skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strengthened.

In the US this has happened:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96

Meanwhile across the entire world this has happened:

https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-poverty-data-appendix

You can argue the growth of globalization & lowering of trade barriers were unrelated to this up-and-to-the-right, but it’s hard to argue they’re making things worse unless you really scope down to particular losers in a world of mostly winners.
I agree with everything you say about elite over-production, chasing social status, and cargo-culting material goods. It is indeed, bullshit, that makes many exploitable - which, of course, is the whole point, from the "system's" point of view. On an individual level, for those of us in sufficiently privileged positions, breaking that dynamic is as you say.

However, I don't think you can ignore politics! "Changing what's in your heart", does diddly if you're, say, working in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. It took a +century of dedicated labor activism and political effort to get to a point where any workers at all could dream of breaking free, and in the US we've arguably backslid in recent decades. Continued political action and worker solidarity are desperately needed.
You seem to be missing my point.

Looking in one spot instead of another is included in what I’m calling “attention”. Of course paying attention to everything all the time would be and is a huge improvement. That is orthogonal to the type of vision tech being used. All approaches used in self driving systems today look everywhere all the time.
They were restored and now live in a museum: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/tsavo-lions
Is it taken without consent?

There's no clearer lack of consent than attempts by advertisers to circumvent, block, or ban ad-blockers.

These advertisers could choose to put up paywalls but that would harm their search rankings, so they don't. Instead, they play games with cloaking [1] and other SEO techniques in order to bypass the user's wishes and show them ads (or even ads + cloaked paywalls).

At least YouTube offers a paid premium service which remains ad-free.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking
The same basic questions arise for things like a tire blowout.

At minimum cars need to handle being on a curve when LiDAR or vision etc cuts off. Stopping on a freeway or railroad is a real risk even if people can get out, but now you’re doing risk mitigation calculations not just trying to handle normal driving. “What if someone is asleep in a level 5 car?” is a question worth considering, but we’re a long way self driving without any from of human backup.

The hospital thing is for the very real possibility of being outside of cellphone range, and represents the apex of gracefully shutting down the ride vs refusing to travel while in a less safe condition.
There is a way to sandbox native code without forking to a new process, and it looks like this

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-weba...

Firefox employs processes for sandboxing but for small components they are not worth the overhead. For those they employed this curious idea: first compile the potentially unsafe code to wasm (any other VM would work), then compile the wasm code to C (using the wasm2c tool). Then use this new C source normally in your program.

All UB in the original code becomes logical bugs in the wasm, that can output incorrect values but not corrupt memory or do things that UB can do. Firefox does this to encapsulate C code, but it can be done with Rust too
It’s magic isn’t it! And then it’s gone, and you realize you didn’t appreciate it for what it was when you had it. I am sure i will say this about youth when i am older (still) too ;)
A research / open data project about the role of partisanship in the workplace
Author of VTracer here. Finally being able to comment on hackernews before the thread got locked.

Would be interested in learning about your workflow. Is it a logo generation app?

I feel like this is an example of "Machine learning is eating software". Raster to vector conversion is a perfect problem, because we can generate dataset of infinite sizes and can easily validate them with vectorize-rasterize roundtrips.

I did have an idea of performing tracing iteratively. Basically by adjusting the output SVG bit-by-bit until it matches the original image within a certain margin of error. And optimizing the output size of the SVG by simplifying curves if it does not degrade the quality. But VTracer in its current state is oneshot and probably uses 1/100 of the computational resources.

VTracer seems to perform badly on all the examples. I suspect it can be drastically improved simply by upscaling the image (via traditional interpolation, or machine learning based) and picking different parameters. But I am glad that it was cited!
The industrial metal factory needs an army of artisans to keep the equipment running.
> The article never says how much they detected. I can only assume it’s because it’s a nothing amount. If it was significant they would have been saying how much. It’s hard to take the article seriously as a result.

Did we read the same article? There's a table with the amounts of different metals, with the amounts found in each of the different samples.
As others have pointed out in this thread you need to correct for miles driven by Teslas in autopilot versus other vehicles driven in autopilot mode. Without this adjustment, the data are meaningless. And with counts of 5 versus 0 you are deep into Poisson noise level. So yes, I stand by “pathetic”.
YouTube is great if you pay for it, which I do. Any time I open it on a device I’m not logged in and get an ad i instant close.
What's wrong with him talking about things at Neuralink?
I've been evaluated half yearly or annually, never hourly that I've known.

Do you work in HR?
>I can't because a world with magic and world peace is more realistic and believable. It's impossible. How do you even define advertising?

