skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone just wrote letters?

I suspect the author is annoyed when the cashier says “hello, how are you?” before they start ringing them up.

This is just culture. Being upset about it is an inefficient waste of energy.

I think people frequently say hello to ease people into their request. To note that we’re all human and more than just doing jobs. Also to prove and see if you’re there and available for an interruption. If you don’t respond to “hello,” then perhaps instead of messaging they will call or email or wait.

If they wanted async, they would just email.
Yeah it always sounds like such a bad take when people use research operating systems as some kind of failure case against giant commercial behemoths which have a totally different model of operation and goals.

Key word: RESEARCH.

OpenBSD gets a lot of flak for this, which is funny because outside of its performance issues which are somewhat the result of all the mitigations, people sure love taking things that were first implemented there and using it in stuff like Windows, or using software which is an integral part of that project like OpenSSH and tmux. I don't think some people realize that it's largely a research project led by professors out of universities in Alberta when they're really quick to heap criticism on it.
The point of a normal for-profit company is to make money for investors (ie: owners). Period. The employees are merely a means to an end and irrelevant beyond that end.
It was predictable that this day would come, given the overt, public, and controversial personality type of Musk.
The argument is that saving the 800€ / month for the 14 VPs won’t make much of a difference for the European citizens.
There's no incentive to improve it and lots of disincentive to change at all. In software projects I was often brought in by clients when the CEO realized they had fallen way behind competitors. What you would find was layers of process built over years as an immune response to any mistake ever made. No VP was willing to put their name on removing any part of that process because the upside was "things are 5% more efficient" and the downside was "Sheila removed the process and it broke, so she should be fired".
The father of all secrets: John le Carré’s daddy issues
Conspiracy theories at one time might have been more along the lines of fantasy entertainment: thinking about secret structures on Mars, alien abductions, UFOs, Loch Ness Monsters, and other stuff like that was a lot of fun even if it was bullshit.

But today, I'd characterize conspiracy theories as the last vestiges of escapism and the desperate need for an explanation for why the world is so shitty. In previous generations a man could watch sports or movies or take on some nerdy niche hobby to drown away his pain of being overworked and unhappy about life. Even if doing stuff like watching men throw a ball around and memorizing all of their sports statistics was really dumb, you had something you could do to forget about the world for a few hours from time to time and talk about with the guys while ignoring your mediocre life. But today, you can't even follow sports, watch movies, or even play nerdy games without being drum over the head with some political correctness or real-world politics. There is no escapism from politics possible and the world keeps seeming worse and worse: hence the migration to conspiracy theories as a desperate attempt to stay sane in an insane world.
I’m been on the fsd beta for a long time now and I have to say it’s remarkably improved over the last year. If it continues to improve at this rate for another year it’s going to be pretty useful. I use it to drive around seattle (which is a difficult driving place with randomly followed infrastructure standards and randomly driving drivers and randomly parked cars) and it used to be a death defying gripping of the steering wheel and grabbing it out of bone headed moves while everyone looks at me askance to a relatively chill experience. Yesterday I needed to take it in for some fender work (my wife isn’t the best driver and I got fsd as a donation to self driving research in the off chance it’ll let her someday delegate driving to the car, but since that hasn’t happened yet I have periodic body work that needs to be done as she pachinkos through the streets). The Tesla service center is in an industrial area in an insane interchange part of I5 with crazy off ramps and strange turns. I always get lost. I let fsd drive door to door and it did it flawlessly. That surprised me, but after each update it’s been getting considerably better.

It still has flaws - it widens it’s place in the lane on every on-ramp which is annoying and weird road conditions can confuse it about what to do next. It sometimes doesn’t anticipate well the turn signals of someone changing lanes leading to people flipping me off for not giving them space. But all in all, given the state of adaptive cruise control 10 years ago, this is a remarkable achievement to put in a consumer grade vehicle.
> actual L4 deployments

In some of the cities with the easiest driving conditions in the world.
I haven't yet, beyond some quick comments I've posted on other HN threads. I may capture it in long form after I've retired. My career has taken a meandering path, and there have been aspects of it that I think might be entertaining to the right audience. If there's something specific you're curious about, I'd be happy to try to address that.
The fact that your comment is flagged and dead should give you pause. The fact that it doesn't give you pause should give you pause. The fact that you think I am objecting to your specific assertions rather than the mode of assertions should give you pause. Yet, it seems that self-regards of epistemic superiority is the only unstable fuel you need to travel down a lonely road. Good luck.
> Yeah, I am a bit worried that we may be too harsh but these laws combat real issues in our society.

Well, there are many other ways to combat these issues without treating innocent citizens as criminals unless they prove they are innocent.

