skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some (Alexa) that's true, but for Apple and Google, voice is/has the potential to be part of the OS itself. You might ask why Apple puts all that effort into developing iOS when they don't charge for it.

As an aside, Apple used to charge for OS updates. Then they decided supporting multiple versions of the OS was idiotic (maybe they had other reasons as well) and reduced the cost/then went free.
Every time the presenter says something "is crazy to me" you have to take a drink.
Prepare to wait for another 30 years until this can be openly and honestly discussed in Germany: until the perpetrators and their then-allies are all dead.

At the moment, it's in a weird state. Everybody knows it, you can talk about it, but you mustn't go too far, and you mustn't ask for consequences, as many of those who where involved then in the propagation of pedophilia are still in positions of power in politics, academia and the press.

I was sent to an after school children's place that was founded with the same principles of sexual hyper-openness. While I'm not aware of any abusive actions against myself, every child knew that some of the staff were too eager to "play" and "show and tell". Others were great people to have around children, but the ideology (in these progressive circles) at the time made it far too easy for actual pedophiles to hide in plain sight, and far too hard for anyone to sound the alarm, as they'd be called a prude and excluded.
Perfect for playing Zork!!
On more than a few occasions now I have loaded up my infrequently checked instagram accounts and been presented with something awful. They were always attention seeking reels from random accounts I don't follow; showing people being hurt or accident footage. I swipe up on the app and kill it pretty much straight away, then I consider deleting my instagram accounts once again.
Web-app? No, thanks. I'll stick to ms3d ))
I got this and:

“In Praise of Sleek Wooden Tuna”
Although a defector is not a temporary student or H1-B, yes it is complicated but you are saying there is no cause for concern even though clearly Soviet citizens would not have been allowed in such high numbers into important roles and I suspect people would rightly question the numbers if nearly half of all STEM graduate students were Russian right now.

I call it a caste deliberately for those reasons. It is hereditary I believe whether through socioeconomic status or genetics or culture or legacy status. It's already becoming apparent. There may or may not be social consequences. I fear there will be.
Took me a while, but apparently sometimes you get a message saying you died from falling into a pit.
Calling it "a game" is a bit hyperbolic, but the fact an AI model generated this from just a few prompts is still impressive.
this is super cool :)

this one got me laughing: "Chicken version 5.0 Alpha Released"
Chevrons?
Hey don’t blame the accountants. The root problem is that these services don’t actually have a business plan other than grow, sell ads. Instagram is 12 years old and their leadership hasn’t come up with anything that makes money.
Bear in mind this: every dystopian fic or film you'll read always started off as somebody's utopia. Someone thought it was a grand idea, and got others go along with them.

Utopias, I think, are probably more personal than your underwear.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

https://www.thoughtco.com/catch-22-quotes-739155 (chapter 9)

I always think of Jerry (or "Larry") in Parks and Rec, who, as the final episode tells us, served 11 terms as Pawnee mayor (yes, I know he had a perfect family life). Being mediocre is unthreatening. If you're mediocre but personable and even-tempered, the top job somewhere is just waiting for you.
Ken, can you remove the country filter from your website/blog? I personally didn't do anything to deserve it.
Someone fed it legacy buggy code and it fixed the bugs.
New New Reddit
>genuinely smart people completely mess up personal areas of their life by refusing to think

This really reminds me of some guy I used to work with. He would spew random madness like people don't really need to eat because alive is an arbitrary state. I really have no idea how he functioned outside of his CS job.

He was also annoying at work because I would say things like the customer needs this then he would retort with some more madness like "well if you think about it blah blah the customer doesn't really matter." An I would just have to be like "ok thats great just get your feature assignments done on time". through gritted teeth. He did always get his work done.
Thank you for the detailed reply.
The sandboxing and messaging is already implemented. I think that's the only way I can guarantee data safety when it comes to having 3rd-party apps.

I'm actually planning to open source the whole thing (fingers crossed) this way anyone can look into the code!
You can have a single type for “money” (or maybe just “us_money”) with separate cents/dollars/mills factories and accessors, and no access to a numeric value except through the accessors.

You can do similar things with other dimensions like “length”.

Or you can go whole hog, and have a single “type” for unit-aware values from which you can only successfully extract a unitless number by specifying a unit which is dimensionally compatible.

But most projects won’t do any of these because they will start out thinking they don’t need it, and by the time they realize the value they’ll think the cost of converting existing code is too high.
I think a fundamental challenge to what Venkatesh calls "Mediocre Computing" is that humans are very good at leaning boundaries in a way that current AI is not. Much of what separates mediocre humans from exceptional ones is correctly sensing when and how to cross boundaries, to exceed guidelines, etc. When, say, GPT exceeds the boundaries of a prompt it's relatable - as a human, you can generally see why it crossed into the other domain. The connection is real and not a mistake. But efficient functioning in the world relies on humans recognizing that they should not cross that boundary because of the domain they are operating in. It's a thing that current AI really struggles with.

