skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are getting pretty popular in central Texas where I live. I think they work best in a car only place where there isn’t neighborhood style traffic or pedestrians. This almost often means a location where a major road intersects a freeway.

The one by the IKEA in Round Rock at 1431/I35 has been a great improvement, for example. The one on Parmer and I35 has also worked quite well. There is a similar approach, called “displaced left” down 1431 towards cedar park, however (Parmer and 1431) that has only been ok in terms of perceived improvement for traffic in the area.

I will also note that they only started appearing here around 2015 onwards so maybe some design issues that you are talking about have been corrected in these newer iterations
I miss my N900. On screen keyboards are a PITA, they have zero haptic feedback and I constantly end up fat fingering all over the place.
Maybe for a mesh configuration?
> We now publicly (thanks to Merkel's and Hollande's confessions) know that EU had been preparing to a full scale war under the guise of peace agreements

Which was the right thing to do, we always knew Russia would invade again and any peace agreements with Russia aren't worth the paper they are written on. Russia already broke the previous agreement they had with Ukraine to never invade the country anyway.

So why would this time be any different?.
It sounds like you are arguing nuclear power is expensive, dangerous, and will only work with massive taxpayer subsidies; but we should ignore all of that because we don’t have a viable alternative. I don’t think we should ignore those statements?
‘Undo’ can be done by shaking your phone
In my case, it's because all of my friends moved to the other side of the country. I stayed in the city where we met, but they didn't. (Possibly because it's too expensive.)

At our previous house, we were also very good friends with our neighbours. Our kids played together a lot, we had dinner together frequently. But our house was getting too small, so we moved somewhere else in the same neighbourhood, and immediately after, they moved to a completely different town.

I'd love to have my friends as neighbours. I'd love to become friends with my neighbours. I'd love to live in some sort of community group where we do lots of things together. But that's not a common thing apparently, and I'm way too introverted to make it happen.
If you think that meeting someone over drinks is equivalent to exchanging a few comments asynchronously, one of us is blissfully unware that they're missing out.

Café culture simply means that you have a convenient place to meet with other people with some regularity. You really don't need to be judgemental and dismissive about it.
Show HN: HWT, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot CLI
HWT is an open-source tool with which you can generate terminal commands using natural language.

It is based on GPT-3 (so you need an OpenAI API key) and can generate commands with the user typing `hwt list all the hidden files`. (it works for more complex queries as well)

I started working on this a while ago in a slightly different format (i.e., using a backend and with more languages). Then Github announced Copilot CLI and I put it on hold. After a while, I thought: why not share HWT as an open-source alternative? This way people can have another option with more control.

HWT is the first time I built a more "complex" terminal user interface (TUI). It was surprising how much you can do nowadays with terminal applications in terms of interactivity and "design". It uses Ink.js and runs over Node. It was quite a smooth experience.

Let me know what you think and if have some feedback!
Either that, or your statement that “google cloud and AWS are objectively better at basically everything” is perhaps not shared by everyone.
The ones that are needed to run a business, but which tech founders don't posses: sales & marketing. How could I possibly consider the person who's selling my code a liability?
I would argue that it is impossible. Mostly because you come to realize that "friendship" is often a lopsided arrangement where the other party is gorging themselves on whatever need they have.
The uncomfortable answer is that our structure of congressional representation is a balance between finesse and complexity, because the average person (and less so the average group of people) can only hold a small number of moving parts in their head at a time.

The representation structure that GPT-5,6,7,... would design is going to be incomprehensibly more complicated and nuanced than 1 person = 1 vote. I don't know what it is, but you're trying to map an alien onto human institutions in a way that is not sensical.
> Why would they have Suite A then?

Because Suite A are a set of non public algorithms that are used to encrypt data.

Them being non public makes it harder to workout how to decrypt the data.

They are also likely protected against a number of attacks that aren't public, even if these attacks aren't feasible against current algorithms.
The combination of AI, the digitalization of society and decentralized protocols pretty much means that taxation of work is going to become increasingly hard.

You already can hardly tax a software company incorporated in Hong Kong (with 0% tax on foreign income) How can you tax an AI paid in digital currencies and incorporated nowhere?

Ultimately, we might have to drastically change how and where we tax people. There are many theories on this. I like geolibertarianism: tax the extraction of natural resources/land ownership.
I guess this is neat but I’d rather write code myself.
Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast
Yimby is probably bad for fertility
Is there a specific shake pattern? I use twist for camera and handshake chop for flashlight
The trick is to understand this paradigms, why they came to be and what they want to archive and as much important when to not apply them.