Believe me, I've been on the receiving end of these laws despite never having done anything illegal, which means that my financial privacy has now been ruined several times and as a consequence, my security and safety and that of my family is now at risk, forever.
I don’t know what’s happened to me, but I just cannot get through big “magazine” pieces like this with tons of build up / fluff anymore. Just please get to your point early and then tell me stories to support it.
> It's cycle. It always has been.

No, it hasn't always been; you're conflating historically consistent and reasonable cycles with the speculative manias that have occurred over the past two decades. Make no mistake: we are not in a normal cycle.

Prior to these bubbles, the next closest historical US analog over a century would have been the rebuilding that occurred after WWII, when home prices reverted back to inflation-adjusted fair value after the housing market was completely hammered by the onset of the Great Depression---a time when ballon payment mortgages were the norm, and a crisis that gave rise to the financial innovation of fixed-rate mortgages as the de facto US standard circa 1930s. This spike in home prices was largely attributable to a bona fide housing shortage (think Baby Boomers)...yet no speculative mania and no bubble arose over those decades.

To get a sense for just how ridiculous today's real estate market has become, you need to consider the situation in real (inflation-adjusted) terms[1]. No amount of contrived marketing can quantitatively justify today's egregious bubble home prices, whether it's relative to building costs (!!), population growth, or decreasing interest rates as shown in the graph, or relative to other meaningful metrics that aren't shown like increasing real disposable income or tax-advantaged benefits of the asset class.

For reference, Robert Shiller covers this topic well in his book Irrational Exuberance[2].

On a similar note to your parent post, the UK is looking quite dire as well. Interest rates aren't as high (yet), and although both countries have a strong bias towards adjustable-rate mortgages, I suspect the key difference is in the demographic of bag holders: for the UK, I'm specifically looking at fixed-income pensioners. When the first wave of adjustments kick in next year, it's going to break a lot of people with little to no financial alternative.

[1] http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data/ShillerHPI.jpg

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691173125/
I think their acquittal says more about the court system than of the incident that led to the trial. With a good lawyer, you have always been able to get away with murder.
They do, and it is a scandal. Journalists should not be asking government to vet their stories
Individual features of JPEG XL might be not enough, but JPEG XL is a package for all those features, which make it much more attractive than alternatives. And JPEG is really popular while WebP, which finally reached a point of universal support recently, still struggles [1]; it will remain popular enough for at least a decade and probably more.

[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/image_format
> This sends the signal that in Europe, corruption can come back to hurt you.

Nah, it just creates an in-group ("we know that corrupt politicians can get away with it"), and an out-group ("let's avoid corruption, since we'll get caught").

> the trick is not not looking

Unintentional double negative there, I think.
FSD beta shows that Tesla is not working on self-driving.

They've frozen their sensor suite in place because Elon wanted to be able to pre-sell FSD.

The class of mistakes it makes demonstrate that Tesla is *willfully* marching into the local maxima problem: They're taking an approach that improves their actual product, AP, while sacrificing any hope of actually solving FSD.

Full-self driving and what autopilot actually does take two completely different approaches. AP needs to be able to gracefully handle control to a non-trained layman. Current L3/L4 vehicles that rely on a driver have trained operators ready to takeover while the vehicle thinks everything is fine, and they need to aggressively make decisions like no-go, while AP never no-gos.

For people who are in the self-driving field and are familiar with the approaches to perception and decision making (which I hope more of which will chime in here), FSD beta makes mistakes that are kind of like someone saying their robot can now feed you steak, and the robot starts by grasping the sharp end of a knife and cutting the steak with the handle. Sure you might make some progress getting mashed steak into your mouth, but the robot is cutting off its hand to do it. It's not going to result in much steak in your belly unless the robot's approach is completely reworked.
> The eventual goal of search engines is to provide a direct answer.

I don’t think it is which is why ChatGPT doesn’t compete with Google at all, it serves a different purpose. The point of search is to provide relevant links.
Huh? AVIF is an image format offspring of AV1 from the Alliance for Open Media which founding members include Apple, Mozilla and Google.

AV1 and AVIF is landing in all browsers. They get the AVIF support for free when they implement the AV1 decoder.
Microacquire, Flippa, empire flippers etc. The trick with all these sites is that they are mostly noise (99%) as in overpriced deluded sellers OR bad/failing products/businesses. So you have to understand that and work accordingly. There is a reason they are listing their business and only once in a while, you will find a real gem which with some work could really shine (they all need work). I was lucky to find a gem and they def. exist but less than 1% of listings.
> Besides the fact that only some image viewing programs and image editors support JXL.

Krita, GIMP, DarkTable, Affinity, and freaking Adobe are just "some" image viewing programs to you?
I am an American, so lacking the ability to reverse 80 years of public policy decisions, I want the sleeper-car-car.
spending personal money after is sketchy too if they “pay” and it’s still only the first few weeks
Read modify write outside the db seems worse though?
> The ID4 is decent but that company was started by actual Hitler and Nazis, so if you are interested in not buying from companies that have a history of evil leadership that one isn't a good option.