I do think that we are entering an age where mediocre humans paired with mediocre AIs will be able to do much better work than either on their own, but I don't really think we are ready to dive into independent AI agents. It's still Optometrist Algorithms all the way down[1].

[1] https://futurism.com/googles-new-algorithm-wants-to-help-res...
> Writers (should be supposed to) try to present a coherent complex idea - defending a thesis, modelling a description, disclosing potentially fruitful relations - by making its ideal structure explicit through some relatively fixed perspective form. That remains, structuring information (and in a loop of criticism checks), in a set of globally (as opposed to locally) strong relations (between the nodes). With a so implied Purpose in the statements.

I remember reading something similar from an old Ernest Hemingway interview.

Does anyone who knows what I'm talking about have a link?
> I'm not sure about Amazon Logistics in the US, but at least in Europe I got the feeling that management just doesn't care about automating processes because humans are still cheaper in most cases.

Historically this has been the problem with automation. Automation tends to occur when the labor supply tightens and/or the credit supply increases (i.e. the cost of borrowing to purchase new capital drops substantially). Interest rates being what they are right now I doubt anyone wants to think to hard about automating, especially when the labor market is flooded with people who've lost their jobs.

> I don't think Amazon will ever achieve an all lights off IXD with the current governance.

I mean, there doesn't really seem to be a strong push from up top for it, or at least no more than there is to fix Mentor for drivers.
The tricks for MySQL and Postgres are very different than MS SQL; some exist in a different form, some have no equivalent. It would be useful to have a side by side for all major flavors of SQL, Oracle included.

LE. Almost nothing is applicable for MS SQL; some stuff is built into T-SQL, so there is no need for tricks, others have completely different solutions.
Driving Amazon’s electric delivery vehicle: Rivian EDV [video]
What is skyline?
SketchUp Free is easy and good for low-medium poly modelling.
Sort of, in that the court's role is to be the authoritative interpreter of EU law, and EU law crosses national borders by definition.

But all domestic law in EU member states must comply with EU law, so the court can rule on domestic law insofar as it is to determine compatibility with EU law.
Kinda reminds me of cssbattle.dev
> I understand why some long wheelbase versions are Chinese-only, but I found it odd that Volvo's entire flagship sedan series is all-China.

I think the reason is that the S90 isn't high volume enough to warrant more than one factory, and China is a substantial enough market for them that it makes sense to build them there vs US/Europe.
> And what would you still like to read after AI content took over the Internet

It already has taken over to some extent. I imagine blackhat SEO people are using AI tools to generate blogposts and Q&A type tutorials at enormous scales. Some I imagine are even doing videos that use text-to-video software and are gaming YouTube's algorithms and flooding it with artificial content.
In order to love a person, you must be able to understand them.

In order to understand a person, you must be able to listen to them.

IF they do not let you hear these people, there is no way you can love them.

That is their goal, to try and remove your ability to love.

They first tried it with straight propaganda. That did not work. So now they cut you off from them totally.

If you all in the UK do not rise up against this, especially you techies who help write the code for all this stuff, then you get what you deserve.

Demand your right to love another human, no matter where they are. Russia is not the enemy, the oligarchs of all countries are the enemy.
Self-Reflexive Instance-Naming
First, the word free is most frequently interpreted as not costing money, which in this case is completely true. Second, your comparison to a false claim by the NYT is absurd.

All you had to do was close the tab and move on. I can't imagine getting through life making this big a deal on such a minor inconvenience. Good luck out there.
the weirdest payment required page I've ever seen. seriously so funny
The problem with arrays is not that they decay to pointers, its that they arent pointers to begin with. This:

int x[10];

Sould mean "put 10 ints in memory, and make x the pointer to it.". The thing that messes this up is sizeof. sizeof(x) doesnt give the size of the pointer like it should, it gives you the size of the array. If that was fixed (obviusly it can without breaking everything) then things would be much better and consistent.
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
Yep this is a really important skillset.

I've written a post around this topic because you can do this in a systematic way to learn pretty much anything https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-i-quickly-find-answers-to....
People like Taibbi and Greenwald have not changed their principles one iota. The rest of the left was driven so crazy by the MAGA movement that principles went out the window in 2016. Trump got down in the mud, no surprise, but the left got right down there with him by denying the results of the 2016 election and using US intelligence apparatus to push a conspiracy theory (among other things). Meanwhile, the sensible people are just looking around at each other shaking their heads wishing you all would just stop.
This is probably the one feature from F# that I truly miss in other languages.
New York’s ‘zombie’ office towers teeter as interest rates rise
The problem is that, at least in the U.S., we have been giving carrot after carrot to car owners in every conceivable way. We've frozen gas taxes, built highways into downtowns, mandated parking on all new construction, zoned to create the ideal environment for cars, and created a trillion-dollar nationalized highway network.