Then program with the things you have learned in mind, instead of blindly following the some "paradigms rules", 'cause that's never ending well.
If all else fails, the Atlantic Ocean has been observed to have more than one side: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd06xx/EWD611.PDF
Ah yes, 4/20
Who’s going to want to use it if they opt for advertising platform?
Sounds like we just need modifier keys added to the touch-screen keyboards.
DRY is so that when you change one place, you don't forget to change it in the other place, likely resulting in a bug or bugs. There is a simple (for some people's definition of simple) solution to this, which is to document this dependency in a comment in all four places - the extra two being the end of the particular block as well, so it doesn't get missed by a reviewer if the starting comment is past the top of the screen for the reviewer. Having this checked by your automated testing system is left as an exercise for the reader.
Which embedded OLAP database to pick?
I can't stand that they hide my starred places during a search. I'm trying to see where the thing is! Maybe it's close to something I know!
Thank you. Every time the roundabout discussion comes up here on HN I get dismissed when I tell people that, as a cyclist and pedestrian who does not own a car, I do everything in my power to avoid roundabouts. Please just let me cross at a junction where I can see that all cross traffic has come to a complete stop, and can make full eye contact with the drivers whose lanes I am crossing (implying nothing less than a full 90 degree intersection).
The article stresses to never put anything that may be confidential into the prompt. Yet, chatGpt offers to out-out from using your data for training.

For most purposes that seems to be sufficient doesn't it? Or are there reasons not to trust OpenAi on this one?
I'm surprised at that on the reliability front - things are a fuss to get going, but if you're on a LTS version of whatever-distro, its usually pretty rock-solid (hence why its powering everything you look at...)
Apple’s agreement with Cupertino
Wow! Relevance looks good for queries i tried and i like the square interface too.
heck, sometimes even 7 is better than 9
Taxis are incredibly cumbersome to hail, if not impossible, in less dense areas. Uber is also relatively new on the scene in the grand scheme of it. You didn't always have that option.
I wonder if it's worth learning this skill or if it's something that will become obsolete in the very short term.

Which leads me to my second wonder: for how long will this be a thing?

Any thoughts?
The sadness. Most groups end up chatting along the way or in the parking lot afterwards.

The other option would be to start your own.

My most local group was started as a Facebook group by a lady who wanted to run with other people. She lives on a country road and wanted to run with others in town, so she took over an existing but dead Facebook group. The time and schedule would be up to you.

This is pretty much her strategy, being intentional that you want, and welcome, people to join you.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1571094946691499?fs=e&s=m
I see, I must've misread. Thank you!
Brain images just got 64 million times sharper
I only had the n810 but I gotta say I liked my Cybiko Xtreme keyboard better than that one.

I specifically wish that device could somehow have modern production, modern software and support, even with the same screen. The design was not beautiful but by gosh was it functional in supporting beautiful things, like comfortably chatting with my future wife during university lectures.

The n810 was pretty though, and to this day the keyboard slide makes the kiddos smile like "whaaat" :-)
We tried hedonism as a guiding principle over and over in the 20th century. Whereas Protestant work ethic gave us america, hedonism gave us the aids epidemic, over 100,000 drug overdoses annually, a generation of men that have opted out of adulthood, and the need to import people from non-hedonist countries just to keep the population stable. Enjoy your antibiotic resistant STDs.
An AI would need to be able to own something in order to get paid. If the AI cannot own anything, then you can tax the AI owner.
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And yet I saw an article only today about the Czech Republic suffering from a lack of storage, on a grid which is only 18% renewable

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/04/14/sunshine-vs-the-gr...
Yeah. In other countries, suburbs are essentially just less dense parts of the town, but still has most of what makes a town a town. Suburban US is not much different from desolate rural areas minus the farms.
That phone is quite thick. For the same height, one could add a slide-out keyboard case to a normal smartphone. However, such a thing does not seem to exist (anymore, according to my quick google image search)...
Limited Hedging and Gambling for Resurrection by U.S. Banks
Related article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/few-banks-are-hedging-interest-...
It heavily depends on church. The ones on more radical side really try to isolate you from the outside as much as possible. Not all of them tho.
The editor manual said that you couldn't do that, and I'm pretty sure I tried and the game glitched. You had to split that sector into multiple ones for that to work, even though from a player's perspective it looked like a single corridor.

As a player, you could see the extents of a sector when you looked at the automap, because the map became visible sector-by-sector.