This is a wild comment. The current leadership is slightly more important than the leadership 80 years ago. It is especially strange considering you could have made moral arguments against that company based off much more recent misdeeds.
I hope ChatGPT in its current form will not be used for search. As my friend says it, ChatGPT is not intelligent, it’s just capable of creating responses like it’s knows everything. The things it hallucinates is likely going to spread misinformation and make it harder for the masses to search for true, factual information.

The other part is webtraffic: Google in theory could have created an interactive, conversational style search engine (with it without LLMs) if they wanted to, but a lot of websites would have complained about Google taking away traffic from them. I believe the same happened when Google started showing it’s own reviews instead of redirecting to Yelp. I wonder how openAI or any LLM powered search is going to deal with it. They don’t have to worry about it anytime soon, they still have a lot of time to get to a stage where they come anywhere close to the number of queries Google handles in a day, but it’ll be interesting to see how things go.
Correct. Or at least overlapping purposes
Yes and no. I want a solid nest-egg in the event that something happens and prevents me from working. No interest in traveling or doing anything else at the moment but of course things can change and as I get older my train of thought will probably change as well so I try to be cognizant of that. In building some level of wealth, I'd consider it to be an achievement and follow-up achievement is using whatever funds I have to help others because I don't care for things other than tools, computer parts, and things like microcontrollers (Arduinos and RPI's).

Sounds extremely corny but I lost my best friends a few years back and their families are not well off financially, one in particular is struggling so I help them as much as they will let me because they're in their mid 60's and have always treated me like family. Another friend wanted to start a remodeling company so I helped him with that. I think these are the kinds of that brings a level of satisfaction and joy rather than buying new cars or taking vacation - for me at least.
Shepherds (and ranchers) count moving things, so they stand at the gate and use fingers, winding up with groupings of 10s.

Bakers count stationary things, so they like obvious groups of rectangles, and 3x4 is much nicer than 5x2, winding up with groupings of 12s.

To this day hot dogs and buns are sold in incommensurate packages.

(also, might 20s in numbering systems come about because 2x10 and 4x5 is a nice number for both ranchers and bakers?)
"An ignorant statement / question I have is why are you using it write code? It's a chatbot, no?

I've found it so incredibly useful to simply replace Google."

Heard of Stack Exchange?

I teach and I expect many students to use language models like ChatGPT to do their homework, which involves writing code. Lots of what people are doing with it is coding (there have been quite a few posts here using it that way).

I've actually also used ChatGPT for literary/song writing experiments and it stinks, aesthetically. The lyrics it wrote, even with a lot of prompting, were totally asinine. And how could they not be?
My Macbook cost ~$1,000, I'm not going to pay 1/10th of that price for a text editor that works on a single machine. I'd even buy Sublime before giving Nova an honest shot.
No. I stopped at “the government should…”

That never goes the way you think it will.
In the past, they've found that the causation is actually the other way. People with diabetes etc terms to switch to sweeteners as a way of reducing their sugar intake.
Lossless JPEG recompression, if it’s so good, can be done at the HTTP layer.

If a new image format doesn’t have a hardware decoder it’s dead. The security surface of new formats is unacceptable if it’s going to be slow and power-hungry too.

Only problem with JPEG is the lack of HDR.
I'm just about there and agree in general.

Currently integrating Procrastinate (https://procrastinate.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) to use Postgres as a job queue in a Django API backend.

Dropping dependencies is very nice especially when dealing with an MVP / small apps.
I did it 25 yrs ago, it was well worth it when I got my a Masters in Computer Science. It's opened so many doors it's hard to describe. Generally, you hit the sweet spot between having not enough and too much education with regards to an HR department and their search algorithms.

I've worked with people who have had no formal education in Computer Science and I would classify them as having a better grasp of the subject matter than myself. Getting a M.S. degree usually helps getting in the door or at least talking to someone, but generally its how driven are you and what you do with what you have that counts more in the end.
Shell/Chevron/Exxon/etc vs Elon. Hmm, let me think…
HN should apply some sort of Pratchett badge whenever Pratchett gets mentioned. In lieu of, here’s +50 karma to you sir.
I’ve enjoyed working with Tauri a lot, and I’m excited to check out the mobile release. I’ve been using it for about a year now, paired with Svelte, to build a video editor [0] and it’s been really nice speed-wise. I haven’t felt like Tauri is the bottleneck in probably 99% of cases (usually it ends up being my own code!).

One area they could improve, and I think they’re working on for 2.0, is the IPC mechanism between JS and Rust. It’s not as fast as a true function call and bogs down if you try to send large amounts of data over it, so I’ve tried to architect around it. It’s been fine but I’m looking forward to when it’s more efficient.

