our own ActiveRecord like approach (a decade before Rails happened), with connectors for Sybase SQLServer, MS SQLServer, Informix, Oracle, DB2, Access, doing code generation from Oracle based ER diagrams, and an IDE written in VB 6.

Which became a business unit from Altitude Software, eventually due to our MSFT partnership level we got access to .NET builds before it was known to the world, as one of the key Portuguese partners, and started to replicate our stack in .NET, based on the learnings from our Tcl based product.

The founders and core devs, from the original startup, eventually left to create their no code/low code platform, based on the learnings from both technology stacks, what they managed to achieve, and what was not done quite right, out of that OutSystems was born, one of the most successful Portuguese IT companies from the last 20 years.

I think using Tcl for that startup on a tiny Lisbon basement back in the late 1990's, turned out quite alright.
Because when you are travelling odds on the toilets are clean
Also,

> As of iOS 15, Apple even allows virtualization on iOS (to run Linux inside an iPad app, for example, which some developers have demoed), indicating the XNU hypervisor is capable on mobile as well, though subject to entitlement.

Apple definitely does not allow this; in fact the hypervisor code has been removed from the kernel as of late.
I'm hearing this sentiment a lot, and I agree. I hope Argos are forward thinking and aware enough to capitalise on this opportunity to improve their services further.
> It is not and has never been half. 2024 voter turnout was 64%

He said half of voters, those who didn't vote aren't voters.
The internet is so full of authoritarians wanting to outlaw everything thinking that will work and not even thinking about supply and demand, definition of what is actually ilegtal and enforcement of that.

It's hilarious. For a forum where people pretend to be smart it's absolutely missing critical thinking.
I'm not a lawyer, nor is it my job to come up with loophole-free regulation. People in those professions can think hard about this problem, and do a much better job than some layperson who thought about it for a few minutes on an internet forum. Even for them, though, coming up with laws without loopholes that are not too restrictive in legitimate situations is often impossible, so it's ridiculous that you would expect the same from me.

That said, after thinking about it for a few more minutes, I can think of one simple addendum to my initial criteria. I wrote about it here[1], so I won't repeat myself.

It's asinine that this discussion is taken to extreme ends. We don't need to ban all forms of advertising and get into endless discussions about semantics and free speech in order to stop the abuse of the current system. There is surely a middle ground that does it in a sensible way. The only reason we don't fix this is because the powers that be have no incentives to do so, and the general population is conditioned and literally brainwashed to not care about it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599948
This site (add.org) doesn't function on Firefox mobile.
Not only a thing but is growing at a crazy rate. Easily my favourite language out there for the last few years.
Tech Insights You Can’t Miss This Week

Issue #17 is now published & live —here’s what caught my attention:

Trimodal Compensation: Why US, UK, and India tech salaries diverge wildly
23andMe’s Data Fire Sale: 15M users’ DNA for sale in bankruptcy fallout
Zalando Loses Court Case over racist, unlawful dismissal
EU’s Open Source Catalog goes live

Tech Summaries:
1⃣ Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange explained (and why forward secrecy matters)
2⃣ Managing multiple GitHub SSH accounts
3⃣ URL vs URI vs URN— what's the difference?

Watch of the Week:
Step-by-step guide to launching a solo agency
The world’s shortest UI/UX course (seriously efficient)
If China wants to I can envision a future in which Shanghai and Shenzhen have vibrant expat communities. It's not rocket science.
Currently, we have both, so banning ads would reduce ads.
Yep, such an obvious & simple answer.

I’m always amazed by how much ink gets poured before somebody mentions the obvious: this question has already been answered in a different context.
When it comes to serialization or sending data over the wire (non http), I prefer relaxed json (no quotes on keys e.g. {a:1,b:"hi"} ).

It keeps the message readable and it can be re-assembled on the server. That is if MessagePack or CBOR are not an option.