The exact rule of the editor / engine was actually even stricter. Not only could a sector not overlap itself, you had to make sure that at no position you could see two sectors that overlapped, or the graphics would glitch. If you wanted overlapping, you had to split sectors just to please the engine, even if floor/ceiling height, lighting, textures etc. were the same.
I know that's how it currently is, but that's in large part due to limits on how many of those kinds of buildings are allowed to be built (and where).
I have one of these running openwrt and I'm quite happy with it
He starts out speaking of the computer being for his child and the inappropriateness of default content shown for a child.

I think it's worthy of mentioning Microsoft Family Safety. It's pretty useful after you create a minor Microsoft Account for your child through it. My only gripe was the Microsoft Edge new tab page, which still shows some content inappropriate for a child, with no way to disable it through the UI. The Microsoft Support sanctioned way to disable it was by adding ntp.msn.com to the Windows hosts file.
It is obvious that when you have points of weakness, bad things happen to you (Russia knows it like no other), so the point of a stable democratic countries is to not have significant points of weakness.

But that is not the case with Ukraine.
SSIIMPLEDD + Y + keeping redundancy apart to avoid merge conflicts + spaces for readability

SIMP DED SILY
Another vote for GL.inet devices here, I've got a couple of Mango's and a couple of Creta's. Both low end devices, but their wifi coverage is great for the price and size of device, and they're working well for me as Wifi-VPN gateways, although I don't push a lot of bandwidth through them.

The more you pay the more bandwidth they can handle, depends on how / where / why of the implementation.
Show HN: AI Talk – Create two AI discuss on the specific topic automatically
> Unfortunately it's not really practical to ask a user to type in 128 bits of binary every time they want to unlock their drive, so another approach has to be taken.

Yes, it's not practical to type that. So don't, stop using passwords for this as a main way to unlock it. You can add a password as a backup key, but the main one shouldn't include a keyboard. There are plenty of hardware options other than TPM that you can destroy if shit hits the fan.
Show HN: Search Engine for Kids Activities (Built in PHP)
Things With Kids ("TWKids") is a Search Engine for Kids Activities (http://twkids.app). I built this site to make it easier to find places to take my kids on the weekends.

For Tech Stack, I just used Plain PHP, Javascript, HTML, and CSS (No Frameworks). Hope other parents will find this site useful!
Actio: A Node.js framework that makes monoliths and microservices look the same
A click bait article cashing in on AI hype. We don't tax machines, we tax the owners for profit generated. And if we have autonomous AIs not owned by anyone, tax wouldn't be the primary problem.
Startup CEOs learned engineering management from captain kirk
I was confused by my iPhone asking me constantly if I want to undo typing. Turned out this was the device thinking I am shaking to undo.
Casting friendship as "emotional co-dependency" is surely the height of combined individualism and cynicism. You may have no time for friendship, but lots of people do.
I don't think you understood the comment. The game supports two WAD files. One primary containing the primary assets and levels. This is the one they'd also be working on during development. No need to rebuild the executable when making changes to the primary WAD.

Then there's PWAD ("patch" WAD), which are applied on top of the primary WAD ("IWAD").

There's no reason to implement support for that except for the ability to add modifications ("patches")

I don't know why people in the comments are speculating about this when it's well documented that this was the intention of the WAD system.
They've been publishing stories like this for years. They'll generally not mention that they are still burning fossil fuels.

You'll notice the headline isn't "Czech Republic runs on 100% carbon free energy", which would be a much more interesting headline.

I'm not sure how to check Czech Republic generation mix at that time but I wouldn't be surprised to see fossil fuels still being burnt for "contractual reasons". (edit: I'm estimating that there was at least 1.5GW of coal generation at the same time this solar was curtailed, so about 10x as much coal being burned as solar curtailed)

But, even if it was curtailed for genuine reasons, that still doesn't mean storage would make financial sense. See France, where they 'curtail' nuclear power. Does that mean they "need" batteries?
This does explain why Hangar Lane is no longer "gyratory".
The obvious question is this: if WebAssembly really works well, why are efforts like WebCodecs needed at all? Isn't it now superfluous? The answer in this blog post appears to be that no, WebAssembly doesn't work well enough and is therefore seen only as a way to ship prototypes whilst waiting for "real" implementations inside the browser engines themselves. So why is that? It boils down to:

1. WebAssembly can't poke holes in the sandbox.

2. Cache partitioning means you can't amortize the cost of a "plugin" written using wasm, so every website has to download it from scratch and in particular in a blocking manner, so you're fairly restricted in how much code you can ship this way.

To which there are some obvious solutions, like allowing wasm modules to coordinate with native code plugins that can also be downloaded on the fly and managed by the browser, and to allow HTTP objects to opt out of cache partitioning (the threat model is such that if a file opts out it's ok because the goal is to stop sites learning if you browsed to some other specific site, but site-specific files wouldn't opt out).