It still lacks some features that Electron has too, and it feels a little bleeding edge sometimes. But I feel a lot better with shipping a lighter app that’s closer to native-size. If the alternative is maintaining 2 codebases in different languages as a solo developer, I’ll gladly take the tradeoff to go with Tauri, whereas Electron felt like a much bigger gap.

0: https://getrecut.com
The increased diabetes risk is at least somewhat expected from all sweeteners, regardless of origin or caloric load.

As an intuition, the fact that you taste something as sweet indicates that your brain has received a strong signal, and your hormonal responses are mostly regulated by signals sent from the brain to specialized organs.

In practice, the data strongly supports any well-studied sweetener increasing the risk of diabetes and also increasing hunger sufficiently to at least partially mitigate any caloric benefits.

The rest of the data I've seen on artificial sweeteners is a dogmatic quagmire with respect to cancers, neural issues, and whatnot, so I wouldn't personally want to draw many conclusions based on it, especially given the conflicts of interest in how most of it was generated. However, on both sides of the debate I think it's worth honestly considering at least those two dangers, especially considering the aggressive marketing of "natural" sweeteners like stevia and monk fruit with a strong implication that being natural means it's safe, and especially with detractors on the other side pointing to a bunch of shitty science over the years as evidence that sugar substitutes are probably safe.
i don't think i've ever seen a specific bird shit cleaning product of any kind, much less one specifically for glass
Free? It's a text editor, not World of Warcraft.
The fact that it's legal to sell products branded as “disposable” (e.g. single-use phone chargers) that contain lithium-ion batteries seems like a recipe for more of these disasters, though I would guess the fires in this case have been from inappropriate disposal of more conventional products.
I had the same exact response and cancelled mine around the time of the tweets about the Pelosi attack he made. It’s a shame, we loved our last Tesla but I can’t stand the thought of being associated with him. We were supposed to pick it up the week he made those tweets.

I was his former prime target demographic. I feel very strongly about protecting the environment, I hate gasoline engines after working on them most of my life, I loved how economical it was to drive an electric car, I love technology, and I could afford a Tesla. I don’t know what his new demographic is but I don’t think they even can buy a Tesla or will. I wish him lots of luck. Based on my experiences in a small town, his new demographic buys dually trucks listening to alt right propaganda and lives check to check working in the oilfield. Or is on a very fixed income and is retired and stays at home afraid, watching Fox News, with their last car in the driveway, a 1997 Oldsmobile or Buick.
You are right, I was told that we were catching up fast but looking at the data it’s not the case.

Maybe Europe isn’t going to see office furnitures for morbidly obese people soon after all.
Interestingly I did end up buying an ID4 and it's been great for a full year now.

It's not perfect but I like that is has more of a "traditional" interior compared to Tesla, which felt kind of like a giant tablet with a car-shaped case around it. That design was already making me hesitant and Elon with his endless stream of nonsense was the straw that broke the camels back so to speak.
Can't you just read the stream and emit the images(s) as they get downloaded to be rendered in a canvas - exactly as a native implementation would do?
Individuals are just company’s resource, like hardware, or IP. They are not the company itself.
I had really wanted to setup a utility scale solar power plant in Switzerland and did some research and could not find a way to do it nor en example of it (except rooftop solar panels which is common). Switzerland is already energy independent (60% of electricity generation is hydro, 34% is nuclear). This is a great mix comparing to fossil sources in many countries. And mostly explains low inflation in the country I think.
It only entirely breaks decryption if the ciphertext is authenticated. In something like bare CBC mode it only breaks the decryption of the next block, all later blocks are unaltered.

Usually cryptographers consider anything less secure than IND-CCA3[1] Secure (authenticated INDistinguishability under adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attack) to be "insecure" in the most general sense of security. The system must defend against forged messages, not simply keep the contents of messages confidential. Accepting forged messages almost always leads to some way to break confidentiality eventually.

[1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/26738/17861
Some people don't like it when "those people" complain about anything.
WebP should not have been released and no one should have used it. Google should stop letting individual employees invent new image formats as hobbies. (This happened _twice_. WebP lossless is a whole different codec from lossy.)

AVIF is the first one that might be acceptable.
I sat on it while waiting for someone to let me in when I forgot my badge… ;)
You can use mechanical fasteners (rivets) and a rubber gasket possibly?

Or, make the hole uniform to accept a plug (again, mechanical attachment)
We are not paying 800 EUR / month for these 14 VPs, we are paying more than 22.000 EUR / month, each, which is somewhere between 3.7 and 4.6 million EUR / year in total, for the 14 VPs.

That can definitely make a difference in many European citizens' lives (although, not all Europeans at the same time, of course).