No ads in TV programming. No product placement in movies. No billboards. No subway or bus station advertising posters. No paid recommending of specific products. No promotional material for products - nothing with fictional elements. No web ads. No sponsored links. No social media ads. No paid reviews.

(you could still do some of those covertly, with "under the table" money, but then if you caught you get fined or go to jail)

No tracking consuming preferences of any kind, not even if you have an online store. Just a database of past purchases on your own store - and using them for profiling via ML should be illegal too.

If people want to find out about a product, they can see it on your company's website (seeking it directly), or get a leaflet from you. In either case no dramatized / finctional / aspirational images or video should be shown.

>And in all cases, you are self-imposing a restriction that will give other nations an economic advantage and jeopardizing long-term sovereignty.

You're removing cancer.
A list of stores by closeness is not advertising, a site dedicated to impartially reviewing guitars is not advertising, telling your friends about a guitar you like is not advertising.

I hate all the comments being so coy about definitions. Ublock seems to block ads pretty well. Maybe start there and not these crazy hypotheticals where anyone saying anything about a product is banned
Because in a fully remote environment it is easy to default to having transactional relationships and only when a job responsibility requires them. Just like I do with a customer service rep.

You don’t see your coworkers in the hall, overhear them talking to their kid, or talk while working. Certainly don’t by default interact with folks who work in parallel.

Not saying that in office means these things will certainly occur. But because by default these interactions don’t occur, the likelihood of them happening organically is quite low.
Hindsight weakens the case for free trade in 2003, along with the realization that the government would do very little [0] to mitigate the specific harms using the centralized gains (from massive monetary creation without much corresponding price inflation).

But in 2025, tariffs are closing the barn door after the horse ran out, went to horse college, settled down, had some foals, and saw them grow up and move into their own doorless barns. But that's populism for you, always responding to the previous crisis with an approach that will enrich its sponsors and then cause the next crisis.

[0] The Republican party's fake "fiscal responsibility" where most of that money was just handed to banks instead, driving up the asset bubbles. I'm saying this as a general libertarian from a conservative Austrian economics view, not as a Democratic partisan booster. But blame where blame is due.
Darwin is interesting because of the pace of radical changes to its core components. From dropping syscall backwards compatibility to mandatory code signing to dyld_shared_cache eliminating individual system library files to speed up dynamic executable loading. It's a very results-oriented design approach with no nostalgia and no sacred cows. I think only a big hardware vendor like Apple could pull it off.
Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet
The main selling point of these is deployment, management and application-first approach. Whether you have to first rent a VPS and curl|bash an installation command is not an important detail for many use-cases.
Global alone have 56,000 billboards in London and they aren't even the largest.
Ok, that's what I always must have thought there was no match for.

I've been more wrong before . . .
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044159 :

>>> Would helical polarization like quasar astrophysical jets be more stable than other methods for entanglement at astronomical distances?
In middle school my parents got me a graphing calculator for Algebra. Couldn't figure out a damn thing about how to write programs on it, and I didn't really have much computer or internet access at home, but I was curious.

In the school computer lab I did some searching and found a programming guide for that model of calculator on some university website. While printing out my assignment I also secretly printed out the guide and hid it under the other papers (not supposed to be wasting ink on a personal print job). Took it home and was glued to it for months.

Eventually I was able to program the game Snake. It ran slow as hell, but it ran.
Visualize LLM Token Probabilities and Confidence with ELI5
I don't know if strict import control is a good idea. Look up license raj in India.

It also added a lot of opportunities for corruption.
Teens are delaying getting their driver's licenses. Parents want to know why
> Imagine if you could only see in a very narrow portion of the visible light spectrum, like only green or something.

No, that's how lidar works. Lidars have a single frequency and a very narrow bandwidth. Automotive radars have a bandwidth of 1-5 GHz. They operate around 80 GHz, which is very well reflected by water (including people) and moderately reflected by things like plastic. 80 GHz is industrially used to measure levels of plastic feedstock.

Compare TSA scanner images, which are ~300 GHz: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Front-and-back-millime...

You are correct that most automotive radars like Bosch units [1] are very low detail though. Most of them don't output images or anything- they run proprietary algorithms that identify the largest detection frequencies (usually a limited number of them) and calculate the direction and distance to them. Unlike cameras and lidars they do not return raw data, so naturally when building driver assistance companies instead relied on cameras and lidar. Progress was instead driven by the manufacturers and with smaller incentives the progress is slower.