Now, when people advocate for public transit carrots, those carrots have to compete with a century of driving carrots and the momentum that this status quo has.
High Performance Rust UI
Atlantic has been around for over 150 years. The kids are moving away from Instagram, so unless Instagram is going to wait out the next generation and hope the grandchildren are going to make accounts, they are going to run into issues.
Just like we went to war with Saudi over Jamal Khashoggi?

Short of a politician, no individual death is going to start a war. And maybe that's for the best?
I've only played around with it for a few minutes, but if I wanted to quickly produce a bunch of low poly assets in this style I'd be tempted to go with this and then import them into Blender. This is because it is set up for the low poly workflow out of the box, whereas you'd have to do a bit of faffing around with shaders etc. to get good looking results in Blender. And I say that as someone who has been using Blender for more than a decade. Being forced to work within the constraints that a tool like this imposes is often a good thing from an artist's point of view, as it reduces the decision space down and allows you to focus on the outcome rather than the tool.
yes but I think she's talking about something more like real-time, generating new output as you go through with the input (maybe like slicing windows from a stats. perspective)
Here’s my app’s logo: https://github.com/GarrettAlbright/wptrans/blob/master/Icon%...

Note that it does not use the same colors as the Wikipedia logo or the same puzzle piece/globe iconography. It uses a serifed “W” as well as characters from other writing systems, with a brown and yellow color scheme - alluding to Wikipedia as well as the app’s purpose, but intentionally avoiding copying to a degree that would cause confusion. If, after considering this, you still believe I was intentionally inviting confusion between my app and an official Wikipedia product even before all of the documentation stating that is not the case, I believe that you are either operating on very bad faith, or are one of Wikipedia’s lawyers trying to justify your invoice. “Our firm removed 20 violating apps from the App Store this month!”
Group chats are wonderful for two very basic, core reasons: chronological and no ads.
Mind sharing what fads have been the most profitable for you?
No. It is an oligarchy.
A contract lawyer. Call the California State Bar and ask for a referral, they'll give you a list of lawyers in your area that handle this sort of thing. Call at least three of them to inquire about their rates. If your business grows you'll need more legal services in future, so be choosy.
censorship is fine, if it's of opinions i personally disapprove
I got ‘Cambridgeshire Considered Dangerous’ - much less HN front page but it made me laugh
maybe this is just my american myopia, but this seems like an unrealistic goal, at least outside of the densest urban centers.

I lived in northern virginia for a while, literally 100 feet away from a stop on one of the best public transit systems in the US. inside DC sure, the metro was about as fast as an uber, or even faster for some routes / times of day. but starting from across the river, it often took twice as long by metro. I honestly don't see how they could make transit better than uber without running trains so often as to negate the efficiency advantage of bulk transport.

as an engineer, it kinda seems like people are expecting the latency of a synchronous request/reply service, but combined with the throughput of a batch job. surprise! you can't (usually) have both.

imo both point-to-point and mass transit have their place. but people are always going to prefer point-to-point when it's economic for them. congestion pricing seems like a reasonable way to preserve the low latency characteristics of point-to-point, while nudging people to use the batch job when it's sufficient for their needs.
Without North Dakota South Dakota would make no sense.

And yes Virginia should be renamed East Virginia.
What alternative do you propose?

"Helping them stay on drugs" is very much the wrong way to look at it. How about "reducing the harm they do to others"?
I like that the guy who wants more technical articles is named "asm."
Was Grayscale's Bitcoin premium a financially engineered leveraged ponzi?
Retail investors pumped money into centralized exchanges and funds like BlockFi and Genesis…

… which then took the customer deposits and directly or indirectly entered into long GBTC positions…

..unsatisfied with the 6 month lock-up period on GBTC positions…

..the same exchanges and hedge funds borrowed against the GBTC…

…by converting their positions into cash/US-denominated stable coins…

..to provide yield to their depositors…

..and repeat the loop with new depositor funds and new leveraged long BTC positions with the USDC collateral.

Genesis provides capital to hedge funds which are used to buy BTC via Grayscale’s trust. Once the hedge funds receive GBTC, Genesis incentivizes the same hedge funds with liquidity against their GBTC (via USDC) to buy more bitcoin and deposit more, leveraged, assets into the Grayscale Trust!