It seems though, that the direction of travel is to not do this. Instead browsers will continue adding every possible feature to the specs. It's hard not to feel like maybe what we need here is for browsers to become separated out into a sandboxing layer, a hardware/OS abstraction layer, and finally an HTML rendering layer that sits on top as if it were any other app. Whenever these threads pop up I link to a design doc I wrote that proposes something like that in the hope of getting interesting feedback, so here it is again:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDBw4fWyRNug3_f5mXWdlgDI...
They used alcohol and drugs to deal with those a lot more. Also, they had higher juvenile criminality rates.
I always feel sad for the stars that gave their lives as supernovae in order to power our clean energy future, only to be ignored for the "hot new thing" (Sun) in the galactic neighborhood.
Oh really. Have you actually visited that childhood home recently? Did you move away at a young age by any chance and never went back since?

I know I did. Until one night I randomly pursued the place in street view. It's uncanny, looking at it, not being sure which things changed and which you don't remember correctly. Was the swingset in the park always yellow? Was that store always on that side of the other one? It really fucks with your sense of reality
The premise of a command economy where you top down specify you need N of something is faulty to begin with.
Hi there,

I was reading discussions on HN about how microservices should be an implementation detail when I realized I do use a backend system like that for teaching junior engineers.

Decided to open source it. Hope you like it.
It seems like Musk is actively trying to turn twitter into parler.
Chaos GPT
Is this a joke article? It's not april 1st

But let me go on a tangent. When will we have AI governments and AI taxmen? Would I rather work or for the taxman of some loudmouth who convinced people to vote him in the ballot , or for an AI that is proving to improve every year (with politically- and hopefully democratically defined criteria)? And how are our intellectuals preparing us for this instead of dooming-and-glooming about AI ?
Youtube sometimes recommends that, but if you scroll the topics bar all the way to the right, you can access it at any time.
I would assume that a 4-way stop sign would also be preferable, as there's a requirement to stop.

The issue is that roundabouts generally only have a yield sign, which means cars are rarely at a standstill. This complicates pedestrians crossing the street.
The final experiment at the end was cool. It really is exactly like water
Thing is that most users want some form of qos/aqm to guard against load induced delay, which the apu and similar low power devices cannot handle above a few hundred mbps
> Lots of good people at OpenAI who I think can/will stand up

Concretely ?
The setup tools, and boot management are inexcusable.

BCD (and its associated tools) are a steaming mess when anything goes wrong. The learning curve for GRUB et al. is the shortest curve ever - what its doing is really transparent. Fixing anything in the windows recovery environment is a total nightmare. Linux, worst case you use something like ReFind and can happily boot anything. Windows goes wrong, you're at the behest of of the practically useless "Startup Repair", which gives little or no practical output.

Don't get me onto the drive selection on setup too... Why can't they indicate which drive is which model / serial number? Do I have to guess from the exact size? Also why do I need to turn other drives off in UEFI to ensure they're not touched.
I miss the keyboard on the HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1[0], it hid behind the screen until you needed it, so there was no need to sacrifice screen or keyboard size.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream
What's wrong with nuclear power? Seems to work well enough for the US, for India, for China, for France, and a bunch of other places.

I'm puzzled why we'd have to enter into a relationship with Morocco when nuclear power is proven clean tech, at least a hundred years old.

Am I missing something?
You seem bitter. Maybe you should grow out of this weird believe system that only hard-core techies are worth their salt or something. The world works different than you want, which seems to frustrate you greatly. Maybe accept it and be a bit happier?
Oh well, better turn off all the existing north sea and channel powerlinks then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BritNed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Cross-Channel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFA-2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElecLink

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_Link
> Or are there reasons not to trust OpenAi on this one?

Yes, more related to general tech history and not a dig on OpenAI though.
I always struggle with the difference between a town and a city, because Dutch has only one word for them: stad. A stad (plural "steden" is something that in the middle ages had city rights (or is it town rights?), a dorp (village) does not. And this has lead Netherland to have some steden of only a few hundred inhabitants, while some villages have more than 100,000, which of course makes no sense. The place I grew up in even has "dorp" in its name, so I will always consider it a village (besides, there's nothing to do there, but I guess that goes with suburbs), but it has about 100k inhabitants by now.

I guess to me, the real difference is density and how much there is to do. A city has a bar on almost every street corner, a village, no matter how big, does not.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but it's frustrating as a pedestrian if you ever are walking along a road and have to take a walk of even only a few metres in a perpendicular direction to find a crossing, cross, and then walk back to the original road.