[1]: https://www.bosch-mobility.com/en/solutions/sensors/front-ra...
He is against tariffs in 2025 as executed by Donald Trump, openly.
Yes that's exactly this, the video I link talks about it (in french).
Ironically, the one American car company that was interesting to Europeans was Tesla.

European governments may be reluctant to put a tariff on Tesla because of Elon Musk's political association with the Trump government. This is literally how fascism works, and appeasing the bully is distasteful, but that's realpolitik. It will be up to European consumers to reject Tesla because the brand is now toxic.
IMHO a kernel managing a file (any file) all on its own imposes too many assumptions about hardware and user space. This could unexpectedly bite you if you're in a rescue system trying to fsck, booting from external RO media, running diskless or from NFS, etc.

Meanwhile Linux allows you to swapon(2) just about anything. A file, a partition, a whole disk, /dev/zram, even a zvol. (The last one could lead to a nasty deadlock, don't do it.)

Perhaps the XNU/NeXT/Darwin/OSX developers wanted a similar level of flexibility? Have the right piece in place, even just as a stub?
Coherent control of a superconducting qubit using light
I like the idea. I read a bunch of classics from Gutenberg. In reality so many old books are very long and boring I ended up getting more modern books from the library instead.

Maybe TikTok ruined me but maybe these things really do literally have a shelf life. Hopefully reformatting will help. Perhaps a better way to review and find the gems would be most helpful..
Ads don't even bother with that anymore. Theye pure id- make something memorable so you associate something with thinking about their product. "All happy families go to Disney" style.

These are often lies too but its the subtext not the text
Growing Systems Towards DDD, Event-Sourcing and Event-Driven Architecture
At what point can you just read about a book instead of reading the actual book?

The Fountainhead seems like a good place to start...
Federal cuts disrupt repairs to iconic U.S. trails
Yeah not sure on what the limit for unsigned accounts should be perhaps 15 instead of 5?
You were responding to a comment criticizing Musk for removing "radar/lidar".

So I'm assuming that the "superhuman vision" you described meant specifically if people had LIDAR, since that was the subject at hand.

LIDAR is superior to cameras because it much more accurately detects objects. It's an advantage all the time, and an especially huge advantage at night.

So LIDAR isn't orthogonal to anything. It's the entire point. If people had LIDAR, the accident rate would be significantly reduced.

You're arguing that LIDAR won't help cars, because by analogy it wouldn't help people if it was a native biological sense. But that's wrong.
I wonder if the caucus would prefer Vance and actually kick him out at some point
Oh, yeah. Some certainly are. I think they're the subset towards whom Summers is addressing his argument, in the article under discussion.
I figured out how to anonymously exchange Litecoin for Monero instantly
I was 9 when I first moved to the US. I couldn't speak English so the teacher stuck me in front of the classroom computer. It was one of those monochrome all-in-one console things that must have been from the 80's and the only thing on there was Q-basic. To pass the time I followed the tutorials to create my own MUD. And that's how I learned BASIC before English.
There is also CSS media now to detect if is enabled or not.
It' s supported in last 2 versions of most popular browsers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/scri...
Have you tried the murderbot diaries? Popular among most people and especially people here.
The iPhone with Tariffs
Being able to port your existing C++ driver to IOKit instead of rewriting it in Objective-C is a selling point. For some reason people a lot of people seem to dislike writing an Objective-C shell around their C++.
My hand is raised
https://archive.is/ZMSwX
Why not 1 because 2?
The AI trade bubble has already been popped, early by unrelated macro events.

Big companies are still investing in centers, and nvidia is still supply constrained to my knowledge however. New models are popping up. So there’s still real business/progress happening.

Remains to be seen how useful the products will ultimately be. Bottom line, growth should be smaller and more realistic from here on. Though I’m sure there’ll be spikes when the speculator contingent comes back to the market.

The later that happens, the more they’ll be constrained by reality.
Tesla's camera-based self-driving system is still likely at least five years away from being ready, Hall said.
Still, he said, "Elon Musk is right about not needing lidar."

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2022/11/09/heres-wh...
Brown noise in Chuck. Adjust the filter cutoff (freq) to your desired comfort level.

CNoise noise => LPF lpf => dac;
noise.mode("flip");
lpf.freq(120);

while(true) {
1::second => now;
}
I don't want to learn something new either but you have no choice if you want to stay employed.
Ask HN: What's Got You Stuck?
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There’s a deeply rooted assumption that both sides are equivalent. This allows one of the sides to do whatever without its validity being disqualified, because any doubt is simply overridden by the assumption.
Good eye! Thank you.
After analyzing interaction patterns between users and AI systems, we've identified key differences between high and low-efficiency approaches.