How is this not criminal?
Totally agreed here, although it's a bit scary that this is the state of the art solution.
Microsoft Is Forcing Me to Buy MacBooks
Because the EU, and specifically the Court of Justice in this instance, believes in having a strong human rights framework where the right to privacy is vital.
"Actually, it's a trilby" is a point that was made already 10 years ago when fedora hate was at its peak.
> the mistake of building communities for cars instead of people

I’m a person, and the community I find most healthy to live in is one where I can walk out my front door, breath fresh air, experience nature, and am sufficiently isolated from my neighbors that we can largely do what we like without negatively impacting each other.

This requires a car, and single-family home ownership.

There’s nothing wrong with it, and I’d never voluntarily live in the kind of unhealthy sardine can city you desire.
So you learned a lot of subtle features that helped you pick items more efficiently?

But robots can have senses that humans can't. Why don't they just embed an RFID chip in every box, give the robot sensors to triangulate the position of the RFID code matching the desired product, and grab that?
The article has been updated with -O2 numbers.

Spoiler alert: ARM & RISC-V still win over x86 & z/Arch.
live streaming a terror attack does not "impact on the freedom of others"
Don’t forget to click the link to the comments page too.
As it might take a few clicks, this is a tutorial from their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbyCbA1c8BM

It gives a much better quick impression of what this tool is like.
Augustus has been playable for a long time now. I was playing it months ago when I went back to revisit CIII.

The walker mechanic struck me as a clever solution that really feels like something from a more resource-constrained era of games. With one feature, they managed to solve two problems: “is this service building close enough to this other building when following the road graph” and “guys walking around whom you can click on”.
I ran my own experiment and out of 40 accounts that claimed to be leaving, 3 have stopped posting or been deleted.
Public officials in the US need to file their financial activities within a certain time limit, and and this is accessible to anyone with a Bloomberg Terminal.

Usually by the time this info is made public the best profits would already have been made. There are also plenty of examples of members not filing at all. Of course nothing happens to them...

This was a bit of a scandal when Pelosi's activities became a bit too obvious (e.g [1] - and I'm not saying this is just a Democrat issue, they all do it), but the furor very quickly died down after democracy came under threat during the midterms because the other party are neo-fascists or communists, depending on which billionaire-owned news source you follow.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/09/congress-moves-towards-banni...
It's always a different source on HN.
> US foreign aid isn't even 1% of their GDP

I think a more apples to apples comparison would be the percentage of their governmental budget which was ~133B USD in 2022 (making the 3.8B you cited ~3% of that) and IIUC (3.8B) represents ~15% of Israel's military spending (which given that it is already very high for their budget and GDP, will be difficult to increase otherwise).

Though as other posters pointed out, the non financial support is also very important both in things like Anti-BDS (and opposing sanctions on Israel or similar negative ation) and in things like slowing down Iran's nuclear program.

> And Israel seems to have no issue trading military equipment or creating mutually beneficial deals with Russia and China[2][3]

I think there are two important things to be aware of here.

First, Israel sells military equipment primarily to finance its own R&D and manufacture of weapons. In fact, US foreign aid is a partial driver for that here, since the aid money can only be used to purchase US equipment and in that sense Israeli weapons companies have a really tough time selling to Israel itself since they are competing with "free" and so have to supplement with foreign sales. In the other direction, taking away the aid would be to severe of a blow to Israel's military supplies that they can't afford to make deals that the US will disapprove of too much. There's also some unwritten rules between Israel and the US about what sorts of deals Israel can make. I'd go so far as to say that any deal you see Israel make in this space is one that the US at least doesn't really disapprove of (as otherwise the deal would not happen).

The second thing is that Israel can't really afford to strain their relationship with Russia. Syria is a major military threat to Israel's existence and prosperity and Russia has tremendous influence over Syria. You may have heard of Israel bombing Iranian military units and bases in Syria and that can only happen "peacefully" thanks to collaboration with Russia. But that doesn't mean that a relationship with Russia could replace one with the US (much like Europian countries depending on Russian gas doesn't mean they'll leave NATO).

On the relationship with China I actually don't really know that much, as it is not often discussed in the media (or outside of it really). Israel and the majority of Israeli citizens see Israel as a west-aligned Democracy, so I'd be surprised if the relationship with China became too close or went much beyond the utilitarian. Will be interesting to see where it develops.
YouTube likely has staying power despite of what the company are doing with the UI and user experience flows, because it sure as hell can't be because of it. And at least their search is not trying to actively work against the user. (Their recommendation engine is a dumpster fire, for sure.)

A mostly usable, generally accessible, and fairly easily discoverable video hosting platform. I can think of a lot of worse product pitches.
How Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice,50yr apart
RPL is like LISP in that it's all about quoting. ' and eval are primary (unshifted) keys on these calculators.

There was a LISP based pocket computer: the Casio AI-1000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-yuZ2pejGU