This isn't a collection of prompt engineering tricks, but a fundamental rethinking of the human-AI relationship.

The data shows command-style interaction achieves only 60% task success, while collaborative approaches reach 85%. We explore the cognitive models behind this disparity and provide concrete techniques to improve your results.

The article includes data visualizations comparing different interaction methods, common error patterns, and effectiveness growth curves as users gain experience.
> One reason you may care about hydration errors is because it’s an awkward user experience.

I don't know.. A hydration error is 100% an application logic error. It's not some "slightly worse UX". It means you are actually doing something incorrectly. I would even compare it to C++ UB.
As a rule of thumb, the bigger the model is, the more graciously it degrades under quantisation. So you may assume performance loss for a 8B model would be lower than for a 3B model. (I know that doesn't make up for missing numbers in link, just fyi.)
When considering the Israel - Palestinian conflict, remember that the median age in Gaza is 18.

A large chunk of Gaza are children. 43% of the population are below 14 years old.

For comparison, the median age in Europe is 40.
Many people share the worldview that those who are higher up in the hierarchy of power are the most capable or deserving of such positions.

So when those leaders start acting in a way that is irrational or clearly damaging, there's a pretty strong cognitive dissonance. There are two ways to deal with it:

- Assume that, since they're the higher-ups, they must know what they're doing. Therefore there must be some sort of plan that you're not able or supposed to understand.

- Reassess the notion that the higher-ups are always the most capable or deserving people, and assume there's a chance for inept people to access positions of power.

The first one is the path of least resistance, since it doesn't require challenging a fundamental pillar of your worldview.
> natural market by default, meaning you must use brutal authoritarianism to disrupt it entirely

Ok? If that's how we define "brutal authoritarianism," I guess I'm a brutal authoritarian. There's a natural market for mob hitmen (scarce + in-demand)—are you opposed to a "brutal authoritarian" crackdown on those too?

> Disrupting natural markets with authoritarianism usually ends up worse than any downsides of the decentralized market regulation of that scarcity.

Citation very much needed. Suppliers of lead paint, asbestos, ozone-destroying aerosols, contaminated foodstuffs, etc. did not regulate themselves in a decentralized manner. In fact, take virtually any toxic contaminant or hazardous product and you'll usually find that the market colluded to cover up evidence of harm, rather than "self-regulating."

> generally trends toward making the highest value messages for both the audience and advertiser

Absolutely not. Consumers do not exert demand for certain types of ads in preference to others. There's no mechanism for ads to converge toward high audience value. It's advertiser value that is optimized for, often to the detriment of consumers (e.g. advertisements for profitable scams, which have negative value).

Even if you want to argue that advertisements inform consumers to some extent, that's probably outweighed by the extent that they misinform consumers. Consider infomercial products: Regular kitchen knives don't need an advertisement because demand is inelastic. If you're cooking, you need a knife; nobody has to promote the idea of knives. But the "slap-chop" is a product with elastic demand, and thus the marginal value of advertising is much greater for them. Hence, they can afford to buy up huge amounts of ad space to drum up demand for an essentially worthless product. The advertising ecosystem has perverse incentive to promote scams.

> But to ban it outright would require an extreme policing of all speech at all levels of society.

There are a lot of noxious and socially destructive things which are not practical to ban.
Removing ads won’t remove people’s desire for cheap stuff.
Reflections on the Mirror Stage
Unrelated to the above discussion but, not justfies it, it's still wrong.

But a poor hungry person is a lot more likely to commit a crime of opportunity that feeds them and their family than a well of, well fed person.

Maybe you are actually agreeing with me.

My view, as a neutral observer to the Hamas / IDF debate is they are both wrong and you would ( inclusive you not you specifically ) would probably do the same... Cough Afghanistan etc...
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30025477 :

> [ audit2allow, https://stopdisablingselinux.com/ ]

Applications don't need to be compiled with selinux libraries unless they want to bypass CLI tools like chcon and restorecon (which set extended filesystem attributes according to the system policy; typically at package install time if the package provenance is sufficient) by linking with libselinux.
Call education conn-ec-tion!
Yes, but that was because it was a license based system and a lot less transparent than the IC idea.
I think US and other non-european companies can and do make cars targeted to EU market that complies with local laws and customer preference. They can make the cars smaller to fit road/lanes/parking spaces, just like they put the steering wheel on the right for UK.

Infact Tesla is (or was) best selling car in Norway and UK too.
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